Ed Tech 4 Science

The Texas Computers in Education Association conference just ended and I am on the plane heading home. It is a nice conference, with lots of exhibitors, presenters, and attendees. I am going to infer that Texas loves science, because at my presentation, which had a narrow niche of middle school science, critical thinking, and state standards, I estimate there were 300+ people.  I posted the PowerPoint for this presentation on the last blog.

I also was filmed three times, twice for video blogs and one for a web page.  In all three cases I was discussing the Activity Objects of Adaptive Curriculum. Two of these are already available at District Administration – Product Posts and Scholastic Administrator – The Royal Treatment

 I thank District Administration’s Kurt Dyrli and Scholastic Administrator’s Ken Royal, who did one of the first articles about Adaptive Curriculum after interviewing me about two years ago at FETC. Ken really enjoyed the Activity Object on Francisco Redi, who helped disprove the idea of spontaneous generation. When Ken was a former science teacher he did this science experiment in class, replete with decaying meat and putrid smells. 

It will be interesting to see if the idea of video blogging takes off. I suspect that it will do well as a medium, as long as it has either more attractive or loquacious people than me!

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