This year there is going to be a new lounge at ISTE. It will be called the Newbie Lounge and it will be located on the 3rd floor at the convention center close to the Social Media Lounge. You will hear people refer to the general area where these various lounges and help areas are [...]

I received an email from Jen Wagner yesterday.  Jen has been part of my PLN for some time now. After reading my post on Ways to Support the ISTE Newbie Project Jen told me that she wanted to donate 10% of the earnings of her new book, Guessthewordle, to this project. I would like to [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, the ISTE10 Newbie Project is very different than it was last year. Many of you were familiar with Richard Byrne’s blog FreeTech4Teachers so you already had a connection to him. So many people have inquired about what they can do to help Jason Schrage get off to a good start [...]

I “met” Jason Schrage (@oswego98) back in December on Twitter. He sent me a message asking me to help him with his blog. I was flattered, but I am not an expert blogger so I told him I would help in any way that I could. I knew him only as @oswego98 for months. I [...]

Before I introduce you to the newbie for 2010 I would like to take some time to explain how I came about choosing the NECC 2010 Newbie. I spent a great deal of time looking at the various people in my PLN. There are certain qualities that I look for in a newbie. The absolute [...]