5th
August
2008
posted in apple, distributed-learning, mobile, podcasting, podcasts |
This podcast is a screencast featuring an explanation of how Macintosh users can keep their iTunes folder on an external hard drive, and periodically update iTunes podcasts. This technique can be helpful if you are using a laptop and do not have enough free hard drive space for all the files in your iTunes library. Be careful, however! Make sure to have iTunes CLOSED when you are renaming the iTunes library folder / directory as explained in this screencast. The use of PodNova to maintain a OPML list of podcasts is also described along with a site for accessing podcasts “live” online with an iPhone or iPod Touch without syncing iTunes. QuickTime player or iTunes is required to play this podcast, links are available in the podcast shownotes.
Podcast271: Podcatching Tips for Mac Users - Using PodNova with iTunes and an External HD for an iTunes Library [13:11m]:
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- iTunes
- QuickTime Player
- OPML defined on WikiPedia
- PodNova
- My PodNova OPML
- Podcaster iPhone/iTouch web application by Soprotech
- Wesley’s iPhone Applications
- Wesley’s Macintosh Applications
- Screenflow by Vara Software
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Technorati Tags: podcast, itunes, podnova, podcatcher, screenflow, iphone, ipod, itouch, tips, tutorial, screencast
4th
August
2008
posted in digitalstorytelling, history, humor, podcasts |
This podcast features a recording with Steven Smith, a wonderful re-enactor of Benjamin Franklin, at the 2008 Oklahoma A+ Schools Conference on August 1st. In the character of Benjamin Franklin, Steven recounts historial events of his life as an inventor, statesman, author and civic activist. If there is a more memorable and impactful way to learn about historical characters than having an animated conversation like this one with Benjamin Franklin, I’m not sure what they are! This was a lot of fun! Thanks to Steven for granting this interview and permission to share it online. Steven role plays several characters in addition to Ben Franklin including Peter Cartwright, Professor B Looney and Tupper the Clown. Visit the podcast shownotes for links to his websites. He is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but shares his wit, wisdom and life lessons with audiences young and old around the United States.
Podcast270: A Conversation with Benjamin Franklin- Inventor, Statesman, Author and Civic Activist [21:00m]:
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- Blooney.com - Website of Steven Smith
- Oklahoma Arts Council website for storyteller Stephen Robert Smith: AKA Ben Franklin
- Christian Sanity Theater website for Stephen Robert Smith
- WikiPedia article for Benjamin Franklin
- Oklahoma A+ Schools
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30th
July
2008
posted in disruptive-technology, history, podcasts, skypecasts |
This podcast is a recorded skype conversation between Cheryl Lykowski and Wesley Fryer, discussing a new idea for a collaborative project titled “StoryChasers.” The current (but evolving) “about” page for the StoryChasers website states: Storychasers is a multi-state (and potentially multi-national) educational collaborative empowering students and teachers to responsibly record and share stories of local, regional and global interest as citizen journalists. Where the STN (Student Television Network) focuses on student broadcast news productions, Storychasers has a specific focus on student-created documentary films as well as live event coverage (webcasting). If you are interested in these ideas, please join our open Skypecast on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 for a skypecast discussion about this proposed initiative. We will start at 8 pm Eastern / 7 pm Central / 6 pm Mountain / 5 pm Pacific.
Podcast269: Background and Formative Ideas for the Storychasers Project [27:05m]:
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- Join our Skypecast Wed, July 20, 2008 at 7 pm US Central time
- StoryChasers website and learning community (in development)
- Blog of Cheryl Lykowski
- Student Television Network (STN)
- Website of Kevin Honeycutt
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Technorati Tags: story, storychaser, digitalstorytelling, storytelling, skype, skypecast, history, oralhistory, broadcasting, narrowcasting, video
29th
July
2008
posted in 1:1, disruptive-technology, globalvoices, leadership, pbl, podcasts |
This podcast includes interviews with Scott Swanson, the Strategic Technology Coordinator at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois, recorded in March and July of 2008, as well as April Hope, a 2008 graduate of IMSA and Scott’s current intern. They discuss the activities of IMSA students in forming the first OLPC (XO Laptop) High School Student Chapter, their experiences working in and supporting a one to one laptop learning initiative with tablet PCs, and their responses to conversations at EduBloggerCon 2008 prior to the NECC conference in San Antonio in July. The first conversation with Scott in this podcast was recorded at the COSN conference in Washington D.C. in March 2008. Many thanks to both Scott and April for sharing their thoughts, experiences, and perspectives!
Podcast268: Conversations with Scott Swanson and April Hope about the first OLPC High School Student Chapter, 1 to 1 Laptop Immersion with Tablet PCs, and EduBloggerCon 2008 Student Reflections [50:20m]:
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- Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter of OLPC
- Website of Scott Swanson
- Photo of Jim Gerry and Scott Swanson at COSN 2008
- The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, IL
- One Laptop Per Child
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24th
July
2008
posted in creativity, design, edtech, games, pbl, podcasts, science |
This podcast is an interview with Lars of Lego Education on the vendor floor at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, discussing the recently announced “WeDo Robotics” product designed for elementary students ages 7-11. According to the official Lego Education press release, WeDo Robotics “redefines classroom robotics, making it possible for primary school students 7-11 years of age to build and program their own solutions. Bridging the physical world, represented by LEGO models, and the virtual world, represented by computers and programming software, LEGO Education WeDo Robotics provides a hands-on, minds-on learning experience that actively involves young students in their own learning process and promotes children’s creative thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving skills – skills that are essential in the workplace of the 21st century.” Unlike the Lego NXT robotics kits, WeDo robot models remain tethered to the laptop computer running the iconic software program which controls the robot. WeDo is being released in North America in January 2009, and its software program runs on Macintosh OS X, Windows, and the XO Laptop’s “skinny Linux” operating system.
Podcast267: A Discussion about Lego WeDo Robotics at NECC 2008 (Coming in January 2009 to North America) [20:00m]:
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- Official WeDo Robotics press release from Lego Education (30 June 2008)
- Additional videos and informational publications from Lego about WeDo Robotics
- Lego Education
- Lego Club (one of my 10 year old son’s favorite websites)
- Lego NXT Robotics (Mindstorms)
- Photo taken during Mitch Resnik’s NECC 2008 Preso: Movie of kids in Brazil using new Lego “WeDo” product on XO laptops
- Paul Schwan’s 5th Grade Classroom website (Fort Myers, Florida)
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21st
July
2008
posted in 1:1, creativity, globalvoices, leadership, literacy, open source, podcasts, schoolreform |
This podcast features a recording of David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture.” The official conference program description and purpose / objectives for this session were: This talk explores how open education and culture are supported by 1:1 computing facilitated with open source tools, worldwide. True universal access, worldwide, requires innovation in hardware and software. Linux and open source software play a critical role here. In addition, a shift toward a more education-friendly copyright scheme (such as creative commons) is essential in opening up the educational process for all. As liberty, equality, fraternity becomes rip. mix and burn, the remixing of educational content by teachers and students alike is quite powerful. Most importantly, the cultural elements of education around the world can finally be addressed in ways that build true understanding and appreciation for the disparate peoples of the world.
Podcast266: Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture by David Thornburg (NECC 2008) [61:30m]:
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- Thornburg Center
- My textual notes for this session
- WikiPedia entry for Nicolás Guillén (Cuban poet laureate)
- Open Source Information for Indiana Schools
- Open Source Applications by OSI (Open Source in Indiana)
- Indiana Department of Education
- K-12 Open Minds (25-27 Sept 2008 Open Source in Education conference in Indiana)
- Indiana’s Open-Source Experiment: A status report on the largest Linux rollout in K-12 history by Matt Villano (SchoolCIO article)
- Tech4Learning by David Wagner (referenced as software which serves the child, not commercial computing platforms)
- One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
- Intel Classmate PC
- One2OneMate: Affordable, Powerful, One2One Computing Solutions
- NComputing
- Koolu
- Puppy Linux: a small, fast operating system running from CDs, USB sticks and hard disks
- Freedom Toaster WikiPedia article: a public kiosk that will burn copies of free software onto user-provided CDs and DVDs
- Apple Learning Interchange audio podcast / recording of this session
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14th
July
2008
posted in creativity, distributed-learning, intellectualproperty, open source, podcasts, web 2.0 |
This podcast is a recording of a session I shared on July 9, 2008, at the Missouri Distance Learning Association’s Annual Conference in Osage Beach, Missouri, titled “Digital Learning Objects on the Open Web.” The ideas shared in this session were strongly influenced by Karen Fasimpaur’s February 2008 presentation at NCCE titled “Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All.” The official conference program description for this session was: The Internet’s world-wide web offers unprecedented access, publication, and collaboration opportunities for connected digital learners. In this session we will explore the dynamic world of digital learning objects, paying particular attention to the ways learning objects can be effectively integrated into existing course curriculum and student assignments for both K-12 and higher education learners. We will also explore the educational ethic of publishing content on the open web, which contrasts sharply with traditional notions of limiting access to content and ideas by sharing on a closed web via login-restricted learning management systems like BlackBoard, WebCT, or Moodle. Creative Commons licensing is playing an important role in the continued evolution of the digital learning object landscape, and a case will be presented for encouraging learners at all levels to both utilize as well as contribute to learning object collections shared under permissive Creative Commons licenses.
Podcast265: Digital Learning Objects on the Open Web [65:00m]:
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- My wiki curriculum and links for this presentation
- Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All by Karen Fasimpaur (podcast available too)
- K-12 OpenEd Educational Content Links
- Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia (on Fora.tv in 2006)
- WikiBooks
- Free-Reading
- OER Commons
- Curriki
- NMC Learning Object Initiative (Retired)
- NMC Learning Object Repositories
- Traveler’s Guide to the Learning Object Landscape (PDF)
- Elusive Vision: Challenges Impeding the Learning Object Economy (PDF)
- Creative Commons
- More Than Cool Tools - K-12 Online Conference 2007 keynote by Alan Levine, Brian Lamb, and D’Arcy Norman (New Tools Strand)
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Technorati Tags: opencontent, content, copyright, creativecontent, elearning, distributedlearning, distancelearning, openweb, closedweb, learningmanagementsystem, licensing
13th
July
2008
posted in creativity, design, games, leadership, literacy, podcasts, socialnetworking |
This podcast features a recording of Dr. Mitchel Resnick’s NECC 2008 presentation “Grassroots Creativity: Helping Everyone Become a Creative Thinker.” This session was shared on July 2, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Resnick is a professor at MIT and works at the MIT Media Lab with some of the most innovative and creative thinkers in the world focused on learning and education. The official conference description of this session was: In today’s fast-changing society, everyone needs to think creatively. I will discuss new technologies from MIT Media Lab that help students develop as creative thinkers. When people think about creativity, they often think about people like Mozart, Picasso, Curie, and Einstein, people who transformed their fields with radically new ideas and creations. But creativity is not only for the select few. In today’s fast-changing society, everyone needs the ability to come up with creative solutions to unexpected everyday problems. Our research group at the MIT Media Lab has been developing a family of educational technologies, including Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) and Crickets (www.picocricket.com), with the explicit goal of helping students develop as creative thinkers. In this presentation, I will discuss the ideas and strategies underlying these new technologies, and I will present case studies of how students are using these technologies to create, invent, experiment, explore – and become more creative thinkers.
Podcast264: Grassroots Creativity: Helping Everyone Become a Creative Thinker by Dr. Mitchel Resnick [55:50m]:
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- Scratch Software
- Lifelong Kindergarten
- PicoCricket
- MIT Media Lab
- Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society by Mitchel Resnick (PDF)
- All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten by Mitchel Resnick (PDF)
- Computer as Paintbrush: Technology, Play, and the Creative Society by Mitchel Resnick (PDF)
- My text notes from this presentation (including some additional links)
- Dr. Mitchel Resnick’s Keynote at BLC07: Tools for Creative Thinking (shared by Bob Sprankle)
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12th
July
2008
posted in assessment, disruptive-technology, mobile, podcasts, socialnetworking, techshoppingcart, web 2.0 |
Welcome to episode seven of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This episode was recorded on July 1, 2008, in San Antonio, Texas, at the National Educational Computing Conference. Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer were joined by Brad Gessler of Poll Everywhere to discuss mobile applications for learning: Specifically Poll Everywhere and iPhone Web Apps. This is part two in our Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning podcast series. (We apologize it has taken so long to get this second part recorded and posted!) Refer to our podcast shownotes for links to the resources and websites we discuss in this show.
Podcast263: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast07 - iPhone Web Apps and Poll Everywhere in Education (Part 2 of 3 in our Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning series) [41:33m]:
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- Referenced links from this episode on our wiki
- Poll Everywhere: Easy Audience Polling (via cell phone text messaging / SMS)
- Poll Everywhere Mobile
- HomeWork Web App
- JustUpdate Web App
- Phishing (WikiPedia)
- AntiPhishing Working Group
- iWeather Web App
- Google Reader for the iPhone version 2
- LatLong iPhone for GeoCaching
- iGeoCacher Web App
- Podcaster 2.0 Web App
- Posterous (the place to post everything)
- Mobile pics posted from the top of Eagle’s Peak (Colorado) by Wesley in 2005
- iPhone Web Apps
- Podcast248: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast06 - Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning (Part 1 of 3)
- Homepage of Brad Gessler (co-founder of Poll Everywhere)
- Informatics (WikiPedia)
- Gomeric Hill: Blog of Karen Montgomery
- Thinking Machine: Presentation and Workshop Curriculum of Karen Montgomery
- Follow Karen Montgomery on Twitter
- Follow Wesley Fryer on Twitter
- Top 25 Web Apps for iPhone (Rev2)
- Top 10 iPhone Web-Apps (IntoMobile)
- Wesley’s iPhone webapp links on del.icio.us
- Karen’s iPhone links on del.icio.us
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9th
July
2008
posted in distributed-learning, podcasts, web 2.0 |
This podcast is a recording of the keynote address I shared on July 9, 2008, in Osage Beach, Missouri at the Missouri Distance Learning Association (MODLA) annual conference. Approximately 90% of those in attendance for this keynote were higher education faculty, instructors, and support staff members. The official conference program description for this session was: Good teaching is similar in many ways to good cooking. Recipes are helpful, but master cooks often modify those to meet different needs and situations. The same is true for teachers. If we extend this analogy of cooking to teaching and learning in a web 2.0 world, what are the best “ingredients” to use as we help both teachers and students learn to be more effective, safe, and powerful communicators in our flat world? In this working session we will focus on six key ingredients: del.icio.us social bookmarks, Flickr photo sharing, VoiceThread digital storytelling, collaborative writing tools, websites for phone recording as well as SMS polling, and videoconferencing.
Podcast262: Powerful Ingredients for Digitally Interactive Learning (MODLA 2008 Keynote) [62:00m]:
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- Presentation slides for this session are available as a PDF file
- Additional referenced links are available on my wiki curriculum page for this session
- Photo of Darren Kuropatwa and I videoconferencing on the San Antonio Riverwalk at night last week at NECC (Thanks Dean Shareski)
- Missouri Distance Learning Association (MODLA)
- Tan-Tar-A Family Resort in Osage Beach, Missouri
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5th
July
2008
posted in books, games, isafety, literacy, open source, podcasts, socialnetworking |
This podcast features interviews with 14 year old Solana and 8 year old Jack who share their perceptions and ideas relating to reading, writing, literacy, technology use, gaming and publishing on the global stage of the Internet. Solana has had her own computer since she was eight, and with the help of her father found the website KidPub to publish and share her own stories, poems, and other creative writing projects. KidPub requires that parents pay a small fee (about $12) per year for kids to participate and have an account. This prevents people from creating free accounts and commenting on others’ work without accountability and attribution. Solana discusses how motivational she has found KidPub and the opportunity to share her voice with others on the Internet, problems encountered with plagiarism and the ways the KidPub community self-polices itself, and the exciting connection she had made with other students who have taken one of her published novels (with permission) and started to create a movie based on the story on YouTube. Solana also discusses what she has learned about computers and technology at school compared to what she has learned at home, including her experiences using Diigo and trying to collaborate with other kids. She discusses things she would change (if she could) about technology use and Internet access at school so she could extend and further develop her technology skills there. She also discusses her experiences with online safety, accessing websites like YouTube and extending her searches beyond engines like AskJeeves to Google, and her experiences with inappropriate content which she has accidentally stumbled upon when doing Internet searches. She also discusses issues related to social networking and directly contacting other kids online. In addition to Solana’s comments, 8 year old Jack discusses the ways he uses computers at home primarily to play strategic games. (Note: The names Solana and Jack are aliases used at the request of the parents.)
Podcast261: Student Perspectives on Reading, Writing, Literacy, Technology Use, Gaming and Publishing on the Global Stage of the Internet [43:50m]:
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- KidPub - a website used by young authors to publish and share their stories, poems, and other writing on the global stage of the Internet
- Scholastic 2008 Kids & Family Reading Report
- Alone in the Middle Chapter 1 (original story written and published by Solana on KidPub)
- Alone in the middle (behind the scenes) part 1 (YouTube video - Tells the story of using MS Paint, MovieMaker, and YouTube to publish a film version of Solana’s story from KidPub)
- Alone in the Middle (Paragraph 1) - 1st Paragraph of “Alone in the Middle” in film / video version on YouTube
- The Sims2 (official website)
- Savannah Outen Official Goodbyes Video - Songwriter and Singer who brokeout from YouTube to Radio Disney
- GIMP - Open Source Photo Editing Software
- SeaShore - Macintosh port of GIMP which does not require X11
- ASUS - Eee PC
- Intel Classmate PC
- Dawn of War game
- Command and Conquer 3 game
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR) game (WikiPedia article)
- Cheat Codes WikiPedia definition
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29th
June
2008
posted in blogs, intellectualproperty, podcasts, schoolreform |
At EduBloggerCon 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, on June 28th, some controversy arose regarding the presence of videographers hired by Pearson Education. Steve Hargadon, who was the primary organizer of EduBloggerCon, gave permission to Pearson to attend and videotape many of the sessions pending permission from the presenters and speakers themselves. Today I had an opportunity to interview Dr. Elaine Roberts, the Director of Product Development and Professional Growth for Pearson, about the video recording which took place at EduBloggerCon this year and Pearson’s plan for utilizing this video content. In my view, it is a real compliment that a respected and large educational publishing company like Pearson views the conversations and ideas discussed by educators at EduBloggerCon to be important enough to document and share. If we, as change agents in our schools and communities, want our voices and ideas to gain a broader and more mainstream audience, I think we should embrace opportunities like this to both share our perspectives as well as further educate educational publishing companies themselves. Respecting intellectual property rights is VERY important, and the conversations which took place before, during, and after EduBloggerCon regarding the recording and sharing of ideas are needed. How do we change? Through conversations. Hopefully the opportunity to have Pearson record and share participant perspectives at EduBloggerCon on Friday will lead to more constructive conversations about learning and educational change in the 21st century in the classrooms and educational board rooms around our nation and world. We’ve still had LOTS of great opportunities for “unconference” conversations at NECC 2008, and things are just getting underway here in San Antonio!
Podcast 260: EduBloggerCon 2008, Recording, Intellectual Property and Recording: A Conversation with Elaine Roberts of Pearson [13:20m]:
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- Ewan McIntosh: Edubloggercon’s not an unconference: here’s why
- Stephanie Sandifer: EduBloggercon 2008 Reflections
- Vinnie Vrotny: Growing Pains at NECC’s EduBloggerCon 08
- Tim Stahmer: EduBloggerCon Reflections
- Will Richardson: I’ll Be in the Hallway
- Dean Sharesk: EdubloggerCon 2008
- Scott McLeod: NECC 2008 - Edubloggercon
- All posts indexed by Technorati for EBC08
- EduBloggerCon 2008 wiki
- NECC 2008 Conference Ning
- Pearson Education
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18th
June
2008
posted in design, open source, podcasts, web 2.0, workshops |
This podcast is a recording of a presentation by John Jones on June 12, 2008, titled Drupal for Education. John presented this session at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas, hosted by the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK). The conference program description of this session was: Drupal is an open source web community engine that has the power and flexibility to provide highly customized user experiences for schools and districts. This presentation will review the software, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open source solutions like Drupal, and showcase what these sites can do. A link to John’s PowerPoint presentation is available in the podcast shownotes.
Podcast259: Drupal for Education by John Jones [65:10m]:
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- Drupal (official website)
- My text notes from John’s presentation
- John’s PowerPoint slides from this presentation
- My post “Moodle as “the killer app” (includes a great discussion in the comments about Drupal vs Moodle)
- Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning Conference
- Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK)
- CivicSpace WikiPedia article (formerly DeanSpace, based on Drupal)
- John’s personal gaming/blog website (built in Drupal, of course) - Radiating Gnome
- Siteground, my web host (which supports Drupal via Fantastico)
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17th
June
2008
posted in creativity, games, isafety, leadership, literacy, podcasts, schoolreform, socialnetworking, workshops |
This podcast is a recording of the keynote address shared by Kevin Honeycutt at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas, on 12 June 2008. The TTT conference is hosted by ESSDACK, the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas located in Hutchinson. Kevin is one of the most innovative and passionate educators I know, and is a compelling storyteller. He is able to masterfully focus educators not only on issues related to learning and educational technology integration, but even more importantly on the vital role teachers play each day forming and strengthening relationships with students. Kevin reminds me about what matters most in the classroom and in education, and that is students. Many thanks to Kevin for sharing permissiosn to podcast this session, as well as the entire ESSDACK staff for hosting a fantastic conference last week in Wichita. Be sure to also check out the Ning social network which Kevin facilitates, titled Art Snacks. (Links are available in the podcast shownotes.)
Podcast258: Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning by Kevin Honeycutt [44:40m]:
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- Kevin Honeycutt (website, blog and podcast)
- Art Snacks (Ning Social Network facilitated by Kevin)
- Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning Conference
- Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK)
- My Flickr photos of the infamous Honeycutt treehouse in Inman, Kansas
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Technorati Tags: school, education, reform, schoolreform, school2, leadership, learning, vision, ESSDACK, ttt08, ttt2008, essdack, kansas, literacy
13th
June
2008
posted in economics, edtech, leadership, literacy, podcasts, schoolreform, workshops |
This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Steve Wycoff on June 12, 2008, titled “Natural Learning - What Schools Don’t Do” at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas. TTT is sponsored by ESSDACK, the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas in Hutchinson. The official program description for this session was: How we learn naturally is far different than how we are taught in schools. If we are going to succeed in actually leaving no child behind, we’ll need to understand better how individuals learn and more importantly how schools will need to look to accommodate the learning needs we all have. We’ll also demonstrate what curriculum might look like in a learning environment designed for the way we learn naturally. We’ll also connect this new learning environment to the needs we are experiencing in society related to workforce readiness. Be prepared to have your thinking stretched 
Podcast257: Natural Learning - What Schools Don’t Do by Steve Wycoff [62:30m]:
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- Blog of Steve Wycoff
- Podcast142: Rethinking Teaching: How Online Learning Can and Should Completely Alter Your View of Education (Roger C. Schank)
- Changing Schools: A conversation with Roger Schank
- Roger Shank (WikiPedia article)
- Socratic Arts (Roger Shank website)
- Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK)
- Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning Conference
- My text notes from Steve’s presentation
- Charles Eliot Norton (WikiPedia entry)
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