About Me…
- Me and Noah
Welcome to VanishingPoint! My name is Scott Weidig and I am a consultant and educator by education and trade. After spending 11 years in the technology/management consulting field, I underwent a major job and educational change and moved into the teaching realm. Overall, it was doing the same thing … taking someone fom one place to where they wanted and needed to go …
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Business and History, and a Master in Education Leadership. For the past three years, I have been a conference committee member for the Illinois Computer Educators (ICE) conference, the largest educational technology conference in the mid-west region. Additionally, for the past four years I have been an Advisor for Technology and Learning’s TechFORUM conference held each May. I presented multiple sessions at six different conferences on a variety of topics from the integration of technology in the classroom, specific technologies and tools, to student achievement and learning in the 21st century. This past February I was asked to be a Spotlight Speaker for the 2010 ICE conference. In addition to conference appearances, I have been interviewed by both Forrester Research and Network World Magazine in just the past ten months.
After teaching for a number of years, I have experienced total convergence of all of my educational ad business and personal backgrounds, and I am curently a technology coordinator (tech director) for a high school in a large Illinois high school district.
Yup, I am being intentionally vague… I really want to keep VanishingPoint separate from my employer as what is represented here are my own thought, concerns, challeges, fear, hopes and ponderences, and under no circumstances should they be considered the views of my District. Please feel free to comment here or contact me at any time at scottweidig @ gmail . com (yup, take the spaces out.)
On November 17-18 I will be presenting two workshops at the Illinois Educators Technology Conference (IETC) in Springfield, IL The sessions are titled: Zoho Online Suite – From a Users Perspective and Digital Resources to Know and Love for Educators. Additionally, I will be presenting a general conference session titled: Student Attention in the Digital Age. I will also be presenting at METC and ICE in February 2011.
Disclosure and Affiliations:
Overall, I write because I like to express my opinions, thoughts, ideas, and often to propogate out the thoughts and writing of others. As part of my desire to not be a “long suffering artist” I have recently chosen to begin building affiliations with products and services vendors through a service called Linkshare. You can go to their site for more information. Basically they are a marketing company that provides financial incentives to web properities (like mine) to create a space for “blech…” ads or other links to products and services for various fortune 500 and other companies. From these links, a (very small) percentage of revenue may find it’s way back to me. No where near all of the links I may post will fall under my linkshare affiliation. As I begin to add vendors, I will post that information here. Currently, the programs I am involved in are with Apple, AT&T and Handango. To date I have received absolutely zero revenue from this program.
Zoho Affiliate Program – I have been a huge fan and advocate for Zoho for the past 4 years. I believe that they are a fabulous company with and excellent online suite of products and services. If you have read my blog in the past you can understand my choice in becomming part of the recently announced affiliate program. Right now, only their Projects and invoice applications are part of the affiliate program so you will begin to see links on my site referencing their tools.
My Promise: even though I really do not expect to make any sort of income from these and other future affiliations, I want you my readers to be aware of these arrangements from the start. Additionally, when I provide links in posts that come under any affiliate agreement, I will provide a disclaimer in the post itself referencing my relationship to the vendor. This will allow you the reader to have a better understanding of any possible bias I may have had when crafting the specific post or topic.
As always, I hope you enjoy my thoughts, and come back often to participate in the conversation.
Scott
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Hi Scott
I recently saw your screencast about using Skype on Ustream. I was trolling online for answers to my questions and your screencast was the most succinct and clear of anything I found. So thanks for that. However I was wondering if you could answer a related question – I’m trying to produce/host a show on Ustream that would be audio-only like a radio show and also feature live callers calling in with questions. I would have used blogtalkradio but then I wouldnt have the option of embedding youtube videos or text to my stream and there are also too many other cumbersome restrictions that I find with blogtalkradio. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about how to have callers call-in live to the show without the use of a webcam or skype. My show is this Saturday(dec 4) by the way. I would really appreciate any quick pointers or links etc. Thanks so much and keep up the good work!
Iquo
Hey Scott,
I am one of the podcast contributors on EdReach.us-Google Educast. I was going to write a post last week about RSS since my 4th and 5th grade students are huge fans. I never got around to it and saw that you had beaten me to the punch. Would you mind if I did a follow up post that refers to your post but contains some suggested feeds for elementary and middle school students. I have a list going and I also created a google form where teachers can submit suggested feeds. I haven’t written the post yet but I need to get it going and wanted to make sure you were cool with me piggy backing off of what you wrote. Thanks! Kim Zimmer @MacTeacher
Kim,
Sorry for the delay. From some reason comment on certain pages of my site are not pushing out emails and I have been a neglectful blogger recently. Of course you can piggyback off of anything I write. Thanks also for being part of EdReach.us this is an awesome network of folks we are building from. Being from the secondary mindset, I often forget that if we can get them going younger all the better. I really appreciate the additional information!
Scott
Hi Scott,
I just left you a note on your Google+ page (at least I think I did) and reading your reply to Kim, maybe you’ll see it before this. I would love to quote a different post you did on Google+ as a place for expanding one’s PLN. I look forward to hearing back from you, as well as discovering new things through what you share.
Thanks!
Ann
Ann,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. With the end of the school year things get a bit hectic. I would love to connect with you to discuss PLN’s. Would you like to Skype, Hangout, or the old fashioned phone call ;0). Let me k iw!
S