The Daring Librarian

Prizes! Interactive! Collaborative! 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Session 3 - Room 327 Baltimore Convention Center This interactive, energetic, sharing session will highlight the best new tools in a variety of categories. Members of a panel of technology educators from several different counties, subjects areas, and grade levels will share their top picks and invite audience members to contribute by coming to a central microphone. All ideas generated will be added to a Learning Tools Smackdown session wiki , the MSET Ning and shared with the community! Smackdown Panelists: Andrea Christman Melissa Grabill Kyra Kreinbrook Geordie Paulus - MICCA Outstanding Technology Leader 2009 Matthew Winner Danielle Dunn Gwyneth Jones - The Daring Librarian Aaron Smith - The Art Guy and Selena Ward - The Tech Tiger! adjunct Smackdown contributer: Brenda Anderson - ISTE Professional Development Chair Imagine, Innovate, Inspire: Piecing Together My Learning Journey will share their picks fo...

Relax & Play in our Digital Sandbox Want to take a comfortable break from the conference hubbub? Need to recharge your laptop? Have something to share, but for whatever reason you are not scheduled for a concurrent session? Consider stepping up to the open mic at our Digital Sandbox, the UN conference side of the MSET Conference. Or just stop by and listen as your colleagues share their ideas at the MSET Digital Sandbox! Presentation equipment and internet connection will be available. Please sign up here on the MSET Ning by leaving a comment if you're interested in being either a Digital Sandbox lifeguard for an hour, presenter, or both!! It's gonna be the coolest, Daddy-O! GoAnimate.com : MSET Digital Sandbox by gwyneth Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com . It's free and fun! and ps. if you recognize the bloggers' cafe beatnik theme it's cause: 1. it's state standardized testing month here in Maryland 2. i like beatnik style 3. i'm occasional...

NECC09 Washington DC on PhotoPeach Musings, & Lessons Learned from the NECC Conference, 09 First, you may want to take the test What Kind of Tech User Are You? ....then think about the ONE thing you would like to learn or apply to your career in the next year... " Our plates should be small but our appetite LARGE for new technology " but what i'm saying is..... pace yourself, you can't learn AND use everything you hear about ALL the time! if you just concentrate one thing each week/month/year......heck even if you only try one thing on one day each year you're ahead of 90% of the tech users & teachers out there! see? not so bad! and if you're the daring sort...the kind that isn't afraid to dive into the digital pool and swim with the fishy digital collaborators...know that there will ALWAYS be someone who is doing more than you...who humbles you with all that they utilize in their classroom or school (i get both overwhelmed and ins...