Week of October 3 - 9, 2009

Welcome to the newsletter for the entire EdTechTalk community! This past week was a great treat for ETT listeners! Lisa Parisi and Maria Knee hit a milestone for their show, 'Conversations'. This past Sunday marked their 50th show at ETT!

EdTechBrainstorm saw a return of show Doug Symington and interviewed Paul Coleman, Chief Information Officer from Asian University for Women http://asian-university.org/index.htm ,special guest from Bangladesh.

The K12Online Live Events Committee has announced the date for the second live event of the 2009 K12Online conference. The second LAN party will be held October 20, 2009 from 6:00pm to 8pm. Presentations from past conferences will be shown at EdtechTalk and the presenters will again join in the discussion in the ETT chatroom. Confirmed presenters are Silvia Tolisano and Seedlings show co-hosts Alice Barr, Cheryl Oakes and Bob Sprankle. The Ustream videos from the K12Online 2009 Conference - 1st LAN Party are now available. More information about the k12Online Conference is available at http://k12onlineconference.org/.

The Week in Review 

Parents as Partners Epidsode # 28 October 5, 2009

Penny and Joanne brought show hosts Cindy Seibel and Lorna Costantini up to date on their introduction of web 2.0 tools in their school. Wired Wednesdays are happening with Penny at the local library. Parents are working with Penny learning how to use Google applications like the calendar and setting their Facebook privacy settings. It is exciting to see Penny take a leadership role in educating parents. Joanne is celebrating the addition of 3 other teachers and her principal to the roster of teachers blogging in her school.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #171 - Troy Hicks and The Digital Writing Workshop, Part 2 of 3 - Exploring Author's Craft - 10.07.09

In this second episode of a three-part series, our guest host was Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University. Troy continued to explore the principles and practices described in the book. For this second episode, we also welcomed four Michigan teachers to the conversation, and they discussed how they teach the craft of digital writing:

  • Dawn Reed of Okemos High School discusses how students craft audio essays in the form of podcasts
  • Aram Kabodian of MacDonald Middle School shares his insights on the process of composing digital stories and public service announcements
  • Sharon Murchie of Bath High School describes how she guides her students through the research process for creating multimedia senior projects
  • Shannon Powell of Central Montcalm Middle School in Michigan discusses her experiences as a new teacher as she has begun to use digital writing in her classroom, including her recent integration of “SSR with RSS” for a class of reluctant readers

Next, on October 14th, Troy and another group of teachers who are featured in his book will discuss the process of conferring and response to student writers as they create digital texts.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #167 - Lennie Levin on Crossing to College - 09.09.09

If you are already using Youth Voices — or planning to soon, we think you'll enjoy this Teachers Teaching Teachers podcast , recorded about a month ago. We talked the Youth Voices curriculum, guides, and more! Lennie Irvin, who is having his first-year college writing students contributing to the “Crossing to College” group.   

Seedlings interviewed Joy Zabala and Cynthia Curry. They told us about Cast.org and all the work they are doing across the country. What a great show. If you are wondering how to get accessible materials into your classroom, check out this podcast. The resources are great. The show was great and the chat room came alive!

Lisa and Maria enjoyed their 50th show.  They discussed the Bucket Fillers program and Educon 2.2.  Diana Laufenberg joined them for the conference discussion.  Sheila was on vacation this week and will be back next week.

Once again, the EdTechWeekly gang serves up another week of EdTech links and resources.
 

ETBS: techno-dance-party-hang-out

Another old-fashioned ETBS hang-out in which we get together with some Creative Commons-licensed music from Speedsound complements of Jamendo. We also take Mikogo for a spin and take turns sharing desktops during a "global show and tell." Thanks to all who attended and those in the chatroom!

Alex and Arvind reflect on the end of year and plans for the summer.  They discussed professional development in open space and summer social media projects in Flickr and Shelfari. Jose Rodriguez joined us to discuss a the protesters who were hunger striking in the Spring. Mark Laura, Executive Director of NYSAIS joined us. Bill Stites from Montclair Kimberly Academy, in Montclair, New Jersey discussed the use of social media on their  Irish Studies 2009 trip.

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