Ryan Collins

Low tech and high tech communication – eTech Ohio 2008

// March 15th, 2008 // No Comments » // 21st Century Skills, Professional Development, Web 2.0, eTech Ohio Conference

At the eTech Ohio Technology Conference this past February I presented on different ways a person can communicate. Some ways were very low tech (writing a letter, using the phone), and some ways very high tech (using Grand Central to control incoming calls, social networking with del.icio.us or Twitter). I’ve finally gotten around to tagging the sites in del.icio.us (thanks Alvin!). I used the tag etechohio08.
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eTech Ohio Conference 2008 thoughts

// February 12th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Professional Development, eTech Ohio Conference

The conference took place over a week ago and I’m still trying to get my head wrapped around all the information I collected! I did learn one very important thing. My ID badge this year said Librarian/Media Specialist, and I learned that it makes it a lot easier to walk through the vendor area. They didn’t seem as interested in talking to me.

I’m hoping to get more things put together and online. I still have to collect the notes from my session and put them online, and also to tag them into del.icio.us (thanks Alvin!).

Every year I go hoping to take away one new thing to get excited about, but that is getting harder to do. Technology in education has become such a commodity that the break throughs are getting more and more uncommon. I’m also torn with the problem of too many choices. It’s hard for me to focus on one thing, I want to implement them all!

Low tech and high tech communication

// February 4th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // eTech Ohio Conference

This is a test post from the eTech Ohio 2008 Conference.

eTech Ohio conference and Twitter

// February 3rd, 2008 // No Comments » // eTech Ohio Conference

I will be trying to Twitter as much as I can at the conference. You can follow my updates under http://twitter.com/mr_rcollins or you can follow me under twitter.

eTech Ohio Technology Conference

// February 3rd, 2008 // No Comments » // eTech Ohio Conference

After reading John’s blog post yesterday, I realized that not only haven’t I posted anything, I haven’t even begun to look at what sessions I want to go to at the eTech conference. Since I present at 8:00am Monday morning, I’ve been more focused on that.

Through the Online Conference Planner I’ve begun to setup the sessions I want to go to, and I will be publishing my calendar through Google Calendar.