Category: podcasting
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MySpace, Conversation, and Songs of the Heart
Bud the Teacher posted a new podcast on the subject of MySpace last week. He stated in the podcast: We are creating networks in our schools that don’t reflect the realities of our students and their lives, their literacies, and what is important to them. Bud commented how many of his students have Xanga and…
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Reactionary, statist school leaders ban iPods
Anderson County (Tennesee) Public Schools have recently banned iPods on all school campuses and even on school buses. According to an article from April 13th from a Knoxville TV station: Supporters of the resolution, which passed unanimously, say students walking down school halls with headphones on are a distraction and that students need to be…
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Shay’s Rebellion
Great podcast interview by Eric Langhorst this week with RJ Cutter, the documentary filmmaker who covered Shay’s Rebellion for the History Channel’s series on 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America. Be sure to also check out Eric’s excellent show notes for related links.
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Value of Slowing Down
NPR’s “This I Believe” podcast is one of my favorites. The shows are always short, and almost always quite poignant. This week, Phil Power’s essay (shared in his own voice) titled “The Practice of Slowing Down” is outstanding. This resonates with me. I like the following two quotations particularly: In times of crisis, pace comes…
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Informational Text and Literacy
Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit podcast from March 25th titled “Informational Text and Literacy” is outstanding and well-worth listening to. The show is a rebroadcast of a staff development workshop in Wells, Maine, by Kevin Perks about the need to focus more on informational text (rather than just fiction) in our classrooms as we prepare…
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Tracking relatives via cell phone GPS
This evening I found an outstanding, short screencast (m4a podcast) from KoKae Screencasts about how GPS technologies have become wedded to geographic information system visualization tools like Google Earth. Yes, we’ll soon be able (if desired) to track the live location on the planet of our loved ones (or others) with periodic GPS location packets…
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McREL Podcasts, Del.icio.us & Switchpod
The Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) has a new podcast channel worth checking out. Rather than using a blogging tool like Blogger to post sessions, they are just using del.icio.us. This is a great idea, and actually an easier proposition (most likely) than using Blogger. Their 2nd podcast, “Is a laptop initiative in…
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Meet Charlene Chausis!
If you have not joined the Discovery Educators Network yet and explored the regional technology training and networking available in your area (I’m talking here about meeting other teachers face to face at events, not running CAT-5 cable after school as a volunteer)– you need to! Charlene Chausis is the featured Educator of the week…
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Podcast with ProfCast
ProfCast is an inexpensive ($35) Macintosh shareware program that allows you to directly record audio narration with a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation and post it to the web as an enhanced podcast. This looks like a VERY cool tool. The Getting Started Guide makes it appear to be, as most good Macintosh software tools are,…
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Education is conversation
Wow. This has been quite a week and it is not yet over. I have been having some outstanding discussions and challenging opportunities to think at the SITE 2006 conference in Orlando, and have had the chance to meet face-to-face many individuals who I have previously “met virtually” and engaged in dialog with in the…