by Mike Agostinelli | Sep 8, 2016 | Announcements, Conferences, NCCE 2017 in Portland
Come one, come all! NCCE Call for Proposals is open until September 23rd. Join Jason and myself, along with over 1800 expected attendees, to the largest Educational technology conference in the Northwest. If you are one of the amazing presenters from last year, I hope...
by Genesis | Mar 7, 2016 | Announcements, Blended Learning, Conferences, Guest Post, Media, NCCE 2016 in Seattle, NCCE 2016 in Seattle, Opinion
A keynote speaker, Kevin Honeycutt, at Northwest Council for Computer Education, spoke about how to face and deal with overcoming stereotypes. He says, “Don’t prove them right, prove them wrong.” To me, this means that we should overcome and...
by Mike Agostinelli | Feb 22, 2016 | Announcements, Conferences, Interviews, Meet a Tech-Savvy Teacher!, NCCE 2016 in Seattle, OneNote
Cindy Etherton has always been inspired by the idea of “What if…”. It motivated her during her years as an Oregon teacher of elementary, middle and at risk high school students helping her to push the boundaries of content requirement possibilities and as she...
by Mike Agostinelli | Feb 17, 2016 | Apple, Conferences, Digital Design, Make!, Microsoft, NCCE 2016 in Seattle, STEM
Aaron Maurer is an Instructional Coach for Bettendorf Middle School. He has been in education for over a decade teaching sixth grade social studies, literature and computer as well as spending many years teaching gifted education in grades 4-8 before taking on the new...
by Mike Agostinelli | Feb 2, 2016 | Conferences, Interviews, Meet a Tech-Savvy Teacher!, Microsoft, NCCE 2016 in Seattle, OneNote
We are excited to feature Benson Kwok, an Instructional Technology Coordinator at Glendale Unified School District, in California and a Microsoft Innovative Educator! Benson’s day job has him working closely with the IT department to meet technology...
by Mike Agostinelli | Jan 29, 2016 | Conferences, Curriculum, Digital Resources, Hour of Code, NCCE 2016 in Seattle, Professional Development, Science, STEM
Interested in integrating STEM in your classroom? How about Robotics? How about both? We sat down with Randy Steele, one of the creators of the STEM Robotics 101 curriculum, to learn more about this project. Randy will be at NCCE 2016 this year and presenting on this...