Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (494)

Show Notes:

1. Referenced links from this episode on our wiki
2. Poll Everywhere: Easy Audience Polling (via cell phone text messaging / SMS)
3. Poll Everywhere Mobile
4. HomeWork Web App
5. JustUpdate Web App
6. Phishing (WikiPedia)
7. AntiPhishing Working Group
8. iWeather Web App
9. Google Reader for the iPhone version 2
10. LatLong iPhone for GeoCaching
11. iGeoCacher Web App
12. Podcaster 2.0 Web App
13. Posterous (the place to post everything)
14. Mobile pics posted from the top of Eagle’s Peak (Colorado) by Wesley in 2005
15. iPhone Web Apps
16. Podcast248: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast06 - Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning (Part 1 of 3)
17. Homepage of Brad Gessler (co-founder of Poll Everywhere)
18. Informatics (WikiPedia)
19. Gomeric Hill: Blog of Karen Montgomery
20. Thinking Machine: Presentation and Workshop Curriculum of Karen Montgomery
21. Follow Karen Montgomery on Twitter
22. Follow Wesley Fryer on Twitter
23. Top 25 Web Apps for iPhone (Rev2)
24. Top 10 iPhone Web-Apps (IntoMobile)
25. Wesley’s iPhone webapp links on del.icio.us
26. Karen’s iPhone links on del.icio.us

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Welcome to episode six of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer discuss the important but controversial subject of using cell phones and other mobile devices for learning in K-12 as well as university classrooms. This podcast is the first of three parts, our next episode will focus specifically on iPhones and web applications for the iPhone which are relevant for classroom learning. In this episode we address the reasons it is important to utilize cell phones for learning, including helping students learn digital etiquette with cell phones (part of digital citizenship.) Mobile devices like cell phones can be used in various ways to blend learning and extend learning beyond the traditional boundaries of the bell. Refer to our podcast shownotes for links to the resources and websites we discuss in this show.

 

 Podcast248: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast06 - Cell Phones and Mobile Devices for Learning (Part 1 of 2) [58:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2402)

Show Notes:

1. Follow Karen Montgomery on Twitter
2. Follow Wesley Fryer on Twitter
3. Asterpix - Interactive video (add hyperlinks to web-based movies)
4. Jott.com - Speech to digital text translation (mobile phone to your to-do lists!)
5. Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools - Liz Kolb’s K12Online07 Presentation
6. Highway 40 Twitter Group (St Louis area construction updates via Jott.com to Twitter)
7. Think Mobile Phones for Learning - Karen Montgomery’s wiki for cell phone use in education
8. Cell Phones for Learning - Wesley Fryer’s wiki for cell phone use in education
9. Digital Etiquette from Kansas State Digital Citizenship Project
10. Teens Take Advantage of Online Privacy Tools - NPR report from 3 April 2008
11. NPR Technology Podcast
12. Tips for avoiding identity theft
13. Mogreet The Vote (Send a personal video message to the US Presidential candidates - Warning: Look a the terms and be aware of commercial charges!)
14. Project K-Nect by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
15. Gabcast - Record by phone straight to the web and a podcast channel
16. Gcast - Record by phone straight to the web and a podcast channel
17. The Story of Richard Ivie (Celebrate Oklahoma Voices digital story recorded in part with Gcast)
18. Echo360 - scalable coursecasting solution
19. Podcast Producer (publish audio podcasts, video podcasts, screencasts, or upload files to Mac OS X server and “publish at will” within a subscribable web feed)
20. Speaking of History: Eric Langhorst’s blog and podcast (US History teacher and 2008 Missouri state teacher of the year, Eric models use of “studycasts” for students)
21. Kevin Honeycutt’s website and blog
22. VoiceThread commenting via a phone call
23. PollEverywhere - SMS text message polling
24. .mobi article on WikiPedia (domain name for mobile compatible websites)
25. Winksite: Build a website compatible with mobile devices / mobile phones
26. Vanderbilt website for iPhone
27. Rave Wireless Campus - applications for university students, faculty and administrors for mobile phones
28. Mobile Learning website from Abilene Christian University (includes link to their movie, “Connected”)
29. Convergence and the 21st-Century Classroom (from Abilene Christian University)
30. Mobile Campus - opt-in features for university students

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Welcome to episode five of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery, Vicki Allen and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Kristine Molnar of PBwiki. PBwiki is one of our favorite web 2.0 sites for creating collaborative wiki documents with teachers and students. After sharing our geeks of the week, we discussed digital citizenship and the ways teachers in different places are helping students as well as educators connect 21st century skills with digital citizenship skills including Internet safety, safe online collaboration, and netiquette. It is helpful to situate conversations about Internet safety within a broader discussion of digital citizenship, and insure the constructive and positive uses of collaborative digital technologies are also highlighted.

 

 Podcast245: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast05 - Digital Citizenship and an Interview with Christine of PBWiki [56:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (959)

Show Notes:

1. PollEverywhere
2. Diigo
3. 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
4. LeFora Forums
5. PBwiki
6. PBwiki for Educators
7. Free webinar 22 April 2008: Keeping Students Safe Online (from PBwiki)
8. “You don’t know what you like, you like what you know” - Dr. Tim Tyson’s Keynote: Moving from Personal Knowledge to Global Contribution (from Bob Sprankle at Bit by Bit - also check out Dr. Tyson’s blog)
9. MogoPop
10. 123VC: The JAZZING Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing
11. WikiTextBook: An online textbook for Educators Learning about Technology
12. Follow us on Twitter: Kristine from PBwiki, Karen Montgomery, Vicki Allen, Wesley Fryer
13. More links from our wiki shownotes page for this episode
14. Our Technology Shopping Cart Podcast Wiki

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Welcome to episode four of the Technology Shopping Cart podcast where educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas! This week Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer host an interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell, the co-Founders of the VoiceThread website and web 2.0 tool. Steve and Ben discuss the background for how VoiceThread started, design principles of simplicity and “the amazon.com model” of task completion in a few clicks, their implementation of layered complexity within their site’s functionality, and the benefits of creating living multimedia documents via VoiceThread which can live forever. They also discuss the brand new website “VoiceThread for Education,” which is customized with several changes that make it a thoroughly accountable environment safe for student publishing and interactive feedback. Their hope is that more school districts, students and teachers will now be able to benefit from as well as enjoy using VoiceThread as a learning tool inside and outside their classrooms on a regular basis.

 

 Podcast218: Technology Shopping Card Podcast04 - An Interview with Steve Muth and Ben Papell (Co-Founders of VoiceThread) Discussing the new VoiceThread for Education [71:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1771)

Show Notes:

1. Twitter Karma (view and manage Twitter followers and friends)
2. Sue Waters’ blog: Mobile Technology in TAFE
3. Jott (free voice to text service)
4. Google Alerts
5. TED Talks
6. VoiceThread for Education (ed.voicethread.com)
7. VoiceThread (original site, unchanged with free, unlimited educator accounts)
8. Steve and Ben’s Interview on EdTechTalk - Teachers Teaching Teachers #86 Giving All Schools Access to VoiceThread-A Conversation with Ben Papelle and Steve Muth-01.09.08
9. Our Technology Shopping Cart Podcast Wiki

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Educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. Welcome to the “Technology Shopping Cart,” and our third episode when we focus on “Strategies for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology” as well as our “geeks of the week.” Access our show notes below and on our wiki for links to the websites and resources we discussed in this episode. If you have suggestions for our closing “clincher” statement for our podcast series, we’d love to hear them! (We discuss this at the very end of the show.)

 

 Podcast215: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast03 - Strategies for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology [34:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2595)

Show Notes:

1. Facebook 1800 (Ning) from MISCS in St Louis, Missouri
2. National School Boards Association July 2007 report: CREATING & CONNECTING - Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking (PDF)
3. Twitter
4. Travian - U.S. and International site
5. Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (TED Talk Video)
6. Our Technology Shopping Cart Podcast Wiki

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This episode features a conversation with Karen Montgomery, Tim Fahlberg, and Wesley Fryer about why wikis should be considered a “basic ingredient” for gourmet learning in the 21st century, and how Tim’s MathCast project is a phenomenal example of using digital storytelling technologies to learn and share our learning with others. Like writing, learning mathematics should be viewed as a process and not simply a series of final answers. Meta-cognition is the ability to “think about one’s own thinking,” and Mathcasts provide a great window into the thinking and learning process of students as well as teachers. By using a $50 graphics tablet and free digital technologies like VoiceThread, PBwiki, and software from the Jing Project, learners of any age can (and ARE) creating MathCasts to document and share their learning. The ability to comment on and provide feedback on the learning and ideas of others via VoiceThread provides superb opportunities for asynchronous, thoughtful mentoring. Possibilities abound! Check out our podcast shownotes for links to resources discussed in this episode, including our “Geek of the Week” websites! Happy Holidays to everyone from your hosts at The Technology Shopping Cart!

 

 Technology Shopping Cart Podcast02: Wikis, VoiceThread, and MathCasts [71:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1903)

Show Notes:

1. XTimeline
2. Karen’s Social Bookmarks
3. Jing Project (screencasting)
4. NPR Technology Podcast
5. Google StreetView
6. Google Street View Captures Boston in Controversial Detail (NPR)
7. PBwiki
8. Wiki in Education Case Study: St. Francois Xavier Community School
9. Will Richardson’s Blog and Book: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
10. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
11. The K-12 Online Conference: A great FREE place to learn about wikis and other web 2.0 technologies
12. Educational Technology Gourmet (Karen and Wesley’s digital learning curriculum project)
13. The Thinking Machine Wiki (Karen Montgomery’s wiki)
14. The Technology Shopping Cart Wiki (our podcast wiki)
15. Make Your Own Mathcasts
16. A portfolio page for a set of VoiceThread Mathcasts by 5th graders
17. K-7 Mathcast 500 Project
18. Tim Fahlberg’s Mathcast website and blog: www.mathcasts.org
19. Darren Kuropatwa’s blog
20. WikiPedia article for Graphics Tablet
21. Wacom Graphic Tablets (cross-platform)
22. Adesso CyberPad (about $150) - Has an inking pen so you can see what you’re writing when it’s hooked up as a graphics tablet (Windows-only)
23. Consumer Guide: Graphics & Writing tablets Product Reviews

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Educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. Welcome to the “Technology Shopping Cart,” a collaborative educational podcasting effort by Karen Montgomery, Vicki Allen, and Wesley Fryer. We are aspiring to create at least two podcasts per month, approximately 20-30 minutes in length each, and are launching this project in late November 2007. This podcast is something we’ve talked about for many months, and are enthused to begin! We follow a similar format to The Seedlings podcast, sharing “geek of the week” websites as well as discussion around our show theme, which in this first episode is digital storytelling. Access our show notes on our wiki for links to the websites and resources we discussed in this episode.

SHOWNOTES:

1. Podcast shownotes for this episode are available on our Technology Shopping Cart Wiki
2. Seedlings at Bit by Bit podcasts (the model and inspiration for our Technology Shopping Cart podcast show)

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 Technology Shopping Cart Podcast01: Digital Storytelling [30:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (307)