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Teachers Teaching Teachers #82 - Is the Internet Enough? - A Dialogue with Vance Stevens

Tue, 2007-12-11 20:42 — Paul Allison

39:00 minutes (8.96 MB)Vance Stevens joins us on this podcast, to discuss a project he has been doing with four teachers--Nelba Quintana, Doris Molero, Sasa Sirk, and Rita Zeinstejer. They have been asking their students to use the tag "writingmatrix" when they post to their blogs, then they use Technorati and Google Reader to find each other's blogs. Vance and these four teachers presented this work recently at the K12OnlineConference: "Motivate Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration through Tagging and Aggregating" We thought it would be a good idea to see how we might join their network of student bloggers with our school-based social networks at YouthVoices.net and the PersonalLearningSpace.com.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #81 - Looking for the Passions and Keeping the Faith

Mon, 2007-12-03 12:16 — Paul Allison

43:00 minutes (9.83 MB)The week before Thanksgiving, many National Writing Project (NWP) teachers participated in the NWP's Annual Meeting. Several presenters at the 2007 Annual Meeting joined us for a live webcast on Wednesday, November 28th. This is an edited podcast of that conversation with these teachers:
  • Cynthia Calvert, Alcorn Writing Project
  • Jason Shiroff, Denver Writing Project
  • Lynne Culp, UCLA Writing Project
  • Kevin Hodgson, Western Massachusetts Writing Project
  • Peter Kittle, Northern California Writing Project (invited)
  • Christina Cantrill, NWP Program Associate in Technology

We asked pairs of teachers who presented at the NWP Annual meeting to continue their dialogue on this webcast. We focused on their collaboration before, during, and perhaps after their face-to-face presentation. Find out what their conversations and questions are now.

The theme of the webcast was about how moments where teachers have the opportunity to gather and share practices, such as the NWP's Annual Meeting, are important points along the continuum of on-going conversations and sometimes even collaborations which begin long before the "events" and which often last long after.

We asked our guests to tell us what they learned from planning and presenting together -- both from each other as well as the extended network -- for their Writing Project sites as well as their classrooms.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #79: Helping students blog their passions, hunt caribou, share culture, and feed elggs with RSS

Mon, 2007-11-26 03:20 — Paul Allison

42:45 minutes (9.8 MB)

Find out what happens when you bring together seven teachers and a student to talk about perennial questions that come up when we use blogs in the classroom.

  • a 6th-12th grade "New Journalism" teacher from the Bronx (with laryngitis) (Paul Allison)
  • a half-time computer teacher/half-time technology coach from a town west of Chicago, "right about where the corn begins" (Scott Meech)
  • a high school art/technology teacher and librarian from New York City (Susan Ettenheim)
  • an 8th grade computer technology teacher and Webhead from Virginia (Lee Baber)
  • a math/science/employability skills/hunting safety teacher from Alaska (Woody Woodgate)
  • a ninth grader from a small town in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia (Victoria)
  • an eighth grade science teacher from northern New Hampshire (Rick Biche)
  • a middle-school technology integrator from an independent K12 school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Matt Montagne)


 


 

Image: "Stalking a Caribou" by Travis S. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/1735135201/) License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0

Teachers Teaching Teachers #78 - Digital Composing and the National Writing Project's Annual Meeting

Mon, 2007-11-12 03:43 — Paul Allison

43:45 minutes (10.03 MB)

This is the first of two shows in November in which we are going to sandwich the National Writing Project's Annual Meeting with two special Teachers Teaching Teachers webcasts/podcasts, one before and one after the Annual Meeting: Nov. 15–17,

For this show we invited Writing Project Technology Liaisons who are coming to present in New York City to join us to give us a taste of what will be happening at this vital conference.

Listen to learn what it is that brings us together each year. Learn more about how Writing Project teachers are using digital storytelling (or digital composing) in their classrooms, in summer youth camps, and with other teachers in their local Writing Projects.

Joining Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Lee Baber, and Woody Woodgate on this week's special Teachers Teaching Teachers were

  • John Bishop, Red Clay Writing Project
  • Clifford Lee, Bay Area Writing Project
  • Bonnie Kaplan, Hudson Valley Writing Project
  • Valorie Stokes, Prairie Lands Writing Project
  • Paul Oh, National Writing Project
Learn more about the NWP's Annual meeting and these teachers at the Google Notebook that we set up for this webcast.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #77 - Participation is the Most Important Part

Thu, 2007-11-01 19:54 — Paul Allison

74:15 minutes (17.05 MB)

We were joined this week by Joyce Valenza and the co-founders of of Voice Thread, Ben Papell and Steve Muth (and many wonderful teachers in the chat room). In the spirit of producing content that is open to co-creation...

...we invite you add an interesting Voice Thread to this post. Either link to or embed a Voice Thread that would help show how teachers are using this tool in their classrooms or with their colleagues.

Click Add new comment, and show us a Voice Thread that you think is cool!

Thanks.

 

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