Using Twitter for CoSer 501

During the Tech Coordinators and Integrators Forum for Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES I saw Mark typing from time to time.  Today I see that he was tweeting the information about the agenda and good info from the meeting  - sending out the links to pertinent educational websites, etc.  After talking with Mark, Don, and others, I am thinking about establishing a twitter site for CoSer 501 - the media CoSer.  Currently we post announcements of new resources for teachers on our webpage.  Why not tweet the news....some of our tech coordinators, curriculum directors, principals, etc., will get it?  Just a thought - if businesses can do it, I guess a school can also.

ISTE 2010 Denver

My colleagues and I are getting ready to attend the ISTE 2010 (International Society for Technology in Education) in Denver, CO.  The special events and workshops look great this year.  I am signed up for:

• To Catch a Thief for 21st-Century Learners: Teaching Digitally
• Collaborative Web Tools
• Engage, Enrich, and Enhance Professional Development with Online Learning
• On-the-Fly Virtual Lessons
• Anywhere Computing: Enabling Scalable 1-to-1 with Open Source

We will also be attending a breakfast for Media Specialists.  David Warlick will be present.  I have heard him speak once before (at NECC 2007, National Educational Computing Conference, now called ISTE).  He is a terrific speaker.  His thoughts on literacy.... that we are more than just about literacy, we need to live and learn literacy; make literacy a habit....are very compelling and certainly pertinent to our work here at Learning Resources.

The hotels for the conference filled up fast and we ended up with lodging that is 80 blocks from the conference center.  Fortunately there are shuttle buses between hotels...estimated time to reach the center: 20 minutes.  Somehow, I think it will take longer with other hotel stops and traffic.