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Cameron Reilly is trying to pull together some actual statistics about podcasting. He’s created a survey and is trying to get 1000 people to participate so he has a large enough sample to be able to draw some meaningful stats. If you listen to podcasts, create podcasts or have ever heard the word […]

At least a few of you reading this blog are tech coordniators. That means that amongst your many other hats, you probably manage your school’s email server. How many times have you had someone call you up because their email is bouncing and when you check it out, you find then have 5000+ […]

Anytime I hear the words “on a mission” I have to append the words “from God”. Probably because I live in Chicago and have watched the Blues Brothers way too many times. But I digress.
Dave Warlick has posted up an interesting story. I won’t even bother to summarize it, you can read […]

I really enjoy reading the reviews posted at The New, New Podcast Review. It’s obvious that the author takes his time and really listens to several different episodes before he makes any judgements about a podcast. I’ve found him to be quite thorough in his critiques of peoples’ audio quality and dead on […]

There’s an interesting article about a boy using an alternative to prescription drugs to deal with ADD. Most of the article has to do with his struggles to find a solution. There are quite a few statstics thrown around pretty carelessly, that I would love to see some sources on.. They claim […]

Fascinating. I just did a Technorati search for my site (because I’m vain and want to know when someone is refering to me) and noticed something that I find rather interesting; nearly everyone who has refered to a post of mine lately has been talking about the list of links I created for […]

This is the second podcast from the enormous amount of material that I recorded at the ICE conference. The first session I attended that day was David Jake’s “Creating Community in the Digital Age”. A lot of it was review for me but I learned about a few new sites and also got […]

Wow. This almost makes me want to become a geography teacher. I learned about Nasa’s World Wind from Jeff Moore of One Big Head. I thought it sounded interesting, so I downloaded it and checked it out. I’m not kidding when I say it’s probably the most interesting piece of software […]

This show could almost be considered a clip show since there’s audio from 4 different sources. Obviously I’m recording at my computer for the majority of it, but I also play an audio comment that someone sent in to my voice mail box (206-222-2442), a clip that I recorded from the car, and a […]

As I was typing up the show notes for my last ‘cast, I realized that I hadn’t my comments queue for a few days. It’s basically my bear trap that I leave out there for spammers to play around with. Any comments that have more than 3 links in them or have certain […]

I love this band. Their kid safe, hilarious for both children and adults, and they also throw in obscure references throughout their songs that kids can actually learn from! A friend of mine actually uses the song Mammal in one of his lessons!
Well, now they’ve really blown my mind. They’ve […]

Wow. Conference singups are completely over for me. Report cards have all been mailed. We had our school auction on Saturday. So what does that mean? I can start getting back to normal life again!
I’ve got a ton to write about and a ton to podcast out, and […]

Keven Schouten actually has this session online. So now I’m free to just provide amusing commentary instead of trying furiously to get the details down.
Sounds like he’s basically going to introduce free ways to create alternatives to Bloackboard and WebCT. First one that he brought up was Moodle, which is […]

This session is presented by Joe Brennan, well known for his Guerilla Graphics presentations, and is about where we’ve been to help us deal with where we’re going.
Bah, unfortunately the only power outlet in the room is right next to the kitchen, so it’s really noisy over here. Thankfully he allowed me […]

New seeions. Interestingly enough, it’s being held in Zanies, the comedy club that shares space with the conference center. The session is supposed to be about how to use digital productions to enhance instruction. That’s the key reason I’m hear, to see how to improve the education we provide to students.
The primary […]