Category: podcasting
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Podcast300: Educator Voices from the eTechOhio 2009 Conference
This podcast includes a series of six interviews I recorded at the eTechOhio 2009 conference in Columbus on February 2, 2009. The episode begins with Gabe Ross, a student at Ohio State University studying video production and part of the documentary film crew at the eTechOhio 2009 conference. Second, Kieli Fergusen of the National Underground…
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Making homework into classwork with mastery learning
I’ve posted twice in the past few weeks about Colorado teachers Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams’ use of video podcasting to “flip” the traditional school model of lecturing during face-to-face class time and sending students home to complete independent practice activities in isolation. Their 21.5 minute video, “Mastery Learning That Works,” provides more background and…
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It’s Time for a New Kind Of University
Indeed it is. This video is a good example of a professor transcending “The Synchronous Non-interactive Fallacy” I wrote about in January 2006. Hat tip to Tony Vincent. I’ve added this video to my “Videos for PD” blog page under the first section heading, “Schools Need to Change.” This video looks and sounds great, but…
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Eric Langhorst demonstrates the power of Google Videoconferencing in a US history classroom
Eric Langhorst, an 8th Grade US History teacher in Liberty, Missouri, and the 2007/2008 Missouri State Teacher of the Year, is the author of one of my favorite educational podcasts. Last month, Eric posted a great podcast about his use of Google Videoconferencing (a relatively new feature of Google Chat in GMail) to bring a…
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Don’t be awed by enhanced access to administrative academic data – Look for pedagogic changes instead!
What is the ideal mobile application for college students armed with iPhones, wanting information related to THEIR college life, courses and interests? According to a telecommunications company like AT&T, the answer may be something similar to iStanford, an application whose development received $10,000 from AT&T as the winner of the “Big Mobile on Campus” contest…
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Podcast292V: Blogging – The New Conversation
This 6 minute mashup video was created by H. Songhai, an educator and blogger in Philadelphia, using some of my audio podcasts and conference presentation recordings. Among other questions, this video mashup asks and answers the question, What is the most powerful form of writing? The answer, IMHO, is hyperlinked writing. [display_podcast] Show Notes: This…
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Podcast291: Humanizing the Learning Technology by Tammy Parks
This podcast is a recording of the 2008 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference keynote by Tammy Parks. Tammy is a fantastic educator who teaches in Howe Public Schools in Howe, Oklahoma. Tammy teaches broadcast journalism, and utilizes videoconferencing technologies as well as web 2.0 tools with both students and teachers in engaging ways. This…
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Humanizing the Learning Technology by Tammy Parks
These are my notes from Tammy Parks’ keynote at the 2008 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference on 13 Nov 2008 titled, “Humanizing the Learning Technology.” Tammy teaches broadcast journalism in Howe Public Schools. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I am recording this session and will post it subsequently as an audio…
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K12Online08 in the palm of my hand
It’s amazing that in the palm of my hand, I can hold an ENTIRE educational conference. This afternoon, I went ahead and subscribed to both the K12Online08 video and audio podcast channels in iTunes in the iTunes library I use when I sync my iPhone. After subscribing, I clicked the “Podcasts” menu item in the…
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Podcast288V: Using FeedForAll To Update K-12 Online Conference Podcast Channel Web Feeds
This 20 minute screencast describes how I’ve used the commercial software program FeedForAll for Mac (it is also available for Windows) to update the web feeds or XML feeds for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. This presentation is being submitted as a contribution to the notk12onlineconference.org website. If you have suggestions or better ways to…