Week of August 22-28, 2009
Welcome to this week's EdTechTalk (ETT) Newsletter! School bells are ringing and there is renewed energy and excitement in the air as the new school year begins in many of our schools. While many of our EdTechTalk shows took a brief hiatus this summer so show hosts could get a much-needed, well-deserved break, the webcasts are beginning to return with that same renewed energy and excitement. Many of the latest webcasts are talking about great new plans and ideas being considered for classrooms/schools and professional development endeavors. "EdTechBrainstorm" this week already started brainstorming about exciting ideas for Earthcast 2010! "Teachers Teaching Teachers" had another fantastic conversation about new ideas for using Youth Voices with students this year and are exploring the use of Diigo as part of Youth Voices. "Conversations" with Lisa Parisi and Maria Knee had a lively discussion and sharing of ideas last week around the topic of alternatives for developing your own personal learning plan as an educator. If you missed any of these shows, be sure to check out the recordings and chat logs on our website. You can also subscribe to the EdTechTalk newsletter via RSS feed and have them all delivered directly to your feedreader!! The link to subscribe to the feed is at the bottom of every ETT newsletter--see link and instructions below. It's really been inspiring to see various tweets coming through where people are sharing they just finished listening to an ETT recording that may have aired any time during the past year!! Awesome way to keep our learning going any time/any place! The show archives are there for you whenever you want them.
The Week in Review
At the beginning of this podcast [0:44 - 18:52] Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim talk to three Google managers and engineers about a new Docs feature: being able to upload our own templates. We were joined by:
- Ronald Ho, a Google Docs Product Manager
- Michael Thomas and Valerie Blechar, Google Docs Templates Engineers
Next up [18:53 - 29:29] are three people from
The East-West School of International Studies
(EWSIS), Ben Sherman, Principal. Paul Allison teaches English at EWSIS, and he is joined in the second part of this podcast by his colleague and two students who had just returned from a 10-day visit to Japan which was sponsored by
Women Welcome Women World Wide
Finally we find some (although not nearly enough) time [29:30 - 36:21] to talk with
Larry Newberger, Tech Liaison for the Ozarks Writing Project (OWP). Larry was excited to report on a 5-day OWP Advanced Institute on Digital Storytelling,
"Trachers Traversing the Technology Highway, that he had just finished. Don't miss their teachers Digital Stories and VoiceThreads
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