NECC "UNPLUGGED" at the Bloggers' Cafe (Level Two, Near Room 208)

Easy web link: www.NECCunplugged. Also variously referred to as "NECC 2.0," the NECC "Fringe" Festival, or the NECC "Unconference." Three days collaboratively created and scheduled by the participants, held in the open "lounge" areas.

The wiki schedule is below. Please add to it where you would like to participate. To be kept notified of changes and updates to this page, use the Notify Me option. Contact Steve Hargadon with questions or brainstorms! (Some of the backstory is here, which was a reply to Darren Draper's post referencing NECC Unplugged. Click to watch the planning/brainstorming session held on June 5, or to see the chat.)

A Promethean Activboard is provided for your convenience—no special drivers or software is required to connect. Lounge Act schedules are displayed dynamically on a plasma screen. If the Bloggers Cafe area has an event at the time you would like to host another event, please consider planning the event in one of the other lounges. In other words, if the schedule's full below, you may also present at any of the following venues:

THE NECC UNPLUGGED IDEA PAGE

BLOGGING, PODCASTING, STREAMING: Use the tag "neccunplugged" to identify and search for general posts.
TWITTER: Use the hashtag #NECCunplugged
What's a hashtag? They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #NECCunplugged. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.
To use hashtags in your posts you need to go to hashtags on Twitter and click on "Follow." Then whenever you tweet, include the hashtag #NECCunplugged anywhere in your 140 characters. :-) You can track the postings with this URL:
http://hashtags.org/tag/NECCunplugged

Streamed sessions highlighted in green?

Streaming Sessions:

Be sure to get permission of the presenter(s).
Add a link to your stream after the session description in parentheses.
If you want to list a streamed event taking place somewhere else during NECC, please use the "Other Live or Streamed Events" column.

Chat Rooms:

For chat rooms dedicated to NECC, please list them here.

Please note that on Sunday the Opening Keynote will be simulcast into the lounges, and the lounges will be locations for some of the Opening Reception festivities.

Reception on Sunday, June 29 hosted by Pearson Professional Growth. San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter. Conference Rooms 13-14. After the keynote. Come by to talk with us about technology and education. Check out Educator Growth for more information about what we're doing at NECC this year.

Monday, June 30

Time	Event	Events in the Other Lounges	Other Live or Streamed Events
7:30 am
8:00 am
8:30 - 9:30 am [Concurrent Session 1]
9:30 am	Short Talks: :30 A standard/best practices case for Web 2.0 in an EL class :40 :50	Facilitated Discussion: Copyright Confusion. (NETs Connect Lounge) West wing 1st floor across from playgrounds) In a digital society fair use is often in question. Come participate in a lively discussion about what is fair when using digital media. Kristin Hokanson Ustream.tv link for archived presentation
10:00 am	Speed Demos: :00 Diigo: A swiss army knife for your browser :07 PBS Teachers PBS Teachers Connect Demo (Kimberly Smith) :14 Wetpaint Wiki Demo (Jeff Utecht) :21 Overview of Moodle (Bethany Smith)
10:30 am	Dynamic Differentiation with Web 2.0 Aps - use the latest emerging Web 2.0 technologies to differentiate and meet the needs of all learners. Cheryl Capozzoli- IT Specialist Harrisburg, PA
11:00 am - 12:00 noon [Concurrent Session 2]	Tutorial: "Creating a Ning Network from Scratch." A hands-on tutorial for creating a Ning social network from start to finish. Bring your laptop and leave with a social network! (Steve Hargadon)
12:00 noon	Success Stories: Multimedia projects using less to teach more.
12:30 - 1:30pm [Concurrent Session 3]	Facilitated Discussion: "What Not Why" Using Understanding by Design to Create Technology Rich, Deep Learning Unit Plans. A short intro to UbD followed by a community created unit plan. Bring your laptop! (Chris Lehmann and Marcie Hull)
1:00 pm	A plan for wiki adoption: Adapted from Wikipatterns by Stewart Mader Presenter: Ken Pruitt - What you can do to ensure a successful roll-out of a district, department, or class wiki. slides
1:30 pm	Short Talks: :30 - Grassroots Technology Change, or "Stop Telling People What to Do" (Mike Curtin) :40 Voicethread in the Elementary Classroom [Newbies Welcome!] (Kevin Jarrett) :50 - Copyright, Copyleft, and Fair Use—can't we all just be friends? (Tim Chase)
2:00 - 3:00 pm [Concurrent Session 4]	BOF: Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis—Flat Classroom and Horizon Projects
3:00 pm	Facilitated Discussion: Educational Technology and the Law. An interactive, open, organic, Q&A type discussion on emerging legal issues facilitated by two law-talking, ed. tech. guys, Jon Becker and Scott McLeod.
3:30 - 4:30 pm [Concurrent Session 5]	Facilitated Discussion: The power of expert recommendations on the Web, Sandy Fivecoat
4:00 pm	Speed Demos: :00 "Open Classroom" demo, Linda Sharp. :07 Grazr, a great web 2.0 tool demo, Sherry Hegstrom :14 WeAreTeachers, John Costilla :21 21 Classes across the district, Sharon Betts :29 Standardissimo Beta, Michael Staton	Grazr Demo already pre-recorded and can be seen at this screencast link. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to email me with any questions, shegstrom@live.com
4:30 pm [Birds of a Feather Sessions Starting]	Teacher created content and the Web
5:00 pm	Following BOF session ETT Live Wrap up of the day.This should be the last event, but needs to finish in time for dinner (see below) at 6 :00.
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm CONFERENCE CENTER CLOSES. See above to request more time.

Monday dinner plans being organized by Sharon Betts: see http://www.edubloggercon.com/Monday%20Dinner

Tuesday, July 1

Time	Event	Events in the Other Lounges	Other Live or Streamed Events
7:30 am
8:00 am
8:30 am	[Keynote starts and is simulcast into the lounges.]
10:00 am	Speed Demos: :00 Build a (great) website in 5 minutes with Weebly (Steve Hargadon) :07 IAmTeacher Facebook app, John Costilla :14 Free Student Tech Assessment , Lisa Greathouse :21 Two WoW Flickr Mashups, Jane Krauss
10:30 am	Using Wikis and Pageflakes as tools for differentiating in your classroom - Robin Ellis
11:00 am - 12:00 noon [Concurrent Session 6]	Facilitated Discussion: "Web 2.0 and Professional Development." A look at the tools of the web being used for informal or open professional development, especially wikis and social networks. (Steve Hargadon, Darren Draper and anyone else who would like to.) Robin Ellis, Sharon Betts Would love to add to the discussion - Cheryl Capozzoli, Scheduling, Malcolm St Romain
12:00 noon	Success Stories: Using Diigo to grow your personal learning network and engage students in social annotation and critical literacy. Facilitated by Jen Dorman (Cliotech) and Maggie Tsai.
12:30 - 1:30 pm [Concurrent Session 7]	Facilitated Discussion: Collaborative Digital Media Platforms for Teachers Join PBS Education to discuss ways in which teachers utilize collaborative environments to create digital media projects and connect to share ideas on the use of digital media in the classroom. Our panel will demonstrate examples of the ISTE -- PBS Teacherline Capstone course projects focusing on the advanced integration of media and technology in teaching and learning. We will also explore two new collaborative environments -- PBS Teacherline Peer Connection and PBS Teachers Connect -- to explore Web 2.0 digital media experiences.
1:00 pm	Facilitated Discussion: Teacher Generated Content Online, Sandy Fivecoat
1:30 pm	Short Talks: :30 SETDA THINKING BOLD Blogger Challenge Stuart Ciske :40 Voicethread in the Elementary Classroom [Newbies Welcome!] (Kevin Jarrett) :50 Elementary Film Festivals–A showcase for younger students.– Kelly Dumont Raegan Fay-via iChat (hopefully)
2:00 - 3:00 pm [Concurrent Session 8]	Facilitated Discussion: "Technology Directors and Teachers: Time to Talk" A panel discussion featuring tech director/coordinators . The purpose is to shed light on a side that is often misunderstood because of the complexity of the network and the decisions that need to be made. Email questions or topics to kpruitt@dasd.k12.pa.us (panel: Kurt Paccio, Dean Shareski, Miguel Guhlin, Craig Nansen, Doug Johnson)
3:00 pm	Speed Demos: :00 :07 :14 UStream Kristin Hokanson :21	DEN in SL meet and greet.
3:30 -4:30 pm [Concurrent Session 9]	Talking 'bout CyberCamp - Learning together on purpose. - A discussion about summer learning opportunities, honoring each others' work, and being as open as we can be. - Bud Hunt (I've got two slots taken in this space - and that's probably one too many. If you want/need the space, e-mail me: budtheteacher@gmail.com) This session has been moved to room 212B.
4:00 pm	Success Stories: Video-Conferencing - Powerful Connections To Learning - Using video-conferencing as a powerful learning tool in the classroom to make connections, share experiences, practice written and oral language skills and much more. - Brian Crosby (May stream)
4:30 pm [Birds of a Feather Sessions Starting]	Choosing Presentation Venues: How to give students a choice when it comes to presenting knowledge, (choice of tools, choice of method) without getting overwhelmed yourself. If possible, this will be streamed live in EdTechTalk. - Lisa Parisi (may be streamed)
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm	Ebooks online - Simple Fun and Interactive Cheryl Capozzoli- Web 2.0 Resources
6:30 pm CONFERENCE CENTER CLOSES. See above to request more time.

Wednesday, July 2

Time	Event	Events in the Other Lounges	Other Live or Streamed Events
7:30 am
8:00 am
8:30 - 9:30 am [Concurrent Session 10]	Facilitated Discussion: Blogging and Twitter Etiquette: Are there rules that govern the way we should interact in this wild west of the web? Darren Draper, David Jakes, Kristin Hokanson, and Scott Swanson. Come with your already-formed opinions about etiquette or start with this post to get some background.
9:30 am	Facilitated Discussion: One of the nice things about having an "unconference" as part of NECC is that even first-timers like ourselves can do a "presentation". I feel strongly that this is part of developing new ed tech leadership, and making this truly collaborative. I'd like to see if we could get a facilitated discussion, or panel together focused on, well us. Pre planning is here (Alice Mercer)
10:00 am	Speed Demos: :00 World Wide First Appearance of Standardissimo Beta by Michael Staton :07 :14 :21	Standardissimo Beta is a tools to help teachers manage content and assessments aligned to standards. I couldn't make it for family reasons, but if Alice, Sharon or even Steve could click on this screencast I made especially for NECC Unplugged, I sure would appreciate it. And, if no one does it for the room, feel free to watch it on your own!
10:30 - 11:30 am [Concurrent Session 11]	Facilitated Discussion: Mobile computing in education. iPhone, "netbooks," and other portable devices. Steve Hargadon and Bob Carlton and anyone else...
11:30 am
12:00 - 1:00 pm [Concurrent Session 12]
1:00 pm
1:30 - 2:30 pm [Concurrent Session 13]			The Walls Came Down (Ustream Channel)
2:30 pm
2:45 pm	[Closing keynote starts and is simulcast into the lounges.]
3:30 pm	Daily Wrap Up: Webcast this live on EdTechTalk
4:00 pm

Possible Types of Sessions:

BOF: "Birds of a Feather." Scheduled by NECC--please do not move or alter.
SD: "Speed Demos." A lightning round of 5 minute (max) demonstrations of Web 2.0 programs or uses, with 2 minute changeovers
ST: "Short Talks." 7 minute talks, with 3 minute changeovers. Kind of like TED Talks, but ED Talks. :) A "Salon de Refuses" opportunity if you got formally turned down for a NECC session, or a chance to bring up new or innovative topics. Now you can say you presented at NECC. :)
FD: "Facilitated Discussions." Join a group discussion with volunteer facilitators. Propose a discussion by actually putting it in the schedule. If you'd rather do something else at the same time as another discussion, schedule a concurrent one in another "lounge."
Panel: "Panel Discussion." Find some folks who want to create a panel discussion, find a moderator, and put yourselves in the schedule.
SS: "Success Stories." Bring your success stories to these sessions, for both showcase and discussion. 30-minute discussions of what has worked, around specific topics, e.g., "Blogging with young students."