BLC Day 1 Keynote-Ewan McIntosh

(07/16/2008)

8:14

mrichme:

Welcome

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:14 mrichme

8:26

Michael Richards:

They are breaking down the partition walls to make the keynote room.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:26 Michael Richards

8:32

Michael Richards:

Sitting next Colleen King and David Truss. I finally meet Lucy Gray just a couple of minutes ago.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:32 Michael Richards

8:33

Michael Richards:

I was handed a Promethian Activexpression. They keynote must be interactive.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:33 Michael Richards

8:35

Michael Richards:

Jimmy Buffet is playing. We must be getting close.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:35 Michael Richards

8:41

Michael Richards:

Man it is crowded!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:41 Michael Richards

8:45

Michael Richards:

What word best describes how students feel about learning in schools?
using activexpression to answer

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:45 Michael Richards

8:46

Michael Richards:

boring is the most popular answer

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:46 Michael Richards

8:47

Michael Richards:

What word best describes how you want students to feel about learning in school?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:47 Michael Richards

8:48

Michael Richards:

exciting seems to be most popular answer.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:48 Michael Richards

8:50

Michael Richards:

Alan is doing his intro

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:50 Michael Richards

8:50

[Comment From Lucy GrayLucy Gray: ]

Hi Michael!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:50 Lucy Gray

8:51

Michael Richards:

Ustream is killing the bandwidth!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:51 Michael Richards

8:52

Lucy Gray:

So this is a better option, don't you think?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:52 Lucy Gray

8:52

Michael Richards:

Apple is discouraging ustreaming and using ustream as the backchannel.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:52 Michael Richards

8:52

Michael Richards:

I agree Lucy.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:52 Michael Richards

8:52

[Comment From lindseyb16lindseyb16: ]

Hi Michael thanks for doing this live blogging enjoy!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:52 lindseyb16

8:54

Lucy Gray:

I haven't tried Cover It Live yet... this is really neat

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:54 Lucy Gray

8:56

Michael Richards:

This is my first time hosting one. I thinking this is simple enough to use.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:56 Michael Richards

8:57

Lucy Gray:

"We need to teach kids to escape."

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:57 Lucy Gray

8:57

Lucy Gray:

I like that quote.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:57 Lucy Gray

8:57

lindseyb16:

Is Ewan talking or Alan?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:57 lindseyb16

8:57

Michael Richards:

Kids are staying home with parents later in life.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:57 Michael Richards

8:57

Lucy Gray:

Alan

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:57 Lucy Gray

8:57

Michael Richards:

Alan is still talking.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:57 Michael Richards

8:58

Lucy Gray:

He's talking about Thompson Island in Boston Harbor

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:58 Lucy Gray

8:58

Michael Richards:

Ewan has a distinctive voice.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:58 Michael Richards

8:58

Lucy Gray:

I missed the reference... he used to teach there maybe??

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:58 Lucy Gray

8:58

Lucy Gray:

This island had a reform school

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:58 Lucy Gray

8:58

[Comment From Tom BarrettTom Barrett: ]

Who is on?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:58 Tom Barrett

8:58

Lucy Gray:

Alan November

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:58 Lucy Gray

8:58

lindseyb16:

Yes, he did and kids wanted to escape

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:58 lindseyb16

8:59

Lucy Gray:

http://www.thompsonisland.org/english/functions

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:59 Lucy Gray

8:59

Lucy Gray:

He's introducing Ewan

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:59 Lucy Gray

8:59

Michael Richards:

Alan wonders if Ewan has good presentation skills. That is funny!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 8:59 Michael Richards

9:00

Lucy Gray:

I have actually never heard Ewan speak. I saw him from a distance at NECC. I like the accent!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:00 Lucy Gray

9:01

Michael Richards:

Ewan's blog edu.blogs.com

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:01 Michael Richards

9:01

Lucy Gray:

Nice slide design on title slide

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:01 Lucy Gray

9:02

Lucy Gray:

It's not all native wit - from creativity to ingenuity

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:02 Lucy Gray

9:02

Michael Richards:

It's not all native wit Creativity to ingenuity is the title of the Keynote

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:02 Michael Richards

9:04

Michael Richards:

Ewan gave his 11 mo daughter a DS and she knew what to do with it. She is already a native.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:04 Michael Richards

9:05

Michael Richards:

thougts, ideas, stories, arguments

twitter.com
include blc08

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:05 Michael Richards

9:06

Michael Richards:

Ewan wants to make this keynote interactive by using twitter.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:06 Michael Richards

9:06

Lucy Gray:

I made a group for bookmarking for BLC: http://groups.diigo.com/groups/building-learning-communities

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:06 Lucy Gray

9:07

Michael Richards:

Excellent slide design

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:07 Michael Richards

9:07

Michael Richards:

Thank you Lucy

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:07 Michael Richards

9:07

Lucy Gray:

Yeah, I love his presentation style so far

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:07 Lucy Gray

9:07

Lucy Gray:

His daughter just babbled in the background. I could not present with my kids in the room!!!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:07 Lucy Gray

9:08

Michael Richards:

Ewan is giving us a day in his life.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:08 Michael Richards

9:08

Michael Richards:

Ewan is giving us a day in his life.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:08 Michael Richards

9:08

Michael Richards:

His blog is his!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:08 Michael Richards

9:09

Michael Richards:

Spends about a half-hour writing, if he has anything to say!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:09 Michael Richards

9:09

Lucy Gray:

Has he put up his slides somewhere?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:09 Lucy Gray

9:10

Michael Richards:

Bookmarks changes the way he thinks. Over 250000

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:10 Michael Richards

9:10

Michael Richards:

He categorizes his links.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:10 Michael Richards

9:11

Michael Richards:

He relies what others send to him and views visual images with Flick.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:11 Michael Richards

9:12

Michael Richards:

He wants to see what people are interesting in.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:12 Michael Richards

9:13

Michael Richards:

His tools of the day, blog, flickr, del.icio.us, facebook

He also reads lots of RSS feeds

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:13 Michael Richards

9:14

Lucy Gray:

I use NetNewsWire, too.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:14 Lucy Gray

9:15

Lucy Gray:

I love it as well and have folders set up in various categories... but I LOVE his organization.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:15 Lucy Gray

9:15

Michael Richards:

He categorizes his feeds by geography.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:15 Michael Richards

9:16

Michael Richards:

Read about educators from around the world.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:16 Michael Richards

9:16

Lucy Gray:

He's labeled some folder Ed - BLC People, Ed - ScotEduBlogs, Ed - Australia etc. I like how specific he and I'm relieved to know that I'm not the only person that subscribes to 10 million resources.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:16 Lucy Gray

9:17

Michael Richards:

I have over 500 feeds going on Google Reader and I feel overwhelmed at times.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:17 Michael Richards

9:17

Lucy Gray:

Michael, did you post the link to your live blog on Twitter?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:17 Lucy Gray

9:17

Lucy Gray:

I just don't worry about trying to keep up with my reader... i'll go insane otherwise. Lots of people feel like they have to go through EVERYTHINg.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:17 Lucy Gray

9:17

Michael Richards:

Yes I did but if you want to send out that would be great.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:17 Michael Richards

9:17

Lucy Gray:

Groovy.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:17 Lucy Gray

9:18

Michael Richards:

20% of UK $ used effective. Out of $1.6 BILLION

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:18 Michael Richards

9:18

Michael Richards:

Technology is just stuff not transformative

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:18 Michael Richards

9:19

Lucy Gray:

Excellent point

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:19 Lucy Gray

9:20

Michael Richards:

R&D streamlines staffing at Microsoft. Educators are R&D.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:20 Michael Richards

9:22

Michael Richards:

Predicting future technology focuses on the tool not the usage

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:22 Michael Richards

9:23

Michael Richards:

Welcome Steve (from Conn)

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:23 Michael Richards

9:24

Michael Richards:

Social network is more intuitive for kids.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:24 Michael Richards

9:24

Valerie:

my staff is just starting

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:24 Valerie

9:24

Lucy Gray:

Love the design... He has one statistc blown up on a slide and then a brief caption

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:24 Lucy Gray

9:24

Michael Richards:

Myspace would be the 3rd largest country!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:24 Michael Richards

9:25

Lucy Gray:

Oh there's this cool map of social networks

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:25 Lucy Gray

9:25

Steve Sokoloski:

Thanks Michael! It is interesting to see which backchannel is the best to use here

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:25 Steve Sokoloski

9:25

Lucy Gray:

Have you all seen it?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:25 Lucy Gray

9:25

Lucy Gray:

I have to find it

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:25 Lucy Gray

9:25

Lucy Gray:

"The barely motivated become activists/"

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:25 Lucy Gray

9:26

Michael Richards:

If you're here they're discouraging ustream.
That's why I started this tool.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:26 Michael Richards

9:27

Michael Richards:

Ewan needs to post the slides as a model for effective presentations!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:27 Michael Richards

9:27

Steve Sokoloski:

If I slip away it is due to battery life - not the conversation. I need an outlet badly. Yup I am onsite and understood about UStream. How cool to be a place where there is enough Ustream to overwhelm teh bandwidth

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:27 Steve Sokoloski

9:28

Valerie:

once again - educators lag

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:28 Valerie

9:28

lindseyb16:

At home, live blogging, watching ustream and reading back chat, phew!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:28 lindseyb16

9:28

Michael Richards:

Wow LIndsey!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:28 Michael Richards

9:29

Lucy Gray:

I know Ewan is in Slideshare

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:29 Lucy Gray

9:29

Lucy Gray:

maybe his slides are there

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:29 Lucy Gray

9:29

Michael Richards:

School blog vs. Social Networking sites : Adults vs. Kids

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:29 Michael Richards

9:30

Lucy Gray:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_von_Helmholtz

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:30 Lucy Gray

9:30

Lucy Gray:

http://www.slideshare.net/ewan.mcintosh

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:30 Lucy Gray

9:31

Michael Richards:

Creativity Cycle: Saturation -> Incubation ->Illumniation

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:31 Michael Richards

9:31

Valerie:

learn from the anatomy of a social network - first saturate 0 as long as need - second incubate - third elemination

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:31 Valerie

9:31

Lucy Gray:

These are going to be great notes for recalling the conference. I just live this tool.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:31 Lucy Gray

9:31

Valerie:

opps mean illumintion

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:31 Valerie

9:32

Michael Richards:

Complete and Divergent as part of the Saturation

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:32 Michael Richards

9:32

Michael Richards:

Schools are about convergance not divergent

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:32 Michael Richards

9:32

Michael Richards:

Incubation (no deadlines, no stress)

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:32 Michael Richards

9:33

Michael Richards:

Illumninate to a big crowd

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:33 Michael Richards

9:33

Michael Richards:

Divergent thinking is vital

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:33 Michael Richards

9:34

Lucy Gray:

Such a critical point

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:34 Lucy Gray

9:34

Michael Richards:

Interesting slide on prescriptions for AD&D state by state.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:34 Michael Richards

9:34

Lucy Gray:

More children are become bored and irrelevant

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:34 Lucy Gray

9:35

Lucy Gray:

Have you seen his wii whiteboard video on TedTalks?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:35 Lucy Gray

9:36

Valerie:

I have

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:36 Valerie

9:36

Michael Richards:

Talking about Johnny Lee (wii man)

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:36 Michael Richards

9:36

Valerie:

soo cool

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:36 Valerie

9:37

Michael Richards:

Does he need to finish his PhD?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:37 Michael Richards

9:37

Valerie:

well in spite of school!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:37 Valerie

9:37

Lucy Gray:

Johnny Lee can do well IN SPITE of school.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:37 Lucy Gray

9:37

Michael Richards:

2nd POint: What is a quality teacher?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:37 Michael Richards

9:37

Lucy Gray:

quality of teachers is the most important factor in school improvement

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:37 Lucy Gray

9:38

Michael Richards:

Improve outcomes improve instruction

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:38 Michael Richards

9:38

Michael Richards:

What is a quality teacher? Text to 41411

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:38 Michael Richards

9:42

Michael Richards:

Do you think Ewan's poem will be posted?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:42 Michael Richards

9:42

Valerie:

yes!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:42 Valerie

9:42

[Comment From JenWagfnerJenWagfner: ]

Good morning -- is there a stream too???

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:42 JenWagfner

9:43

Michael Richards:

Hi Jen, here it is http://ustream.tv/channel/blc2008-keynote

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:43 Michael Richards

9:44

Lucy Gray:

I'm backtracking here.. but here's the map I wanted to show you all earlier...

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:44 Lucy Gray

9:44

Lucy Gray:

http://hackerfriendly.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/online_communities.png

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:44 Lucy Gray

9:44

Lucy Gray:

Oh this is hilarious... he's showing funny pictures of how toliet paper is folded in hotels

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:44 Lucy Gray

9:45

Michael Richards:

Some answers are already there

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:45 Michael Richards

9:45

Valerie:

quality teachers pass the torch of culture - hold on tight to what matters and hacks the rest

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:45 Valerie

9:47

JenWagfner:

@michael -- YES, please say hello to Colleen for me. (don't know how to send private messages!) And updating flash for ustream

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:47 JenWagfner

9:47

Michael Richards:

We're watching the color changing card trick video. We focus on one thing and miss other things.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:47 Michael Richards

9:47

Valerie:

input if they are to have output

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:47 Valerie

9:47

Lucy Gray:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:47 Lucy Gray

9:50

Michael Richards:

Thank you Lucy for being the link Queen.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:50 Michael Richards

9:50

Lucy Gray:

I love Google jockeying :)

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:50 Lucy Gray

9:50

Lucy Gray:

Here's a picture that Ewan just showed that he took at NECC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/2629100884/in/set-72157605863279001/

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:50 Lucy Gray

9:50

Michael Richards:

We don't always listen to what we're hearing.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:50 Michael Richards

9:51

Michael Richards:

We get so used to the system...

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:51 Michael Richards

9:53

Michael Richards:

Systems need to encourage every child not track them.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:53 Michael Richards

9:54

Lucy Gray:

showed video from Alas Media

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:54 Lucy Gray

9:54

Lucy Gray:

wonder if it's posted online

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:54 Lucy Gray

9:54

Valerie:

share awareness of goals - work with students

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:54 Valerie

9:54

JenWagfner:

Hey Lucy -- the ustream wants to know if you have a link to the video??

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:54 JenWagfner

9:55

Michael Richards:

3rd point-Achiveing shared awareness of our goals is working with our students.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Michael Richards

9:55

Lucy Gray:

Taught or caught?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Lucy Gray

9:55

Lucy Gray:

it's not about the tools

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Lucy Gray

9:55

Lucy Gray:

No, but I have a link to Alas media

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Lucy Gray

9:55

Valerie:

creativity takes risks - positive risks

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Valerie

9:55

Lucy Gray:

lol , I love this cross backchannel talk

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Lucy Gray

9:55

Lucy Gray:

http://alasmedia.wikispaces.com/AM_home

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Lucy Gray

9:55

Michael Richards:

I've got to watch the ustream tonight to get the full experience. Will the chat be included?

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Michael Richards

9:55

Lucy Gray:

http://www.alasmedia.net/

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:55 Lucy Gray

9:56

Lucy Gray:

My computer is about to die

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:56 Lucy Gray

9:56

Lucy Gray:

jarring pictures of cell phones being thrown away

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:56 Lucy Gray

9:56

JenWagfner:

Thanks Lucy!!!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:56 JenWagfner

9:56

Michael Richards:

That's why I'm sitting in the back, plugged in. Thank you Lucy.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:56 Michael Richards

9:56

Lucy Gray:

Cell phones is where the action is

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:56 Lucy Gray

9:57

Valerie:

you know it!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:57 Valerie

9:57

Lucy Gray:

"Shared awareness"

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:57 Lucy Gray

9:57

Michael Richards:

You don't have to part of a group to be part of the solution.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:57 Michael Richards

9:57

Michael Richards:

It's not about sheer scale for "shared awareness"

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:57 Michael Richards

9:58

Lucy Gray:

again, it's not about the tools

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:58 Lucy Gray

9:58

Michael Richards:

4th Point-Participation culture, not tools

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:58 Michael Richards

9:58

Lucy Gray:

We've got to understand the participation culture

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:58 Lucy Gray

9:58

Michael Richards:

not public or private but gray (identity 2.0)

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:58 Michael Richards

9:59

Michael Richards:

secret spaces, group spaces, publishing spaces, performing spaces, paticipation spaces, watching spaces

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:59 Michael Richards

9:59

Valerie:

use all when you teach

Wednesday July 16, 2008 9:59 Valerie

10:00

Michael Richards:

Presentation will be posted

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:00 Michael Richards

10:00

JenWagfner:

I was told this last night: Forget the lab. It's all about what the teachers are doing. Your lab person is just a warm body.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:00 JenWagfner

10:00

Michael Richards:

@jen Ouch

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:00 Michael Richards

10:02

Michael Richards:

3 kinds of people immovable, movable, and those who move

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:02 Michael Richards

10:02

Valerie:

I too am impressed!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:02 Valerie

10:02

JenWagfner:

thanks Michael -- we could not read it in the ustream

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:02 JenWagfner

10:02

Michael Richards:

Thank you one and all.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:02 Michael Richards

10:02

JenWagfner:

so I copied over

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:02 JenWagfner

10:03

JenWagfner:

Thanks Michael for CIL!!!

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:03 JenWagfner

10:03

Michael Richards:

Tranisition to next session.

Wednesday July 16, 2008 10:03 Michael Richards

10:04

Writer: Michael Richards

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