Week of February 7, 2009 to February 13, 2009
Welcome to the this week's edition of the EdTechTalk (ETT) Weekly Newsletter. This week the ED 21 Unconference in Cerritos California is Saturday, February 21, 2009. There will be a ustream session http://ed21online.com/ at 8:30 am-11:00amPST/11:30am-2:00pm EST. The ustream will be on http://edtechalk.com/live .
This week's posted shows include:
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Carol Broos aka Music Techie joined us to discuss her conversation with Arne Duncan, our new Secretary of Education, and the intersection of performance and technology education.
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Have a listen as the It’s Elementary team interview Jeff Utech from The Thinking Stick. Our topic was Wikis in Education. A great example of a webcast that almost never was or as Jeff Lebow says “Webcasting can be a very humbling endeavour” or as Jennifer Maddrell said in the ETT Show Hosts chat, @jose ... trying to think of the most cheesy catch phrase (think the despair posters) and the best I can come up with ... "It takes the bitterness of the dips to appreciate the sweetness of the peaks" or "If webcasting is the intersection of messy and magical ... you were standing in the intersection when the light turned green" ... for some reason that one is REALLY cracking me up ... Thanks to the Edtechtalk Community for all your support and @everyone and YES the sun will rise again for It's Elementary.
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This week Maria Knee, Sheila Adams, and Lisa Parisi were joined by Gary Stager in a discussion about the Constructivist theory of learning.
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Jen was unavailable and John was barely connected, but Sharon Peters and Alec Couros stepped in and joined Dave & Jeff to make this the first ever Canadian heavy episode.
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I crashed the Webcast Academy's meeting and Jeff most graciously hosted the call and the stream. We talk about Skype, mobile phones, and roadkill. The virtual staff lounge lived-up to its name again this week.... Special thanks to those who waited around for the host to get there!
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Conversations Show 25 02 01 2009
Lisa and Maria reflect on EduCon2.1 this week. Sheila talks about the UNH Belize program and the plans for her upcoming trip to Belize.
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