Classroom 2.0 Storms Houston

In what was a nice run-up to NECC next week, last Friday, June 20, I had the opportunity to participate in Classroom 2.0 Live in Houston, Texas. Steve Hargadon and Stephanie Sandifer co-hosted the event and there were many eager-to-learn participants that enjoyed discussing the many web 2.0 tools that can help classroom teachers.

This workshop was a great opportunity for me personally to meet, face to face, many of the folks I converse with online. One of the ideas that came from it that I'd like to see happen in the future is for Houston-area ed tech (and non-ed tech) folks to gather face-to-face periodically to extend the conversations about all things tech and more Texas and Houston specific topics. This idea was originally put out there by Chris Duke and I hope it will take fruition soon.

Steve shared one site of note that I thought was interesting. It is Weebly, a really cool and easy way to create websites by dragging and dropping embeddable components. My eight year old took an immediate liking to it and started dropping all sorts of media to create his first page. I think this tool could be a great way to introduce younger children to creating content that is dynamic and fun.

See many of you at NECC next week! I am SO looking forward to the conversations and the networking and ways to better implement technology for my teachers and students.

Eat more ribs! ;-)