The Technology Shopping Cart podcast has been digitally resurrected after a 3 year hiatus of podfading! In this recorded call from December 23, 2011, Alice Barr, Karen Montgomery, and Wesley Fryer discussed a variety of iOS applications and technology gadgets on our wish lists for Christmas 2011. Refer to the podcast shownotes for links to
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Podcast387: TechShoppingCart Episode 10 – Christmas 2011 Apps and Gadgets [ 55:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (920)
This podcast is a a recording of Cheryl Beaman and Michelle Barnes’ presentation, “Implementing 1:1 Classrooms” at the 2011 Innovative Learning Institute in Norman, Oklahoma, on November 10th. This annual conference is hosted by the K-20 Center at the University of Oklahoma. Cheryl Beaman is the director of technology for Grandview Public Schools, and Michelle Barnes is
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Podcast 386: Implementing 1:1 Classrooms in Grand View Schools, Oklahoma [ 47:17 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (620)
This podcast is an interview with Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, portrayed by historical character actor Glenn Stoops. French artist Auguste Bartholdi conceived and sculpted the design for “Liberty Enlightening the World,” more commonly known today as The Statue of Liberty. It took 21 years from the initial conversation among Free Masons in Paris in 1865 about the
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Podcast 385: Interview with Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (Glenn Stoop) [ 17:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1604)
This podcast is a recording of Michael Wesch’s keynote presentation at the Heartland eLearning Conference in Edmond, Oklahoma, on March 8, 2011. This was a superb and provocative presentation about teaching, learning, lecturing, engagement, student interests, meaning, identity, recognition, and many other issues. In his keynote he suggested we need to move from simply getting
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Podcast384: Michael Wesch at Heartland eLearning 2011 [ 49:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1524)
This podcast is a recording of Wesley Fryer’s 12 minute presentation on the panel, “Navigating the Road Ahead: A Guided Discussion of Ebooks in K-12 Libraries,” for the October 12, 2011 webinar “EBOOKS The New Normal: how libraries are leveraging the eBook opportunity.” This full-day webinar was sponsored by Library Journal and School Library Journal. Check
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Podcast383: Creating eBook Yearbooks of Student Work [ 15:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1346)
This podcast is an audio interview with Rawond, a student originally from Alexandria, Egypt, who was in Tahrir Square (Cairo, Egypt) for the Arab Spring uprising and revolution. In this short interview, she describes her experiences as well as her pessimism for the lack of real political change in Egypt as of today. For more information
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Podcast382: A Digital Witness in Tahrir Square, Egypt in January 2011 [ 6:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (715)
My summer of podfading (not podcasting) is over! (Hat tip to Dan Schmidt for the term, “podfading.”) In this episode I discuss eBooks and many of the things I learned this summer writing the eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” These include ideas about different eBook formats, software which can be used
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Podcast380: The Summer of Podfading is OVER: Let's Talk eBooks! [ 43:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1173)This podcast includes a twenty-three minute excerpt of the Studio46 Podcast from May 13, 2011, published by the Edmond Sun newspaper and Oklahoma Christian University. Dr. Brian Bush, Executive Director of Oklahoma Christian’s Academy of Leadership & Liberty in Edmond, is the host of the Studio46 podcast and interviewed Wesley Fryer for the final portion
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Podcast379: Discussing Education Reform & High Stakes Testing in Oklahoma on the Studio46 Podcast [ 30:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1989)
This podcast is an interview with EdReach Media Network Founders Scott Meech, Daniel Rezac, Jay Blackman, and Judith Epcke on May 6, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The mission of EdReach is “to take education forward, by bringing voices together.” The vision of EdReach is to provide “…a platform for passionate, outspoken educators- aiming to
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Podcast378: The EdReach Media Network - Empowering Educator Voices Worldwide [ 25:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1607)
This podcast is an interview with Kevin Helmer, iPad artist and digital road warrior, at the Celebrate Texas Voices digital storytelling workshop in Lubbock, Texas, on April 19, 2011. Kevin discusses four different “capacitive” stylus pens he uses with his iPad and their relative merits. He also discusses several apps he’s used and likes
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Podcast377: iPad Stylus Recommendations from Kevin Helmer [ 7:26 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1828)
This podcast is a reflection from the road by Wesley Fryer following the morning sessions of the 2011 Intellectual Warrior’s Conference held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on April 12th. Refer to the podcast shownotes for links to Wesley’s presentation slides (on SlideShare) for his opening address, “Effective Uses of Educational Technology: Blended, Continuous Learning
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Podcast376: Reflections on the 2011 Intellectual Warrior's Conference [ 42:12 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1364)
This podcast is a recording of Wesley Fryer’s presentation on April 6, 2011, for sixty new Oklahoma superintendents discussing technology leadership, blended learning, and ideas for successfully leading both teachers and students in our twenty-first century classrooms. Superintendents in the audience for this presentation were attending the tenth meeting of their first year superintendents academy,
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Podcast375: Technology Leadership Advice for 60 New Oklahoma Superintendents [ 1:19:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1341)
This podcast is an audio recording of Jessica Asbury and Daniel Wessel’s presentation, “iPad: A Tool for Differentiation” at the MACE Conference on March 4, 2011. The recording is initially a little hard to listen to because the audio from played videos in the session compete with the presenters, but STICK WITH IT! This was
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Podcast374: iPads for Differentiation in a Primary Classroom #mace11 [ 50:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2035)This podcast from the road is a reflection on Steven Johnson’s book, “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” and the ways ideas from this book can be applied to our personal learning as educators as well as the future schools we may aspire to build.
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This is a podcast recording of a presentation by Joe Lambert and Wesley Fryer on digital storytelling at the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hongzhou, China on November 2, 2009. Our English presentations were translated as we spoke into Mandarin Chinese. Joe Lambert is the executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, based
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Podcast372: Sharing the Power of Digital Storytelling in Hangzhou, China with Joe Lambert and Wesley Fryer [ 1:33:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1268)
This is a podcast recording of Malia Triggs’ presentation “Cartooning Around in Language Arts” at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th. Malia is a 5th and 6th grade teacher in Forrest County School District. She discussed how elementary language arts teachers can use the website “Go Animate”
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Podcast371: Cartooning Around in Language Arts by Malia Triggs [ 40:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1544)
This podcast is a recording of the final debriefing among organizers and cohort facilitators at the conclusion of the Learning 2.010 Conference at Concordia International School in Shanghai, China, on September 17, 2010. In 2010 more than ever, organizers of the conference worked hard to (in the words of Chris Betcher during our debrief) upset
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Podcast 369: Debriefing the Learning 2.010 Conferece in Shanghai, China [ 1:06:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1403)
This is a podcast recording of Will Richardson’s keynote, “Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves” on January 17, 2011, in Amarillo, Texas. Will was presenting at the “Teaching The 21st Century Student” conference hosted by Education Service Center Region 16 in the Amarillo Civic Center. Refer to the podcast shownotes
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Podcast 368: Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves by Will Richardson [ 1:25:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1584)
In this podcast conversation from March 2010, Kevin Honeycutt discusses the importance of adding meta information (tags) to videos, photos, and other pieces of media uploaded to social networking sites like Ning networks. Kevin explains “tags are ways to see things.” He explains how important it is to understand and use tags in today’s
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Podcast 367: Tags Are Ways to See Things (Kevin Honeycutt on Tag Teams & Art Snacks) [ 14:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1504)This podcast is a series of recordings from our family’s tour aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, California, on March 17, 2010. The first part is an interview with World War II Navy Ace Ed Wendorf, who scored eight kills in the Pacific theater as a Hellcat pilot. Ed holds the distinction of being
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Podcast366: Interviews with Navy WWII Ace Ed Wendorf and Docents Aboard the USS Midway [ 38:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1435)
