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Teachers Teaching Teachers #90: Microblogging our way toward global awareness 02.06.08

Wed, 2008-02-20 04:07 — Paul Allison

49:00 minutes (11.27 MB)

Some educators, including some of us who meet regularly on Teachers Teaching Teachers, have begun to find places in our curriculum for microblogging.

“Compared to regular blogging, microblogging fulfills a need for an even faster mode of communication. By http://www.flickr.com/photos/85666927@N00/1921842131encouraging shorter posts, it lowers users’ requirement of time and thought investment for content generation. This is also one of its main differentiating factors from blogging in general. The second important difference is the frequency of update. On average, a prolific blogger may update her blog once every few days; on the other hand a microblogger may post several updates in a single day.” (Java Akshay, Tim Finin, Xaiodan Song, Bell Tseng, Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communitites. August 12, 2007)
 
At the beginning of this podcast we explore microblogging with David Karp, the 21-year-old founder of Tumblr, an interesting new blogging platform that some of us have begun to use. VoiceThread founders, Ben Pappel and Steve Muth join us in this conversation as well. (Read more about microblogging below.)
 
In the last 15 or 20 minutes, (beginning at 31:14) we are joined by George Mayo, an 8th grade teacher in Maryland, and Wendy Dexler, a 3rd grade teacher in Florida, who joined each other at Educon 2.0 to create a Global Darfur Awareness Event which will take place on March 6th. (Read more about this project below.)
 
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Chat Log for TTT#89 - 01.30.08

Mon, 2008-02-11 09:29 — Paul Allison
20:46:46  paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://www.observer.com/2008/would-you-take-tumblr-man
 20:46:50  Lee Baber -> -EdTechTalk: Hey Jeff..refresh
 20:46:54  Lee Baber -> -EdTechTalk: mb
 20:47:11  JoseRodriguez -> -EdTechTalk: Music for educators site in the initial building phase
 20:47:22  Lee Baber -> -EdTechTalk: Hi Paul
 20:47:41  paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: Hi Lee.
 20:47:49  paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: Susan around?

Teachers Teaching Teachers #89: Is the tool irrelevant? 01.30.08

Mon, 2008-02-11 08:43 — Paul Allison

40:00 minutes (9.19 MB)Listen to Scott Floyd, Tech Liaison for the Texas Bluebonnet Writing Project, and Ellen Petry Leanse explain how and why they collaborated on a project that resulted in this VoiceThread, as well as other media versions of the same story. Scott writes on his blog:
Ellen Petry Leanse has a powerful story to tell of her escape from the political unrest in Kenya during the presidential elections over the 2007 Christmas holidays. She and her 12 year old son were there volunteering in an orphanage as well as other humanitarian work. I first encountered her story January 15th on Guy Kawasaki’s blog as a guest post. Her writing moved me. Something inside of me kept saying to contact her and help her share what she and her son went through. As Google would have it, her email came up in the first try, and by 8:11 AM I sent off a personal plea to her to share her narrative through digital storytelling.

A Piece of My Mind - my ideas, thoughts, experiences, and lessons learned in education The founders of VoiceThread, Ben Papell and Steve Muth, also join us in this discussion of the lessons that can be learned from this one example of digital storytelling.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #88 - Me and my inquiry in relation to a whole community of learners - 01.23.08

Wed, 2008-01-30 14:55 — Paul Allison

40:00 minutes (9.15 MB)

Listen to seven National Writing Project teachers plan a Spring Blogging curriculum together.

Find out if seven people can plan a curriculum together over skype. These seven teachers from Writing Projects across the country met and planned a 15-week blogging curriculum that they have started to put together (click read more).

  • Bob Levin and Gail Desler (Area 3 Writing Project, Sacramento, CA)
  • Woody Woodgate (Alaska Writing Project, Marshall, Alaska)
  • Bill O'Neal (Trenton, NJ Writing Project)
  • Chris Sloan (Wasatch Range Writing Project, Salt Lake City, Utah)
  • Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim (New York City Writing Project)
Image Source: Art for the Soul by RICHARD LAZZARA, a Creative Commons image uploaded to Flickr on January 13, 2006.
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Chat Log for TTT#88 - 01.23.08

Wed, 2008-01-30 14:15 — Paul Allison

 20:39:57  paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: hi.
 20:40:13  paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhqx6p6m_256c9nwpp8d
 20:40:43  paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://elggplans.wikispaces.com/Curriculum
 20:52:54  Bill O'Neal -> -EdTechTalk: Hi. Tom only now passed out. I need to give him a while before I can speak.
 20:58:41  SusanEttenheim -> -EdTechTalk: hi bgaskins welcome
 21:03:15  Bill O'Neal -> -EdTechTalk: There's a couple folks in that room.
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