I’m not sure exactly why Thinking Outside the Box-Skateboard was part of an online conference. I understand that the teacher does a great job on this hands on project of building a skateboard. My problem was, I kept waiting for him to make connections on how to incorporate these ideas into other classes. He did talk a little at the end about using technology but 99% of this video was about the steps the students went through. I was just disappointed because I thought I would learn more ideas about how to “Think Outside the Box.” When I look at other people’s blogs, I hope to find some more beneficial conferences for me.

That is frustrating that the conference you watched was disappointing…..sorry
I was thinking about choosing that conference and am glad I didn’t. If you have any spare time and want to check out another video conference the one about nurturing 21st century history teachers is pretty interesting, and gives some cool examples. I really like the idea about making the students current events into an online newspaper.