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Education Podcasts Meme: Warlick, Fryer-McLeod, a Young Writer, and an Impassioned Secular Humanist

Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant tagged me with this interesting meme, so here are the rules, followed by the last five educational podcasts I listened to and/or watched: Meme guidelines Choose five of your favorite education podcasts. Any kind of education podcast is okay – students, teachers, administrators, professors, etc. – feel free to pick [...]

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Update on Live Skype Invitation: around 1930 hours GMT+9

We expect my presentation to start around 7.30 p.m. That would make it: Thursday 11 a.m. in London Thursday 12.30 a.m. (ouch) in Hawaii (sorry, Chris! I owe you! Or you can send me a YackPack voice message?) Thursday 4.30 a.m. (carrumba) in Denver (Karl, how about a YackPack message?) Thursday 5.30 p.m. in Bangkok [...]

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"Double-Time: FLY!" Call for Live Skype / Google Earth Guests for Parent Presentation

Arapahoe HS (Denver – Karl Fisch’s Digs) I know this is short notice, but that’s half the fun. I’ve been quiet this week because life hasn’t been. We’re in our first week of school as a 1:1 Apple Laptop school; I’m in my first week as Tech Coordinator / AP Literature teacher; our IT Manager [...]

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With Konrad and Carolyn in Patrick’s Classroom Blogging Workshop (Podcast)

Patrick Higgins Shows the Love (Nice poster skills!) So I’m hanging out with Mac last night, late, in Korea, doing homework for my (sorry) pretty uninspiring UCLA online workshop, and then Mac said: Brrrrriiing. It was Patrick Higgins (of the excellent Chalkdust) in New Jersey, on Skype. He was giving the second day of his [...]

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Ben on Leaving the Classroom to Become an Edtech Specialist

Ben Wilkoff Podcast: “The Most Change for the Most Kids” Annotated Ben’s dealing with the same conflict I am: He’s leaving the classroom to become a Tech Integration Specialist in his district next year. He articulates the hardship of that decision in much the same terms I was planning to write about. I at least [...]

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"Community Service 2.0" and "The Year of Global Cooling" Campaign: A Podcast with Author Suzie Boss (Part 7)

[Series: Preface: The Seed--an Idea; Part 1: The Bud--a Concept; Part 2: The Blossom--a Project; Part 3: The Pollen--a Call; Part 4: The Honey--a Pedagogy; Part 5: The Bees--a Community] Big ideas start small, and will grow unless you quit. And we’re not going to quit. To do so in the Web 2.0 Age (and [...]

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Podcast: Hawaii Students Sound Off on Classroom Blogging, Wiki Collaboration, More…

On Sunday, 11 March 2007 (oh wait–that’s Korea time. It was Saturday in Hawaii), Chris Watson was nice enough to invite three of his students in Hawaii to join us in a Skype conference call/podcast. And Lindsay, Eddie, and Blake were nice enough to accept. His two sophomores and one freshman did most of the [...]

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Stay Tuned: Skypecast of My Students on Classroom Blogging Coming Soon

Tomorrow (Sunday) morning, some of my students want to give their views on how blogging feels for them so far. They’ve been blogging for three or four months now. I know I’ve been less than perfect in trying to set up blogging to make it seem real and valuable for them. So I look forward [...]

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"Hey, You Got 15 Minutes?" A Three-Country Team Meeting, Cyber-Style (Podcast)

[Cross-posted from 1001 Reflections] Terry Smith of Hannibal, Missouri, USA, Jeff Dungan of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and I (in Seoul, Rep. of Korea), have a “virtual faculty meeting” to plan the first elementary school writing workshop for the 1001 Flat World Tales Project. It was the most efficient team meeting I think I’ve ever [...]

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Podcast Part 2: More Conversation with Chris Watson

[Cross-posted from 1001 Reflections blog.] Chris Watson, HS English teacher at Punahoe High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, and Clay Burell of Korea International School in Seoul, Rep. of Korea, discuss the following topics in relation to their cross-world classroom collaboration on the 1001 Flat World Tales wiki world-wide writing workshop: Student publishing process Effective [...]

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