NECC News

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  • NECC highlights tech's 'transformative' power
    Wed, Jul 16, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    Transformation and collaboration were the central ideas of the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, which kicked off June 29 with a call to fundamentally change education and continued with several other sessions that repeated this theme. [ Read More ]

  • ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers
    Tue, Jul 01, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    Schools looking for a framework to help guide their teachers' use of technology in the classroom have a new resource at their disposal: The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has issued new technology standards for teachers. [ Read More ]

  • NECC attendees urged to become 'change agents'
    Mon, Jun 30, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    Near the site of the Alamo in downtown San Antonio, Texas, the 2008 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) kicked off June 29 with a night to remember--featuring a keynote speech by celebrated author James Surowiecki and an exhortation to radically change education. [ Read More ]

  • NECC 2007 Highlights
    Wed, Jun 25, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    Catch some video highlights from NECC 2007. Be sure to check out the upcoming eSNTV's coverage during this year's conference. [ Read More ]

  • NECC 2008 to focus on the digital age
    Fri, May 30, 2008    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    More than 18,000 educators, technology coordinators, policy makers, and administrators are expected to attend this year's National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), which runs June 29-July 2, 2008, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. [ Read More ]

  • eRiches from eSN
    Wed, Aug 01, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    Thar's gold in them thar conference reports! A fresh mother lode of exciting ed-tech resources from eSchool News beckons this month, both in print and online. Drawing on the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta a few weeks back (see Page 1 of this issue, for example), we've got tons of practical information to share with you about the latest technology products and ideas for educators, students, and their institutions. [ Read More ]

  • Innovation a key theme at NECC '07
    Wed, Aug 01, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    The need to produce a generation of students who are creative thinkers and innovators was a key theme at this year's National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta. [ Read More ]

  • NECC exhibitors launch online educator communities
    Wed, Aug 01, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    The use of Web 2.0 technologies to create interactive, online social environments for networking and professional development was on full display in the exhibit hall at this year's National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta. [ Read More ]

  • Technology and Mathematics: The Right Angle
    Thu, Jun 28, 2007    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    The opening scene was a pirate story using Geometer’s Sketchpad. Frank Sobierajski, the speaker for this session, showed us how you can travel around a pirate’s map and eventually get to the starting point where you began. The boomerang or perimeter theme was prominent at the beginning and end of this standing room only presentation. [ Read More ]

  • NECC 2006 focuses on possibilities
    Fri, Jul 14, 2006    Primary Topic Channel:  NECC
    An estimated 17,000 educators, administrators, and company and nonprofit executives gathered in San Diego July 5-7 for the National Education Computing Conference (NECC), currently the nation's largest educational technology trade show. Throughout the three-day event a list of distinguished speakers and educators urged attendees to embrace technology as a means to empower students. In case you missed it, the editors of eSchool News were on hand during the entire event. For more on NECC, see our coverage below. [ Read More ]

 

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