Jan
19
MacWorld and Urban HS 1:1 Seminar
January 19, 2006 | |
Last week was filled with professional development opportunities for my MCDS colleagues and me. On Wednesday, 3 members of our Technology Department attended an amazing all-day seminar on 1:1 student laptop programs hosted by The Urban School in SF. Howard Levin, Urban’s fantastic Director of Technology, hosted 80 visitors from a huge array of independent K-8 and High Schools. He cleverly required that all attendees bring a Head of School or other senior administrator with them in order to attend the event. We were thrilled to have our Head of School there with us as we all heard from Urban’s Head of School, Saul Rockman, a panel of laptop-using students, Urban faculty members and a panel of Tech Directors from other area 1:1 schools. The day also included visits to different Urban classrooms to observe what a high school laptop program looks like in action.
Thursday and Friday, we attended MacWorld. Our Tech Director, Library/Media Specialist and I wandered the trade show floor and saw various ways to dress up an iPod, ranging from rubber to quilted to Burberry to gold lame (pictured below.) I settled on an adorable $18 kimono for my own iPod mini.
The highlight of the day (for me) was hearing about the new iMac with Intel chip and built-in iSight camera, and watching a demo of the FANTASTIC new iLife 6. The product presentations left me practically drooling.
Friday brought us to the daylong K-12 Seminar, co-hosted by CUE and Macworld. The day consisted of some wonderful speakers and presentations, including David Warlick (keynote, podcasting and blogging), Hall Davidson (digital storytelling), Carol Ann McGuire (accessibility), and Rae Niles (1:1 student laptop programs.) My head is brimming with new ideas for implementation and experimentation back at school. Woo hoo!
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