Re: [school-discuss] Wednesday, July 2 at NECC

["James P. Kinney III" <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow! What a great line up! I wish I was staying longer than than the
breeze through I am doing. Thanks for collating the list for everyone,
Steve. I look forward to seeing as many people as possible. 

Gotta figure out a way to reliably calculate the number of simultaneous
United Streaming users can be on a single LTSP server as a function of
cpu speed and ram. 
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:56 -0700, Steve Hargadon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Marilyn Hagle
> <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks Daniel!  I will definitely forward this to Jason.  He is an
> open source
> > newbie, but very enthusiastic!
> 
> Hi, Marilyn and Daniel!
> 
> NECC is the largest ed tech conference in North America, and it
> usually attracts 15,000+ attendees.  For the fourth year I'll be
> running an "Open Source Pavilion" there with 40+ computers running
> Linux, and with a speaker series that's now a part of the main
> program.
> 
> If you're going to be at NECC, we'd love any volunteer efforts in the
> Pavilion.  (We could really use some machines right now for the
> playground area to demo different FLOSS programs.)  Here is the
> schedule of Open Source sessions at NECC.  If there is no location
> given, it is in the Open Source Pavilion--otherwise, the room location
> is after the title.
> 
> 
> Monday, June 30
> 
> 8:30-9:30am
> Wonderful World of Wikis
> Vicki Davis
> Adam Frey
> 
> Enterprise-Scale Linux Thin Client Deployment: Roll Out for
> Success—HGCC 102 B
> James Kinney
> 
> Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture—HGCC
> 103 A
> David Thornburg
> 
> Moodle Magic: Tricks for Enhanced Course Design—Grand Hyatt
> Lone Star Bal room B
> Michel e D. Moore
> Kathie Robeson
> 
> 10:00-10:45am
> Web 2.0 Skills in the Safety of Your Classroom!
> George Luginbil
> 
> 11:00am-12:00pm 3D Modeling and Animation Using Blender
> Stephen Crampton
> 
> Mooovin' To Moodle—Grand Hyatt Lone Star Bal room D
> McPherson, Bowen
> and Tynes
> 
> 12:30-1:30pm
> Using Moodle to Teach Teachers about Web 2.0 Tools
> Liz Farmer
> 
> 2:00-3:00pm
> MySpace, Your Space: Effective Social Networking Using Open
> Source
> Jim Klein
> 
> 3:30-4:30pm
> Moodle: Hear It from a Sixth Grade Teacher's Perspective!
> Chris Craft
> 
> Moodle-Powered Learning in an Enhanced K-12 Classroom—
> HGCC 214 C/D
> Mark McCal
> Charles Ackerman
> 
> 4:45-6:15pm
> Birds of a Feather: Free, Open Source, and Web 2.0 Software
> for the Classroom
> Steve Hargadon
> 
> Birds of a Feather: A Meeting of Moodlers—Grand Hyatt Lone
> Star Bal room B
> Michel e Moore
> Jonathan Moore
> 
> Tuesday, July 1
> 
> 10:00-10:45am
> Web 2.0 Skills in the Safety of Your Classroom!
> George Luginbil
> 
> 11:00am-12pm
> Moodle Magic—Make ItHappen: Exploration of E-Learning
> Implementation
> Laurie Korte
> 
> Student Voice, Teacher Voice: Podcasting with Audacity—Grand
> Hyatt Lone Star Bal room A
> Arelene Anderson
> Sharon Wagner
> 
> 12:30-1:30pm
> Open Source Software for Developing and Differentiating Digital
> Curriculum
> James Sweet
> Sharnel Jackson
> 
> 2:00-3:00pm
> Social Networking in Education Panel
> Steve Hargadon
> 
> 3:30-4:30pm
> Introduction to Open Source Software and Open Technologies
> Steve Hargadon
> 
> Why Linux, Why You, and Why Now? — HGCC 001 A
> David Thornburg
> 
> 4:45-5:45pm
> Birds of a Feather: Classroom 2.0
> Steve Hargadon
> 
> Wednesday, July 2
> 
> 8:30-9:30am
> Computer Programming for Everybody: Teaching Programming
> with Python
> Vernon Cedar
> 
> 9:45-10:15am
> Report from Indiana and K-12 Open Minds Conference
> Huffman & Taylor
> 
> 10:30-11:30am
> Use Your Noodle—Learn Moodle! An Open Source Learning
> Management System
> Michel e Moore
> Kathie Robeson
> 
> 12:00-1:00pm
> Free Open Source Content ManagementSystems: Powerful,
> Collaborative School Web Sites
> Tim Frichtel
> 
> Python for Fun Introductory Programming—HGCC 102 B
> Michel e Hutton
> 
> 1:30-2:30pm
> Share My What?! Exploring Open Educational Resources and
> Web 2.0
> Lorraine Trawick
> Amanda Hefner
> 
> 
> Hope to see some of you there!
> -- 
> 
> Steve Hargadon
> steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.stevehargadon.com
> 916-899-1400 cell
> 
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