Many thanks to Sue Loubser, Director of Technology at Greenfield Hebrew Academy, Atlanta, for sharing this article written shortly after the event about the impact of bringing 24 school members to the NECC 2007 conference: This past year, NECC (the National Educational Computing Conference) was held in Atlanta and thousands of teachers from all around [...]
The Jewish Educators Network met at NECC 2007 for the seventh year in a row. Twenty-four participants from the United States and Canada attended the session, which was co-facilitated by Caren Levine, jlearn2.0, etheoreal, and Sara Seligson, Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York. The following schools were represented: Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto; [...]
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how to make the case for Second Life (SL) and education. I recently returned from the annual NECC conference. There were a few sessions on SL, and a special playground area and lounge set aside for SLers. I was not able to spend a lot of time there, but it [...]
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