Week of March 14 - 20

 

 

• ETBS.2009.03.19

• Teachers are Talking Episode 18 03-19-09
   

  Lisa Parisi and Susan van Gelder were joined by Dean Shareski and Alice Mercer to discuss preservice teachers and online classes. 

 

• 21st Century Learning #98: Designing an Open Online Teacher Academy -- Part 2
   

  21st Century Learning #98
  Designing an Open Online Teacher Academy  -- Part 2
  March 19, 2009

  Week 2 of figuring out how to design an online teacher academy. 

  We're starting to nail down a goal for this academy: 

  The goal of this experience is to:
  1. Teach online tools in the context of teaching and learning
  2. Creating online community to model and sustain this learning

    

  Photo from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/405736372/

   

• Parents as Partners Episode #23 March 16, 2009 Parent Portal at Dade County
   

   Parents as Partners welcomed Debbie Graper from Dade County in Florida  for an excellent discussion about the development of their parent portal. Listen to the

   Q &A that included these questions: What challenges did you face before you started?How were parents involved in the design of the Portal?Have you faced any resistance to the Portal? Are parents comfortable about the privacy of their children's information; What do you do about families that don't have computers in their homes?

 

• Teachers Teaching Teachers #142 - Taking It Global with TIGed - 03.04.09
   

  The idea for this webcast came when a teacher new to our work together contacted Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison saying that she was thinking of having her students get involved with both Youth Voices and Taking it Global (TIG). This teacher, Melissa Lynn Pomerantz, a 10 grade English teacher from St. Louis joined us on the show. 

  To learn more about TIGed we invited Katherine Walraven, TIG’s Education Program Manager, and a tech integrator who use TIGed: Mali Bickley and Suzie Vesper. We wanted to learn more about Taking It Global - Ed.

 

• EdTechWeekly #119
   

  Want to be the master of your own Twitter-like domain? Need to know more about teacher robots? The age of the CD? How to create an online textbook? How Google will soon dominating phones? Rats ... you should have been at the live show on Sunday night at 7:00 p.m. and you would have learned about all this and more. Bummed that you missed the live show? No problem! Just point your browser to http://edtechtalk.com/EdTechWeekly119. Jeff, Dave, John, and Jen review the week's roundup of news and resources in education and technology.

 

• Conversations Episode 29 3-15-09 

 

• WOW2 SHOW #109 With web 2.0 Guru Suzie Vesper from New Zealand!
   
   
• WOW2 Show #108 with MaryFriend Shepard

• Special Guest MaryFriend Shepard, Program Director of the Ph.D. Ed. Tech. program at Walden University, joins Cheri Toledo, Peggy George and Sharon Peters for a conversation about the benefits and added value of elearning.

• WOW2 Show #107 with Tony Vincent and Brent Coley

• Teachers Teaching Teachers #141 - VoiceThread Update with Ben and Steve along with Bill, Mattie, Mary Ellen & Colette - 02.25.09

 

 

• 21st Century Learning #97:Designing an open, web 2.0, personal learning network, online community building, project for teachers

    21st Century Learning #97
    Designing an open, web 2.0, personal learning network, online community building, project for teachers
    March 12, 2009

    We asked VoiceThread founders, Steve Muth and Ben Papell to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers February 25.

     We also invited three teachers whose art as educators includes using VoiceThread. Bill Ferriter, Mattie Ettenheim, Mary Ellen Rudolph, Colette Cassinelli and others!