Episode #15: National Computing Conference
Recorded July 2006

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Tony and Mike attended the 2006 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in San Diego. They discuss a variety of things they noticed and learned from the conference.

Show Notes:

• Mike's Tip: TCPMP is The Core Pocket Media Player for Palm and Pocket PC. It can play just about every video and audio format. TCPMP is free. Mike has a handout for TCPMP in this file.
• Tony's Tip: Watch videos on a Palm instead of a video iPod. Here is a PowerPoint about converting DVDs into a format for TCPMP.
• Tony blogged about sessions he attended at NECC.
• eBook Studio and Plucker were used in Mike's workshop.
• GXB Interactive makes games for GameBoys.
• GoKnow released research on the effectiveness of handhelds in math and science. Episode #10 of Soft Reset address research.
• Beret Applications will be releasing "Grammar Time" this fall.
• Outrageously huge Best Buy bags were everywhere.
• Fourier System's Nova 5000 is a "learning appliance."
• ISTE's Special Interest Group for Handheld Computing.
• Everyone is invited to contribute to Our City Podcast. Here's a wiki page about the podcasting workshop Tony participated in.
• iPods were hot at NECC. Tony doctored up a photo of a poster to express his feelings of iPods vs. Palm/Windows Mobile handhelds.
• 2007's NECC will be in Atlanta.
• Poster Session: Teacher Candidates Get HANDy with Handhelds.
• Poster Session: Problem-Based Learning in Online Learning Environments.
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