We are now thirteen days into the Send a Newbie to NECC project. I am pleased to announce that thanks the amazing generosity of several dozen amazing educators on Twitter, we have raised enough money to get Richard Byrne (@rmbyrne) to NECC and pay for his registration to attend the conference. We have reached the [...]

Donations for the Send a Newbie to NECC project have been steadily coming in.  As of late last night we were closing in on $600. In order for this project to work we need help from as many people as we can reach. Only you have the power to make this project successful. Many people [...]

I want to thank everyone who has donated the the Send a Newbie to NECC project. With your help we are nearly 1/3 of the way to our goal. However, we still have a very long way to go. It is evident that people have supported this project due to the enormous number of times [...]

Last year I was fortunate enough to be able to attend NECC for the first time. I barely had a half dozen people in my professional learning learning network (PLN) at the time, but by the end of the conference that number had grown to include a variety of people from around the country. Over the [...]

NECC 2008 has come to an end and it was such as amazing experience! My goal was to  learn as much as I could and then share that information with my colleagues back in Nebraska. Here is a synopsis of my experience: The first session I wanted to attend was a BYOL session on Moodle. It [...]