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Tips for presenters and keynotes - add your best ideas!

So after sharing my pain about a not-so-great presentation (The bad dress rehearsal) the other day, Allanah King commented: For the first time in my life I have been asked to keynote a conference and almost balked at the thought of it. … Continue reading

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Tinkering Towards Educon

I’ll be heading to Philadelphia later this month for the Educon conference. This is a terrific small conference held at the Science Leadership Academy about education and change. Educon is famous for having “conversations” not “presentations.” This means that the … Continue reading

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It’s Take Your Students To Conferences Month!

OK, not really. I just made that up. But this is the time of year that many educational conferences ask for educators to submit ideas and proposals for sessions at state and regional conferences to be held next spring. Going … Continue reading

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Does peer review work? Thoughts on conference session selection.

So here’s something interesting from my inbox! Only 8% members of the Scientific Research Society agreed that “peer review works well as it is.” (Chubin and Hackett, 1990; p.192). “A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and an analysis of the … Continue reading

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