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EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #40
Jason Hyams and School Web Portals
April 24, 2007
Jason Hyams joins us to discuss St. Agnes School's impressive web portal where you can download Microsoft Office, get your homework assignments, submit help desk requests for your laptop and more. Also hear about their wireless network that serves 750 simultaneous users!
Next week we have Lorrie Jackson from the Lausanne Laptop Institute, a summer program for schools with 1:1 laptop programs. That's Tuesday May 1st, 1:30 PM EST (GMT-4) at EdTechTalk.com.
Madeline Brownstone, a teacher Baccalaureate School for Global Education, NYC, kicked off this episode by talking about how she has begun to us Trailfire in her classroom.
...Pat, and his co-founder John O’Halloran had noticed that Madeline was using Trailfire for teaching a couple of weeks ago. They were interested to follow Madeline’s work Since they “are currently focusing on the education market for Trailfire.”
A few audio issues hampered our beginning, but we still managed to experiment with some great web tools and we “connected” a few more people.This is a great group!
Join Cheryl and Sharon as we interview Steve Dembo!
Sharon's Questions:
What does Discovery Educator Network offer teachers?
How many members in that network?
Can
you describe the DEN relationship with United Streaming? Is there
anything like it for free or lower cost for those in a public school
setting without the resources for US?
Recently
(yesterday?) you blogged about your thoughts on Bud the Teacher's
question about identity with big orgs for teacher networking for
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