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Podcast42: Can you hear me now? Composing Connections between Classrooms and Communities

Published by Wesley Fryer in podcasts on March 21st, 2006

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Dr. Janet Swenson shared the keynote address on March 21st, 2006 at the SITE conference in Orlando on the topic, “Can you hear me now? Composing Connections between Classrooms and
Communities.” Dr. Swenson passionately challenged educators at all levels to engage in advocacy for children in an era where high stakes testing and federally mandated accountability measures are encouraging people to view students as data in testing graphs rather than human beings with unique needs and desires. She challenged educators to get mad and take action: to engage a variety of educational stakeholders not only with ideas about educational reform that appeal to logos (reason) but also those which appeal to pathos (emotion.) According to Dr. Swenson, we cannot look the other way, we must speak out and take action for the sake of our children, their educational present and future. Dr. Swenson also modeled innovative uses of live web streaming and keynote session blogging during her session as well.

Program Length: 57 min, 34 sec
File size: 13.8 MB

(Click here to listen to this podcast)

Show notes for this podcast include:

If you have feedback for Janet on her ideas, you can contact her directly by emailing jswenson at msu dot edu.
SITE 2006 conference blog
Blog for Dr. Swenson’s SITE 2006 Keynote
“The Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki
SITE Early Career Mentoring Network
SITE Digital Storytelling
SITE Blog posts and Flickr posts

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http://www.learning-blog.org Alex Ragone

Hi Wesley,

Thanks so much for publishing these podcasts from conferences around the country. I have young kids and can’t travel like you do, but I feel as though I have followed you around and learned with you over the past few months.

Thanks!

- Alex Ragone
http://ahlness.com Mark Ahlness

Wesley, thanks so much for publishing this podcast – and all the others! Last night I saved the podcast, dragged it over to my little mp3 player, hooked up my earbuds as I went about the mindless but frantic 1+1/2 hours before school this morning, and had a wonderful hour listening to a dynamic, inspirational speaker! At a keynote a at a conference in Orlando!

The technology is so easy. Any teacher in any classroom anywhere could prep for school listening to Janet Swensen, as I did today. And tomorrow, who knows? And the next day?

Find a way to make this happen easily and seamlessly, and web 2.0 begins to make a difference to mainstream teachers.

Now to find another good one for tomorrow… – Mark
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http://www.cheryloakes.com Cheryl Oakes

I agree with Mark A. this podcast is excellent. I was listening during my son’s baseball game, so I had to go stand in the outer field so I could take photos and not have to be interupted by people trying to talk. She was just so eloquent making her points and at the same time trying to include as many listeners with a webcast and blog! She is inspirational. I am spreading this podcast around.
Cheryl Oakes
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