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Conversations Episode 114 - Serendipity Tweet This week, Maria was sick and the chat room was not hopping.  I guess everyone is busy getting ready for the holidays.  But Sheila and Lisa did have one guest, who we were thrilled to call into our skype call to have her join the chat.  Amanda Marrinan took time away from her beach vacation to talk with us about how technology is working in the classrooms.  Sheila, Amanda, and Lisa shared many very exciting for us, and getting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#207 - Looking Back at 2011 & Ahead to 2012 Tweet 54:38 minutes (25.01 MB) EdTechWeekly#207 December 18, 2011 Dave's Seven Black Swans for Education in 2012 and Top 10 Edu News Events for 2010 HackEducation's Top 10 EdTech Trends of 2011 read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #276 Questioning Efficiency in Schools: Mary Ann Reilly, Ann Leaness, Pam Moran, Heidi Gable 12.14.11 Tweet 61:38 minutes (14.11 MB) This is the second episode on Teachers Teaching Teachers [ http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2 ] in which we invite the ideas of Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze's Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net to inspire our conversation.  We are joined on this episode by Chris Sloan, Monika Hardy, Scott Shelhart, Mary Ann Reilly, Paul Allison, Ann Leaness, Pam Mora ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-12-12 SEEDlings with Homa Tavangar Tweet The author of Growing Up Global, Homa really wowed us in this last live broadcast of 2011. Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be at Home in the World Growing Up Global Website Geek of the Week Links Chat:  bobsprankle ->   howdy  cheryloakes50 ->   getting ready!!  cheryloakes50 ->   Yahoo!  alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Here we are !  connect2jamie ->   Hi all!  bobspran ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 113 - Objectives - Should we share them with students? Tweet This week, Maria brought us an article about sharing objectives with students. This author gave various reasons not to share objectives. We debated the issue. Our next Conversations show will be held on Monday, December 19th at 8:00 Eastern. 2011-12-05 20:04:30 [Message] Sheila -> EdTechTalk: Starting shortly! 2011-12-05 20:07:05 [Message] Lisa Parisi -> EdTechTalk: Hello Cathy. 2011-12-05 20:07:20 [Message] Cathy E -> EdTechTalk: Au ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#206 - Tech Overload & The Purpose of Education Tweet 56:07 minutes (25.69 MB) EdTechWeekly#206 December 11, 2011 The whole gang is together again as we cover Dave's recent lack of focus, John's visit to 21st Century Skills Ohio, and Jen's Imminent Doctorhood.   read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #275-Walk Out Walk On & Occupy w/ Mary Ann Reilly, Liam O'Donnell, Ann Leaness, Fred Mindlin-12.7.11 Tweet Below the video here are notes and links on some of the threads we weave together on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers (Please subscribe: http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2 ). Participants in this episode’s Hangout are: Monika Hardy, Mary Ann Reilly, Scott Shelhart (and his daughter), Liam O'Donnell, Paul Allison, Ann Leaness, and Fred Mindlin We begin a conversation about Margaret Wheatle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWhenever#205 Student Data: Where to draw the line? Tweet EdTechWhenever#205 December 4, 2011 Dave & Jeff discuss the merits and ethics of of academic and social media data analysis by universities as we take the experimental Wowza Studio out for it's first spin.  32:39 minutes (14.94 MB) EdTechWhenever#205 December 4, 2011 Dave & Jeff discuss the merits and ethics of of academic and social media data analysis by universities. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #274 - P2PU and ORE with Kevin Hodgson, Bud Hunt, Karen Fasimpaur, Fred Hass, Harry Brake - 11.30.11 Tweet 64:38 minutes (14.79 MB)On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we continue our conversations about Open Educational Resources (OER) with this amazing cast of wonderful teachers! In particular we learned more about the P2PU [ http://p2pu.org/en ] course that +Bud Hunt facilitated and +Karen Fasimpaur helped organize: Writing and Common Core: Deeper Learning for All [ p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-11-28 Adam Bellows EduTecher.net Tweet Bob, Alice, and Cheryl are joined by Adam Bellows of EduTecher.net.  Geek of the Week Links 68:49 minutes (47.29 MB) Bob, Alice, and Cheryl are joined by Adam Bellows of EduTecher.net.  Geek of the Week Links read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 112 - Character Education - It is worth teaching? Tweet This week, during our new Monday night time, we discussed Character Education.  As educators, we recognize the importance of teaching values but sometimes feel we are fighting an uphill battle.  How do we keep it going?   ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #273 Thanks for Open Educational Resources with Karen Fasimpaur, Antero Garcia, Daye Rogers 11.23.11 Tweet TTT 273 61:35 minutes (14.09 MB) Happy Thanksgiving! On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we give thanks for OER! Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resourcesthat reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course mater ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #272 - City as Floor Plan with Ron Link, Andrea Zellner, Mary Ann Reilly, and David Wees - 11.16.11 Tweet TTT 272 59:50 minutes (13.69 MB) In a busy week with conferences and conventions--physical and and online--going on all over, it was good to stop and think about what we want schools to look like. On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Paul Allison introduces his Assistant Principal, colleague and friend Ron Link to Monika Hardy and Mary Ann Reilly. Ron is cooking up ideas for a new school, and man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COOLCast - Nov. 17, 2011 - Learning in a Time of Abundance Tweet 54:09 minutes (24.79 MB)   COOLCast - Nov. 17, 2011 Learning in a Time of Abundance w/ Change11 Week#10 Facilitator Erik Duval Participants  Brenda Kaulback, Giulia Forsythe, Carol yeager, VH AUStudent, Vance Stevens, & Jose Mota   Erikduval.wordpress.com/   Change.mooc.ca/week10.htm read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechTalk21 #159: Richard Kassissieh joins us to Discuss the NAIS Online Learning Guide Tweet EdTechTalk21 #159 Richard Kassissieh joins us to Discuss the NAIS Online Learning Guide October 12, 2011 NAIS' 21st Century Curriculum Task Force recently published an Online Learning Guide. Richard Kassissieh joined us to discuss the document and the state of online learning in Independent Schools. 30:16 minutes (27.74 MB) EdTechTalk21 #159 Richard Kassissieh joins us to Discuss the NAIS Online Learni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 46 November 14, 2011 Joe Mazza Electronic Family and Community Engagement Tweet If you missed the November 14, 2011 Parent as Partners show you can still enjoy the conversation that I had with Joe Mazza, principal at Knapp Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as he demonstartes how he uses the latest technologies to create strong school family and community partnerships. Looking forward to Knapp Family Twitter Town Hall meeting on November 21, 2011. Look for details The links to resources and websites mentioned ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COOLCast - w/ Dave Cormier on Rhizomatic Learning Tweet 72:22 minutes (33.12 MB) COOLCast w/ Dave Cormier on Rhizomatic Learning Novemer 10, 2011 Dave Cormier's final stop on his Week#9 Change11 Tour discussing Rhizomatic Learning.  http://change.mooc.ca/week09.htm http://davecormier.com/ read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #271 - Alert! Ya gotta do this today! Get students jazzed about One Day on Earth w/ Cari Ann -11.9.11 Tweet 55:53 minutes (12.79 MB) We rushed to get this up right away, because we'd love to invite you to "Help Document the World's Story" on Friday, 11.11.11. Video, photography, multimedia projects need to be created on this Friday, then uploaded to the One Day on Earth site as soon as possible. On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we are joined by Cari Ann Shim Sham, who ends this webcast by reminding u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #270 - Education Beyond Borders with Noble Kelly, Kimberly Brown, Ian Roberts, and Zac Chase 11.2.11 Tweet 60:34 minutes (13.86 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we are joined by Noble Kelly, founder and president of Education Beyond Borders as well as three EBBers: Zac Chase, Kimberly Brown,  and Ian Robertson. Rounding out our panel is: Chris Sloan, Monika Hardy, Paul Allison, Scott Shelhart, and Cynthia Shidner Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#204 - Rhizomatic Learning & Battling the Positivists Tweet 61:38 minutes (28.21 MB) EdTechWeekly#204 November 6, 2011 Jen & Jeff grill Dave on Rhizomatic Learning as he prepares for his featured week for Change 11 and continues his ongoing battle against positivists. Week#9 Change 11 Rhizomatic Learning – Why we teach? Chat Log Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 111 - Evaluating Teachers Tweet Conversations #111 November 6, 2011 After a bit of a rocky start due to issues with LiveStream, today's Conversation was about how teachers should be evaluated. What is the ideal teacher evaluation method? What should be done? How would you like to be evaluated?  Many different points of view were shared in the chat room and by Lisa, Maria and Sheila. Listen and find out what everyone was talking about. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nancy White on 'Community' for Change11 MOOC Tweet 51:33 minutes (23.6 MB) Nancy White on 'Community' for Change11 MOOC October 31, 2011 Multiplicity of groups... how do we work creatively with multimembership? What is the role of the transversal?  Change11 Week#8: http://change.mooc.ca/week08.htm Blackboard Collaborate Recording DTLT Recording (separate event)  About Nancy: http://www.fullcirc.com/about/ View more presentati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COOLCast Nov. 2, 2011 - Where is the Change? Tweet 68:21 minutes (31.29 MB) COOLCast November 2, 2011 Participants; Tim Owens, carol yeager, Jim Stauffer, Stephen Downes, Giulia Forsythe, Jeff Lebow Topics:  Getting to know Tim, Where is the change in Change 11?,  Interactivity in MOOC's, The Magic of DS106, Interactive Presentation options, How best to tune in to blog comments, the Canvas alternative, and plans for a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly 203 - OERu, The Missing Middle Piece, & Change11 Interaction ?'s Tweet 64:43 minutes (29.62 MB) EdTechWeekly#203 October 30, 2011 Topics: Jen starts us off by examining issues brought out during Rory McGreal's Change11 presentation about 'OER for Learning' and OERu Specifically, we contemplate the role of the teacher and/or learning institution when using Open Educational Resources and what about the 'missing piece' between open content and as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #269 Asking Frank Questions with Fred Mindlin, Cynthia Shidner, Valerie Burton, Gail Desler -10.26.11 Tweet TTT 269 60:57 minutes (13.95 MB) We asked important questions about reading, censorship, teaching with prescribed curriculums, freedom, and more on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers . Chris Sloan Gail Desler Fred Mindlin Monika Hardy (with  Linda, Barry Floyd, and Christian) Cynthia Shidner Paul Allison Valerie Burton Enjoy! Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happeni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechTalk21 #158 Jason Ramsden on Social Media and Chromebooks Tweet EdTechTalk21 #158 Jason Ramsden on Social Media and Chromebooks October 12, 2011 Jason Ramsden talks to us about his new book, author of Communicating and Connecting with Social Media and Ravenscroft School's new Chromebook program.   22:09 minutes (20.31 MB)EdTechTalk21 #158 Jason Ramsden on Social Media and Chromebooks October 12, 2011 read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-10-24 Wes Fryer - Playing With Media Tweet We meet with Wes Fryer to talk about his new Book "Playing with Media" Geek of the Week Links 68:52 minutes (47.33 MB) We meet with Wes Fryer to talk about his new Book "Playing with Media" Geek of the Week Links read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#202 Tweet 50:44 minutes (23.22 MB) EdTechWeekly #202 October 23, 2011 Jen, John, Dave, & Jeff get caught up on Change11 and other edtech projects and argue about live presentation options. Chat Log Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #268 Learning from Occupy Wall Street with Jose Luis Vilson, Jose Rodriguez, Mary Beth Hertz 10.19.11 Tweet Learning from Occupy Wall Street 68:18 minutes (15.63 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers these amazing teachers discuss Occupy Education, Occupy the Classroom, Occupy Wall Street, Youth Voices and more thanks to our friends who publish at the Cooperative Catalyst: Chris Sloan Chad Sansing Jose Luis Vilson MaryBeth Hertz Jose Rodriguez Paul Allison Sheri Edwards David Lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #267 Wacky Learning Matters: Alex & Phill Pappas, Katherine von Jan, Jodhbir, & Lisa Nielsen 10.12.11 Tweet Teachers Teaching Teachers #267 Wacky Learning Matters: Alex & Phill Pappas, Katherine von Jan, Jodhbir, & Lisa Nielsen 10.12.11 66:57 minutes (15.32 MB) Here’s a snippet from or by each of the participants in this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Alexander Pappas, Co-founder at HourSchool HourSchool connects people through their social networks, helping them learn from one another. We call ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #267 Wacky Learning Matters: Alex & Phill Pappas, Katherine von Jan, Jodhbir, & Lisa Nielsen 10.12.11 Tweet Teachers Teaching Teachers #267 Wacky Learning Matters: Alex & Phill Pappas, Katherine von Jan, Jodhbir, & Lisa Nielsen 10.12.11 66:57 minutes (15.32 MB) Here’s a snippet from or by each of the participants in this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Alexander Pappas, Co-founder at HourSchool HourSchool connects people through their social networks, helping them learn from one another. We call it peer-led, social ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-10-10 Seedlings with Emily Hunt Esch Cyberbullying Month and Common Sense Media Tweet Join Alice, Bob and Cheryl as we interview Emily Esch from Common Sense Media and learn about Cyberbullying Month and all the new resources available to educators. 60:39 minutes (41.68 MB)   Alice, Bob and Cheryl get together and talk to Emily! Seedlings presents Emily Esch Common Sense Media and October CyberBullying Month read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 110 - Changes for Librarians Tweet This week Joyce Valenza and CathyJo Nelson joined us for a conversation about libraries and the new role of the librarian. Chat: Sheila: Hello MariaK: hello Lisa Parisi: Good morning Peggy Sheila: Ok now me pgeorge: seeing and hearing now :-) Lisa Parisi: Click on the little play button on the bottom to see and hear our show pgeorge: K12 Online conference is eager to do a conversation with you to announce plans for this year, Have you been ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #266 What changes when we allow connections and brilliance in one-room schoolhouses online? 10.5.11 Tweet Teachers Teaching Teachers #266 What changes when we allow connections and brilliance in one-room schoolhouses online? 10.5.11 66:32 minutes (15.23 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, seven of us--Chris Sloan, Gail Desler, Fred Mindlin, Monika Hardy, Valerie Burton, Scott Shelhardt and Paul Allison--share our ideas, concerns, hopes, dreams, plans and strategies for moving our teac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechTalk21 #157 -- 2011-2012 School Year Tweet EdTechTalk21 #157 We're Back! What's Happening and Where We're Going... October 5, 2011 We're back and have lots of great news and goals for the year.  We'll be broadcasting on Wednesday's at 1:30 EST.  See you all there!   19:35 minutes (17.99 MB) EdTechTalk21 #157 We're Back! What's Happening and Where We're Going... October 5, 2011 We're back and have lots of great news and goals for t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COOLCast - October 5, 2011 Tweet 101:25 minutes (46.43 MB) COOLCast October 5, 2011 Participants: Vance Stevens, carol yeager, Stephen Downes,  Lisa M Lane, Kate Robbins, Jenny Ankenbauer, Jeff Lebow   Topics: platform options for course events, central cores and threads in MOOCs, designed around the loudest shouters, continuity in open learning topics, 'distributed' teacher goals vs. learner ce ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#201 - Dave's real life issue Tweet 41:52 minutes (9.58 MB) EdTechWeekly#201 October 2, 2011 Participants:  Jeff Lebow,  dave cormier, John Schinker Topics:  Dave's real life issue -  MOOC-ish Professional Development experiment involving faculty learning about online learning and prospective students learning about university life. Chat Log Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-9-26 The Zombie Show Tweet We’re joined by Wes Fryer! We go back to 9/23/11 and share a great conversation with a teaser to Wes’ new book, Playing with Media, what ePublishing entails, and Zombies! 54:44 minutes (37.63 MB) read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #265 - Seven Teachers from Seven States have a Conversation about Conversations - 9.28.11 Tweet On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, these seven teachers: Chris Sloan (Utah) Margaret Simon (Louisiana) Monika Hardy (with an Inovation Lab student, Cristian) (Colorado) Scott Shelhart (Indiana) Cynthia Shidner (Alaska) Paul Allison (New York) Fred Haas (Massachusetts) met in a Google+ Hangout to talk about our classrooms, about http://youthvoices, and more! Monika Hardy also talks about the BIF Summit http://businessinnovation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COOLCast - September 28, 2011 Tweet 68:05 minutes (31.17 MB)     COOLCast Collaborative Open Online Learning  Sept. 28, 2011 Participants:  Kate Robbins, Lisa M Lane, carol yeager, Lynne Hand, Stephen Dame,  Vance Stevens, Bernie DeKoven, monika hardy, Osvaldo Rodriguez, Jeff Lebow Topics: Alternatives to Elluminate large group meetings, CMC MOOC Overview,  Lack of a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#200 - Google+ Update, Orchestrating Tech Meetings & E-Books Tweet 44:46 minutes (20.49 MB) EdTechWeekly#200 September 25, 2011 Participants:  Jeff Lebow,  dave cormier, John Schinker Topics:  Google+'s latest features (including Hangout 'with extras'), John asks how to make school tech committee meetings more efficient/on-topic, and Dave contemplates how to orchestrate the efforts of those writing the Change11 E-Book Chat Log Below re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 107 - Back to School Night Tweet This week we discussed Back to School Night, debating what parents want to hear, what we want to say, and what our administrators expect us to say.   Chat: 11:29:19mariak : just setting up 11:29:29mariak : it's chilly up here 11:30:16Lisa Parisi : Amanda! 11:30:28marragem : Hi everyone! 11:30:54Sheila : What time zone are you in now Amanda? 11:32:10marragem : Only 12 hours difference at the moment 11:34:51marragem : oooh! 11:35:35Pegg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#199 - Google+ Overview and Education Potential Tweet 62:27 minutes (28.58 MB) EdTechWeekly#199 September 18, 2011 Participants:   Jennifer Maddrell, Jeff Lebow,  dave cormier, John Schinker, Paul Allison Featured Topic: Google+ - Overview, Reaction, and Potential in Eduation Chat Log Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-09-12 Seedlings Season 4 Tweet The season opener features the gremlins! Dave Cormier foiled them though! Seedlings is back!Alice , Bob and Cheryl hope you join us on Monday evenings 7:30 pm. Live one time a month, then a podcast the second time. 37:07 minutes (25.52 MB)Join Alice, Bob and Cheryl as we jump back in to Season 4 Seedlings at Edtechtalk.com!! Thanks to Dave Cormier who defeated this round of gremlins. The show rocked,  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #264 - A Rizomatic Revolution Blossoms in Colorado - 9.14.11 Tweet 64:21 minutes (14.73 MB) If you were to create a space where learning would happen the way it does on the Internet, what would it look like? That's what Monika Hardy has been thinking about and doing for the last four years. And now she is working with a group of people to produce a book about their work at the Innovation Lab. Monika has begun to co-host Teachers Teaching Teachers over the past several ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | COOLCast#1 - September 14, 2011 Tweet 67:40 minutes (30.98 MB) COOLCast#1  Collaborative Open Online Learning Sept. 14, 2011 Participants: Lisa M Lane, Vance Stevens, Kate Robbins, Sanford Arbogast, Jeff Lebow Next Scheduled COOLCast - Sept. 21 1400GMT global times Some links mentioned:  gRRShopper - software running the newsletter Lisa's Pedagogy First Open Course EdTechCrew's Discussion with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #106 - Summer Learning Tweet The Conversations gang returned from their summer vacation with lots to say and ready for plenty of conversation. Lisa , Maria and Sheila share their learning while away for the summer. 62:07 minutes (21.33 MB)The Conversations gang returned from their summer vacation with lots to say and ready for plenty of conversation. Lisa , Maria and Sheila share their learning while away for the summer. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#198 - 'New Format' Constuctivism in Education Tweet 70:24 minutes (32.23 MB) EdTechWeekly #198 September 11, 2011 Participants:   Jennifer Maddrell, Jeff Lebow,  dave cormier, John Schinker, Anne Marie Cunningham  Featured Topic:   Constructivism - Is it an evil lie? Does it work as a Learning Model? Does it presribe a Teaching Model? How is Jen going to finish her dissertation? Other Stuff:  Figuring out our 'ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-12 Seedlings Teaser!!! Tweet Homework for the first Seedlings show, September 12, 2011. Read this article , then leave us comments at FaceBook  or at BitbyBit @bobsprankle.com the article!   and Liz b Davis' reply! Join us Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 6:21 minutes (4.4 MB)Join the Seedlings crew as we start our new school year , same bat channel, different time, different night! Hope you can tune in. Alice, Bob and Chery ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #263 Listening Without Agenda Puts Us in Serious Danger of a 3-Letter Word that Starts w/ "F" 9.7.11 Tweet Pericles Group 69:32 minutes (15.91 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Monika Hardy, Chris Sloan and Paul Allison invited Amy Lewark, Mary Ann Reilly, Adam Mackie, and Jodhbir Singh, who has been visiting visiting the Lab that Monika Hardy facilitates. He has a passion to help change education in India where he is from. Monika writes, "We've been corresponding for some time now. Thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #262 - Listening to Students and Leaving Stuff Around - 8.31.11 Tweet On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Monika Hardy and Paul Allison were joined by Matt Montagne, Alexander Pappas, Chad Sansing Valerie Burton, Amy Lewark, Julie Phelan and Christian and a couple of other young people. We continued the conversation we started last week, Teachers Teaching Teachers #261 - Monika Hardy and colleagues discuss Lab: a plan of disruption to redefine school - 8.24.11, and we began to look for intersect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #261 - Monika Hardy and colleagues discuss Lab: a plan of disruption to redefine school - 8.24.11 Tweet Monika Hardy and colleagues introduce Lab Connections 68:03 minutes (15.58 MB) For this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Monika Hardy @monk51295 invited a few of her colleagues: Thomas Steele-Maley @steelemaley Roberto Greco @rogre Mary Ann Rielly @MaryAnnRielly Amanda Judd @venueX Amy Lewark @fat4thought to join Chris Sloan @csloan and me @paulallison to introduce why we need lab spaces ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EduMOOC 2011 Gradcast Tweet The Final EduMOOC Webcast August 17, 2011 Participants: Vance Stevens, Lisa M Lane, Alison Snieckus, Osvaldo Rodriguez, Rowan Fairgrove, & Jeff Lebow  Topic:  The future of MOOC's and online education ... and acronym alternatives to MOOC, including    SOOC - Scalable Open Online Course    MILE - Massive Informal Learning Experience  &nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #255 Exploring Minecraft w/ Jo Kay, Dean Groom, Bronwyn Stuckey, Joel Levin, and Chad Sansing 7.13.11 Tweet minecraft 61:38 minutes (14.11 MB) If you dig Minecraft (or wonder why other teachers--and their students--do) you'll enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, recorded earlier this summer. We were joined by a few teachers who have recently launched Massively Minecraft: The purpose of this community project is to trial the use of the game Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net) in schools as part of vo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #260 - Connecting the Creative Cracks Created by the NWP Makes Project - 8.17.11 Tweet NWP Makes! 60:41 minutes (13.89 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we are joined by teachers involved with the NWP Makes Project: Christina Cantrill who works at the National Writing Project as a Senior Program Associate for the NWP Technology Initiative and Digital Is project. Judy Jester, Co-Director of the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project at West Chester University and an Eng ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #259 Getting Ready with Youth Voices 8.10.11 Tweet Youth Voices Hangout 70:12 minutes (16.07 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we are joined by Kevin Hodgson, Charles Freij, Margaret Simon, Judy Jester, Ronnie Burt, Gail Desler, Chris Sloan, Adam Cohen, Dan Polleys. We talk about our plans for the fall and how using Youth Voices might fit with our work with our students. (Sorry about the over-modulation on some of these voices. We'll imp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Penultimate EduMOOCast - August 10, 2011 Tweet 69:32 minutes (63.66 MB) The Penultimate EduMOOCast August 10, 2011 Participants: Bernie DeKoven, Kay Endriss, Chahira Nouira, Alison Snieckus, Osvaldo Rodriguez, Rob Darrow, Sanford Arbogast, Lisa M Lane, Jeff Lebow Chat Logs Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #258 What would Peter Little think? Inquiries for curriculum on the Horn of Africa 8.3.11 Tweet Peter Little 60:00 minutes (13.73 MB) This episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers started a couple of weeks ago on Google+. Here's the story of why we invited anthropologist Peter D. Little to join us in our planning for classes this fall.  It started when I (Paul Allison) asked a couple of questions after reading about a meeting in Rome, where the international community rallied "to the aid of dr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week#6 MOOCast - August 3, 2011 Tweet 54:52 minutes (25.12 MB) Participants: Maria Droujkova, Rob Darrow, Joel Josephson, Rebecca Hogue, Alison Snieckus, Chahira Nouira, & Jeff Lebow Topics discussed include PLN's, MOOC wiki page, depth of social media. Chat Log Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #257 Youth Voices with Alice Barr, Matt Montagne, Sandy Scragg, Sheri Edwards, Valerie Burton 7.27.11 Tweet 66:04 minutes (15.12 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we get together and talk about Youth Voices with Alice Barr, Matt Montagne, Sandy Scragg, Sheri Edwards, Shantanu Saha, Valerie Burton, Chris Sloan, and Paul Allison.  Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #254 - What happens when a brewer becomes a teacher? Meet Tommy Buteau (plus Chad Sansing) 07.06.11 Tweet 48:00 minutes (10.99 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, meet Tommy Buteau and learn more about Chad Sansing and the Cooperative Catalyst. Tommy recently wrote Paul Allison.Paul, I read about the Youth Voices project at the Digital Is site, and I think it sounds very interesting, like something I would use with my 9th and 11th grade English classes here in Windsor, C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week#5 EduMOOCast - July 27, 2011 Tweet 63:14 minutes (28.94 MB) Participants:  Rob Darrow, John Graves, Vance Stevens, Frank Stonehouse, Rebecca Hogue, Sanford Arbogast, scott lockman, Maizie Avihayil, Clark Shah-Nelson, Jeff Lebow John's Wiki-to-Speech Summary Chat Log & Links Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #256 - Cooperative Catalyst Tweet 64:26 minutes (29.49 MB) Teacher Teaching Teachers #256  getting to know the Cooperative Catalyst July 20, 2011 with appearances by: Gregory Hill, monika hardy, Paul Allison, Chad Sansing,Paul Oh, TERRY ELLIOTT, Christina Cantrill, MaryBeth Hertz, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Paula White, Susan Ettenheim, David Loitz, Thomas Steele-Maley, Andrea Zellner, Benjamin Wilkoff, Jamie Steckart, &&nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MOOCast - Week#4 Tweet 89:19 minutes (40.89 MB) MOOCast - Week#4 July 20, 2011  Participants: Jeff Lebow, John Graves, Rob Darrow, Stephen Downes, Michael Marzio, Dr.Nellie Deutsch Muller John's Wiki-to-Speech Summary  Part 1    Part 2     Part 3   Complete Ustream Recording  Chat Log Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MOOCast Week#3 - An EduMOOC Google Hangout Tweet MOOCast Week#3 A Google Hangout July 13, 2011 74:42 minutes (34.19 MB) MOOCast Week#3 A Google Hangout July 13, 2011  Participants: Jeff Lebow, Rob Darrow, John Graves, VanceStevens, Benjamin Stewart, Dr. Nellie Deutsch Muller, Sanford Arbogast, Elena Garofoli, Evelyn Izquierdo, Kalyan Chattopadhyay, Helaine Marshall, Tero Toivanen  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers 253 Chris Lehmann, Bud Hunt, Diana Laufenberg, Zac Chase, Matt VanKouwenberg, Larissa Pahomov 6.29.11 Tweet Post ISTE. 46:30 minutes (10.64 MB)There were many wonderful moments at ISTE this year! One of them was the closing keynote by Chris Lehmann, principal of the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in Philadelphia. That evening we invited Chris, Bud Hunt, and four teachers from SLA -- Diana Laufenberg, Zac Chase, Matt VanKouwenberg, and  Larissa Pahomov -- to join us at Rembrandt's Restaurant (aka SLA North) t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #105 - Summer Plans Tweet 62:26 minutes (28.58 MB) This week we were joined by Amanda Marrinan, who was in the same time zones as Lisa, Maria and Sheila! She was visiting Maria before heading to ISTE11. This week we discussed our professional and personal plans for the summer. Curriculum planning and having fun were at the top of the list! This is our last show of the season. We will be taking time off for the summer, but will be back ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #252 Pre-ISTE (2 of 2) - Steve Hargadon, Chris Lehmann, and Sylvia Martinez getting ready - 6.22.11 Tweet 51:51 minutes (11.87 MB) Enjoy this podcast, recorded a couple of days ago, getting ready for ISTE. Chat during this podcast: read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #251 Pre-ISTE (1 of 2) Suzie Boss (Edutopia) & Christina Cantrill (National Writing Project)- 6.15.11 Tweet Enjoy this podcast, recorded 10 days ago, getting ready for ISTE! 62:40 minutes (14.34 MB) Enjoy this podcast, recorded 10 days ago, getting ready for ISTE. What are you looking for there? What are you bringing? Click Read more to see Christina Cantrill's personal list of some of the events where National Writing Project (WP) teachers will be participating as well as the chat that was happening during t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #250 Meenoo Rami on #engchat and and Samantha Adams on mobiles in the NMC K-12 Horizon Report 6.8.11 Tweet What are your personal learning networks (PLN) online? What do your students do? Do we use different or similar tools to learn online? Do you use mobiles? Do students? What do students’ PLN’s look like now? What will they look like in 1, 3, and 5 years? Samantha Adams and Meenoo Rami are two of our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.  Samatha Adams joined us for further conversations about the NMC Horizon Report ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #249 - Writing, Making, Sharing, and Learning about Gardens: National Writing Project Makes! 6.1.11 Tweet gardening show from June 1, 2011 64:20 minutes (14.72 MB) Do you garden with your students? Do they make things? And do they read and write about these experiences, and sometimes publish the results online? On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you'll hear National Writing Project teachers from Colorado, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and California describe the gardens and writing projects they are doin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDLINGS Season 3 It's a Wrap! Tweet The Chat:  19:29:36 [Message] Alice Barr -> EdTechTalk: I am so out of practice. Forgot to launch skype  19:32:43 [Message] cheryloakes~seedlings -> EdTechTalk: Welcome to SEEDLINGS!  19:35:57 [Message] cheryloakes~seedlings -> EdTechTalk: It's a Wrap!  19:38:06 [Message] bobsprankle -> EdTechTalk: http://www.wcsh6.com/life/programming/local/207/article/162641/50/Laptop...  19:38:13 [Message] bobsprankle - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #248 - Gaming Questions from Texas, Minecraft, and the "2011 Horizon Report K12 Edition" - 5.25.11 Tweet Gaming Questions from Texas and the 2011 Horizon Report K12 Edition 67:37 minutes (15.48 MB) One of the more inspiring threads of our collective inquiry on Teachers Teaching Teachers (TTT) has been to explore how to bring gaming into our classrooms. (See some of our shows on gaming from the past 18 months.) With this episode,  we add to that list of shows. This episode of TTT began with a study group ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #104 - How do you end the year? [June 12, 2011] Tweet 60:47 minutes (27.83 MB)This week, we discussed ending the school year. Although for some listeners it was a reflection, Lisa, Maria and Sheila all have about 2 more weeks to go! Several ideas and links were shared in the chat. Chat coming soon! read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #103 How has your teaching changed with collaboration? Tweet 57:02 minutes (19.58 MB)This week we talked about how collaboration and being connected has changed our teaching practice. We looked at how we use Twitter to reach out to our PLN for feedback, advice, support and ideas. John Fladd joined Maria and Lisa to share his thoughts on the topic. Sheila will be back next week. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers 247 High School-College Transition and the “Framework for Success in Post-secondary Writing” 5.18.11 Tweet On this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers, we have some of our current and former students on to talk about the high school-college transition. We are also joined by a couple of National Writing Project teachers who have been involved with the “Framework for Success in Post-secondary Writing” that came out a few months ago. 66:16 minutes (15.17 MB) On this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers, we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#197 / EdTechTalk #85 - ETT's 6th Anniversary Tweet EdTechTalk#85/EdTechWeekly#197 June 5, 2011 6 Year Anniversary Celebration of EdTechTalk#1 Chat Log Below  19:00:45  Harold ->  Hi Dave & gang  19:01:22  dawn ->  thx  19:01:59  Harold ->  Happy friggin' Anniversary!  19:02:41  Harold ->  I think I'm listening on IceCast - working  19:03:33  Harold ->  Icecast died - now on ustream  19: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #246 - Quakestories - Updates from Japan: Kim Cofino, Eric Bossieux, Mary Fish, David Bantz - 5.4.11 Tweet Every few weeks, since the March 11th earthquake, tsunami, and ongoing nuclear crises in Japan, we've been checking in with a few teachers there. On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we are joined once again by Kim Cofino who gives us us a general update on her own, her students' and colleagues', and her neighbors' responses to the crises. Kim also describes “quakestories,” a project she started along with Mary Fish, who also joins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #196 Tweet EdTechWeekly #196 May 29, 2011 Regular hosts: Dave, John Guest host: Daniel Lynds This week, John and Dave are joined by Daniel Lynds, the University of Prince Edward Island's new Instructional Designer. The discussion centers around tips for someone in a new position who is providing support for teachers and professors using technology in their classes. 59:37 minutes (54.58 MB) EdTechWeekly # ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 102 - What Message Does Your Classroom Give? Tweet This week, we discussed the message people get when they come into your classroom.  Does your room portray the message you want it to?  How do you get people to understand your message?   Chat: 11:27:41 Lisa Parisi : Sound should now be on Ustream 11:31:09 woodenmask : Morning, Ma'am 11:32:08 woodenmask : A "ma'am-guy"? 11:34:02 Lisa Parisi : sound on ustream can you hear 11:35:34 Sheila : I agree Woodenmask. I just experienced ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #245 - Meet the New Youth Voices - An open meeting where we talk about the recent upgrade - 4.27.11 Tweet Teachers Teaching Teachers 245 62:50 minutes (14.38 MB) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, a group of us who are in the process of launching a new version of Youth Voices met to continue the process of building the technology and the pedegogy of our work together. Youth Voices is a school-based social network that was started in 2003 by a group of National Writing Project teache ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-05-19 Seedlings Show 116 with Dr. Carina Self Tweet We are joined by Dr. Carina Self from The University of New Hampshire. Carina is the Assistant Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program and lecturer. Geek of the week Links from the Show Chat  cheryloakes~seedlings -> welcome connect2jamie  connect2jamie -> Hi friends!  cheryloakes~seedlings -> Welcome, this evening, we have Carina Self as our guest.  cheryloakes~seedlings -> Hello PeggyG, welcome  bobspra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 101 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? Tweet This week Miguel Guhlin joined Lisa, Maria, and Sheila to continue a conversation he had started in a chat room a few weeks ago.  His question: Do you bloom where you are planted or do you move to bloom?  We discussed the pros and cons of staying in a difficult teaching situation where you can do great work for children or moving where you are more supported. Chat: 11:28:05 Lisa Parisi : Hello 11:28:55 Sheila : yes 11:2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #195 Tweet EdTechWeekly #195 May 15, 2011 Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John Guest host: Eric Curts This week's links: Khan Academy: Website: http://www.khanacademy.org/ Charlie Rose Interview with founder Sal Khan: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11658 On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy Sal Khan TED 2011: http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy#p/u/23/gM95HHI4gLk Jen's take: Age old instructional "model" of (1) Presentation, (2) Practi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-05-12 Seedlings Show 115 with Chris Bugaj Tweet 65:49 minutes (60.26 MB) read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #194 Tweet EdTechWeekly #194 May 8, 2011 Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John Guest hosts: iJohn Pederson, mayor of the Internet This week's Links: What scares us, please do tell ... http://www.ijohnpederson.com/2011/03/what-are-you-scared-of/ Issues of legacy and content preservation Derek K. Miller: http://penmachine-bu.appspot.com/ What happens to the Google Video content that doesn't get migrated?http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/15/google-vi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #244 Juan Rubio and David Gagnog on Geo-locative Gaming, the ARIS Project. Also: Why Games? 4.20.11 Tweet We talked about games and new literacies on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Juan Rubio from Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program joined us to talk about a project he is doing with students after school in the NYC Public Libraries to develop "a geo location based game using mobile technology to explore local history and global issues with middle school students from the Bronx.” Also David Gagnog, who had finished an ARIS G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETBS: Derek K. Miller Tribute Tweet A tribute to Derek K. Miller of penmachine.com which includes an interview from the beginning of 2007, and featuring tunes from the Penmachine Sessions 38:51 minutes (17.78 MB) Derek K. Miller June 30, 1969 - May 03, 2011 A tribute to Derek K. Miller featuring an interview I did with Derek early in 2007 and some of the Penmachine Session tunes. Derek very courageously documented his struggle wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-05-05 Seedlings Show 114 with Miranda Adams Tweet 60:13 minutes (55.14 MB) Join us as we get all the details about Miranda Adams, 3rd grade teacher from Jesep Elementary School, Jesep, GA. She started blogging one year ago and has changed the landscape at her school with her inclusive community for parents. She can put a blog post about requesting something for the classroom and the results are astounding! One little change has meant so much for her stude ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 45 May 2, 2011 Fix the School not the Child with Lisa Nielsen - Innovative Educator Tweet Lisa Nielsen aka the Innovative Educator joined Parents as Partners on Monday May 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM EDY (GMT-4) to talk about her free ebook for parents. 55:00 minutes (12.59 MB) Lisa Nielsen aka the Innovative Educator joined Parents as Partners on Monday May 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM EDY (GMT-4) to talk about her free ebook for parents. Lisa Nielsen is an educational administrator and permanently cer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 45 May 2, 2011 Fix the School not the Child with Lisa Nielsen - Innovative Educator Tweet Lisa Nielsen aka the Innovative Educator joined Parents as Partners on Monday May 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM EDY (GMT-4) to talk about her free ebook for parents. 54:51 minutes (12.55 MB) Lisa Nielsen aka the Innovative Educator joined Parents as Partners on Monday May 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM EDY (GMT-4) to talk about her free ebook for parents. Lisa Nielsen is an educational administrator and permanently certified teacher with m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 100!!! - A Celebration Tweet This week we celebrated our 100th Episode.  We talked about how we got started and moved right into a conversation about being connected as educators.  It was great fun! Chat: 11:20:56 PeggyG : Hi there! Are we having a party today?? 100 shows!! Fantastic! :-) 11:24:33 Lisa Parisi : Hello Scott. 11:24:47 Scott Shelhart (@kd9sr) : Hello friends 11:25:59 Scott Shelhart (@kd9sr) : That's better.  11:27:18 Scott Shelhart (@kd9sr) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #193 Tweet EdTechWeekly #193 May 1, 2011 Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John This week's topics of discussion: Big tech bumpy ride: http://gigaom.com/2011/04/30/hey-apple-sony-and-amazon-crisis-response-i... Phone tracking ... big deal or no biggie? What? http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/25/iphone.tracking.wired Why? http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html Amazon's wild ride:           Gea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BennBenShow 2011-04-28 Tweet A rumor that it was to be their last show? Join us and find out what happened. 66:13 minutes (30.31 MB)A rumor that it was to be their last show? Join us and find out what happened. Ben and Ben catch up the audience with their latest news! The chat will be around here tomorrow. read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Remixing History - The Cigar Box Project Tweet Have a listen as Susan van Gelder interviews Neil Stephenson with his presentation from 2009.  60:15 minutes (13.79 MB) Have a listen as Susan van Gelder interviews Neil Stephenson with his presentation from 2009. http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=459 Neil Stephenson believes in the power of technology to bring the past into the future. Empowered with 21st century tools, Stephenson’s Grade 7 student ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #243 - Donovan Hohn on Moby Duck & Alice Barr on what you are doing this summer - 4.13.11 Tweet Teachers are learners at heart. We’ve got full time jobs, rooms full of hormonally-driven teens, stacks of papers to grade – yet we still find time to write and to learn ourselves. On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we hear from two inspirational teachers, Donovan Hohn and Alice Barr. Donovan Hohn’s writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and The Moby Duck Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #192 Tweet EdTechWeekly #192 April 17, 2011  Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John  This week's topics of discussion:  A moment of silence for the passing of Flock -> http://www.flock.com/faq.html ... and Flip -> http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Cisco-Restructures-Consumer-Busi... ... and Google Video -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/990586-google-video-hosted-content-to-... A moment of reflection for this ...  http:/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #242 - Energy Disasters: Massey, BP, and TEPCO - Local Reports on Our Global Crises - 4.6.11 Tweet Our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers suggest our topic, or perhaps it would be better to say, our questions. It seemed to us that a teacher from West Virginia, near last year's Massey Mine Disaster, would have something to say to a teacher from Louisiana who lives not far from the BP Oil Spill. And both of these teachers might have something to say to teachers who live near Tokyo, south of TEPCO's damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDlings Show #113 Rebecca Petersen Tweet Geek of the Week links Rebecca Petersen (Lesley University) Educause Digitally Learning (Rebecca’s Blog) dtduggins ->  This is my first time using EdTechTalk is anyone there?  Is this for Seedling?  connect2jamie ->  Seedlings tonight?  alicebarr ->  can you hear us  dtduggins ->  Hi this is my first time, I was wondering the same.  alicebarr ->  @dtduggins Did you click on t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 99 - Teachers Advocating for Themselves Tweet This week, Lisa, Maria, and Sheila got a bit political, talking about today's politics of teaching.  Our kickoff was a series of tweets by Diane Ravitch, @dianeravitch, about the need for educators to advocate for themselves.  Join us this week in finding a way to promote educators to the public - or at least to your parents. Chat:                             ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #149: NAIS Annual Conference Debrief with Alex and Vinnie Tweet ETT21 #149: NAIS Annual Conference Debrief with Alex and Vinnie March 2, 2011 Alex and Vinnie Debrief the NAIS Annual Conference in Washington DC.   26:45 minutes (12.3 MB) ETT21 #149: NAIS Annual Conference Debrief with Alex and Vinnie March 2, 2011 Alex and Vinnie Debrief the NAIS Annual Conference in Washington DC.   <Chat Trans> read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 98 - School Rules Tweet This week, Lisa, Sheila, and Maria talked about school rules - what are they, why are they, what should they be.  We started the show with some exciting news about our friend, Amanda Marrinan.  John Fladd also shared some great news with us. Chat:                                  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #240 - A crisis that will be resolved or a crisis out of control? Stories from Japan - 3.23.11 Tweet On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we talk with a couple of teachers in Japan to get a local perspective on the disaster there. The other guests agreed to come on the show in the hallways of the East-West School of International Studies (EWSIS) in Flushing, Queens, where Paul Allison teaches English. After inviting his principal, the founding principal of East-West, Ben Sherman onto this episode of TTT, Paul asked Ben who he kno ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show 112- K12 Horizon Short Summary Report-Michael Richards, Kern Kelley, Wes Fryer drops by too! Tweet You have heard about the Horizon Report 2011, well Seedlings takes an in depth look at the K12 Horizon Short Summary. We do get a little side tracked, but it is all good conversation and the chat room rocks! Thanks to Michael Richards for the heads up about the report, thanks to Kern for looking up the history of the report over the past years.Wes Fryer dropped by and added his perspective. Thanks! 69:05 minute ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 97 - Exploring New Cultures - Heading to Belize Tweet This week, Sheila brought along Tracy Sherrill and Tom Waldron to discuss the UNH Teacher Program trip to Belize.  These extraordinary teachers learn about working cooperatively and working with different cultures by traveling to Belize to work in schools there.   You can find out more about the trip at this link. http://www.unh.edu/education/index.cfm?ID=AE6D7DDC-B1D3-0174-77D3FF16EAA9DDB8 Chat: 11:24:51 Sheila : HI there! ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 44 April 4, 2011 Dr. Joyce Epstein National Network of Partnership School Tweet Dr. Joyce Epstein from the National Network of Partnership Schools was the special guest on the Parent as Partners webcast on Monday April 4, 2011 at 9:00 PM EDT (GMT-4) Joyce talked about t the National Network of Partnership Schools and how School Family and Community Partnerships support student success. Dr. Epstein explained how deliberate and measured results can be obtained by developing teams of teachers, parents and community members w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #238 - Renee Hobbs discusses her white paper, “Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action” - 3.9.11 Tweet On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers Renee Hobbs discusses her white paper, “Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action,” published in November 2010.  You will enjoy this podcast if, like Renee, you have had enough of “gee-wiz” gaping over new technology tools.” In her work, Renee seeks to identify and support projects and communities (perhaps like yours) where educators are shifting towards “a focus on critical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #190 Tweet EdTechWeekly #190 April 3, 2011 Hosts: Dave Cormier and John Schinker John and Dave started with a discussion of a recent research report that shows that professors who tweet about personal stuff in addition to their course content are seen as more credible by their students. From there, the discussion meandered around social networking and online identity. Chat Log: 44:10 minutes (40.44 MB) EdTechW ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Shhh! The Students are Learning: Being an Effective Classroom Facilitator Tweet Have a listen to March edition of the K12 Online Conference Echo as Susan VanGelder and Jose Rodriguez Co-Hosts interview Clif Nims with his presentation the Kicking up a Notch Strand Conference of the K12 Online Conference from 2010.  Join us the last Monday of the Month to meet presenters of the K12 Online Conference from years past.   50:38 minutes (11.59 MB) The K12 Online Conference Echo webcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #241 - Why we love the National Writing Project and why Federal funding is important - 3.30.11 Tweet Teachers Teaching Teachers #241 59:58 minutes (27.45 MB) Several leaders in the National Writing Project--Paul Oh, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, and Troy Hicks--joined us from Washington DC where they were working to lobby members of Congress today, Thursday, March 31. Also Chad Sansing, Zac Chase, and Andrea Zellner joined us on the Skype conversation--as well as many friends in the chat. Chad has been organi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #96 - Spring in the Classroom (March 27, 2011) Tweet 59:33 minutes (27.26 MB) Spring Renewal. Do our classrooms have seasons too? We discussed if there were spring/seasonal differences that affect our teaching and our students. Does your classroom change? The building staff? You? read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #237 - Social Entrepreneurs Mike Town, Bill Ferriter and Kyle Meador, with Suzie Boss - 3.2.11 Tweet The day after this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Chris Sloan, a frequent co-host and planner on the show this year, wrote to Susan and Paul: “I have to say that last night's TTT was an inspiration. It's really got me re-evaluating my teaching.” The focus of this week’s episode was on social start-ups. Suzie Boss helped us decide who to invite to a show where we were asking to better understand social entrepreneurship. One of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Edtechweekly #189 Tweet EdTechWeekly #189 Two Sick Dudes March 27, 2011 Hosts: Dave Cormier and John Schinker This week's links: Response to Challengers of Connectivism: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/44 The Evolving LMS Market: http://mfeldstein.com/the-evolving-lms-market-part-i/ Journalism in the age of Twitter John's Blog Post: http://staff.bbhcsd.org/schinkerj/archives/2011/03/27/the-new-journalism/ Andy Carvin: http://twitter.com/acarv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-03-10 Seedlings Show 111 Maine Teacher of the Year Tweet Shelly's Wiki Press Release Geek of the Week links Chat  alicebarr (SEEDlings) -> Hi Shelly!  bobsprankle -> Hi Shelly!  cheryloakes50 -> Getting things ready! Be here soon  cheryloakes50 -> http://www.maine.gov/education/toy/index.html  cheryloakes50 -> Hi Connect2jamie, welcome  bobsprankle -> hi jamie!  connect2jamie -> Good evening all!  cheryloakes50 -> Evening Peggy, seems ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 95 March 21, 2011 Tweet This week, Maria, Lisa and Sheila discussed the topic of acceptance of all students.  We talked about UDL and how that can help us accept differences among behavior, both social and academic.   Chat: 11:30:50 Lisa Parisi: Different Strokes for Different Folks - UDL in action 11:30:58 MariaK: different strokes, for different folks - udl in practice 11:31:14 PeggyG: great topic! love talking about UDL! 11:33:19 Lisa Parisi: Welcome all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #188 Tweet EdTechWeekly #188 March 20, 2011 Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen  Podcatching is dead? There's always iTunes Dave likes Podcatcher John likes BeyondPod: http://www.beyondpod.mobi/android/index.htm Is podcasting itself a fad that has died down? eTech Ohio Podcasting for Assessment Mini-Grant: http://www.etech.ohio.gov/educators/podcasting-for-assessment-mini-grant/ Speaking of iPods: Migrating from iPod to other MP3 players: Jen was t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #239 - Bringing the crises in Japan into our classes: Dave Mammen, Kim Cofino, and Scott Lo -03.16.11 Tweet Teaching about the crises in Japan is the focus of this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. What relevance does the earthquake/ tsunami/ nuclear power catastrophe unfolding in Japan have to our students lives and our curriculum? We suspect that there are many “teachable moments” in the stories coming to us from Japan. But what are they?  What are the lessons we might be learning alongside our students? Many teachers contributed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #150: Barbara Brueggemann, Head of School at the GWU Online High School Tweet ETT21 #150: Barbara Brueggemann, Head of School at the GWU Online High School March 9, 2011 Barbara Brueggemann is the Head of School at GWUOHS, a Partnership between George Washington University and K12.com in Herndon, VA.  A full 9th to 12th grade online program that addresses the social and emotional learning as part of the program.   <Chat Trans> 27:25 minutes (12.61 MB)E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 94 March 13, 2011 Tweet 63:09 minutes (21.68 MB) We're back from a two week leave due to school vacation weeks. Today's Conversation was about using events, patterns and structures and examining the 5 events that led us to go into teaching. Lisa, Maria and Sheila each shared the 5 things that led them into education. They looked at the events and then looked for the patterns. Taking it further, they asked about the system that is in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #187 Tweet EdTechWeekly #187 March 13, 2011Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen  Chat Log 37:58 minutes (17.38 MB) EdTechWeekly #187 March 13, 2011 Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen  Chat Log read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-03-10 Seedlings Show Livescribe in the Classroom Show 110 Tweet Join us as we chat with Mary McCrackin from Lesley University and Jen Bogard, South Berwick Elementary School, and their topic Revision on the Run! You will hear how Jen is using the Livescribe pens in her classroom. The chat room rocks with great links as well. Next week Ben N Ben! The Chat:                           ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-03-10 Seedlings Show Livescribe in the Classroom Show 110 Tweet Join us as we chat with Mary McCrackin from Lesley University and Jen Bogard, South Berwick Elementary School, and their topic Revision on the Run! You will hear how Jen is using the Livescribe pens in her classroom. The chat room rocks with great links as well. Next week Ben N Ben! The Chat:                           ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Conference Echo: Notice, Dream, Connect, Do with Monika Hardy and Jim Folkestad Tweet Have a listen as we are Joined by K12online 2010 presenters Monkia Harding and Jim Folkstad with their presentation "Students Redifine School".   48:37 minutes (11.13 MB) In this edition of the K12Online Conference Echo, we are joined by Monika Harding and Jim Folkstad presenters for the student voices strand of the K12 Online Conference 2010.  We believe that education is the vehicle to social ch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Conference Echo: Notice, Dream, Connect, Do with Monika Hardy and Jim Folkestad Tweet Have a listen as we are Joined by K12online 2010 presenters Monkia Harding and Jim Folkstad with their presentation "Students Redifine School".   48:37 minutes (11.13 MB) In this edition of the K12Online Conference Echo, we are joined by Monika Harding and Jim Folkstad presenters for the student voices strand of the K12 Online Conference 2010.  We believe that education is the vehicle to social ch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #236 How place can set the table for inquiry, with ideas from Alaska, Louisiana, and Philly 02.16.11 Tweet Talking about their own versions of place-based education, our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers are: Diana Laufenberg, Zac Chase, and a student, Luna from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia Woody Woodgate from Alaska David Pulling from Louisiana State University at Eunice 57:56 minutes (13.26 MB)Talking about their own versions of place-based education, our guests on this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #236 How place can set the table for inquiry, with ideas from Alaska, Louisiana, and Philly 02.16.11 Tweet Talking about their own versions of place-based education, our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers are: Diana Laufenberg, Zac Chase, and a student, Luna from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia Woody Woodgate from Alaska David Pulling from Louisiana State University at Eunice 57:56 minutes (13.26 MB)Talking about their own versions of place-based education, our guests on this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #235 - Learn about new features on VoiceThread with Steve Muth, Ben Papell, and Katie Beck - 02.09.11 Tweet Steve and Ben are back on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, along with VoiceThread's Community Director Katie Beck. This was their 10th visit to our show. The folks at VoiceThread had a "big feature release" to talk about, M/5 Commenting. 64:03 minutes (14.66 MB) Steve Muth on M5 - A new feature on VoiceThread from Paul Allison on Vimeo. We first started talking with Steve Muth and Ben Pape ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #235 - Learn about new features on VoiceThread with Steve Muth, Ben Papell, and Katie Beck - 02.09.11 Tweet Steve and Ben are back on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, along with VoiceThread's Community Director Katie Beck. This was their 10th visit to our show. The folks at VoiceThread had a "big feature release" to talk about, M/5 Commenting. 64:03 minutes (14.66 MB) Steve Muth on M5 - A new feature on VoiceThread from Paul Allison on Vimeo. We first started talking with Steve Muth and Ben Pape ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #186 Tweet EdTechWeekly #186 March 6, 2011   Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen  Topics: Learning Analytics, OER University, Using OER Texts, and Paper.li (again) Chat Log 48:48 minutes (22.34 MB) EdTechWeekly #186 March 6, 2011 Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen Topics: Learning Analytics, OER University, Using OER Texts, and Paper.li (again) Chat Log read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #186 Tweet EdTechWeekly #186 March 6, 2011   Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen  Topics: Learning Analytics, OER University, Using OER Texts, and Paper.li (again) Chat Log 48:48 minutes (22.34 MB) EdTechWeekly #186 March 6, 2011 Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen Topics: Learning Analytics, OER University, Using OER Texts, and Paper.li (again) Chat Log read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDlings 2011-3-3 Show #109 The 2011 Horizon Report Tweet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDlings 2011-3-3 Show #109 The 2011 Horizon Report Tweet 65:23 minutes (44.98 MB) Horizon Report 2011 Geek of the Week Links alicebarr (SEEDlings) ->  Hi Peggy: Do you know how to Ustream? WE cannot connect to the server  PeggyG ->  everyone has had the same problem. I have never done the ustream streaming before. Sorry  alicebarr (SEEDlings) ->  No problem  alicebarr (SEEDlings) ->  Looks like we're going to hav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #234 - On a mission to save the Earth with Matt Montagne and Peggy George! 2.2.11 Tweet Matt Montagne joins us on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Matt has been a leader in putting together a 24-hour Earthcast in April the last couple of years at Earthbridges.net. Matt also helped us build the community and to launch Voices on the Gulf. Matt’s students have also been building the Gator Radio Experience at his school, Castilleja School. Please join Matt, Peggy George and others as we try to build some curriculum togethe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#185 - Justin.tv Revisited & DS106 Connections Tweet EdTechWeekly#185 February 27/28, 2011 Hosts: Jeff, John, ScottLo Guest appearances by Grant Potter, Doug, & Dave Chat Log Below  18:56:37  JohnS ->  Hi Jake.  18:56:46  Jake ->  Hello  18:59:02  JohnS ->  We'll get started in a couple minutes. Anything in particular you want to talk about?  18:59:42  Jake ->  sound good!    18:59:49  Jak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #233 - Bud Hunt and Gail Desler on citing sources, loving Audacity and more - 1.26.11 Tweet On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and Chris Sloan catch up with two other National Writing Project teachers, Bud Hunt and Gail Desler. First we talk to Bud about his conversation at this year EduCon 2.3.  We encourage you to follow the links at the bottom of this description from the EduCon site (I hope we did our "linktrubition" correctly here!): Dr. Remix; or how I learned to stop wor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 43 February 21, 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Parent Involvement - What works and what doesn't Tweet Larry Ferlazzo joined the show to talk about his book Building Parent Engagement in Schools. The conversation included a discussion about the Parent Trigger and the negative impact it will have on relationships between parents and schools. 51:10 minutes (11.71 MB) Larry Ferlazzo joined the show to talk about his book Building Parent Engagement in Schools. The conversation included a discu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #184 Tweet EdTechWeekly #184 February 20, 2011 Hosts: Dave, Jen, and Jeff Guest Hosts: Kristian Still and Scott Lockman 51:07 minutes (23.4 MB) EdTechWeekly #184 February 20/21, 2011 Hosts: Dave, Jen, and Jeff Guest Hosts: Kristian Still and Scott Lockman Chat Log & Problematic Livestream Video Below read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #93 - Feb. 20, 2011 Tweet Lisa was off on vacation this week while Maria and Sheila discussed working with Colleagues.  What can we expect? How can we value differences and create unity? Maria shared a tool called True Colors. Many participants took the test to find out their personality "color." Scott Shelhart (orange) joined the orange and green personalities for a short bit. Although finding out about yourself is interesting, the important part is learning how oth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDlings 2011-2-17 Show #108 John Lester and the Virtual Maine Group Tweet 62:18 minutes (42.82 MB)Geek of the Week Links Virtual Maine Chat: cheryloakes~seedlings ->  Hello , getting sound ready cheryloakes~seedlings ->  Hi Mary, Hi John read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #183 Tweet EdTechWeekly #183 February 13, 2011 Hosts: Dave, Jen, John, and Jeff Dave's Link: https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visualizer/V2Visualizer.do?domain=twi... Jen's Links:  College / Life Preparation ... are HS students ready for what is next?  Some argue no ... http://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveClosingtheExpectationsGap2011.pdf ... and ... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/nyregion/08regents.html?_r=3&pagewante... ... & ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDlings 2011-2-10 Show #107 Priya and Maya Ganesan Tweet 63:32 minutes (43.68 MB) Geek of the Week Links read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #232 - Skype in the Classroom with George Mayo and Brianna Reynaud - 1.19.11 Tweet Skype is trying something new, and we wanted to find out what it’s all about. Do you use Skype in your classroom—or have considered it? Then you might enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. We were intrigued when we saw “Skype in the classroom: A free directory that connects teachers and helps them use Skype to enrich students’ educational experience.” When we saw that George Mayo was involved, we asked him to come ex ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 91 Change the Language Tweet In this week’s show, Maria, Sheila, and Lisa spoke with Trung Le from CannonDesigns about how we can change the language of schools and the design to better help our students.  Taking ideas from The Third Teacher , we all were quite inspired. 60:54 minutes (20.91 MB) In this week’s show, Maria, Sheila, and Lisa spoke with Trung Le from CannonDesigns about how we can change the langu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 91 Change the Language In this week’s show, Maria, Sheila, and Lisa spoke with Trung Le from CannonDesigns about how we can change the language of schools and the design to better help our students.  Taking ideas from The Third Teacher , we all were quite inspired. In this week’s show, Maria, Sheila, and Lisa spoke with Trung Le from CannonDesigns about how we can change the language of schools and the design to better help o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #148: 1:1 iPads with Peter Smith ETT21 #148: 1:1 iPads at St. Andrews School in Savannah Georgia February 2, 2011 "Together we're going to find ways and share what we're learning" Peter Smith, Middle School Head at St. Andrews School in Savannah, Georgia joined us to discuss his schools 1:1 iPad program.  Chat Transcript ETT21 #148: 1:1 iPads at St. Andrews School in Savannah Georgia February 2, 2011 Peter Smith, Middle School Head at St. Andrews ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 42 February 7, 2011 Cale Birk, South Kamloops Secondary School Connecting with parents Cale Birk, Principal at South Kamloops Secondary School in Kamloops BC shared some innovative ways to include parents in school events, news and survey Cale Birk, Principal at South Kamloops Secondary School in Kamloops BC shared some innovative ways to include parents in school events, news and surveys. Imagine using Wordle to publish and broadcast survey results.  There are plenty more new and exciting ideas so please li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 90 - Curiosity in the Classroom In this show, Lisa Parisi, Maria Knee, and Sheila Adams explored how to create a culture of curiosity in classrooms.  In this show, Lisa Parisi, Maria Knee, and Sheila Adams explored how to create a culture of curiosity in classrooms.  Chat Log 60:44 minutes (20.85 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2011-2-3 SEEDlings SHow #106 Bridgette Berman Geek of the Week Links Follow us on Facebook Chat 64:29 minutes (44.31 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #143: Brad Ovenell-Carter, Head of Think Global School ETT21 #143: Brad Ovenell-Carter: Head of Think Global SchoolNovember 3, 2011 Brad Ovenell-Carter, Head of the Think Global School joins Alex and arvind to discuss this exciting new school. Think Global is a radical new concept, a high school that lives in 12 countries over 12 trimesters. Brad talks about the school, the amazing opportunities, the challenges, and lessons learned. Brad's blog @braddo on Twitter ETT21 #143: B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDlings Podcast - Snow Day Special! 2011-2-2 A special Snow day surprise on Groundhog Day. An early spring? Really? 29:34 minutes (20.35 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #146: Richard Kassissieh on Google Docs Implementation ETT21 #146: Richard Kassissieh on Google Docs Implementation January 19, 2011 Richard joined us to discuss his schools move to Google Apps for Education.  <Chat Trans> ETT21 #146: Richard Kassissieh on Google Docs Implementation January 19, 2011 Richard joined us to discuss his schools move to Google Apps for Education.   <Chat Trans>   12:33:40   vvrotny  : Welcome all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teahers #231 - What does passionate inquiry look like at a charter school in rural Oregon? 1.12.11 We are delighted to introduce you to Travis Powell on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Travis is a member of the Oregon Writing Project, and he teaches at a unique school that he \co-founded, the Child’s Way Charter School in Oregon. We met Travis at a gaming workshop at the National Writing Project’s annual meeting in November and at a NWP Maker workshop. We are delighted to introduce you to Travis Powell on this e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teahers #230 - What does passionate inquiry look like at a second-chance school in Canarsie, Brooklyn? 1.5.11 Shortly after participating in a 3-week Summer Advanced Institute at the New York City Writing Project Charlie Freij helped found the East Brooklyn Community High School, Canarsie, NYC, USA last year. His students have been using Youth Voices more and more. If you are interested to have your students on Youth Voices — or curious — you should enjoy this podcast. Check out Charlie’s students’ work here. We’ll also got an update on his s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Conference 2010 Echo: Project Based Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent Hava a listen as we have Tony Vincent with his presentation from K12 Online Conference 2010:  http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=645   On our first Echo in 2011 for the K12 Online Conference Susan van Gelder and Jose Rodriguez welcome Tony Vincent with his presentation Project Based Learning in Hand from K12 Online Conference 2010 in the Kicking up a notch Strand.  Tony has so much to share both regarding PBL and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #181 January 23, 2010 (podcast uploaded from an airplane ... a first for EdTechTalk?) Chat Log: 61:19 minutes (28.07 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 89 - Teachable Moments This week, we discussed the topic of teachable moments.  It seems that in these days of more content and high test expectations, there is very little time to take advantage of teachable moments.  We discussed ways to capitalize on the moments, as they arise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show 104 Angela Maiers!!!! It was a great show with Angela, we just responded to the flow of conversation with the chat room and questions! Anglea shares her recent prompts for her daily work with students and with her workshops. You matter! What you say is important.  Your work has meaning. The world is expecting your contribution. 64:08 minutes (44.08 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 41 January 17, 2011 Dr. Debbie Pushor Dr. Debbie Pushor an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education joined the show to describe her new course " Engaging Parents in Teaching and Learning." Dr. Debbie Pushor, an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education joined the show to describe the courses she i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #180 John and Dave discuss ten years of Wikipedia. EdTechWeekly #180 January 16, 2011 Ten years of Wikipedia Chat Log: 31:42 minutes (29.03 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teahers #229 - How do we become more effective online educators--for students and other teachers? 12.15.10 If you wanted to talk about online education, who better would you like to sit down with than these four educators: Dave Cormier Andrea Zellner Fred Hass Zac Chase That's what Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison had the privilege of doing on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Enjoy! If you wanted to talk about online education, who better would you like to sit down with than these four educators: Dave Co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings 2011-01-13 Show 103 with Mike Muir! If you or your school district are looking at doing things differently for potential drop-outs, this is the show you have been waiting for! Join us as we talk with Mike Muir about his new online Virtual Problem Based Learning Project! Join Alice, Bob and Cheryl as we interview Mike Muir, The Citadel Group, and professor at University of Maine, Farmington, who is on the ground floor of an exciting program for an online high school c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #144: Various: NEIT2010 Reflection, Global Education Conference, and FocusManifesto.com ETT21 #144: Various: NEIT2010 Reflection, Global Education Conference, and FocusManifesto.com October 27 2010 We discussed various topics during this show...   ETT21 #144: Various: NEIT2010 Reflection, Global Education Conference, and FocusManifesto.com December 1, 2010 We discussed various topics during this show...   <Chat Trans>   12:34:19   arvind -> EdTechTalk: hey folks, waitinf for alex ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #179 It's just Dave and John this week, as they take a closer look at Alec Couros' Ten Reasons Why Networked Learning Matters.  EdTechWeekly #179 January 9, 2011 43:00 minutes (39.37 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teahers #228 - A curriculum potpourri with teachers, students, and Erick Gordon - 12.08.10 We had a lively conversation on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers . Meet Erick Gordon the new director of the New York City Writing Project and the founder of the Student Press Initiative. Enjoy the perspectives of a couple of the digital photographers who are in Chris Sloan’s school in Salt Lake City, where they had just published their student magazine, the Bulldog Press on MagCloud for the first time. Warm to the thoughts of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings 2011-01-06, Show 102, 365 Photo Projects If you have ever wanted to be creative, try listening to our guests discuss how this project has enhanced their lives and others around them. Join us as we interview our guests for their 365 photo projects. 64:25 minutes (44.27 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #227 Why do we need print publications? 12.1.10 For six years now, we've been publishing, distributing, and discussing student work online at Youth Voices. Recently we've been talking with a group of students who are working collaboratively on producing magazines built out of the content on Youth Voices. This show follow-ups from TTT #224 - Students and Rick West help us build community - 10.27.10. Chris Sloan described our publishing plans this way to the team of folks at MagCloud: After man ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 87- What does "readiness to learn" really mean? This week we used an article by Alfie Kohn to try to tackle the question, What does readiness to learn really mean?  We had a great conversation but didn't come up with many answers.  We did come up with our next topic: When we collect data, what data do we want?  What is the purpose of data collection?  We will be back on January 9th to discuss that topic.    This week we used an article by Alfie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Edtechtalk - Top Ten Edu News events of 2010 Dave's yearly top ten edu news stories. http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/12/20/top-10-edu-news-events-of-2010/  Links in full post over on my blog.    18:58 minutes (8.68 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Edtechtalk - Top Ten Edu News events of 2010 Dave's yearly top ten edu news stories. http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/12/20/top-10-edu-news-events-of-2010/ Links in full post over on my blog. 18:58 minutes (8.68 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 86- Scheduling Pros and Cons This week, Lisa Parisi, Maria Knee, and Sheila Adams tackled the topic of scheduling.  We discussed the pros and cons of scheduling and tried to find an ideal way to schedule a school day.  Add to our discussion and maybe we'll come up with a solution.  One never knows. This week, Lisa Parisi, Maria Knee, and Sheila Adams tackled the topic of scheduling.  We discussed the pros and cons of scheduling and tried to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Tim Tyson and The Classroom Teacher as 21st Century Instructional Leader Tim Tyson shared his 2010 K12 Online presentation, The Classroom Teacher as 21st Century Instructional Leader. He elaborated on his ideas and encouraged all to get involved and speak out. His presentation was inspirational and the discussion that followed focused on the imperative need for change in the educational system. Many thanks to Sheila Adams for stepping in to stream the show. Tim Tyson shared his 2010 K12 Online presen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #177 The EdTechWeekly crew takes and old-school look at some of the recent news and resources from the educational technology world. Dave's Links: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ejzfp/paypal_shut_my_account_today_because_my_business/paypal cancelling accounts of clients who give to wikileaks http://ds106.us/ The reverend, and digital storytelling http://www.hedgehogs.net/mod/hedgehogs_theme_index/learnmore.php# curverider sold. elgg mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #85 December 5, 2010 This week we discussed reasons we go to conferences and what we do when we get back to school. Do we become agents of change or do we just continue the week to week routine without making changes based on what we learned by attending the conference? This week we discussed reasons we go to conferences and what we do when we get back to school. Do we become agents of change or do we just continue the week to week routine without m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #226 - Diving deeper into currrent events with students fishing around for relevant topics - 11.10.10 This episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers was sparked by a post by Suzie Boss on her Edutopia blog: When the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, teachers across the country recognized an opportunity to bring real-world applications of math and science into their classrooms. Similarly, the rescue of 33 Chilean miners has triggered student discussions about everything from heroism to human biology. In the w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show 101 with Bette Manchester and John Newlin Join us as we interview John Newlin and Bette Manchester about the Maine Center for International Learning. Last week we talked about SEED and the impact that program had on Maine, now hear how the project morphed to an International Center.This is our last show of the year, unless, we have a Snow Day Show!!! Stay tuned for Ben and Ben next Thursday. Enjoy your holidays with your families no matter where you celebrate. See you in 2011. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show 101 with Bette Manchester and John Newlin Join us as we interview John Newlin and Bette Manchester about the Maine Center for International Learning. Last week we talked about SEED and the impact that program had on Maine, now hear how the project morphed to an International Center.This is our last show of the year, unless, we have a Snow Day Show!!! Stay tuned for Ben and Ben next Thursday. Enjoy your holidays with your families no matter where you celebrate. See you in 2011. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 40 December 6, 2010 Amanda Henson Parentella Amanda Henson, community manager at Parentella joined Lorna Costantini to talk about their private network and how it can promote positive working relationships between parents and teachers. Amanda Henson, community manager at Parentella joined Lorna Costantini to talk about their private network and how it can promote positive working relationships between parents and teachers. Easy communications, quick and easy sign ups ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #176 This Week's Menu:  Dave's Link: #myedublogawards. The pros and cons of hating awards.http://edublogawards.com/ Jen's Link: With K-12 Online, -> see http://k12onlineconference.org/ ... and Global Ed -> seehttp://www.globaleducationconference.com/schedule-gmt-6.html ... , we have seen lots and lots of examples of folks facilitating presentations. Drawing on our collective experience, let's share presentation ideas we like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings 2010-12-02 Show 100 What gremlins will try to do to keep Seedlings off the air! At 6:44, edtechtalk was down. I put out an SOS to the Skype network of ETT Hosts. By 6:52, we were live and ready to go, thanks to John Schinker and Dave Cormier! Seedlings went on with Show 100 and our guests Maria Knee and Wes Fryer.Thanks to all who have been part of our 100 Shows. Show # 100!!! Way back on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2006, Seedlings began a podcast, which soon be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #175 Dave's Link:  Wikileaks. What does it mean for our classrooms? With Australia banning links to the site... where does this lead? Do textbooks of 'controlled content' become more important? Should we be teaching this in courses? Do we have a patriotic duty not to touch this information? John's Link: Project Red: Do 1:1 right or don't do it at all. We're far enough along now that the novelty of 1:1 programs has worn off, and it's time to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #225 - Celebrating the launch of the National Writing Project's new site - Digital Is - 11-03-10 Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and Chris Sloan welcomed five of our friends and colleagues to this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers: Christina Cantrill who works at the National Writing Project as a Senior Program Associate for the NWP Technology Initiative and Digital Is project . Bud Hunt, who made this collection on Digital Is: What’s New, or What’s Good: On Writing Connectively.   Elyse Eidman-Aadahl who directs National Progr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Conference 2010 Echo: Seeds to Success with Skype On Monday November 22nd; Susan van Gelder, Peggy George and Jose Rodriguez presents our first Webcast Echo for the K12 Online Conferece 2010 edition.  We had Paula Naugle and Jan Wells with thier presentation "Seeds for Success with Skype".  Be sure to join us Monday December 13th, as we have Tim Tyson The Classroom Teacher As a 21st Century Instructional Leader   9pm Eastern at http://edtechtalk.com/studio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #84 - November 21, 2010 This week Maria and Sheila were joined by John Fladd to discuss "What is teaching?" Lisa was away with family. We didn't come up with the answer, but we did discuss teaching and learning. 57:46 minutes (26.44 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-11-18 Seedlings Show 99 with Larry Ferlazzo My hero, Larry Ferlazzo, joined us at Seedlings, Thursday night. I have admired Larry since early 2006, when I became a Webhead. Larry's name was always mentioned as someone who found the best of the best Web 2.0 tools in order to help  English Language Learners. As it turns out my expectations were surpassed. Larry is very thoughtful and reflective and certainly made all of us think during our show! I know you will enjoy this one. No Seedlings s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode # 39 Sheila Stewart and Arlene Morell Networking Parent Involvement Committees Sheila Stewart and Arlene Morell joined the show to share their experiences attending the People for Education Conference as well as a conversation about board-wide Parent Involvement Committees and how they can network to support student achievement. Sheila Stewart and Arlene Morell joined the show to share their experiences attending the People for Education Conference as well as a conversation about board-wide Parent In ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #174 Dave's Link: As a follow up for last week's "online PhDs are awesome" discussionhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/education/10kaplan.html?_r=1&src=tptw NYT's article on Kaplan and lobbying to go with our own fun at UPEI. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/11/10/pe-upei-degree-maclaughlan-584.html?ref=rss#socialcomments Jen's Link: Hard to  NOT  mention the #boycott amazon uproar this week. Jen used the s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #83 - November 14, 2010 How do we deal with atypical students? Do we even have typical students? Chat log coming. 63:42 minutes (29.16 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #82 - November 7, 2010 Ageism - Does age take away or enhance teaching? What are the perceptions of "young" or "old" teachers in the classroom? 57:55 minutes (19.89 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show 98 -2010-11-11 We all decided that this was part one of more! Kelly Tenkley is an incredible voice for students, parents, teachers, the education community. You must give her a read through her blogs and a listen here at Seedlings! Hello to show 98 with Kelly Tenkley from Colorado, talking with us about how she stays connected with her students now that she is out of the classroom! Alice, Bob and Cheryl are all involved in the conversations with Ke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #224 - Students and Rick West help us build community - 10.27.10 It’s student night again on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. We hope you enjoy this student-sponsored discussion about what they can do themselves to nurture a community of learners online. Susan Ettenheim’s students asked to come on the show: My students are interested in hosting a conversation about digital photography in Youth Voices and Voices on the Gulf. What do students want in terms of collaboration? What will make it compe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #220 - Connections: Wooly School Garden, Bird Watching, Photography, and Voices on the Gulf - 9.29.10 Enjoy our curriculum share from late-September on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Chris Sloan, Margaret Simon, Susan Ettenheim, Paul Allison, and Gail Desler welcomed our guest Becky Jezek, the Director of the Wooly School Garden project. Enjoy our curriculum share from late-September on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Chris Sloan, Margaret Simon, Susan Ettenheim, Paul Allison, and Gail Desler welcomed our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #173 Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John Guest hosts: Connie Sitterley, Teacher / Technology Integration Specialist from Pennsylvania This Week's Menu: Dave's Link: Leigh Blackall and the open phd. http://leighblackall.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-and-why-ill-do-phd.html and the response from Darren Draper. http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/2010/11/three-questions-for-leighblackall.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+Dra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #142: Bill Stites: 800 Laptops and Evernote ETT21 #142: Bill Stites: 800 Laptops and Evernote            October 27 2010 Bill Stites, Director of Technology for The Montclair Kimberley Academy and Blogger in Chief at edSocialMedia.com  joined us to discuss MKA's first year laptop program and their use of Evernote.   ETT21 #142: Bill Stites: 800 Laptops and Evernote       &nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 38 November 1, 2010 George Couros Planning Parent Involvement George Couros, a principal in Stoney Plain, Albert joined the Parents as Partners webcast to share his work with involving parents in developing school improvement plans. George Couros, a principal in Stoney Plain, Albert joined the Parents as Partners webcast to share his work with involving parents in developing school improvement plans. Through out the recording you will hear George talk about his approach to working with parent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show # 97 with Stephanie Cheney Join SEEDLINGS as we chat with Stephanie Cheney, Instructional Design, leader for ThatCamp_NewEngland, formerly at Wentworth Institute and moving to UNH! Welcome. Join Alice, Bob, Cheryl as we interview Stephanie Cheney! Stephanie is currently involved at UNH with their online elearning initiative! Join us as we talk education 12+ grade level, the University. Also, Stephanie is a leader for ThatCamp, New England. Find out what it is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #223 - Changing the world through food: Can you do this? 10.20.10 Chris Sloan invited the director of Fresh, ana Sofia joanes to this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Paul Allison had fun asking her questions his students had for her after seeing the film earlier in the week. In addition, this podcast features Haley, a student of Susan Ettenheim's who had visited Our School at Blair Grocery this s Also joining us were the educators from Our School at Blair Grocery: Nat Turner, Founder and Head of Schoo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 81 - What could a year round school really look like? This week, Ginger Lewman gave us our topic by questioning in Plurk what year round school could really look like if we could make sure it wasn't "same old, same old."  We also discussed the  Slate challenge to create your own classroom.  This week, Ginger Lewman gave us our topic by questioning in Plurk what year round school could really look like if we could make sure it wasn't "same old, same old."  We al ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #141: Creating Energy, Space & Time ETT21 #141: Creating Energy, Space & Time      October 13, 2010 arvind recently attended a webinar David Allen and Tony Schwartz webinar, "Creating Energy, Space & Time - designing a life that really works"  In this show we discusse the webinar and Tony Swartz's book, The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance. ETT21 #141: Creating Energy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #140: NAIS Speen Innovating and other conference talk Vinnie, Alex, and arvind discuss the NAIS Speed Innovation sessions that they are presenting at. Alex and arvind will present the top ed tech trends educators need to know about and Vinnie will present on Google Apps. This was a great planning show and we're excited to get working on our presentations. If you have any ideas for us, leave us a comment or tweet it out with the hashtag #ett21. Vinnie, Alex, and arvind discuss the N ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #219 -Gaming to learn about the business of the environment - 9.22.10 More gaming, more environment on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. We invited Andy Rosenbloom (plus a teacher from New Jersey who has used Spill! in his classroom last Spring) and Tim Baker back onto the show to continue our conversations about gaming and the environment that started this summer with A Real Team Challenge: Spill! TTT 211 - 07.28.10.  This summer Andy Rosenbloom, Program Director for the Virtual Team Chal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ben N Ben Season 2 Show 1 Chat Ben M is live from the sound booth of his high school while Ben M mans the chat room. They talk about their K12 Online Session and upcoming plans for some new shows.  Links: http://tinyurl.com/bennben K12 Online Session: Student Strand 39:33 minutes (36.21 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #222 - Celebrating Student Voice: Remixing music, flowers, poems and stories for each other-10.13.10 Seems like our colleagues at Seedlings, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes, and Alice  Barr are right in declaring this the year of Student Voice, which they did in their wonderful conversation with Adora Svitak (2010-10-07 Seedlings Show # 94). At Teachers Teaching Teachers we seem to be handing the microphones over to students more and more as well. On this episode we are joined by students Martha (12th grade), Maci (6th), Michael (12th), Christia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings #95 2010-10-15 GEEK of the WEEK Live Our LIVE ACTEM GEEK of the WEEK show with the SEEDLINGS on the road. The chat contains all the great links as well as the Delicious site. Geek of the Week LIVE from ACTEM the  State of Maine Technology Conference! Augusta, ME October 15, 2010! Alice, Bob and Cheryl  hit the road for a live show with over 200 participants from out of the 800+ who attend the Conference. All these people give up having a sit down lunch, grab a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #218 More connections grow between Youth Voices and Voices on the Gulf 9.15.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, teachers along the Gulf of Mexico and those of us who have working together for some time on Youth Voices begin to make some plans about for getting our students together via Skype and deepening our work on Voices on the Gulf and Youth Voices. It’s not too late to get your students connected on these school-based social networks. We’d love to add their voices! Listen to this podcast, then make pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #172 Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John Guest hosts: Lesley Edwards, Teacher/Librarian from North Vancouver, BC. This Week's Menu: Dave's Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/learning_educational_technologies/media-literacy/new-media-literacy-critical-thinking-Howard-Rheingold-20071019.html Jen's Link: http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html As we head into our two-week hiatus, Jen needs a link-dum ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #171 EdTechWeekly #171 October 10, 2010 Regular hosts: Dave, John 45:34 minutes (20.87 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 80 - Where do we go for support in our school? This week, we tackled the question of where to go for support in our schools.  New teachers usually get mentors.  What do others do?  What do you do when you are trying something new and have no one to turn to for support?  We all agreed to try to connect with someone new this week. This week, we tackled the question of where to go for support in our schools.  New teachers usually get mentors.  What do ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #221 - Calling for creative students to bring their passions into the classrom - 10.06.10 Exciting conversations are budding on Youth Voices and on Voices on the Gulf.  Martha, a senior at the East-West School of International Studies in Queens (Paul Allison's school) begins this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers by putting out a call for other students to join us on TTT. She wants to talk about how students express themselves creatively outside of school. We hope more students will be able to join us on the next TTT, Wednes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #217 Low floors, high ceilings, wide walls: Using Scratch and learning about the BP Oil Spill 9.08.10 More about Scratch! More about gaming. More about social networking. Youth Voices. Voices on the Gulf. And we invited a couple of students too! This was our fall semester kick off. On this episode, you'll hear: Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and Chris Sloan Stacey Ferguson, 5th grade teacher in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi Rafi Santos, a graduate student at Indiana university Michael, a senior at Chris Sloan's school, Judge Memorial High Sch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-10-07 Seedlings Show # 94 Join Alice, Bob and Cheryl as we have a conversation with Adora Svitak all about Listening to your Children or Students. We mean really listen to your students. Adora is the organizer, presenter at TedXRedmond-Live where she organized a conference by students, for students! You won't want to miss this show. The clips of the videos are being released, make sure you find them and follow up with this remarkable conference.  Show # ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #137: How Will iPads be Used in Education? ETT21 #137: How Will iPads be Used in Education? September 29, 2010 Hear how Vinnie and Alex are using their iPads.  Will the iPad be the new new thing of education?  What are the most useful apps?  How do we see the iPad being used in a classroom? This and more...  Image Source ETT21 #137: How Will iPads be Used in Education? September 29, 2010 Hear how Vinnie and Alex are using their iPads.  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 79 - Teachers who are Inspiring After all the teacher and union bashing this week from Waiting for Superman and Education Nation, Terry Shay reminded us, on twitter, that we have to start supporting each other.  He asked us to name some teachers who inspired us.  We decided to carry on this positive conversation on our show.   After all the teacher and union bashing this week from Waiting for Superman and Education Nation, Terry Shay reminded us, on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 36 October 4, 2010 Lee Kolbert, Will RIchardson and Penny Lindballe Teachers as Parents Will Richardson and Lee Kolbert to share their views on their philosophies as educators and how it impacts on their relationships with their child’s classroom teacher. Penny Lindballe  shared her insights as a parent. More details to follow. 65:38 minutes (30.05 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #170 Dave, John, and Jen welcome guest host Alvin Trusty to continue the new format for EdTechWeekly that offers a deeper look into a smaller number of topics. This week, the discussion focuses on the following: Dave's Link: http://openstudy.com/ Jen's Link: Elevating the Education Reform Dialog: http://www.learncentral.org/event/106358 John's Link: Cyberbullying: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/09/30/cyberbullying-and-a-stud... Alvi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #138: Getting Things Done (GTD). Again. ETT21 #138: Getting Things Done. Again. September 24, 2010 Alex, arvind, and Vinnie revisit David Allen's Getting Things Done framework for keeping track of your life's to do list. All three of us are trying to do better by our commitments. In this show we review how the process is going, problem-solve trouble areas, and share some anecdotes. Jason added some helpful posts in the chatroom, too.  ETT21 #138: Getting Things Don ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings #93 2010-09-30 What does a twenty plus year primary teacher do to jazz up her classroom in her spare time? Join us as we delve deep into these questions with Cherrie MacInnes, from Brewer, Maine. Last year, Cherrie decided on a whim to have her students video chat with third graders in all 50 states. It was so successful, she now has a new project. Join us for this exciting podcast. Join Alice and Cheryl as we get the latest  from our friend C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #216 "Maybe we dodged a bullet here, but there are nagging issues." More on the BP Oil Spill 9.01.10 The conversations around Voices on the Gulf, continue on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.  Joining on this show with Gail Desler,  who works with teachers in the Sacramento flyway in California, and three guests from Louisiana: Margaret Simon, David Pulling and one of his students at Louisiana State  University at Eunice, Erin Jackson. Learn more about teaching and learning about the environment, including references to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #169 Dave and Jen welcome guest host Camilla Elliott, Teacher/Librarian from Melbourne, Australia, to continue the new format for EdTechWeekly that offers a deeper look into a smaller number of topics. This week, the discussion focuses on the following: Dave's Link: http://www.change.org/petitions/view/letter_to_nbc_news_protesting_the_one-sided_presentation_of_education_nation Jen's Link: There is NO way Jen can pass up speaking with our ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings #92 2010-09-23 Thanks to John Schinker who at the last minute got the Edtechtalk server communicating with the Seedlings Crew! When Seedlings went live we were joined by Karen Janowski, Assistive Technology consultant, and our conversation was about "Assistive Technology is the great equalizer" and Universal Design for Learning. Enjoy the podcast! For our #92nd show, we are joined by Karen Janowski, Assistive Technology consultant, Mom, Sc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #137: 2010 Goals Show ETT21 #137: 2010 Goals Show                   September 15, 2010 iPads, GTD, NYASIS Think Tank 2010, NEIT2010, Switch, Professional Development, (TPACK Technology Content and Pedagogy) and more... ETT21 #137: 2010 Goals Show                   September 1 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode 35 September 20, 2010 Aviva Dunsiger This season's opener got off to a wonderful start with a fantastic presentation by Aviva Dunsiger a Grade 1 teacher at Anacaster Meadow school in Ancaster/Hamilton Region Ontario Canada. Aviva has a wealth of ideas for connecting with parents and making them an integral part of their child's learning. Please listen to Aviva's presentation and follow along with the Slideshare posted below.  We have compiled this http://gl.am/zx2r6 link to provide you with all the links ( ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 78 - A Balancing Act  This week we continued a conversation that began on Twitter when Alec Couros went to his daughter's Back to School Night.  Along with Will Richardson, Lee Kolbert, and Angela Maiers, we discussed the issues we face as parents when walking into our own children's classrooms.  Alec could not join us but was with us in spirit....we hope. Chat Archive: 67:51 minutes (31.06 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #168 Dave, John, and Jen welcome guest host Diana Laufenberg to continue the new format for EdTechWeekly that offers a deeper look into a smaller number of topics each week. This week, the discussion focuses on the following topics: Dave's Link: http://partners.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/emerging_technologies07_chapter2.pdf Learning networks in practice, Stephen Downes, NRC. Dave is going to address the broader topic of learning netw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #215-Lots of overlapping pieces: Laura Fay and Tim Baker on using Scratch in middle school-08.25.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Laura Beth Fay, and Tim Baker join Susan Ettenheim and Chris Sloan to talk about Scratch and its uses in junior high.  Susan met Laura and Tim at the 2010 Scratch@MIT conference.  Tim’s interests in environmental education align with our ongoing Voices on the Gulf project; like Susan and Chris, Laura works with her local writing project – in Susan’s words “l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDLINGS 2010-09-16 Show # 91 Season 3, SEEDLINGS are back! Listen in and see what Alice, Bob and Cheryl have been up to.We talk about Facebook Seedlings, the ACTEM Leader and Educator of the Year, TEDX Redmond-run by students! Wow, we fit a lot in our show. Next week we have KarenJan, Karen Janowski joining us to talk about her block, her toolkit and her mission to share UDL with the world.   Seedlings returns for season 3!!! Show 91. We are delighted to be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 77 Back from a summer hiatus, Sheila, Lisa, and Maria talked about new beginnings and changes.  International Dot Day from Fablevision and the K-12 Online Conference were also discussed.    Back from a summer hiatus, Sheila, Lisa, and Maria talked about new beginnings and changes.  International Dot Day from Fablevision and the K-12 Online Conference were also discussed.   The chat:  Mari ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #167 Ending their summer hiatus, Dave, John, and Jen kick off a new format for EdTechWeekly that offers a deeper look into a smaller number of topics each week. This week, the focus is on learning environments. Dave shares links and insight into the new PLENK2010 MOOC (beginning this week) considering personal learning environments and networks. As a postmortem to the demise of most free Ning accounts, Jen asks the group to consider the implications of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #214 - VoiceThread and Teaching the iGeneration after the BP Oil Spill - 08.18.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Steve Muth and Ben Papell founders and on-going co-conspirators at VoiceThread join Susan Ettenheim and Chris Sloan to talk about what’s new at VoiceThread AND how they can imagine VoiceThread supporting our efforts with http://voicesonthegulf.org. In addition, Bill Ferriter, a sixth grade science teacher in North Carolina, joins us. Bill has just published a great book, Teaching the iGenera ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #29: Fun with Online Learning Sep 3, 2010 10:03:07 AM - IDL 29: CREATING ENGAGING ONLINE COURSES     05:07 - Robert 1 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brainrules.net%2F&ei=Xh2BTOutKoLAsAOYtdX3Bw&usg=AFQjCNEqbo72aFBTpSPktZU8ihOi0in2mw   05:15 - Robert 1 Brain Rules link   05:30 - Mary 2 Thanks, Robert.   05:32 - Cammy I've been slowly reading Brain Rules for the past few months! ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #28: International Student Persepctives on Online Learning Zuochen Zhang, Assistant professor in the School of Education at Windsor University, and Richard F. Kenny, Associate Professor at the Center for Distance Education, Athabasca University, joined us this week to discuss the perspectives of International students in online courses. 37:20 minutes (17.09 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #213 - "Sometimes the questions just lead us to think in the right direction" - 08.11.10 On this episode of  Teachers Teaching Teachers,we talk to teachers from the Gulf Coast again. School has started in many places along the Gulf, and there are many different and mixed reactions as the emergency has turned into a long-term clean up effort and part of a chronic crisis in the region. On this podcast you'll learn what teachers and students on the Gulf were thinking about the BP oil spill in at the beginning of August, about 3 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #212 - A community of teachers building "Voices on the Gulf" - 08.04.10 As you will hear in this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we are very excited about the new website, http://voicesonthegulf.org ! On this podcast we are joined by: Andrea Zellner, Stumbling Toward Proficiency Chris Sloan, Sloan Space Matt Montagne, The Digital Downlow Diana Laufenberg, Living the Dream Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Library Lisa Nielsen, The Innovative Educator As you will hear on thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #27 Online Teaching: Susan Ko Susan Ko, Executive Director of the Center of Teaching Excellence at University of Maryland University College, published the first edition of Teaching Online: A Practical Guide 10 years ago. The third edition, published this year, reflects a number of changes that have happened in the field over that last several years such as the: Web 2.0 revolution, growing acceptance of online education, need for special training and continuing support for faculty and students, team course development, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #211 - A Real Team Challenge: Spill! 07.28.10 This summer, we could feel the energy growing around teachers building curriculum about the BP oil spill. This episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers one example. This conversation is part of our ongoing series of podcasts focused on collecting stories, ideas, curriculum, connections, and resources that will help us teach about the Gulf oil spill this fall. Our guests include: Teachers who worked together on project plans, It Affects Us All, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #26 Transition or Transformation: Implementing a New LMS Ever wondered what kind of change process is involved in moving from a proprietry LMS scuh as Blackboard to an Open Source system such as Moodle. Keith Lynip, director of Extended Learning Services at The University of Montana, discusses the nature of this process in this week's show. Inspired by a number of discussions at the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison Wisconsin,  we consider the process of tr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #210 - Eywitnesses to the largest oil spill in U.S. history - 07.21.10 The series of podcasts about the Gulf oil spill that we started at the beginning of June continues on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. We are joined by Alicia Blair a 5th grade science teacher from Mississippi who has been an important voice on many of these podcasts this summer. It was also a delight to listen to Ann Dobie, author, professor, and former Writing Project Director from Louisiana. The series of podcasts about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #209 - Rethinking school with four Gulf Coast teachers - 07.14.10 Our guests on this episode of  Teachers Teaching Teachers are: Kyle Meador, the Director of Education at Our School at Blair Grocery, New Orleans. To learn more about Our School at Blair Grocery, check out this video. Then click here to visit their photo slideshow. This is well worth your time! And while you are there, please contribute to their construction efforts. You'll find a donate button on the right side of the site.   ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #208 - Wondering about fossil fuel and enjoying the power of twitter in the NWP - 07.07.10 Our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers were: Alicia Blair, Live Oak Writing Project in Southern Mississippi Casey Daugherty @caseydaugherty , Ozarks Writing Project in Missouri- @OzarksWP Steve Moore - @SteveJMoore , Greater Kansas City Writing Project - @GKCWP April Estep - @MsEstep , Coalfield Writers/Marshall University Writing Project in West Virginia - @MUWP Paul Oh - @poh , Program Associate, National Writin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #25 Is Online Learning Better? This week on IDLive, Shanna Smith-Jaggars discusses her response to the US Dept. of Education's report on online learning. Widely cited as proof that online learning is better, the DOE study fails to address some of the broader implications of online learning. Dr. Jaggars addresses these issues and many more--a must listen. In May 2009, the US Department of Education issued a meta-analysis and review of onlin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #207 "We've been taken over once again by something that we couldn't stop, can't stop." - 06.30.10 This the fourth week of a summer series in which we have focused Teachers Teaching Teachers on the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Our guests included: Matt Montagne, who has been collecting materials, such as: October 28th, 2010 TEDxOILSPILL Talks Diana Laufenberg, a history teacher from Science Leadership Academy who joined us on this topic 3 weeks ago will try (from her family’s farm) to join us again. Natasha Whitton, one of the three ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #24 AECT Research Symposium Papers Jennifer Maddrell and Robert Squires discuss several of the papers being considered this week at the  Association for Educational Communications and Technology Research Symposium  In Bloomington, Indiana. Papers being presented at the symposium are freely available on the AECT website. Look for shows that follow-up with authors in the near future. In a slight departure from our traditional format, we discuss severa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #206 - Will our students find the oil spill compelling? 3rd in a series - 06.23.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers -- the third in our summer series on the Gulf oil failure -- Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim are joined by Chris Sloan and Andrea Zeller. We talk about building curriculum around the Gulf oil spill and other topics, wondering how to keep student self-motivated inquiry at the center of our work while also introducing topics such as the environment, art history, obesity, AP English, or the earthquake i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#23 2010-07-09 Case-Based Learning Online The use ofcase studies in online courses has been shown to promote critical thinking skills and the ability to transfer these skills to real-life situations, but there can be real challenges with using case studies online. As Joni Dunlap puts it: "My students -- in a professional preparation graduate program -- really push back against case-based exercises. Their position is that they prefer to work on projects from their workplace." Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #205 -Three teachers from Louisiana talk about a dull ache - 2nd in a series - 06.16.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we talked about what we can do now that we might not have done before this disaster or failure. This is the second of a series of shows we weill be doing on the Gulf oil disaster. In the previous podcast (TTT 204), we had a thoughtful, productive conversation with history teacher Diana Laufenberg about responses in our curriculum to the Gulf Oil Disaster.  One of her ideas was to set up Skype ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #204 - "We can't not deal with it!" says Diana Laufenberg - 1st in a series - 06.09.10 This is the first of a series of TTT webcasts that we are doing this summer in response to BP's gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. We are asking teachers from all over to join us each Wednesday evening this summer to put together a curriculum that will help our students build their own responses to the human, animal, and ecological devestation that has been happening every day since April. Incredibly, this "spill" promises to conti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #203 - Visualizing information and Envisioning New Schools - 06.02.10 For this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we asked Suzie Boss to come on to help us have a conversation with: an amazing young high school student who has developed his own project-based learning by creating info-graphics. a dynamic teacher who has been working all year to help open a new public school in East Brooklyn. We learned a lot, both about visualizing information and about integrating technology into a new, alternative ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #202- The 3R's of Gaming: Playing, Modding, and Designing - 05.26.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we learned more about playing, modifying, and designing games.  One of our guests was Scott Price, a game developer or producer at Gamestar Mechanic. A few of us in the New York City Writing Project, especially Susan Ettenheim and Shantanu Saha — both of whom are on this podcast — have been using a beta version of Gamestar Mechanic this spring with their students. On this episode o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #201 - Horizon Report 2010 K-12 Edition, with Rachel Smith, Alan Levine, and Scott Newcomb - 05.19.10 Our guests for this podcast were Rachel Smith @nimah and Alan Levine @cogdog vice-presidents of the New Media Consortium. They are the principal writers of the 2010 K-12 Edition of the Horizon Report and they joined us on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.  We supplemented their descriptions with examples from our classrooms. For example, check out the work fourth-grade teacher Scott Newcomb is doing with smartphones in Ohi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #135: Jonathan E. Martin on Building the 21st Century School 21st Century Learning #135 June 15, 2010 Jonathan E. Martin on Building the 21st Century School   Jonathan E. Martin, Head of School at St. Gregory College Preparatory School in Tucson, Arizona joined us to reflect on his first year.  We discussed how Tony Wagner's Global Achievement Gap has framed the work he is doing with his faculty.  Jonathan led us through a number of assessments that St. Gregory is using to measure how collaborativ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETBS: 2010.06.17 Doug and Matt discuss public transit and iPhones I'm joined by Matt Montagne for a free-form discussion that touches on public transit and iPhones. Thanks, once again, to Derek K Miller of penmachine.com for the use of his tunes, and to Sheila Adams and Peggy George for joining us in the chat room. 35:47 minutes (16.38 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#22 2010-06-18 E-Portfolios Dr. Helen Barrett, former faculty at the University of Alaska, Anchorage has spent nearly a decade investigating the use e-portfolios for enhancing stduent learning. In this show, she lays it on the line: e-portfolios that are designed as summative 'showcases' of achievement are missing an opportunity to have students focus on substantive learning. Dr. Helen Barrett, recipient of the EIFEL lifetime achievement award for her contribut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #200 - Celebrate our 200th show with a few of our friends - 05.12.10 Thank you! Thank you!   Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. 67:01 minutes (15.34 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#21 2010-06-11 Revisiting and Cognitive Overload   Arlene Walker-Andrews, Associate Provost and Psychology Professor at the University of Montana, discusses how cognitive capacitiesand the ability to attend to information need not be considered as limited. In other words, cognitive overload need not exist. This suggests interesting implications for the design of instruction that is both scaffolded and learner-centered. Some great analogies and resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #132: Social Media, Construction and 5th and 6th Grade Tech    21st Century Learning #132 May 25, 2010 Social Media, Construction and 5th and 6th Grade Tech        21st Century Learning #132 May 25, 2010 Social Media, Construction and 5th and 6th Grade Tech   arvind discusses Hewitt School's venture into Facebook and Twitter.  Vinnie discusses the construction project that his school is diving into.  Alex discusses teaching 5th and 6th grade Tech Cl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#20 2010-06-04 The LMS and Learning Join the ID live team this week as we discuss the practical implications of using a centralized Learning Management System to manage the online learning experienece. The position of Jon Mott and David Wiley is discussed: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/IR&CISOPTR=7... 32:53 minutes (15.06 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #134: Chris Fitzgerald Walsh on New Tech Networks New Learning Management System 21st Century Learning #134 (ETT134) June 1, 2010 Chris Fitzgerald Walsh on New Tech Networks New Learning Management System Chris Fitzgerald Walsh, Director of Innovation & Design at New Tech Network joined us to discuss New Tech Network's new Learning Management System and the New Tech Network's 45 schools.  21st Century Learning #134 (ETT134) June 1, 2010 Chris Fitzgerald Walsh on New Tech Networks New Learning Manageme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 76 - UDL in the Classroom   For our last show of the season, we discussed Universal Design for Learning and how it works in a classroom.  Ira Socol joined us for this important conversation.  We will be back in September with some great new topics.  See you then!  For our last show of the season, we discussed Universal Design for Learning and how it works in a classroom.  Ira Socol joined us for this important conversation. & ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings 2010-06-03 Show #90 with Cherrie MacInnes  Do you have the end of the year blues? Not after listening to Seedlings, as we interview Cherrie MacInnes.Cherrie is a 3rd grade teacher who began a journey with her class and visited, by Skpye, every state throughout the year.She had no idea how to begin the journey, however, she invented a way for this project to begin, figured out the steps and with the help of her IT department, she has left the breadcrumbs for all of us to follow. Thanks Che ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 75 - What to look for in a new employee?   This week Sheila Adams and Lisa Parisi discussed what to look for in a new employee.  How do you wind your way through the typical answers to find the perfect candidate for a position?  This week Sheila Adams and Lisa Parisi discussed what to look for in a new employee.  How do you wind your way through the typical answers to find the perfect candidate for a position?   Chat: 11:30:09Sheila : We'll star ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #199 - Bitstrips Creators and Writing Project Teachers Talking Comics - 05.05.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we enjoyed a lively conversation with two guys from the Toronto-based  interactive design team who created Bitstrips for Schools, Shahan Panth and Jacob Blackstock.   We were also entertained by a couple of Writing Project teachers: Kevin Hodgson from Western Massachusetts and Larry Neuburger from the Ozarks in Missouri. On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #166   Dave and John are joined by Alvin Trusty and his 18-year-old daughter Kara Trusty to discuss Facebooks' newly revamped privacy settings, the expectations of privacy when posting things online, and best practices for managing your online identity. We also talked about how schools approach social networking, and whether they're adequately preparing students to make intelligent decisions regarding their own online privacy and identities. &nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-5-27 Ben N Ben Live from the MLTI Student Tech Conference ben N ben broadcast live from the 7th Annual MLTI Student Conference. Their guests are Former Maine Governor Angus King, Ronald Ho from Google in New York, and Matt Montagne, from Castilleja School in Palo Alto, CA. Chat room:  mrsdurff ->   wee have liftoff Houston  mrsdurff ->   hi andreas  Andreas ->   Hi Mrs Durff!  mrsdurff ->   they are on ETT A  Andreas ->   ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 74 - The Discovery Education Network   Right off the heels of a great DEN Day of Discovery, Sheila, Lisa and Maria talked about the Discovery Education Network.  Lee Kolbert and DENnis Grice joined the show.  Right off the heels of a great DEN Day of Discovery, Sheila, Lisa and Maria talked about the Discovery Education Network.  Lee Kolbert and DENnis Grice joined the show.   Chat: 11:30:02 Lisa Parisi: Hello Keith 73:51 m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #198 - David Niguidula and Bill Fitzgerald Give New Life to Digital Portfolios - 04.28.10 We asked two of our favorite software developers/consultants/activists/dreamers, Bill Fitzgerald and David Niguidula to talk to us about digital portfolios on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Bill Fitzgerald and FunnyMonkey At an Educon 2.1 session in January, Bill Fitzgerald showed us a Durpal-based digital portfolio system that he and his colleagues at FunnyMonkey had been developing. As always with Bill, it was more than a softwar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #165 This week on EdTechWeekly, Dave and John were joined by Ryan Collins to discuss the death of the open web. EdTechWeekly #165 May 23, 2010 The Death of the Open Web   Dave and John are joined by Ryan Collins to discuss The Death of the Open Web, starting with the recent New York Times article and moving into a discussion of closed distribution systems like Apple's and whether the limitations of closed systems are outweighed by th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETBS: 2010.05.20     The Buddha's Birthday edition of ETBS in which we catch-up with Jeff Lebow, Sheila Adams and Lisa Durff for a good old-fashioned brainstorm/virtual staff lounge get-together with some tunes from Penmachine and # Psy Brazil # thrown in for good measure.      the laughing buddha by Jason Gulledge 35:48 minutes (16.39 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #73 Teaching Boys Lisa, Sheila and Maria were joined this week by Deven Black and John Fladd. The topic of conversation was teaching boys. As usual, lots of opinions and ideas were expressed. John helped move the conversation by talking about the book that got him thinking about all of this, Boys Adrift. Lisa, Sheila and Maria were joined this week by Deven Black and John Fladd. The topic of conversation was teaching boys. As usual, lots of opinions ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#19 2010-05-21 Authentic Assessment This week, Mary Engstrom, senior instructional designer at the University of Montana, discusses a framework for implementing authentic tasks and assessments in online courses. The discussion turns to a number of practical suggestions for implementing tasks that provide learners with opportunities to develop skills applicable in real life as well as the ability to monitor their own learning. And ultimately, escape from the experience of high-stakes mult ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers May 19, 2010 raw audio file - no editing 52:54 minutes (12.11 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Brian Crosby Brian Crosby shared his 2008 K12 Online presentation, Video-Conferencing It’s Easy, Free and Powerful. He discussed how videoconferencing has impacted on his students' learning. He shared powerful examples of of why videoconferencing should be part of classroom experience. Brian Crosby shared his 2008 K12 Online presentation, Video-Conferencing It’s Easy, Free and Powerful. He discussed how videoconferencing has impac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #131: Sachin Agarwal, Founder and CEO of Posterous.com Sachin Agarwal, founder and CEO of Posterous.com joins Alex, arvind, and Vinny to talk about their slick web-publishing tool. They give away free blogs to anyone, and they couldn't be easier to use. Sachin walks us through some of our questions including, "how do you pronounce Posterous?" to examples of how teachers could use Posterous. 19:54 minutes (18.27 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #164 John and Dave spent this week's show discussing the role of technology in educaiton. Has it really made a substantial impact on what's happening in the classroom? EdTechWeekly #164 May 16, 2010   In which John and Dave eschew the normal show format and spend an hour talking about whether it's really about the technology, and if technology really has had a substantial impact on technology.   Chat Log Below ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #197 - Students, Teachers, and Gardeners Mark Earth Day 2010 - Hour 2 of Earthcast 2010 - 04.21.10 Teachers Teaching Teachers was the second hour of Earthcast 2010: We talked about school/community gardens! Paul Allison’s students at the East-West School of International Studies, Flushing have been tilling the earth this spring. They’ve been inspired by their play in Evoke to change the world, one garden at at time. A couple of student-gardeners join us on this podcast. Susan Ettenheim also welcomed student ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Show #124 Online Learning for Dummies with Susan Manning and Kevin Johnson Chat:   May 2, 2010 5:37:11 PM - 1 - CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE (AND CURRENT FOE/CN)      00:14 - Peggy George  takes a second to get the recording started :-)    00:21 - Susan Manning  Kevin do you have that photo?    00:25 - Susan Manning  of dummies    00:29 - Peggy George  I'm very excited to hear from Susan and Kevin!!    00:46 - Peggy George 60:38 minutes (27.75 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#18 2010-05-14 Avoiding Overload in Online Courses The capacity of working memory is limited, Miller (1956) would say to 7 items +/- 2 and the ability to process between 2-4 tasks simultaneously. Long-tern memroy is essentially unlimited. If we follow cognitive load theory, the task is to devise learning so that it falls into an area where it can be processed into the long term memory in the form of schemata. The discussion this week focusses on the findings of cognitive load theory in terms of designi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show 88-2010-05-13 with Jim Burke  Join Alice and Cheryl as we chat with Jim Burke on our 88th show! Jim is the Godfather of PD in Maine. He has gone from a classroom teacher, to retired, to technology integration specialist, to emint trainer, to blogger! Jim is a life long learner. A shout out to Teachers Teaching Teachers for their 200th show!~ You Rock!!! A little bit of Maine Trivia starts out the show. Alice and Cheryl quiz Jim about his success as a classro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #130: Matt Montagne and Jason Ramsden on Online Education ETT21 #130 April 27, 2010 Matt Montagne and Jason Ramsden on Online Education ETT21 #130 April 27, 2010 Matt Montagne and Jason Ramsden on Online Education   <Chat Transcript> 19:02 minutes (8.74 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #163  John, Dave, and Jen to review the latest news and resources influencing education and technology.  EdTechWeekly #163 May 9, 2010 Chat Log Below    This Week's Delicious Links      53:52 minutes (24.66 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #196 - Mash-up of Youth Voices Student Photographers and Evoke Gardeners - 04.14.10 We hope you enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers where we bring together gardeners from the alternate reality game, Evoke with photography students on Youth Voices. Take a look at this recent photo discussion, and join a few of our students: Jake, from Chris Sloan's classes at  Judge Memorial H.S. in Salt Lake City Matt, Brianna, and Annie, from Susan Ettenheim's digital photography class at Eleanor Roosevelt High Sch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#17 2010-05-07 John Graves: Engaging Online Learners in the Early Stages of Online Courses John Graves, the lead faculty in the Master of Science in Science Education program at Montana State University, Bozeman, spends 30 minutes sharing over a decade of expertise in the design and delivery of online courses. John touches on a number of key considerations in terms of engaging learners in the early stages of an online course: 26:55 minutes (12.32 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Jane Ross Jane Ross shared her 2009 K12 Onine presentation: Living History - Authentic Learning Empowered By Digital Technology. She eloquently discussed the impact of personal relationships on her students' learning. The project was driven by the pedagogy but was infused with technology.     58:46 minutes (26.9 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings-2010-05-06 with Lucy Gray and the K12Horizon Report  If you have not read the 2010 K12 Horizon Report, this Seedlings episode will convince you to read the report word for word and exciting link by link! There are so many hidden treasures in the report with examples and interactive wikis which provide transparency! Lucy also recommends that we all read the National Technology Plan with Karen Cator at the helm! Join us for a great conversation! Join us as we learn more details ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #162 John, Dave, and Jen to review the latest news and resources influencing education and technology.  EdTechWeekly #162 May 2, 2010 Chat Log Below    This Week's Delicious Links    51:14 minutes (23.46 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #72 Ever have a great project idea and were not able to actually start or complete it? We talked about those projects with John Fladd, a colleague of Maria's. What is it that prevents us from seeing a project to fruition?   56:22 minutes (25.8 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#16 2010-4-30 WebQuests WebQuests have been around since 1995 and came about, in part, to address the need for critical thinking skills in the active investigation of web resources for learning. In this episode, we consider how WebQuests can be used to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. 30:46 minutes (14.08 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-04-29 Seedlings Chat with Lisa Nielson and Willyn Webb  If you have been on the fence about using Cell Phones in your classroom either inschool or for homework, listen to this great podcast. During the show we said you will have to listen FAST to get all the great information!   Also, the authors want to stay in touch, have you give feedback, be part of their research. So, follow them and get involved in this conversation!       * How can the folks here keep the conversation g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #195 - Spring Curriculum Share - 04.07.10 It’s Spring in the northern hemisphere. Some of us have five or six, others nine weeks left in the academic year. It’s a great time to try out something new or to reflect on what we tried this year. What are you doing this academic season? Listen to this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, then let us know what you are doing this spring. You will <fill in the blank> Paul Allison and Rachel Smith report on how Evoke is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #129: Demetri Orlando on NAIS Online Learning Guidelines 21st Century Learning #129 April 20, 2010 Demetri Orlando on NAIS Online Learning Guidelines Demetri Orlando, Chair of tne NAIS 21st Century Curriculum/Technology Task Force joins us to discuss the draft NAIS Online Learning Guidelines recently published for comment.  A dicsussion of the future of blended learning environments in Independent Schools.    21st Century Learning #129 April 20, 2010 Demetri Orlando o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#15 2010-4-23 Teaching Presence in a Community of Inquiry This week is the final part in a series exploring the Community of Inquiry Framework. Jennifer Maddrell leads us in an exploration of the practical dimensions of establishing teaching presence in online courses. <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #161  The whole EdTechWeekly gang is back together (at least for one round), as Jeff joins John, Dave, and Jen to review the latest news and resources influencing education and technology.  EdTechWeekly #161 April 18, 2010 Chat Log Below    This Week's Delicious Links   44:28 minutes (20.36 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #71 This week we started talking about the impact of the volcanic eruption in Iceland. Real-time science connections! This led to Earthcast, a 24 hour webcast on Earth Day, April 22. The Earthcast will be hosted on Worldbridges on the Earthbridges channel. We were able to get a few more people to sign up to participate, in fact all three Conversations hosts will be participating! What will your school, organization or you do on Earth Day? 65:20 minutes (29.9 MB)read more ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #194 - Two First-Year College Students Help Us Reflect on Youth Voices and More - 03.31.10 What does working in a school-based social network like http://youthvoices.net have to do with getting ready for college? Chris Sloan had a great idea. “Why don’t we invite former students who used Youth Voices and who are now in college to Skype in with their thoughts about what college is like these days … and if Youth Voices maybe does or doesn’t fit with what they are doing now?” Two of Chris’s former stud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-03-28 ben N ben Show #6  chat This is posted much later than the broadcast, but I finally was able to upload it! Enjoy!   Chat  PeggyG -> Room 1 Hi-sorry I'm late! forgot the time!  PeggyG -> Room 1 how exciting! Freshmen presenting at the Maine Technology Conference!! Woo hoo!  PeggyG -> Room 1 great idea Ben and Ben! 41:03 minutes (37.59 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 70 - Keeping the Spark Going to the End of the Year   This week, while Sheila was away, Maria and Lisa talked about ways to keep the energy and excitement going until the end of the school year.     This week, while Sheila was away, Maria and Lisa talked about ways to keep the energy and excitement going until the end of the school year.      Chat: 11:23:40 Lisa Parisi: Hello Rose 57:06 minutes (19.61 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#14 2010-4-16 Cognitive Presence in a Community of Inquiry Part II of a discussion of the Community of Inquiry framework. Jennifer Maddrell leads us in a consideration of what it means to create 'cognitive' presence in online courses.   Jennifer Maddrell leads a discussion of another key aspect of online teaching and learning--developing cognitive presence in online courses. In addition to discussing the definition of cognitive presence, we consider how it can be facilitated, and the ch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-04-15 Seedlings Show 85 with Emily Hunt of Common Sense Media Commonsensemedia.org, with Emily Hunt, joins the SEEDLINGS group for a discussion about Media, Internet and how savvy our tweens and teens are these days.  Emily shares great data with us and reminds us that it is not about punishment, not about preaching, but rather it is about being informed and knowledgeable about the media we are involved in. Adults need to be involved in conversations with all youth about media, advertising, movies, websites, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #128: David Bill, Curator of TEDxNYED 21st Century Learning #128 April 13, 2010 David Bill from TEDxNYED David Bill, Curator of TEDxNYED joined us to discuss the almost posted videos from TEDxNYED and how he hopes to continue the conversation about change in education.  21st Century Learning #128 April 13, 2010 David Bill from TEDxNYED David Bill, Curator of TEDxNYED joined us to discuss the almost posted videos from TEDxNYED and how he hopes to continue the co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #193 - Is Evoke a game? Why does it matter? Five Students with Rachel Smith and Suzie Boss - 03.24.10 Join us as we listen to our students and our colleagues respond to questions about Evoke. Jake is a senior in Chris Sloan's New Media class at Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. Robin is a sophomore in Paul Allison's English class at the East-West School of International Studies in Flushing, NYC. Perez and Phil are freshman in Susan Ettenheim's class at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, in New York City. Nathan is a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #160   Robert Squires (special guest and heavy lifting webcaster) joined John and Jen to review the latest news and resources in education and technology. Notably absent is a discussion of the iPad, but if you missed that story this week you probably aren't very interested in technology :)  EdTechWeekly #160 April 11, 2010 Chat Log Below    This Week's Delicious Links   38:39 minutes (17.7 MB)rea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETT21 #127: Brad Rathgeber from the Online School for Girls 21st Century Learning #127 April 6, 2010 Brad Rathgeber from the Online School for Girls Brad Rathgeber, President of the Board at the Online School for Girls joins us to discuss the new online school specializing in single gender online education for girls. 21st Century Learning #127 April 6, 2010 Brad Rathgeber from the Online School for Girls Brad Rathgeber, President of the Board at the Online School for Girls joins us to d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #192 - Students and Teachers Finding our Missions on Evoke: Rachel Smith and Robin - 03.17.10 Robin is playing Evoke, and on this podcast he tells us why. Robin is in Paul Allison's English class. He's a tenth Grader at the East-West School for International Studies, and on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Robin talks about his experiences in the first couple of weeks of playing Evoke. We are also joined by Chris Wood, a student teacher from Queens College, CUNY who is working with Paul this semester. Ninmah! Rachel Smith is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-04-01 Seedlings #84 with Wes Fryer  We're joined by Wes Fryer- Live in Maine the Magical Show! Anne Fraser counted the word magical used 4, 586 times throughout the show. See if you come up with the same number! We had a great conversation in the EdTechTalk studio with Wes Fryer. The conversations were about Race to the Top, Apple's new product release, Maria Knee, and the upcoming workshop at Wells Junior High School. We're joined by Wes Fryer- Live in Maine th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #69 While LIsa was with visiting relatives, Maria and Sheila co-hosted the show. We discussed school design, classroom design and classroom decorations. We started looking at a middle school that has bright colors and bold slogans from a Fast Company article of March 24, 2010. We also shared photos of classrooms in Belize. The Belizeans created inviting atmospheres in their rooms with very few supplies. 59:16 minutes (27.13 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #187 The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching New Media w/ William Kist & Mike Slowinski - 02.17.10 This episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, was recorded during a live webcast back in the middle of February. We think you will enjoy this conversation with William Kist and Mike Slowlinski, one of the teachers who is featured in William Kist's new book, The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age. Troy Hicks has a thought-provoking question to ask toward the end of this podcast as well. Get the book, and learn along with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2009-3-25 ben N ben Show 6  PeggyG -> Room 1     Hi-sorry I'm late! forgot the time!  PeggyG -> Room 1     how exciting! Freshmen presenting at the Maine Technology Conference!! Woo hoo!  PeggyG -> Room 1     great idea Ben and Ben!  PeggyG -> Room 1     is the conference being streamed?  PeggyG -> Room 1     lot of static right now since you brought in the guest on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #159 John, Dave, and Jen review this week's news and resources in education and technology. We will be back for our regularly scheduled show on April 11th following a holiday break.  EdTechWeekly #159 March 28, 2010 Chat Log Below    This Week's Delicious Links   53:56 minutes (24.69 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #11 Online Problem Based Learning with Maggi Savin Baden This week, we were joined by Maggi Savin Baden, professor of Higher Education Research at Coventry University in the UK. She has been investigating problem based learning for a number of years and is currently pursuing research into applications within Second Life. Topics include: 29:37 minutes (13.56 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Beth Ritter-Guth Beth Ritter-Guth shared both her 2009 K12 Onine presentation: Unlikely Coordinates: Geocaching Across the Curriulum as well as her personal experience with geocaching. Sheila Adams, our streamer was able to add her perspective as a middle school teacher. Lots of learning and lots of fun!   Beth Ritter-Guth shared both her 2009 K12 Onine presentation: Unlikely Coordinates: Geocaching Across the Curriulum as well as her persona ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #68 Our conversation this week was in response to the NY Times article by Elizabeth green, published on March 2, 2010, tiltled, Building a Better Teacher . Our conversation this week was in response to the NY Times article by Elizabeth green, published on March 2, 2010, tiltled, Building a Better Teacher . Chat Log 61:14 minutes (21.02 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #158  John and Jen "fly solo" (ok ... in truth ... Dave was there as the silent pilot) to review this week's news and resources in education and technology.  EdTechWeekly #158 March 21, 2010 Chat Log Below    This Week's Delicious Links   44:51 minutes (20.54 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #190 - Listening to Student Gamers (and Suzie Boss) - 03.03.10 Recently the group of teachers whose students are using Youth Voices have been paying more attention to both the gamers in our classrooms and to the educational leaders who are suggesting that we consider bringing gaming into the curriculum. We are looking for ideas, answer to our questions and inspiration from students like Jake and critical friends like Suzie Boss, both of whom join us on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #10 Investigating Community and Interaction in Online Courses This week, Jennifer Maddrell discusses the focus for her dissertation work: the Community of Inquiry framework: http://communitiesofinquiry.com/. Her primary research question focusses on whether there is a relationship between learner's perceptions of "community" and actual learning outcomes as identified by grades, papers, tests, etc. The discussion took a very practical turn as we sought to identify particular strategies that may be used by instructors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 67 - Ethics and Copyright/Copyleft  This week, Lisa, Sheila, and Maria were joined by Kristin Hokanson in the chatroom and Alec Couros in the skype call to discuss copyright and fair use, copyleft and cc licensing, and the ethics surrounding it all. This week, Lisa, Sheila, and Maria were joined by Kristin Hokanson in the chatroom and Alec Couros in the skype call to discuss copyright and fair use, copyleft and cc licensing, and the ethics surrounding it all. &nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Jackie Gerstein Jackie Gerstein shared a wealth of information about her work with students and her approach to teaching. Her video, Digital Writers' Workshop from K12 Online 2009 was streamed. It was a great conversation. Jackie Gerstein shared a wealth of information about her work with students and her approach to teaching. Her video, Digital Writers' Workshop from K12 Online 2009 was streamed. It was a great conversation. Chat Log  ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #157 In a break from EdTechWeekly tradition, Dave and Jen explored their research projects and interests regarding "community" within an educational setting. If you are looking for the contributed links to news and resources shared by the EdTechTalk "community" this week, please point your browser to our EdTechTalk delicious folder. See you next week when John returns to get us back on track!  EdTechWeekl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #121: What does Blogging Look Like in 2010? 21st Century Learning #121 February 2, 2010 What does Blogging Look Like in 2010?                    22:23 minutes (10.28 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #9 - Student Perspectives on Online Learning This week, we discussed the experience of online learning with two students at The University of Montana. Amanda Armstrong, an undergraduate student taking a fully online degree in Media Arts and Jamie Lockman, a graduate student taking an online political science course. Topics discussed include: 31:05 minutes (14.23 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #191 - Katherine Schulten and the Learning Network AND "...making the case for the NWP - 03.10.10 n the first half of this weeks episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we had an inspiring conversation with Katherine Schulten editor of The Learning Network at the New York Times.  Our theme for this week's Teachers Teaching Teachers was about increasing teacher voice in public debates. Katherine suggested how we might use The Learning Network for that. In addition, we were joined by: Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, director of National Programs and Si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 66 - Will You Pay?   This week, Sheila Adams, Lisa Parisi, and Maria Knee were joined by Ginger Lewman for a conversation about free tools.  How much are we willing to pay if the tools don't stay free?    This week, Sheila Adams, Lisa Parisi, and Maria Knee were joined by Ginger Lewman for a conversation about free tools.  How much are we willing to pay if the tools don't stay free?     Chat Archive: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #156 Week 1 without Jeff ... In a special EdTechWeekly, guests Bud Hunt and Zac Chase share their perspectives on two events impacting the education community this week, including the recent TEDxNYED conference and the funding crisis facing the National Writing Project. Dave and John kept the conversation moving while Jen just struggled to remember the passwords to post the audio. Join us next week for the "Dave and Jen Show" to discuss Dave' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #189 - Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana: Paul Hankins and student talk about their Ning - 02.24.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you will learn more about RAW INcK: Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana. Our guests were one site’s student managers, Tyler, along with their teacher, Paul W. Hankins, an English Teacher and Creator of RAW INcK. (Another student-manager of the Ning, Jin joined us in the chat room.) On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you will learn more about RAW INcK: Reading and Writing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Kelly Hines We were very fortunate to have Kelly Hines as a guest on the Echo. Her K12 Online 2009 presentation, Little Kids - Big Possibilities was streamed. She elaborated on the work she does with her students. It was a lively discussion. Kelly Hines joined us for a lively chat and discussion. We streamed her k12 Online 2009 presentation, Little Kids- Big Possibilities. Kelly discussed the work she does with her students. Chat Log &nb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #8 Interview with Professor Karl Kapp This week, we explored differences and similarities between Instructional Design work in corporate and higher education settings with Karl Kapp: http://karlkapp.blogspot.com/, http://karlkapp.com.  Karl's background teaching e-learning classes and experiece training CEO's and front line staff gives him a unique perspective on desiging learning for these environments. Some of the points discussed include: 33:30 minutes (15.34 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings # 82 2010-03-04 with Mike Gorman Welcome to SEEDLINGS! It seems like we have been on hiatus, but we are back. Well, mostly. Alice Barr was unable to be with us for good reasons. She is being honored as a finalist for Maine Teacher of the Year! Listen in to our show as we interview Mike Gorman who is new to the blogging scene and how he has transformed his school by using project  based learning and something called an Integrated Solutions Block. Welcome to SEEDL ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #155 This week, Dave celebrated Canada's hockey victory while Jeff waxed philosophically about his last show before a 21-week hiatus. John was just along for the ride.  EdTechWeekly #155 February 28, 2010 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below     42:53 minutes (39.26 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #186 - Texas in the house with Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast on doing digital make-overs - 02.10.10 On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we were excited to have a conversation with Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast about their new book, Using Technology to Improve Adolescent Writing: Digital Make-Overs for Writing Lesson. Liz Campbell Stephens teaches graduate courses in Educational Technology and is Director of the Office of Educator Preparation at Texas State University-San Marcos. She serves on the National Writing Project’s Board of D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #7 2010-2-26: Learning in the Information Age Professor Charles Reigeluth from Indiana University shares his thoughts on Instructional Theory for education in the Information Age. Charles and Allison Carr-Chellman recently co-edited Volume III of the seminal Instructional Design Theories and Models (The Green Book): http://www.amazon.com/Instructional-Design-Theories-Models-III-Knowledge/dp/0805864563   Key points discussed include: 36:27 minutes (16.68 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #118, Internet Safety 101 21st Century Learning #118 January 12, 2010 Internet Safety 101   A discussion about the how to speak about Internet Safety with parents and their kids.  Vinnie mentioned a danah boyd podcast that you can find here.  Lots of great links in the Chat Transcript too.  Enjoy! 21st Century Learning #118 January 12, 2010 Internet Safety 101   A discussion about the how to speak about Internet Safety with parents ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | It's Elementary #43: Interactive White Boards We had a small gathering this week, perhaps due to our change in broadcasting time. Alice and Maria, joined by Lisa in the chat room discussed the uses of interactive whiteboards. 44:57 minutes (15.43 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #65 While Sheila is away in Belize this week, Lisa and Maria co-hosted the show. John Fladd returned this week to contribute to the conversation. This week, the discussion was about people who inspire us to try new things, get our thinking going and provide the models we build upon. Where do you get your inspiration? Whose model do you follow or build on to create new ideas of your own. Does your work inspire others? While Sheila is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeeky#154 This week, Jeff, Dave, and John discussed the olympics, the role of education in technology, and Jeff's extended hiatus from the show. In a rare display of continuity, they also followed up on a few topics from previous weeks.  EdTechWeekly#154 February 21, 2010 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below     42:54 minutes (39.28 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #185 - Did Educon 2.2 Make Us Smarter? - 02.03.10 On this podcast a few of us who attended Educon 2.2 reflect on our learning there. Appropriately enough, we were guided in this reflective conversation by: Hannah, a student from The Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia her history teacher Diana Laufenberg their Principal, Chris Lehmann On this podcast you'll hear what four teachers, three of us from different Writing Projects, had to say just a few days after ther conference. You'l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Chris Walsh After viewing Chris Walsh's presentation, Moogpal in Action from the 2009 K12 Online Conference, Chris elaborated on the work he is doing and how Moogpal has evolved. It looks like a very exciting possibiity for schools. Chris Walsh joined us while we streamed his video, Moogpal in Action from the K12 Online Conference 2009. Chat Log 65:42 minutes (30.08 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #6 2010-02-19 Interview with Cammy Bean This week Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design for Kineo and ID-live co-host, discusses what e-learning means from a corporate perspective. The discussion focusses on the following issues: E-learning in the corporate environment How corporate and academic instructional design intersect How to design effective e-learning materials Skills that are expected of today's Instructional Designers Additional Resources: 36:39 minutes (16.78 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#153 Jeff, Dave, and John lament Jen's continued absense while discussing Google Buzz, the Olympics, html5, and more.  EdTechWeekly#153 February 14, 2010 Chat Log Below       46:02 minutes (42.15 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #64 Happy Valentine's Day! Today, we discussed skyping in the classroom and posting student work on blogs. We discussed ways we have used skype to connect with other classrooms; reading to others, sharing via video, and more. When posting student's work to their own blog, do they post their best or show a work in progress? (This conversation stemmed from the Feb. 11, 2010 SEEDlings show.) Does all work get published? What about the varying abilities within the class? We missed Lisa this week a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #63 This week our conversation was about the EduCon experience. The Conversations crew were joined by two first time Educon attendees: Meredith Stewart from North Carolina and John Fladd from New Hampshire. This week our conversation was about the EduCon experience. The Conversations crew were joined by two first time Educon attendees: Meredith Stewart from North Carolina and John Fladd from New Hampshire. Chat Log 69:51 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live #5 2010-2-12 - Interview with Ana Donaldson This week we interviewed Ana Donaldson, author of Engaging the Online Learner and candidate for AECT president. (Read more about Ana's work). It was a great fun! Ana offered the following information on upcoming events and opportunities for those in the field of educational technology: 28:40 minutes (13.12 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-02-11 SEEDlings with Christian Long Show notes: http://aliceproject.wordpress.com/ (Alice Project) http://thinklab.typepad.com/ http://25x30design.wordpress.com   Geek of the WeeK Chat: bobsprankle -> Room 1: Ah you're here!  Sheila -> Room 1: Hi all!  cheryloakes~seedlings -> Room 1: here!  Sheila -> Room 1: Hey Cheryl! Tracy said she met you at the wedding. :)  cheryloakes~seedlings -> Room 1: Yes, and we fought about whose friend you were!!! I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | It's Elementary #43: Computer Labs -- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly The show started with Maria Knee sharing her experiences at EduCon 2.2, and the goals of learner-centered, constructivist education that are the centerpiece of that conference. We then used that as a transition to a discussion about how computer labs are often being used and how it fits in with those goals: 61:15 minutes (14.02 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #182 - A student-centered follow up: More on games, YouTube, Twitter, and Research - 01.13.10 On this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers, we had some follow-up’s, and some room for new voices. Paul Allison invited several of his students from the East-West School of International Studies in Flushing, NY onto the show to explain more about gaming. These students were listening and in the chat room on TTT#181 the week before when we talked about gaming in schools with other teachers, researchers, and consultants. The student had asked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#4 2010-02-05 This week, we discussed how to promote learning through asynchronous discussions, in many cases, the heart of online courses. Issues considered include: developing a sense of community, structuring discussions, setting expectations, assessment and strategies for facilitating quality interactions. Resources mentioned: Joanna Dunlap: Down and Dirty Guidelines for Effective Discussions in Online Courses 33:10 minutes (15.18 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-02-05 Seedlings on the Horizon Report If you have been waiting to read the Horizon Report 2010, listen up to this SEEDLINGS conversation. Alice, Bob and Cheryl take a stab at the highlights of the report. This report drives what is happening in post secondary education and it drives what the K-12 educators should be promoting for our students. Enjoy!   Alice , Bob and Cheryl had our favorite conversation, the Horizon Report 2010! This is such a good report to provide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #152 The EdTechWeekly crew continues to evolve the new format-less show format while still maintaining that there is no topic. Join us for the mayhem. EdTechWeekly #152 January 31, 2010   This week, Dave and John talk about ISTE versus Educon, the iPad, student laptops, and the cost of staying secure. This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below   52:42 minutes (48.25 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Show #120 Lucy Gray Join us for an exciting conversation with the inimitable and well-connected Lucy Gray who shares with us her passion for what's new in ipod/iphone educational apps, Google Teacher Academy and educational technology. 63:34 minutes (58.19 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Show #119: Karin Muller from Take2 Video Join us as we catch up with Karin Muller of Take2 Videos as she shares her vision for the non-profit organization which she created. She was with us last year; it was great to have an update on an incredible initiative which places raw footage of areas of global conflict into the hands of North American students to create PSAs and documentaries. Karin is a world traveler and photojournalist whose work has appeared in such places as National Geographic and Discovery Channel.   Karin Mu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #120: NCAIS Conference with Jason Ramsden 21st Century Learning #120 January 26, 2010 NCAIS with Jason Ramsden A discussion with Jason Ramsden about the NCAIS conference. Their NCAIS blog is here. 21st Century Learning #120 January 26, 2010 NCAIS with Jason Ramsden A discussion with Jason Ramsden about the NCAIS conference. Their NCAIS blog is here. <Chat Transcript> 11:14 minutes (5.17 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Echo: Jennifer Wagner The K12 Online Echo was delighted to welcome Jennifer Wagner who shared her K12 Online 2009 presentation, If you Host It, They Will Come. She told stories about the projects she has hosted, shared caveats for those considering hosting and described some of the tools she has used in carrying out the projects. Jennifer Wagner joined us while we streamed her video, If You Host It, They Will Come from the K12 Online Conference 2009. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Online-Course-Supplements-ID-Live-3-2010-1-29 Today, Danielle Wozniak, Assitant Professor in the UM School of Social Work, discussed her thoughts on developing online community and utilizing online supplements in her graduate and undergraduate courses. References: Chat log: 31:26 minutes (14.39 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2010-01-28 ben N ben Show #5 ben n ben talk with Matt Montagne and his student Natalie about Gator Radio. Thanks to Matt for streaming, this show rocks! the ben N ben website Chat and links coming soon. 43:47 minutes (15.03 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #62 This week we discussed iPod Touch/iPhone apps in the classroom. Lisa was unable to join us but we were joined by Amanda Marrinan from Australia. Many of the apps can be found on Maria's wiki at http://classroomipodtouch.wikispaces.com. 62:14 minutes (28.49 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly#151  With Dave or Jen unavailable, John & Jeff recruit participants from the chat room to join in for an easy going, no pressure EdTechSomething.  Thanks to Gary, Cathy, Sue, Leonard, & Sheila EdTechWeekly #151 January 24, 2010 Without Dave or Jen, John & Jeff recruit participants from the chat room to join in for an easy going, no pressure EdTechSomething.  Thanks to Gary, Cathy, Sue, Leonard, & Sheila Cha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #181 - Getting Schooled on Gaming: A conversation with Global Kids and Quest to Learn - 01.06.10 If you were itching to include gaming in your curriculum, what would you do? Susan and I, and others in the New York City Writing Project started by having a conversation with some pretty smart people earlier this month on Teachers Teaching Teachers. We met most of these educators in November 2009 at the National Writing Project's "Digital Is..." Conference, which was an invitational one-day conference supported by the John D. and Catherine T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live-2-2010-1-22 This week Cammy Bean interviewed Robert Squires about how he became involved in Instructional Design as well as current design projects. Texts mentioned in the discussion: Mark Pegrum: From Blogs to Bombs Brinck, Gergle and Wood: Designing Websites that Work: Usability for the Web ----- Chat: 35:53 minutes (16.43 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDLINGS 2010-01-21 Strategies for Parent Teacher Conferences There is an elephant in the room! Teachers are all expected to participate in Parent Teacher Conferences, but are never given an opportunity to practice that or reflect on their practice. Well, SEEDLINGS took an email from an audience member, Bill Rakosnik, from Georgia, and put some questions on the NING and we had a tremendous thoughtful show for you all. Enjoy the podcast and the information. Join SEEDLINGS as we speak with our gue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partner Episode # 33 January 18, 2009   Karen Bantuveris from Volunteer spot   Karen Bantuveris from Volunteerspot joined show hosts Matt Montagne and Lorna Costantini to discuss parent volunteerism in school. Karen is a management consultant in Austin Texas. A little over a year ago she came up with a scheduling tool that freed up teacher and parents time organizing events. Karen provided a long list of fund raising tips, community building activ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 61 - Educators for Haiti   This week we started our conversation with a discussion about what educators can do to connect with Haitians and support efforts in Haiti.  This conversation turned into a plan.  We created a wiki for educators in wikispaces.  Please come see what we've created and join in with your class.  http://kids4haiti.wikispaces.com/  This week we started our conversation with a discussion about what educato ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #117b: Holiday Show! 21st Century Learning #117b December 15, 2009 Holiday Show... A fast paced round up of year end gadgets that the ETT21 team is looking forward to doing/gifting/receiving over the holidays.    * Photo Credit <Chat Transcript> 20:58 minutes (9.63 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #150 Join John, Dave, Jeff and Jen for episode 150 of EdTechWeekly! In a new format that is oddly like the old format, they review the latest news and resources in education and technology. EdTechWeekly #150 January 17, 2010 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 45:48 minutes (20.97 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDlings 2010-01-14 Richard Byrne Richard's Site: Free Technology for Teachers “Geek of the Week” Links  Chat Log:  richardbyrne ->  Hello  alicebarr ->  Hello marragem  sarahsutter ->  Hi there! Just got in.  cheryloakes50~ ->  Hi Sarah!  alicebarr ->  Hi Sarah  hshawjr ->  hi everyone  alicebarr ->  Just starting!  alicebarr ->  Hello hshawr  cheryloakes5 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #180 - What was new for you in 2009 that you're bringing into 2010 - 12.23.09 At the end of 2009, we invited teachers to skype in to Teachers Teaching Teachers to tell us about something they did with their students that year.. something that was new and something that they want to keep exploring in the coming year. We asked them to to paint a picture for us of what it looks like when you are using this new (to you) tool, approach, or idea in your classroom. We did not invited any specific guests on to this show that was moderat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 60   This week, Sheila and Lisa were joined by Amanda Marrinan to discuss the topic of dealing with adults who say or do inept things in front of children.  Who is responsible for saying something: the teacher who overhears, the children, or the administration?  Maria Knee was missed this week but was well represented by Amanda, who graciously stayed up very late in Australia to join us.  This week, Sheila and Li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | It's Elementary #42: New Years Wishes Have a listen to the It's Elementary Team as we talk about our New Years Wishes.... from conferences to what's happening in our classroom.  For a tech use in the elementary classroom perspective, join us the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month. Beginnig of the year edition of It's Elementary Webcast. We are moving our format to one informal chat and one interview per month.  On this occasion, we shared some educational confere ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Instructional-Design-Live#1 2010-01-15 This week we spoke with Mary Engstrom, Associate Director of Extended Learning Services, about plans for a revised program for supporting faculty developing online courses at The University of Montana. The proposed plan is available at: http://instructionaldesigning.org/content/draft-faculty-development-process. Please feel free to comment. 33:04 minutes (15.14 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Fireside Chat: Rachel Boyd Rachel Boyd shared her Week Two keynote: A Peek for a Week - Inside a Kiwi Junior Classroom. She fielded questions and elaborated on her presentation. We left with a deeper understanding of how her class runs, how technology is infused in what she does and how her students become such independent learners.  Fireside Chat with Diego Leal and Rachel Boyd If you are watching the UStream, Rachel's presentation starts at 51:03 Ra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Fireside Chat: Diego Leal 50:23 minutes (11.53 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #149  What started as the usual news and edtech resources winds into a "what do we want to do in the show" discussion. We just want to say to those who hand on to the end, "We're sorry!"  EdTechWeekly #149 January 10, 2010 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 41:14 minutes (18.88 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #179 - Radio Rookies Finding Where Their Passions Make Good Stories - 12.16.09 In this Teachers Teaching Teachers podcast, we will welcome five students from the East-West School of International Studies and two radio producers, Sanda Htyte and Ann Heppermann. We wanted to learn more about the kinds of passionate, intelligent, well-researched radio programs that we hear on WNYC’s Radio Rookies. This fall six of Paul Allison’s students at the East-West School of International Studies worked with Sanda Htyte and Ann Hep ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | InstructionalDesignLive-0-2010-01-08 Show 0 of Instructional Design Live. The co-presenters introduce themsleves and discuss their non-prescriptive ideas about what Instructional Design means. Further commentary available at: http://learningvisions.blogspot.com/2010/01/recap-of-instructional-design-live.html Further discussion at http://www.instructionaldesigning.org  35:10 minutes (16.09 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings-78-2010-01-07 Seedlings is back! Happy New Year 2010! Seedlings returned for the season with Deb White, ACTEM Technology Educator of the Year, 2009. Deb talked about her experiences as a second grade teacher in Orono, Maine. Deb is a life long learner and demonstrates her love and curiosity of learning throughout her classroom and the connections she makes around the world using Twitter with seven and eight year olds. If you are interested in learning how she manage ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #148 With John celebrating at a birthday bash, Dave, Jeff, and Jen recap the year that was and contemplate the year to come. Back to the usual format of news and resources next week. EdTechWeekly #148 January 3, 2010 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 43:23 minutes (19.86 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 59 For our first show of 2010, we discussed the topic "What is your innovation in education, and why does it matter?"  This conversation was started by Ben Wilkoff, so naturally we invited him to join us on the show.  Ginger Lewman also came into the skype call and the chat room was hopping.  Enjoy! For our first show of 2010, we discussed the topic "What is your innovation in education, and why does it matt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #178 - MemCatch and Zotero: Tools to Cure Our Cartesian Hangover - 12.09.09 On this podcast we continue our inquiry into I-Search, research, and social bookmarking tools. Terry Elliot and Wendy Drexler joined us us to discuss Zotero. Keith Borne and Peter Sabbagh, from MemCatch also joined us in on our discussion about emerging technologies in the social knowledge area. We were also joined by Fred Hass, an English teacher and Tech Liaison for the Boston Writing Project. If you listen closely to what Fred has to say, you'll fin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #58 What inspries you? What makes your journey great? Sheila, Maria and Lisa and the folks in the chat room respond to the Guilding Stars poster by Peter Reynolds and share who and what inspires them. Sheila also talked about the Earthbridges echo events she did with her students. What inspries you? What makes your journey great? Sheila, Maria and Lisa and the folks in the chat room respond to the Guilding Stars poster by Peter Reynolds a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #147  With Jeff back in the webcasting chair, Dave, John, Jeff and Jen do their best recapping this week's edtech news and resources. EdTechWeekly #147 December 20, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 44:24 minutes (20.33 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #116: Introducing TEDxNYED 21st Century Learning #116 November 24, 2009 Introducing TEDxNYED Dave Bill introduces us to TEDxNYED. "TEDxNYED will be an all day conference designed to examine education and the impact of new media and technology. Speakers are challenged to share innovative insights and inspire conversations about the future of education. Attendees are challenged to rise to the occasion: learn for themselves, educate each other and, following the spirit of T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 57 - The Haves and Have Nots   This week, we focused on the haves and have-nots of education and technology.  We discussed those who have technology vs. those who have very limited technology, as well as those that have supportive administration vs. those without.  This week, we focused on the haves and have-nots of education and technology.  We discussed those who have technology vs. those who have very limited technology, as well as tho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2009-12-17 ben N ben Show 4 http://sites.google.com/site/bennbenshow/home  47:10 minutes (43.19 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode # 32 December 3, 2009 Cindy Seibel show host shares her masters work with Matt Montagne and Lorna Costantini. Cindy developed a parent portal implementation guide. From the guide, Cindy explains: There is a significant body of research demonstrating the contribution of parent engagement to student learning. Based on this research, school districts are implementing technology solutions to support and improve relationships with parents with the hope of producing improved student outcomes. This project created an I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Not Edtechweekly 4 - Five years of news stories... in review Dave has a fun conversation with Doug Symington and the chat room about the last five years in education and technology. 55:58 minutes (25.62 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #177 Reflections on the National Writing Project's 2009 Annual Meeting at a Seminal Moment - 12.02.09 This podcast, co-sponsored by the New York City Writing Project and the NWP Technology Liaisons Network, featured: Robert Rivera-Amezola, Philadelphia Writing Project Joe Conroy, NWP at Rutgers University Writing Project  Chuck Jurich, High Desert Writing Project (New Mexico)  Paul Oh, the coordinator of the technology liaison program for the National Writing Project  Seth Mitchell, Maine Writing Project ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #56 What happens when a homegrown webcaster has too many things going on during the same time period? She thinks that she already posted a show but realizes (finally) that she didn't. So here it is, the November 22, 2009 show. Sorry folks.   Lisa, Maria and Sheila discussed the issue of dealing with a very "chatty" classroom, where the noise level is high but productivity is good. Later in the show, Diana Laufenberg, from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia joined the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #115: Liz Davis Discussing One on One Teacher Professional Develoment 21st Century Learning #115 November 24, 2009 Liz Davis on 1 to 1 Teacher Professional Develoment A conversation with Liz Davis about integrating technology into the curriculum with a 1 on 1 professional development.  Read more about Liz's ideas on her blog or at the ISENet NING.  21st Century Learning #115 November 24, 2009 Liz Davis on 1 to 1 Teacher Professional Develoment A conversation with Liz Davis about integrating ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDLings 2009-12-9 Snow day!  Chat coming post show   Show Notes 43:20 minutes (39.69 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Women of Web 3.0 - Show #118 - Media Literacy Dr. Chery Ball was the guest. 60:10 minutes (27.54 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #146  With beachdude lurking in the waves, Dave, John, and Jen do their best with this week's edtech news and resources. EdTechWeekly #146 December 6, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 41:36 minutes (19.04 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #114: NEIT2009 Review 21st Century Learning #114 November 17, 2009 NEIT2009 Review arvind, Vinnie and Alex debrief on the NEIT2009 conference.  21st Century Learning #114 November 17, 2009 NEIT2009 Review arvind, Vinnie and Alex debrief on the NEIT2009 conference.  <Chat Transcript> 18:48 minutes (8.65 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online Conference - Fireside Chat with Kim Cofino Fireside Chat - Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence and the Future of Education with Pre-Conference Keynote: Kim Cofino, December 3, 2009, 8:00-9:30pm EST 77:10 minutes (35.33 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #145 It's just John and Dave on the show this week, as we leisurely discuss the role of the backchannel in presentations, Wikipedia, and personal response systems. The fast-paced format returns next week when more of the regular crew returns. EdTechWeekly #145 November 29, 2009 Chat Log Below [19:12] <JenW> thinking -- do I want to stay??   :)  [19:12] <JenW> can we throw out TOPICS?? [19:12] <GaryM> Dave ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #176 Deep-Sea Diving Into Diigo 4.0 with Maggie Tsai - 11.11.09 As we move into the semester, many of us who are using Youth Voices are also using Diigo with our students. We invited Maggie Tsai back to Teachers Teaching Teachers to talk about how new features in Diigo 4.0 will help us build connections between students through social bookmarking. Come learn with us! We were also joined by: Alice Barr, Tech Integrator at Yarmouth High School, Yarmouth Maine, and Seedlings Co-Host H. Songhai, Media Literac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #144 Dave, John, Jeff, and Jen do their best with this week's edtech news and resources. Happy Birthday to Dave! EdTechWeekly #144 November 22, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 45:22 minutes (20.77 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2009-11-19 SEEDlings with Colleen King What were you doing on Thurs. evening? If you missed SEEDLINGS you missed a lot! Colleen King from MathPlayground.comwas our guest. Colleen, explained how she came to be a programmer, sheer will and determination in order to share math concepts and games with students and teachers.Colleen is a do it yourselfer. She taught herself how to program, how to make math available. She had a dream and her dream is coming true, not just for her, but for all the teachers and students she is connectin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Episode #31 November 16, 2009  Tonight's session was the first in a series of brainstorms about creating digital parent courses. Show hosts Matt Montagne and Lorna Costantini welcomed Justin Reeve, Colleen McGuire,  Penny Lindballe to the show. Chat Log 64:57 minutes (29.73 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jeff Utecht and Daneah with students from International School Bangkok: Operation Smile Jeff Utecht and wife Daneah share their students from International School Bangkok with us for an evening of inspiration and hope as their students relate their experiences with a very special project: Operation Smile. Daneah and two of the students have created videos to capture the visit the students had with young patients who experienced facial reconstructive surgery in Thailand.   The Chat:   [18:23] <PeggyG> here we go!!! :-) [18:24] <PeggyG> WOW3 :-) [18:24] == ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #175 - Looking Forward to the National Writing Project's Annual Meeting with 3 Presenters - 11.04.09 In connection with the National Writing Project's Annual Meeting, we invited a few teachers who will be presenting in Philadelphia to join us on this episode. Paul Oh, an associate with the NWP joined us as well. In addition, this same cast of characters will be joining us fora follow-up show after the Annual Meeting on December 2. This podcast, co-sponsored by the New York City Writing Project and the NWP Technology Liaisons Network, features: R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #143 Without Dave ... John, Jeff, and Jen do their best with this week's edtech news and resources. Everyone misses Dave (boo hoo). EdTechWeekly #143 November 15, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 44:05 minutes (20.19 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2009-11-12 Seedlings with Maria Knee Hear about a Kindergarten teacher preparing her classroom of five year olds for learning and life. Then to top off our conversation, hear how Maria Knee finds time to orchestrate a part of the K12onlineconference. Oh, there are some really great Geek of the Week items and even Monarchs in Space! The Chat: 52:57 minutes (24.24 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #173 - EBSCO, BrainyFlix, Online Research, and More! - 10.21.09 Ron Burns from EBSCO joined us on this podcast as we continued the conversation about using databases for research, how to share research using Diigo and how to incorporate the EBSCO resources into these goals! Being big EBSCO fans, we always welcome any chance to learn more about upcoming changes and how to better use EBSCO. We are happy that Joyce Valenza joined us in the chat room, since she started us on this question of how to use a social bookma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | It's Elementary #41: Getting Ready for k12onlineconference 2009 The It's Elementary crew discusses the k12onlineconference with it's very own Jose Rodriguez and Maria Knee, Co-Conveners.  Make sure to join us for the k12online LAN Party On November 18, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:30PM to 8:30PM EST. We invite everyone to gather at the LAN party site with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in lively discussions in the EdTechTalk chatroom. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Without Borders Canada - Report After 6 weeks in Africa [20:23] <cheri> this is the first time i've been able to use FF in almost 2 years [20:23] <cheri> so nice [20:28] <PeggyG> Hi everyone!! getting set up and almost ready to start the stream [20:29] <PeggyG> new chat window tonight--we're just trying it out. [20:29] <cheri> can you hear us? [20:29] <PeggyG> can you let us know if you're hearing the stream on ETT-A??? [20:30] <PeggyG> technology is always such an adventure!!! 61:00 m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #142 Without Jeff ... again ... John, Dave, Alvin, and Jen do their best with this week's edtech news and resources. Everyone misses Jeff (boo hoo). EdTechWeekly #142 November 8, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 55:39 minutes (25.48 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 55 Fall leaves - raking and playing in them - have made us nostalgic.  So this week we focused on positive memories we have from our school days and asked ourselves what memories we are creating for our own students. Fall leaves - raking and playing in them - have made us nostalgic.  So this week we focused on positive memories we have from our school days and asked ourselves what memories we are creating for our own students. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #54 Nov. 1, 2009 This week, Lisa and Maria responding to a topic posted in Plurk by Beth Knittle - the purpose of education.  Beth also posted a blog entry as well. As always, we had a good conversation in the stream and the chat room. This week, Lisa and Maria responding to a topic posted in Plurk by Beth Knittle - the purpose of education.  Beth also posted a blog entry as well. Another blog post worth reading is from David Warlick, writt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2009-11-5 ben N ben [19:24] <BenN_> Joe, Welcome! 43:23 minutes (39.72 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #113: Roxbury Latin's Social Media Plan 21st Century Learning #112 October 20, 2009 Andrew Katz and Ken Hiat on Social Media at Roxbury Latin School A conversation with Andrew Katz and Ken Hiat about Roxbury Latin's Social Media strategy and the way their community is implementing their plan.     21st Century Learning #112 October 20, 2009 Andrew Katz and Ken Hiat on Social Media at Roxbury Latin School A conversation with Andrew Katz and Ken Hiat about Ro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partner Episode # 30 November 2, 2009  For most parents the most common interaction with their child's classroom teacher happens at parent teacher interviews. For years that process has been the norm, but now it is changing. In more and more schools, students are leading conferences, and, overall, the word is that they‚are doing a fine job. Conversations Edtechtalk show host Lisa Parisi and Ginger Lewman from Turning Point Learning Centre in Emporia, KS  joined Matt Lorna and Cindy to share their experiences usi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #141 Without Jeff, the boys and Jen do their best with this week's edtech news and resources. EdTechWeekly #141 November 1, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 47:01 minutes (21.53 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #169 - More about diigo, annotations and on-line, ongoing research - 9.23.09 Chief Diigo Ambassador, Maggie Tsai joined us on this Wednesday evening, late in September. About a month before, we had a lively conversation about research and diigo: Teachers Teaching Teachers #165 - 08.26.09 - Meet Lisa Dick and George Haines: Talking about research and diigo. We wanted to talk to Maggie because some of the teachers who use Youth Voices had begun to use Diigo , and we wanted to get together on this webcast to talk about how it is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings Show 2009-10-29 with Janalee Redmond of Metanomics If you have wondered about how the future of our students careers will look have a listen here to Janelle Redmond chat with Alice and Cheryl about Second Life and the incredible businesses already thriving in SL. Join Alice and Cheryl as we learn about Second Life through Janalee Redmond's eyes. Janalee, also known as Jenette Forager, explains how businesses are currently using Second Life to hold meetings and seminars. She also gives ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #112: Ahsan Karim on NYSAIS, NYCIST, and NEIT 21st Century Learning #112 October 20, 2009 Ahsan Karim on NYSAIS, NYCIST, and NEIT.  A conversation with Ahsan Karim, Director of Technology at The Buckley School and President of NYCIST.  We discussed the relationships between the New York Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), the New York Consortium of Independent School Technologists (NYCIST), and the NYSAIS Education and Information Technology Conference (NEIT).  Lots of ov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #111: School Communications 21st Century Learning #111 October 13, 2009 A Conversation about School Communications. Public or private, open source blog or vendor hosted community space?  Grass roots or top down?  What is your communications strategy? 21st Century Learning #111 October 13, 2009 A Conversation about School Communications. Public or private, open source blog or vendor hosted community space?  Grass roots or top down?  What is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #140 Dave and John dispense with the usual fast-paced roundup to answer listeners' questions. EdTechWeekly #140 October 25, 2009 In the absense of Jeff and Jen, Dave and John break format this week to geek out on a number of different topics. Listeners could ask questions on just about any topic, and our fearless hosts took a stab at answering them. The conversation drifted through Drupal through Google Docs, the value of free software, Mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2009-10-22 Ben N Ben Show 2 Ben and Ben interviewed a former student from our high school, Zach, who is now at MIT. Zach did an internship at the FERMI lab this past summer. Zach's class was the first year of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative in 2002. 52:54 minutes (48.43 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 53 This week, our Conversation centered around a tweet conversation between @intrepidteacher and @courosa about online safety and trust. This article started it all. We moved into trust among educators, with parents, students, and each other.  Feel free to continue the chat at our blogsite. This week, our Conversation centered around a tweet conversation between @intrepidteacher and @courosa about online safety and trust. This artic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NEW SEASON! WOW3 Introduces a new season! Join us for as we introduce a new season of Women of Web3! We share our vision for a show that will highlight and celebrate innovation, social action and deep learning practices by global-mindeded educators. 57:34 minutes (52.71 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partner Episode # 29 October 19, 2009  Show Hosts welcomed Jacqui Strachan, Gay Stephenson from People for Education, Tanya Weiner, webmaster for Ottawa Carleton Assembly of School Councils and Ross Button from Upper Canada District School Board as they talk about how they communicate with parents.  Parents as Partners hosts Lorna Costantini, Cindy Seibel and Matt Montagne welcomed Jacqui Strachan, Gay Stephenson from People for Education, Tanya Weiner, web ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #172 - Troy Hicks and The Digital Writing Workshop, Part 3 of 3 - Helping Students Craft Writing In this final episode of our three part series, our guest-host once again is Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University. He continues an exploration of the principles and practices described in the book. For this third episode, we welcomed three teachers to the conversation. They discuss how they teach students to craft their writing through conferring and respon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #139 Without John, the boys and Jen do their best with this week's edtech news and resources. EdTechWeekly#139 October 18, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 26:21 minutes (12.07 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #52 - Passion in Education This week, we discussed passion in education. What makes up passion, how is it related to learning, how is it sustained and how is it related to giving/helping others? Lisa was unable to join us today, but will be back next week. We were joined by Alice Barr of SEEDlings. We also discussed the SEED program in Maine, and how it is perpetuating the passion for many. SEED packets can be found at http://www.actem.org/pages/Actem_Seed/index Catch SEEDlings at edtechtalk.com on Thursdays at 7:30 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SEEDLINGS LIVE @ACTEM09, 2009-10-16 Seedlings presented at the State of Maine Conference their Geek of the Week, You can hear the entire podcast at bobsprankle.com/, here is some of the captured audio and video from ustream.tv http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2363748 Geek of the Week Links, live from ACTEM The Chat: 41:13 minutes (18.91 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #168 - Mapping Main Street in Flushing, Salt Lake City, and Brevig Mission - 9.16.09 Listen to this podcast, recorded on September 16 to learn more about how we are working “Mapping Main Street into our curriculum. You will also to learn more about a wonderful youth development program, Radio Rookies and their Short Wave workshop, where producers train students the basics of reporting, interviewing, and script writing, and in 1.5 months they produce a final story for the Radio Rookies web site.” One of our guests for this p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #110: H1N1 and School Communication 21st Century Learning #110 September 29, 2009 -- H1N1 Preparedness After a recenty NYSAIS Professional Development seminar, NYCIST held a meeting discussing H1N1 preparedness. Alex and arvind discuss what schools are doing to be prepared for closures and high absense rates.  Resources to find information include Flu.gov, ISTE. We also discussed the importance of connnectedness of the community.  The importance of creating an online space ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | It's Elementary #39, Video in the Classroom; how to plan for success Have a listen as the It’s Elementary Team discusses video in the elementary classroom with our guest Mathew Needleman. "Film in NOT the language of the 21st century. It is the language of the 20th century and schools are just now thinking about catching up."  Make sure to tune in the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month for another edition of It’s Elementary Webcast.      <!--[if g ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETBS: Asian University for Women Jeff Flynn returns to ETBS and introduces us to Paul Coleman, the Chief Information Officer of the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Matt Montagne also joined us and was able to share his experiences migrating his school's mail to Google. Jeff Flynn returns to ETBS and introduces us to Paul Coleman, Chief Information Officer of Asian University for Women (AUW) in in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Thanks to Matt Montagne f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly #138 Without Jen, the boys do their best with this week's edtech news and resources.  EdTechWeekly#138 October 11, 2009 This Week's Delicious Links Chat Log Below 39:51 minutes (18.24 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations #51 October 11, 2009 Lisa, Sheila and Maria were joined this week by Peggy George and Paul Bogush to discuss teacher morale. Thank you Peggy and Paul for joining our conversation. Lisa, Sheila and Maria were joined this week by Peggy George and Paul Bogush to discuss teacher morale. Thank you Peggy and Paul for joining our conversation. 63:34 minutes (21.82 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Parents as Partners Epidsode # 28 October 5, 2009 Penny and Joanne brought show hosts Cindy Seibel and Lorna Costantini up to date on their introduction of web 2.0 tools in their school. Wired Wednesdays are happening with Penny at the local library. Parents are working with Penny learning how to use Google applications like the calendar and setting their Facebook privacy settings. It is exciting to see Penny take a leadership role in educating parents. Joanne is celebrating the addition of 3 other te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #171 - Troy Hicks and The Digital Writing Workshop, Part 2 of 3 - Exploring Author's Craft - 10.07.09 In this second episode of a three-part series, our guest host was Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University. Troy continued to explore the principles and practices described in the book. For this second episode, we also welcomed four Michigan teachers to the conversation, and they discussed how they teach the craft of digital writing: Dawn Reed of Okemos Hi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #167 - Lennie Levin on Crossing to College - 09.09.09 If you are already using Youth Voices — or planning to soon, we think you'll enjoy this Teachers Teaching Teachers podcast , recorded about a month ago. We talked the Youth Voices curriculum, guides, and more! Lennie Irvin, who is having his first-year college writing students contributing to the “Crossing to College” group. If you are already using Youth Voices — or planning to soon, we think you'll enjoy this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seedlings #64 2009-10-08 Seedlings interviewed Joy Zabala and Cynthia Curry. They told us about Cast.org and all the work they are doing across the country. What a great show. If you are wondering how to get accessible materials into your classroom, check out this podcast. The resources are great. The show was great and the chat room came alive! Join us as we discuss accessibility, Universal Design for Learning, Assistive Technology, and how the publishing in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations Episode 50 Lisa and Maria enjoyed their 50th show.  They discussed the Bucket Fillers program and Educon 2.2.  Diana Laufenberg joined them for the conference discussion.  Sheila was on vacation this week and will be back next week. Lisa and Maria enjoyed their 50th show.  They discussed the Bucket Fillers program and Educon 2.2.  Diana Laufenberg joined them for the conference discussion.  Sheila was on vacation th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly137 - October 10, 2009  Once again, the EdTechWeekly gang serves up another week of EdTech links and resources. EdTechWeekly # 137 October 4, 2009 This Week's Delicious Link Chat Log Below 66:57 minutes (30.64 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ETBS: techno-dance-party-hang-out Another old-fashioned ETBS hang-out in which we get together with some Creative Commons-licensed music from Speedsound complements of Jamendo.   We also take Mikogo for a spin and take turns sharing desktops during a "global show and tell." Thanks to all who attended, and those in the chatroom:   62:19 minutes (28.52 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 21st Century Learning #108: 21CL Brainstorm Call in... Alex and arvid reflect on the end of year and plans for the summer.  They discussed professional development in open space and summer social media projects in Flickr and Shelfari.  Jose Rodriguez joined us to discuss a the protesters who were hunger striking in the Spring.  Mark Laura, Executive Director of NYSAIS joined us. Bill Stites from Montclair Kimberly Academy, in Montclair, New Jersey discussed the use of social media on th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 2009-10-01 Seedlings with Wes and Sarah Fryer You have to check out the SEEDLINGS show this week with guest Wes Fryer. He talks about family, K12online, his upcoming trip to Maine. But, the best is mid-way into the show his daughter Sarah steals the show. Check it out. Join the SEEDLINGS as we interview Wes Fryer and his daughter Sarah. Towards the middle of the show, Sarah steals the show and turns the tables on us and the entire chat room. This girl is going to change, transfor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12 Online LAN Party for September 26, 2009 - Post Show And the fun continues... Join us for our next LAN party on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 6pm EDT. Look for news and updates on  http://k12onlineconference.org   And the fun continues... Join us for our next LAN party on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 6pm EDT. 16:45 minutes (3.83 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12Online09 LAN Party With Kathy Cassidy K12Online09 LAN Party on September 26, 2009 with Kathy Cassidy and her presentation from 2008: “We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors”   4:15 – 5:00 We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff With Blogging Mentors Kathy Cassidy is a grade one teacher at Westmount School in Moose Jaw, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12Online09 LAN Party With Mark Wagner K12Onlne09 LAN party on September 26, 2009 with Mark Wagner and his presentation:  Wiki While You Work (Basic)   3:30 – 4:15 Wiki While You Work (Basic) A former high school English teacher, Mark Wagner has since served as an educational technology coordinator at Estancia High School, the Newport-Mesa Unified School Distric ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12Online09 LAN Party With Alec Couros K12online09 Virtual LAN party with Alec Couros with his 2008 presentation:  Open,Social,Connected   AlecCouros 2:45 – 3:30 Open, Social, Connected Dr. Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This presentation unravels a recent open graduate course offering ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12Online09 LAN Party With Mathew Needleman K12online09 LAN party with Mathew Needleman and his presentation from 2008; Film School   2:00 – 2:45 Film School Mathew Needleman, Apple Distinguished Educator, has been integrating video in the classroom for seven years as a teacher of kindergarten, first, and second grade. Make better classroom movies with simple tips that wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | K12Online09 Pre-LAN Party September 2009 Have a listen as we kick off our vitual LAN Party. Kudos to the live events committee in pulling off this event and Jeff Lebow for providing his streaming expertise.   On September 26, 2009, the K12Online Conference in partnership with EdTechTalk  hosted a worldwide, sychronous “LAN party” (free web meet-up) from 2:00P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Teachers Teaching Teachers #166 - 09.02.09 - Minding the gap between library databases and social bookmarking - EBSCO and diigo For this podcast, Susan Ettenheim invited Ron Burns, Director of Software Product Management at EBSCO to answer the question of whether or not bookmarking and databases go together. He begins his conversation by pointing out that Diigo is part of their "Bookmark" bar on the EBSCOhost interface, but many more issues arise as Susan is joined by five amazing teachers, tech integrators and media specialists/librarians: Alice Barr, Vicki Davis, Ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | EdTechWeekly # 136  The EdTechWeekly gang serves up another week of EdTech links and resources. EdTechWeekly # 136 September 27, 2009 This Week's Delicious Link Chat Log Below 38:30 minutes (17.63 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations 49 Sept 27, 2009 This week, Lisa Parisi, Maria Knee and Sheila Adams talked about parents not allowing permission for their child's work on the internet. Why does this happen and what can we do to make permission more of the norm? *Note - The audio clip is only 30 minutes long due to a technical error. Ustream below has the whole show. Will try to get all the audio available soon. 30:45 minutes (14.07 MB)read more Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | It's Elementary Equinox 2009 Have a listen to a special edition of It's Elementary Webcast / Earthcast09 Echo / 350.org promo show.  This is a call to the Edtechtalk community to global action to save our planet. Please join our sister site Puente Al Mundo in putting together 350 podcast of up to 350 seconds each on message to world leaders on saving the Earth.  All interested please twitter @coordinatortwo.  Have a listen to a special edition of I ... Listen |