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A high school English teacher reflects on teaching and technology. Primary Format : Education Language : English Also Listed as: City : Fort Collins State/Province : CO Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Bud the Teacher Podcasts Methings.com listings of Bud the Teacher Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Bud the Teacher The Podcast: I’m Writing Right Now Today is the National Day on Writing, which is the reason for this podcast, recorded as I headed home thinking about the writing I’ve been up to today. I’m so grateful for this time to think about writing and its place in my life. What a wonderful expression of the power of language [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Week in Tweets for 2009-10-12 @dwarlick Thanks – that was just the post I was looking for. in reply to dwarlick # Starting the morning with a 90's dance party. Because every Monday should start that way. # H1N1 sounds so clinical. I think we're going to refer to this thing as "90's Morning Dance Party Flu." # @jenorr Ew. in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: EtherPad & Collaborative Writing In today’s podcast, I talk about a little collaborative writing experiment that I began last week, what I think worked, what perhaps didn’t, and share some of my thinking about why such things might be important.  Certainly a first draft thinking podcast.  Here’s the original EtherPad document, still available for editing and revision, as well [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: Why Technology Ben Grey asked me if I’d be willing to respond to his recent post entitled “Why Technology.”  I tried to do so in today’s podcast, although I don’t think I broke any new ground or said anything I haven’t said before. (Such a ringing endorsement, huh?) Direct Link to Audio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I’ll Miss You, Rocky. Thanks for Everything. Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: Sharing Flipcharts On this podcast, recorded during yesterday’s commute, I share a little bit about the meeting I was driving home from, a conversation about how best to share resources across districts in the middle of an environment that encourages a different sort of sharing. I then layout my idea for a possible sharing tool.  As always, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: Worth Keeping Today’s podcast is a continuation of some thinking that came out of a roundtable conversation that I had at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation.  Karl reminds me that I’ve been forgetting to share here on the blog lately.  I’ll try to do better. As always, I’m interested in your thoughts. Link to the Audio Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: Sharing Flipcharts On this podcast, recorded during yesterday’s commute, I share a little bit about the meeting I was driving home from, a conversation about how best to share resources across districts in the middle of an environment that encourages a different sort of sharing. I then layout my idea for a possible sharing tool.  As always, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: Why I’m Not a Fan of Free (At School) (Infrastructure, I Mean) UPDATE: In the comments below, Mike advocates for free versions of desktop software.  I am completely in favor of those options for students and schools.  I also like free and open source software for digital infrastructure.  (Both the software packages I mention in the podcast are free and open source tools.) The “free” I’m talking [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation (2009 Edition) Well, we did it earlier this year and most folks asked us to put on a 2009 edition, so we’re doing it again. You are invited to attend the Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation Conference (2009 Edition). What is Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation? Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation is a one day conference/meetup for teachers, administrators, students, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lie of Community I’m pleased to share that my presentation for this year’s K12Online Conference is now available.  In addition, there is also a supplemental blog and podcast for the presentation.  You might want to subscribe to that podcast - plenty of great conversations coming to that feed.  I might re-broadcast them here - but then again, I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Generating Research Questions I’m working with some high school students this week on a research assignment for their Wired 9 course, a class on digital literacy and responsibility.  As a part of that work, I’m helping them to generate some good research questions that they can explore and dig in to.  Since I thought the topics might be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: Driving from NECC I always enjoy a good double meaning in a title, so I’m pleased that this podcast, recorded during my drive home from NECC, is called what it is.  I find myself driving at the moment, refreshed and recharged.  That’s what I wanted out of the conference.  I’m pleased it worked that way, and grateful to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: NotK12Online: A Scaffold We Hope You Won’t Need, But Hope You’ll Help Us Build Anyway In this podcast, recorded Friday, I talk a little bit about NotK12Online, the fine folks who will be helping me to put it together, some of my/our initial ideas, and the juicy paradox of the whole endeavour.  I’ve got a great committee of folks assembled to do the beginning planning - but we’ll need plenty [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coming Soon The Lie of Community - K12Online Teaser - Upload a Document to Scribd Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning to Change. Changing to Learn Thanks to John Creighton for the link to this video. It’s well worth the six and a half minutes of your time if you haven’t already seen it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Podcast: Here Comes CyberCamp Today’s podcast is a short description of CyberCamp, a summer technology and learning institute we’ll be doing this summer in my school district. I’d love any feedback you have on our event, as well as links and info about similar events. In addition to the book that I mention in the podcast, Suzie [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lies. Statistics. Whatever. One hundred percent of my family is technologically literate. No, really.  I’ve got the numbers to back that up. Here’s how I would report that to the Department of Education: Number of members of my family: 4 Number who are technologicaly literate: 4. If you know me or my family at all, I suspect that you would challenge my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Ugly Pursuit Well Worth Pursuing Last week, I received a review copy of Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America.  Thought it was worth taking a minute or two to say that I’m definitely a fan of the book.  I’m impressed with the way the author, Donna Foote, has captured the different teachers, students,  administrators, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thinking ’bout Linking It was about a year ago that I wrote a piece for English Journal on teaching “blogging” vs. “writing with blogs” that was pretty much a re-hash of some blog posts that I thought were saying something. The trouble is, I wasn’t sure what they were saying. I’ve been fumbling at this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website