| We regret that Andy Carvin was
not able to be at the conference. Here is the apology
he posted on his
blog:
Apologies to My Friends in Georgia
Yesterday I was forced to cancel my appearance at the
Georgia Education Technology conference this week. While the
rest of my family was grieving the loss of my father-in-law,
I spent much of the weekend frantically trying to save the
files on my laptop, which appears to have a dying hard
drive. Because I'm in Denver I don't have access to my
backup drives and other tools. After many hours of
frustration it became quite clear that most of the
presentations I'd put together for Atlanta were a total
loss, each reporting an unrepairable disk error. I could now
either skip the wake and funeral to rebuild all of my
presentations from scratch or I could cancel. So I canceled.
Nonetheless, I feel terrible about pulling out of a
conference at the last minute, particularly one where I was
expected to present multiple sessions. So I'd like to
apologize to both the conference organizers and the
educators attending the conference. I was so looking forward
to participation but there's simply no way I can do it. I
hope you understand given this terrible convergence of
circumstances. -andy |
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Andy Carvin |
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Andy Carvin is the host of
PBS's
learning.now, a blog focused
on the intersection of education and Internet culture. He is
the
former editor of the
Digital Divide
Network, an online community of more than 9,000 Internet
activists in 150 countries working to bridge the digital divide.
He is the author of the pioneering online education
resource EdWeb:
Exploring Technology and School Reform, launched in 1994,
and the founder and moderator of
WWWEDU,
the Internet's oldest forum in education. His work has been featured in
many news outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, BBC
Radio, Harvard Educational Review, Education Week,
Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Wired.
In 2005, Technology Review magazine named him one of the
35 leading
high-tech innovators under the age of 35. In December 2001,
Andy was
named by District Administration magazine as one of
America's top 25
edtech advocates. Andy received similar honors from eSchoolNews in 1999 as a member of its Impact 30 list of
edtech leaders. He
is a former member of the board of the Consortium for School
Networking (CoSN), which advocates policies advancing the
role of information technology in schools. From 1999 to
2001, he served on the Board of Directors for the
Asia/Pacific Center for Justice and Peace, a
consortium of NGOs that promotes democracy, freedom of
speech and
freedom of religion across Asia.
Andy holds a bachelor of science in rhetoric and a master
of arts in
telecommunications policy from Northwestern University,
where he
received the prestigious Annenberg/Washington postgraduate
policy
fellowship. He has traveled extensively around the world
and has
written about his adventures in popular online travelogues and photo galleries. He
has published extensively through his blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth,
where he has produced more than 120 podcasts and videos from nearly
20 countries. He also serves as a contributing correspondent to the hit
video blog, Rocketboom. In
2002, he completed co-producing the independent documentary Thai
Boxing: A Fighting Chance, which has aired in more than 140
countries on the National Geographic Channel.
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