We were never really gone, actually, just all extremely busy. I think the conversation is worth the wait! EdTech Posse Podcast #13 – Why is this worth doing in schools?
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Rick Schwier has claimed that I have converted (or is that corrupted) him into a podcaster. P’shaw – Rick is a natural storyteller and speaker and, therefore, a natural for podcasting. He has started a new podcast Now you hear me … He is using the latest version of GarageBand to put together the podcasts [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
I just saw this via Alan, a site from the University of Wisconson-Madison that talks about designing educational podcasts podcasting @ the university of wisconsin – madison: Five Steps to Designing Podcasts that Teach Interestingly enough, there is no advocacy of what seems to be marketed as a model for educational podcasting – just turn [...]
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
I’m being interviewed tomorrow on the Web Talk Show webcast. The topic for the webcast this week is Kids and the Internet, and I’ve been asked to contribute my knowledge for 10 minutes specifically on the topic of the role of the Internet in education. Upon reflection, I realize that my knowledge would only fill [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
It has been such a busy week that I haven’t had time until now to finally post the audio from the workshop that Donna and I led on Feb. 13. I think it is fair to say that Donna had some reservations about how the workshop went; I tend to think that it went well, [...]
Monday, February 13, 2006
Well, not quite yet since there is a PD workshop tomorrow for me, but the presentation/workshop co-presented with Donna entitled How to Drink Water from a Fire Hose is now done. My brain is too tired for a full autopsy right now, but my general impression is positive. Many teachers are ready to start looking [...]
Earlier this week I wrote about building a school website one blog at a time, and some thoughts on the merits of not building a monolithic site, but as a series of small inter-related pieces. I’m happy to report that things have already started to move in that direction. You can see the main school [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
I’ve had some ideas in the past about using some sort of CMS to run a school web site, but after my recent post about building a school website out of a colony of blogs I’ve been encouraged to consider scaling that project up. The feedback and ideas that were left by Stephen, James and [...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
I’ve just posted at my work blog about a project to create a new school announcements system that will be powered by WordPress. I wanted to put some notes up here about how it works, and hopefully get some feedback. I also have some ideas about how this could grow – again, feedback would be [...]