This year's National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) was held in Atlanta, Georgia, June 24-27, 2007. The most popular sessions were the BYOL (Bring your own laptop) and anything about blogging or podcasting. We (my husband, Darrel and I) went early for a two day Digital Camera preconference session and learned how to use our new camera, a Nikkon D40x. We went in a bus to various sights around Atlanta and learned how to take pictures without auto on. That was a challenge especially when it got dark. We took two cameras and traded off.
We took one of the student cameras, a Kodak Easy Share V803 (hopefully, you will use these this year!) and the bigger Nikon.
One of the advantages of podcasting is the ability to watch speakers at a conference you can't physically attend. Using your own computer where ever you are as long as you have Internet access you can participate through webcasts, podcasts, blogs and something new twitter. The keynote speaker, Andrew Zolli, talked about what we can expect for education's future. click here to see a podcast of Zolli's presentation.Here are a links to other recorded sessions.
They also have a links to handouts if you care to check out something that interests you.
Anyone interested in attending next year's conference, check out NECC 2008. It will be in San Antonio, Texas (June 29th-July 2nd).
