Last week Barbara Nesbitt, one of our November 14 Digital Literacy Conference presenters shared Google’s Wonder Wheel tool with me. I have been using it extensively ever since for more advanced Google searches. It is a pre defined mind mapper which helps the user get all the related search results in a wheel shaped like [...]

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It is amazing how fast November went by and the “Holiday Season” is upon us. The November 14th Southeastern Conference for  Literacy in the Digital Classroom was very successful. Ninety-six percent of the eighty-five educators attending rated their conference experience as either “excellent” or “good” on the evaluation.  I thank all of the presenters for [...]

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We have organized many of the conference web based resources from last Saturday and linked them on to the conference site for you. Many of these sites were shared by the presenters and they have all been reviewed for instructional value by our team. Click here for the direct link and add them to your [...]

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Thank you so much giving your students a Saturday!  I hope that you have found tools that will be valuable in work with students. Please complete the conference evaluation below, it is valuable information for me to improve these types of professional development experiences for you. Click here to complete the evaluation…

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We made it! When you check in, go ahead and open up your cameras and connect your laptops to the Internet. The wireless network is CFC. We will play with our cameras for a few minutes? Who is the reading the directions and who isn’t? I always find that interesting. Here is what happens at [...]

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We are finalizing Saturday’s conference schedule and there is an added general session presentation during our lunch hour that is a surprise!  The opening session, lunch, and closing session room has added a high tech double screen audio-visual system that will make the keynote, lunch, and closing sessions a very visual experience for everyone. Please see [...]

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We are in the final countdown for the Digital Literacy Conference on Saturday November 14 at the Carolina First Center in Greenville. There are over 80 teachers and administrators registered from all over South Carolina. The ESOL learning pathway in the conference has over 40 teachers enrolled as of today. We have large groups from [...]

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Tanya Lawless, Greenville County ESOL teacher, and Kristen Stancil, Oconee County ESOL teacher, are two of our main presenters at the Southeastern Conference for Literacy in the Digital Classroom on November 14th in Greenville, South Carolina. They are in Raleigh today and tomorrow presenting at the 2009 Carolina TESOL Conference. Their sessions are hands on with [...]

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Richard Byrne is an educator in Maine and an EDuBlogs award winning blogger. He is sharing tremendous tools and we will be reviewing his site at the 11/14 conference. It is just amazing how much you can find on teachers blogs. Do some searching and see what you can find. Remember, it is not the tool but [...]

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Check out what is happening on the Clemson campus on November 4th. Business writing instructor Bobby Rettew has organized the Clemson Network Bash conference for students to network with business leaders in the area of social media. What a great opportunity for Clemson University students. I have the distinct privilege of being one of the [...]

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