Podcast: Mothers, don’t let your babies grow up to be filtered.
Ladies and Gentleman, this is the third podcast in as many days. Being published a day behind, but that’s no big deal. And I do believe that I’ve now published as many podcasts this week as the last 12 months combined. Yikes!
Topic: Filters… *grunt* What are they good for? Absolutely nothing! Heh, even while typing I have a bad singing voice. Regardless, I was thinking yesterday about what service filters really serve our schools. Do they really accomplish what we think they do? And of course, the million dollar question, will I put filters on Aiden’s computer when he begins surfing the internet at the ripe ol’ age of 18 months?
Sorry about the clipping and the background noise. It was raining out, which doesn’t sound as cool as I thought it would.
Enjoy the show!
PhoneCast: Where’s the free stuff with the “EduSafe” sticker?
Two for two! This podcast was recorded yesterday, but I didn’t get a chance to upload it till now. Audio kinda stinks, but sometimes you just have to make do with the tools you have. The fact that I could still create a podcast despite the fact that I had no equipment just makes me so happy I could do the snoopy dance.
The primary question of the show is, where’s the really good free stuff that is built with education in mind? Where’s the EduDelicious? The EduBloglines? The EduFlickr? And I’m not talking about some hack of it that has an ‘edu’ added to the front of it, I’m talking something really designed with classrooms in mind? Teachers, students, parents, and so on? I find it incredible that the stuff still doesn’t exist. I also discuss a couple out of the box, “Steve must be certifiably crazy” ideas for where they might come from. Things that will never happen, but could if we put our heads together and got organized (we being the edublogging community).
Enjoy the show!
Teach42 Podcast: Unplugged
I know, I know. It’s been freakin’ forever. But yes, I have uploaded a podcast. It’s about 16 minutes long. It doesn’t have a fancy intro. In fact, there’s no music or editing at all. No guests, no new resources for you, heck it probably doesn’t even merit show notes. It’s just me, unplugged and uncensored.
It has been so long since I last podcasted that I felt a weird pressure to put up something really really good, or at least something mildly significant. I talk about it in the podcast, but for some reason I felt like people had expectations of me. Well, today I realized that I was being stupid. I’ve taught hundreds of teachers (literally) how to podcast in the last year, and yet I’m not doing it myself.
How can I get up there in front of teachers and say, “It’s so easy, it takes virtually no time, and you can be doing it RIGHT NOW.” And the entire time I’m thinking in the back of my mind, “That’s all well and good, but are you leading by example?” And the answer was no.
So it’s time to kick myself back into gear, dust off the ol’ microphone and get back to blabbering. There’s just too much to share!
Enjoy the show!
Podcasting: It’s like a factory that provides apple pies for whales.
If you are confused about what podcasting is, just let the ninja explain podcasting to you. He makes it oh so simple!
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Podcast: Conference versus Conversation
Yikes, this is starting to become a habit again! This podcast recaps a few conversations that were scattered around NECC and the DEN National Leadership Conference. I’ve heard from many people that the most valuable part of the last few conferences they’ve attended have been the conversations that have occured with other attendee’s and presenters outside of the actual workshops. If that’s the case, then why aren’t we creating more opportunities for such conversations? Perhaps it’s time for a new EduBlogger’s unConference, utilizing the Open Space format. Anybody want to take a trip to Chicago if I put it together?
Enjoy the show!
Direct link to the podcast Had some trouble getting it uploaded, should be working now
Podcast: Browsing the Library of Congress
If you haven’t explored the Library of Congress website lately, you should. I spent some time in their booth and NECC and was impressed by what they have to offer there. While I wasn’t impressed with the layout of the site, the content is well worth wading through. I also discovered that using the advanced search feature of Google Images can certainly make finding images there much more manageable. The summer months are a great time to find new ways to fill out the curriculum, and orignial source material definitely helps your students put things in perspective historically.
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Podcast: Twas the night before NECC…
I know, it sounds crazy, but I’ve got a podcast to share! It’s the night before NECC and if all goes well, I’m going to have a bunch of audio to share throughout the conference. July is actually going to be a pretty busy conference month, so I should have stuff to share throughout the next three weeks or so. I talk about that, some life updates, my new podcasting rig, and a little bit about my favorite hot topic lately, Office 2.0 applications. Think of it as a taste of more to come! I’m a little rusty, see if you can tell the difference between being rusty and my normal self. I’m not really sure my wife could even tell the difference!
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Podcastercon2006 : The photo gallery
Photos have been uploaded. Appearantly I took a ton of photos at the ‘advanced’ session and not so many at the education session. Too busy running around with a microphone and being inspired by what everyone was saying I guess.
Click on the link above to see them all, but here’s a few to whet your appetite.
John Blake taking a photo of Brian Russel taking a photo of Dave Warlick. I consider that art.
This is any iPod. Any questions?
Future set up for the Teach42 Podcast (yeah, right). Try not to drool too much.
Yes, there were a few teens there. Oh yeah, check out the way cool retro-recycled name tags.
Coulee kids doing some cool podcasting!
I really hope that people don’t think I’m just shamelessly promoting my new company, but so much of this just has me jazzed up. I spent about 90 minutes showing our regional managers some tips and tricks about the finer art of blogging, and they are just running with it. Not only is it fun keeping up with what they’re doing in their states, but now they’re bringing things to my attention that I would think I’d normally have the scoop on!
For example, I just found out that there’s a bunch of kids at Longfellow Middle School who are podcasting! I know I was a bit out of it for a while, but this is the sort of thing that I’m usually pretty up on. Go figure, eh? Anyway, there is a great description of podcasting along with some effective ideas for how to use it in the middle school classroom.
Podcasting is not just a “fluffy” new way to teach language arts. Students are still learning the school district language arts curriculum and mastering the state standards, but the added component is that they are being asked to discern the important concepts and vocabulary used in science, math, and social studies class and to teach the content in a way that is understandable and engaging to an authentic web audience. The process includes writing storyboards, conferencing about the content, editing, performing, analyzing the raw footage, combining the spoken word with photos, working in teams, meeting the class deadlines, and analyzing their work according to the rubric created by the class. Students are challenged to create their podcast using their Six Traits + 1 writing skills which include developing ideas and content, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Additionally, students are striving to use their vocal abilities as an effective tool to portray a message.
Not bad, eh? Another great example of an innovative school making use of available technology to create meaningful experiences for the students.
Alyssa, a seventh grade student there, put it very well. “Podcasting reaches out to others across the nation. I feel our voices are being heard.”
’nuff said.
Teach42 – The future is half empty?
Dave Warlick posted a year end podcast containing a few hundred interviews with teachers encouraging them to think about what the classroom of 2015 would look like. Unfortunately, I have to disagree with the projections of many of the teachers. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I have a pessimistic view of the next ten years, I just don’t think the world of education is going to change that dramatically in a decade. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that schools are slow to change and that it takes time for things to move through the layers.
However, I do foresee some very positive things happening in the near future. So I hope you enjoy this little peek into the future through the eyes of an average schmo sitting on his sofa with his dog.
Show notes:
Connect Learning: David Warlick’s 50th post, looking to the year 2015.
The Academic Aesthetic: It’s Aaron’s open interview that I’m responding to at the end of the podcast.