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Week of September 6-12, 2008

Hello
EdTechTalkers:

Welcome to the this week's edition of the EdTechTalk (ETT) Weekly Newsletter.
The past week Dave Cormier and Jeff Lebow recorded a presentation as part of
'eFest 2008' in New Zealand. The recording can be found at

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/700715
and is
a fantastic overview of the great offerings here at the EdTechTalk site. If you
are a new or familiar face you will want to make time for viewing the
recording. 

EdTechTalk is a community of people interested in the use of technology to
improve teaching and learning at all levels of education throughout the world.
As a Worldbridges community, it embraces the values of collaboration and
inclusiveness. The primary activity of the community is the production of a
number of live, interactive webcasts. These programs cover a wide range of
topics relating to educational technology. Shows are typically streamed live,
and listeners can interact with one another and the show hosts through a text
chat. Recordings of the shows are released as podcasts. Participation in the
community is encouraged for anyone who has an interest in educational
technology. Participation may take many forms, from simply listening to shows
produced by the community to more actively working to produce and distribute
content for the network.

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A Week
in Review of ETT Shows 

CCK08 Weekly Chat

CCK08 Week#1 Dicussion with Stephen Downes & George Siemens, moderated by
Dave Cormier

  

·        WOW2
Show #88 with guests Clarence Fisher and Barbara Barreda

A show
where Clarence Fisher (Canadian teacher extraordinaire) and Barbara Barreda
(California principal extraordinaire) discuss their thin walls projects between
their students.        




EdTechWeekly #93

September 7, 2008

This Week's Del.icio.us Links





Link to Chat Log




Teachers Teaching Teachers #120 - The National Writing Project and Google Team
Up To Give High School Students a Voice -09.03.08

On
this podcast we talk with four guests about Letters to the Next President:
Writing Our Future, an exciting collaborative project sponsored by the
National Writing Project and Google, Andrew Chang, Product Marketing Manager at
Google, Gail Desler, Tech Liaison for the Area 3 Writing Project in Northern
California, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, co-director of the National Writing Project,
and Paul Oh, the coordinator of the technology liaison program for the National
Writing Project.



Interested
teachers should read

How to Participate and then register at

http://nwp.org by September 12.Publishing
of student letters and essays occurs through October 30, 2008. Please note, in
order to register for this project, you must first have an account on NWPI.



Seedlings 2008-09-04 with Kern Kelley

Join
Alice, Bob and Cheryl as Kern Kelley shares his experiences at Google Educators
Academy. He had a blast, and you may too when you listen. Kern is such a
visionary educator we promise that just by listening to him you will end up
brainstorming new ideas as well. Alice, Bob and Cheryl= SEEDLINGS



Teachers Teaching Teachers #119 - Kicking the
tires on a new Drupal site - 08.27.08

Listen
in as we kick the tires on a new Drupal site that we will be using this fall to
connect our students. This summer Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim invited Alice
Barr, George Mayo, and Chris Sloan to work with Bill Fitzgerald and his
colleagues at Funny Monkey to create a Drupal site for

Youth Voices.  In the weeks to come we will
be inviting you to have you join our students as they begin to publish their
images, videos, text, and audio at Youth Voices. Please plan to join us.

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Special Celebrations



Congratulations to Dave Cormier and his wife, Bonnie, on the birth of their
little girl this week! You can view the first

pics here
and his

blog post
announcing the BIG news. Dave has included a really cute video on his blog
announcing the arrival of Josephine for her big brother. Josephine weighed 6
lbs. 4 oz. and is 18 inches long.



If you
would like your celebration included in the ETT newsletter please email us at

[email protected].



Enjoy
your week,

Your enthusiastic ETT Newsletter Gang



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