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Teachers Teaching Teachers #281 - National Writing Project Teachers Ready to Celebrate Digital Learning Day on Feb 1 - 1.25.12


61:56 minutes (14.18 MB)
This conversation about #NWP teachers in the National Digital Learning Day continued the next day at NWP Radio - on Blog Talk Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio/2012/01/27/digital-writing-matters

What are your plans for National Digital Learning Day #DLDay on February 1, 2012? http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/what-are-your-plans-national-digital-lea/3369

Enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, recorded a week before the big day.

+Paul Oh helped us invite this amazing list of guests. They are listed below, along with one thing we've asked them in our conversation about Digital Learning Day.

+Natalie Bernasconi, Central California Writing Project and middle school teacher; presenting the Digital ID wiki http://digital-id.wikispaces.com/Welcome as part of California Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento on Feb. 1

+Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project and Instructional Technologist in Elk Grove, California; also presenting the Digital ID wiki as part of Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento

+Andrea Zellner, Red Cedar Writing Project, doc student at Michigan State University, who is working with Michigan State’s MA in Ed Tech program to “try something new” and document; artifacts from and about the experiences will be found here: http://dlday2012.tumblr.com/

+Leigh Wolf, Program Director for the MA in Ed Tech Program, is coordinating efforts with Andrea; here’s a link to a post at Leigh’s bloghttp://www.leighgraveswolf.com about Digital Learning Day.

+Tom Fox, Northern California Writing Project & National Writing Project, English Professor at Chico State University, will be presenting digital compositions created by his students at the Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento

+Jack Zangerle, Hudson Valley Writing Project, 8th Grade ELA teacher in Dover, NY, doing things for Digital Learning Day in his classroom

+Matt Dunleavy, former Tech Liaison of the Tidewater Writing Project in Virginia, and a professor at Radford University, currently working with Chris Dede from Harvard on an Augmented Reality project called EcoMobile, which will be presented in D.C. on Feb. 1 as part of Digital Learning Day activities there.

More on Digital Learning Day: http://www.digitallearningday.org


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Teachers Teaching Teachers#280 - Walk Out Walk On w/ Deborah Frieze 2012-01-18


59:57 minutes (13.72 MB)

On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers , we are joined by Deborah Frieze one of the authors of Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net 

We are joined by Chris Sloanmonika hardyJeff LebowChad SansingScott ShelhartMaryBeth HertzPaul AllisonKelsey Shelhart,Deborah Frieze, and Ryan White

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More about Deborah from http://www.walkoutwalkon.net/authors: 

In 2001, Deborah Frieze walked out of her career as an executive in the high-tech industry. She was disillusioned by a business culture that emphasized short-term results, looked upon growth as an end rather than a means, and cared more about compliance than community. A year later, she met Meg Wheatley and a community of pioneering leaders who, like her, were walking out of organizations and systems that were failing to contribute to the common good. These were friends and colleagues of The Berkana Institute. She currently lives in Boston but can more often be found visiting friends and colleagues around the world who are creating healthy and resilient communities.

 Learn more at http://www.deborahfrieze.com.

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Conversations Episode 116 - Teaching Tolerance in School


61:14 minutes (28.03 MB)This week, we discussed the idea of teaching tolerance, respect, and acceptance in school.  How do we do this in our classrooms and how do we help parents understand what we are doing?  We were joined by Amanda Marrinan.

EdTechTalk21 #163: Al Pittampalli on the Modern Meeting Standard


20:55 minutes (9.63 MB)

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Al Pittampalli on the Modern Meeting Standard
January 25, 2012

Al Pittampalli, author of Read This Before Our Next Meeting joined us to discuss the Modern Meeting Standard. On Twitter, Al tags himself as a Meeting culture warrior. 

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #279 -Turning "Be You" into "Be Us" with Fred Mindlin, Chad Sansing, Kelsey, Rahul Deodhar - 1.11.12


48:40 minutes (11.14 MB)

On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we are joined by:

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Chris Sloan,

Monika Hardy

Fred Mindlin

Chad Sansing,

Scott Shelhart

Paul Allison,

Kelsey Shelhart, and

Rahul Deodhar

In addition to getting to know each other better, on this episode, we also brainstorm possible questions for Deborah Frieze's visit on the next episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.
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EdTechWeekly#208 - 2012 Goals, Projects, and Edtechosphere updates


50:16 minutes (23.01 MB)
EdTechWeekly#208 
January 15, 2011
2012 Goals, Projects, and Edtechosphere updates

EdTechTalk21 #162 Brad Rathgeber, Director of the Online School for Girls


26:36 minutes (12.21 MB) Brad_HeadshotEdTechTalk21 #162
Brad Rathgeber, Director of the Online School for Girls
January, 11, 2012

Brad Rathgeber, Director of the Online School for Girls gives us an update on the progress of his consortium based online school. See our first conversation here ETT21 #127.

COOLCast - January 10, 2012


78:33 minutes (35.96 MB)

Participants: Ben Samuels, Carol Yeager, Vanessa Vaile, Stephen Downes, Karen Scarlett, & Jeff Lebow

Topics: Blackboard's 'Openness' vs Moodle's Cost Effectiveness, Reflections on CMC11, Cyberbullying, & Calgary Weather


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Next Coolcast: January 18/19 0300GMT (global times: http://bit.ly/yF7Khv   details)

EdTechTalk21 #160 Michael Nachbar, Director of the Global Online Academy


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Michael Nachbar, Director of the Global Online Academy
November 2, 2011

Michael Nachbar, Director of the Global Online Academy joins us to discuss creating a new collaborative consortium based online school.  

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