Category: webcasts

  • Hangin’ Out with Brad and Drew

    This evening I had a wonderful opportunity to spend an hour with the amazing Michigan elementary teachers Brad Waid and Drew Minock as a guest on their weekly “Two Guys and Some iPads” show. If you missed the fun “live,” check out the archived video! If you’re not already, definitely add their website www.twoguysandsomeipads.com to…

  • Holiday weekend listen: Freakonomics Radio provides advice for tech-savvy teachers

    As we are embarking on one of the most heavily traveled holiday weekends of the year, I would recommend that you listen to a great podcast from the archives of Freakonomics Radio. Freakonomics Radio is the podcast based on the book franchise and is written and hosted by Steven Dubner. I was struck when first…

  • 5 Hours of Professional Development Podcasts from Yukon Today

    Today I shared five different presentations for teachers in Yukon Public Schools in the district’s annual professional development conference. I recorded audio for each session and published them to my secondary podcast channel, “Fuel for Educational Change Agents.” Here are the session titles, descriptions, resource links, and podcast audio links.

  • An #etmooc Distributed Digital Storytelling Activity about Beauty

    Thanks to a tweet from Alec Couros, I joined in a wonderful 60 minute webinar shared by Darren Kuropatwa today about digital storytelling. This session is part of etmooc: A Massive Open Online Course on Educational Technology and Media. Topic #2 of #etmooc (for Feb 3-16) is Digital Storytelling. In the session Darren shared all…

  • Merry Christmas: Download #playingwithmedia Podcasts Free, Buy eBook 50% off Dec 24 & 25 Only

    Merry Christmas! As a Christmas treat, I’ve created two discount codes I invite you to use and share. Today and tomorrow only (through midnight PST, December 25th) anyone worldwide can download any of my “Playing with Media” podcasts for FREE instead of paying 99¢ each. Available sixty minute podcasts / screencasts include: Narrated Slideshows iPhoneography…

  • 99¢ Podcast: Narrated Slideshows

    (cross-posted from learn.playingwithmedia.com) A recording of Wesley Fryer’s 68 minute videoconference on December 12, 2011, “Narrated Slideshows,” is available as a 99¢ download. This is a high quality screencast published at 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, and is 1.6 GB in size. (A high speed Internet connection is required for download.) The workshop description was:…

  • K-12 Online Conference 2011 Closing Live Event: The Afterglow!

    (cross-posted from the K-12 Online Conference blog) Please mark your calendars and adjust your schedules to join presenters, participants, and organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference in an “AfterGlow” Closing Live Event on Monday, December 12th at 6:00pm PT / 7:00pm MT / 8:00pm CT / 9:00pm ET. If you’re located outside North American…

  • Talking K12Online11 on Classroom 2.0 Saturday November 12th

    (cross-posted from k12onlineconference.org) Please join organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference on Classroom 2.0 Live this Saturday, November 12, 2011 for an invigorating conversation about this year’s conference! Local times in North America for this live webinar will be: 9:00am Pacific 10:00am Mountain 11:00am Central 12:00pm Eastern Use this time converter link to determine…

  • Great Ideas from the Fall 2011 DEN Virtual Conference (part 2)

    This is my part 2 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. If you haven’t already, check out part 1. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I cooked brunch and ate with my family during Joe Brennan‘s session, “Digital Storytelling: Get it…

  • Great Ideas from the Fall 2011 DEN Virtual Conference (part 1)

    This is my part 1 of my notes from the Discovery Educators Network Fall Virtual Conference (“Tech or Treat”) on October 22, 2011. (Part 2 notes are also available) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. First we heard from Traci Blazosky, sharing her presentation, “The Monster Mash-Up.” Resources from her preso are on…