Beyond School

Below are some videos of the first meeting with teachers at my school who volunteered to join our “21st Century Literacy Cadre”–and note the intentional omission of the word “technology” from this title, since it’s not about the technology, which is only the means.

My Audacity recording didn’t work, so no podcast. (”Learning is messy,” he hummed. “Next time.”)

So all we’ve got is video, and the quality even there should have been better (tighter camera zoom on LCD screen, e.g.). But the audio is fine. Listen to it like a podcast and forget the video part.

I’ll embed the rest of the meeting as I make time to capture and upload it. A day or two. The meeting lasted an hour and 45 minutes. I’ll post it in 30 minute clips.

Besides the bad hair–who has time for a haircut?–the most embarrassing thing about this meeting is how much I talked. All I can say is that it seemed a necessary evil, until these new possibilities, tools, and buzzwords are a common knowledge base for the whole cadre. Then the collaborative dialogs will start!

As usual, comments are welcome and collaboration from educators outside of my school begged

Part 1, below: Welcome. Positivity vital for a cadre. Demystifying the jargon: RSS, feeds, aggregators, blogs, podcasts, wikis. (28 minutes)

More to come–check back soon (or subscribe with Bloglines and save yourself the trouble) for more video.

If you like this post, please spread it: (But don't tag it "education." That will bury it.)

1. The Launch: First "21st Century Literacy Cadre Meeting (Video part 2)...
2. Masochistic? (Link to final hour of first cadre meeting)...
3. I’m Amazed 1 (New Possibilities for 21st Century Students)...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.