Category: podcasting
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iPods in Education conference
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD in the Dallas area is sponsoring a one day conference on November 3, 2006 titled “Beyond4Walls: First Annual iPods and Podcasting in Education Users Group Conference.” The conference description is: Successful educators realize that teaching techniques, which appeal to the learner, are ever evolving. Identifying novel and enticing teaching techniques requires educators…
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Great review of Quia.com
Eric Langhorst has posted a superb review of the online assessment tool Quia.com as a new podcast on his blog, “Speaking of History.” I haven’t used Quia.com myself for several years, but hearing Eric describe it makes me wish that more teachers knew about it and had access to it or tools like it. We…
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Great profile of Room 208 scholars!
Apple has published a great profile of the 3rd and 4th grade scholars in Bob Sprankle’s Room 208 classroom at Wells Elementary School in Wells, Maine. The article is “Elementary School Students Become Podcasting Pros.” Way to go students and Mr. Sprankle! 🙂
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Check out new podcasting opportunities!
I am enthused to have learned yesterday and today about two new podcasting collaborative project and contest opportunities for students. The first came from Maria Henderson, who told me about Dan Schmidt’s new “Where in the World? A global geography podcasting quiz!” project. According to the announcement flyer, the shows are: created by students from…
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Podcast81: Podcasting Ideas from Dan Schmit
Dan Schmit, Instructional Technology Specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shared this presentation titled “KidsCast: Exciting Podcasting Activities to Promote Research and Learning” at the 2006 Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Encyclo-Media conference on September 1st. In this session, Dan presents multiple ideas to creatively use podcasts in the classroom to engage students with curriculum…
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Suspension of a podcasting best friend
I was extremely saddened to learn this week (I guess I’m a bit slow on the news, since this was announced in May) that one of my favorite podcasts, “Talking History” from the Organization of American Historians, has been suspended because of budget cutbacks. I absolutely LOVE this weekly podcast series. It has been one…
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KidsCast: Exciting Podcasting Activities to Promote Research and Learning
KidsCast: Exciting Podcasting Activities to Promote Research and Learning by Dan Schmit, Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln A presentation at Encyclo-Media 2006, Oklahoma City, OK 01 September 2006 This presentation is available as a flash file 1- Sound Seeing Tours (This is where I joined the session and started podcast recording. I’m going to…
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To Blog or Not to Blog? You Decide
The Autumn 2006 issue of “Interactive Educator” is available for free download, as well as available in print form from Smart Technologies (the makers of SmartBoards.) My article begins on page 29 and is titled, “To Blog or Not to Blog? You Decide.” The article addresses pros and cons of both blogging and podcasting. Special…
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A good case for classroom blogging and podcasting
Sunday’s article from Guardian Unlimited (from the UK) titled, “Classroom revolution in bid to boost 3Rs” makes a good case for classroom blogging and podcasting, although those words are not specifically used. Jim Knight, the Schools Minister in the UK, is quoted as saying: ‘In the future, employers will have a guarantee of the quality…
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Great minds discuss open source
This evening, David Thornburg, Steve Hargadon, and Miguel Guhlin got together for a skypecast on open source technologies in education. This was the first in a new series on this topic– What a treat to be able to listen in as great minds consider what WILL be a large part of the future in our…