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21st Century Learning #104
Teaching with Technology 2009 a NEIT Production
May 7, 2009

A conversation debriefing the NYSAIS Techning with Technology 2009.  TWT2009 was a teacher lead technology professional development conference.  Check out the session information at the wiki here: TWT2009 Schedule and notes. 

What is your favorite technology professional development?

21st Century Learning #102
Checking in with arvind, Alex and Vinnie
April 23, 2009

arvind, Alex and Vinnie chat about what's going on at their schools; what the rest of the year looks like; and plans for the summer and next school year. 

Click here for the chat transcript

2009-04-23 12:05:21  Jane Sousa -> -Earthbridges: hi
2009-04-23 12:07:41  Jane Sousa -> -Earthbridges: hi
2009-04-23 12:08:24  Jane Sousa -> -Earthbridges: ...
2009-04-23 12:08:29  Rye JH 2 -> -Earthbridges: hi
2009-04-23 12:08:34  Jane Sousa -> -Earthbridges: how are you?
2009-04-23 12:10:06  Rye JH 2 -> -Earthbridges: hey
2009-04-23 12:10:33  Rye JH 2 -> -Earthbridges: okay. bye
2009-04-23 12:22:09  Jane Sousa -> -Earthbridges: hi
2009-04-23 13:05:34  arvind ->  hi Sarah!
2009-04-23 13:05:43  VinnieVrotny ->  Hey Sarah.
2009-04-23 13:05:46  sarah H ->  hello!
2009-04-23 13:06:56  arvind ->  hey Bill
2009-04-23 13:08:29  arvind ->  hi Matt
2009-04-23 13:08:39  matt montagne ->  hey arvind et al
2009-04-23 13:08:56  matt montagne ->  is audio onustream????
2009-04-23 13:08:59  arvind ->  we haven't officially started, but we're chatting
2009-04-23 13:09:01  arvind ->  should be
2009-04-23 13:09:04  wstites ->  Is the audio going yet?
2009-04-23 13:09:05  wstites ->  ok
2009-04-23 13:09:15  matt montagne ->  new ustream interface
2009-04-23 13:09:33  arvind ->  sorry, one sec
2009-04-23 13:09:35  matt montagne ->  I'm not getting audio from ustream
2009-04-23 13:09:39  arvind ->  new UStream interface, getting used to it
2009-04-23 13:09:41  alex.ragone ->  working now?
2009-04-23 13:09:42  arvind ->  can you hear us now?
2009-04-23 13:09:43  matt montagne ->  there we go
2009-04-23 13:09:48  alex.ragone ->  Ragone needs to be fired.
2009-04-23 13:10:00  matt montagne ->  I don't think so!
2009-04-23 13:10:02  sarah H ->  serious echo
2009-04-23 13:10:09  wstites ->  @alex.ragone - Had a good call wth Dan and Pat
2009-04-23 13:10:11  matt montagne ->  I've been known to make a mess of the stream
2009-04-23 13:10:15  sarah H ->  oops, my fault
2009-04-23 13:10:43  wstites ->  Yup
2009-04-23 13:10:47  wstites ->  killing me!!!
2009-04-23 13:11:23  arvind ->  hi Melissa, welcome to EdTechTalk
2009-04-23 13:11:31  wstites ->  hahahahaha
2009-04-23 13:11:50  wstites ->  New Jersey Educational Computer Cooperative
2009-04-23 13:12:03  wstites ->  http://www.njecc.org
2009-04-23 13:12:10  Melissa Smith ->  saw an invitation in Twitter - just stopping thru
2009-04-23 13:12:12  wstites ->  Advisor... not on the board
2009-04-23 13:12:31  arvind ->  @Melissa great, audio on UStream on the right
2009-04-23 13:12:39  wstites ->  organized chaos
2009-04-23 13:14:20  Melissa Smith ->  agree - been in  here before and did that too - gracious to arvind for the hint to the audio
2009-04-23 13:14:26  Melissa Smith ->  82 in memphis
2009-04-23 13:14:46  wstites ->  @arvind - need to get in the water
2009-04-23 13:14:55  arvind ->  I hear that!
2009-04-23 13:15:14  Melissa Smith ->  lovely
2009-04-23 13:15:22  Melissa Smith ->  i blocked a cussing elmo the other day
2009-04-23 13:17:46  Melissa Smith ->  yammer?
2009-04-23 13:18:04  alex.ragone ->  https://www.yammer.com/home
2009-04-23 13:18:07  wstites ->  Have you gotten teachers on Twitter full blown yet?
2009-04-23 13:18:21  arvind ->  http://yammer.com
2009-04-23 13:18:34  Melissa Smith ->  We have a handful - but most "don't have the time"
2009-04-23 13:18:46  Melissa Smith ->  one class twitters during the day
2009-04-23 13:19:26  matt montagne ->  "Twitter is the messaging system we didn't know we needed" the folks at twitter
2009-04-23 13:19:39  sarah H ->  Our HOS started twittering recently.  He follows just a few people, including me, so I am feeling paranoid lately.
2009-04-23 13:19:47  matt montagne ->  "Yammer is the messaging system Arvind's/Alex's schools didn't know they needed"
2009-04-23 13:20:09  matt montagne ->  unanticipated outcomes of these resources is the beauty
2009-04-23 13:20:18  VinnieVrotny ->  Yammer reduces the distance
2009-04-23 13:20:42  wstites ->  Teachers need a purpose or reason to use Twitter or Yammer
2009-04-23 13:20:46  matt montagne ->  look at Alex's use of twitter with grade 1 students
2009-04-23 13:20:58  Melissa Smith ->  what was the reaction of the teachers to have to use this tool?    is there a 140 character limit?
2009-04-23 13:21:09  wstites ->  Wrote blog post about finding a tool to help find meaning: http://www.edsocialmedia.com/2009/04/twitter-teachers-and-the-tool/
2009-04-23 13:21:41  Melissa Smith ->  thanks
2009-04-23 13:22:14  arvind ->  Alex is talking about this Wall Street Journal article about the Kindle with his admin team: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123980920727621353.html
2009-04-23 13:22:28  arvind ->  @Melissa - no 140 character limit, and you can add attachments, which is cool
2009-04-23 13:23:06  arvind ->  @bill I thought people would need more of a reason to join Yammer, but they got it fast. There is a happy hour group, which people get, then there are professional-type groups
2009-04-23 13:23:11  arvind ->  Oh yeah, nice feature of Yammer, groups
2009-04-23 13:23:37  Melissa Smith ->  what is twitter camp?
2009-04-23 13:23:39  arvind ->  Alex just mentioned TwitterCamp which is great: http://www.danieldura.com/code/twittercamp
2009-04-23 13:23:46  Melissa Smith ->  nice thinkin
2009-04-23 13:23:48  Melissa Smith ->  g
2009-04-23 13:24:07  wstites ->  Yesterday I posted something about trying to get a Vodafone (Ireland telco) boradband modem and was contact by them within minutes.
2009-04-23 13:24:16  alex.ragone ->  http://search.twitter.com/search?q=coll-treasure
2009-04-23 13:24:27  wstites ->  Amazing how the follow/search feature works
2009-04-23 13:24:44  matt montagne ->  we have all sorts of kids who are on facebook b4 13...there parents allow them to do it so tehy can connect with family and stuff...
2009-04-23 13:26:07  arvind ->  hey Durff!
2009-04-23 13:26:08  matt montagne ->  It is kinda funny, but when u imagine the "21st century school" you start to think of the features in a 1st grade class and the old one room school houses
2009-04-23 13:26:09  wstites ->  We are asking questions about privacy with Facebook groups/pages for school with kids and student... if their profiles aren't protected there is risk of exposure.
2009-04-23 13:26:31  wstites ->  Gotta head out for a conference call... have a great conversation everyone
2009-04-23 13:26:54  matt montagne ->  let 'em bring things they already own!!!
2009-04-23 13:27:14  arvind ->  thanks for being here, Bill
2009-04-23 13:27:33  matt montagne ->  chau...gotta run
2009-04-23 13:29:37  alex.ragone ->  http://www.edmodo.com/
2009-04-23 13:29:48  arvind ->  Vinnie just mentioned http://www.edmodo.com/ a microblogging network for educators
2009-04-23 13:29:55  Melissa Smith ->  great guy - quick to help you out
2009-04-23 13:29:55  arvind ->  darn, Alex beat me to it!
2009-04-23 13:31:02  Melissa Smith ->  would it be wrong to set up a place in SL for meeting?  what about a snapfish site to share photos
2009-04-23 13:32:34  arvind ->  hey Randy, welcome
2009-04-23 13:32:35  arvind ->  audio on the right
2009-04-23 13:32:46  arvind ->  on UStream
2009-04-23 13:33:06  arvind ->  I struggle to introduce people to Second Life - too hard to get started
2009-04-23 13:33:12  arvind ->  downloads are too web 1.0 :)
2009-04-23 13:33:25  arvind ->  unless it's for an iPhone or BlackBerry
2009-04-23 13:34:07  mrsdurff ->  our wifi is rrrreasaalllly sllllloooooooooow todaay
2009-04-23 13:35:13  Melissa Smith ->  wanting to do that next year
2009-04-23 13:35:31  Melissa Smith ->  google apps - why buy microsoft office when you got google?
2009-04-23 13:35:34  arvind ->  hi lesliel, audion on the right at UStream
2009-04-23 13:35:59  Melissa Smith ->  you letting kids have their own google homepage - set up how that they want?
2009-04-23 13:36:18  Melissa Smith ->  who is monitoring the kids email?
2009-04-23 13:36:38  arvind ->  the CIA? ;)
2009-04-23 13:36:41  sarah H ->  @arvind yep. I have had two false starts and never really got in
2009-04-23 13:37:20  Melissa Smith ->  HAHA - well they are now !
2009-04-23 13:38:13  sarah H ->  I'm watching a Google Apps for Ed Webinar It's next Tuesday at 1pm eastern
2009-04-23 13:39:10  alex.ragone ->  Hey Folks!
2009-04-23 13:39:42  Melissa Smith ->  sarah - what's the link for that?
2009-04-23 13:40:17  arvind ->  from @mrsdurff via Twitter: here, just can't interact - we are using Edmodo for our handshake period with another classroom in another state
2009-04-23 13:40:54  alex.ragone ->  Thanks @mrsdurff
2009-04-23 13:40:58  sarah H ->  https://googleonline.webex.com/mw0305l/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&si...
2009-04-23 13:41:03  Melissa Smith ->  moodle seems to really be taking off
2009-04-23 13:41:05  sarah H ->  sorry, it's awfully long
2009-04-23 13:42:46  Melissa Smith ->  laptop institute?  that's here in Memphis!  have you seen how they are using social medial such as facebook for networking and advertising?
2009-04-23 13:43:14  VinnieVrotny ->  yes Melissa, we had Lorri Jackson on last week.
2009-04-23 13:43:23  arvind ->  some convo about streaming NECC here: http://www.necc2008.org/forum/topics/1997968:Topic:18448
2009-04-23 13:44:02  Melissa Smith ->  OH!  I listened to that!  :-) durr
2009-04-23 13:44:40  Melissa Smith ->  the connections in my brain are occurring
2009-04-23 13:46:39  arvind ->  http://ebooks.nypl.org
2009-04-23 13:46:59  Melissa Smith ->  how is the outside view on a kindle - can you see the screen?
2009-04-23 13:48:05  arvind ->  You can see it anywhere that you can see a book
2009-04-23 13:48:10  Melissa Smith ->  cool
2009-04-23 13:48:13  arvind ->  and you can't see it where you can't see a book (i.e. the dark)
2009-04-23 13:48:24  Melissa Smith ->  enjoyed listening - ;-)
2009-04-23 13:48:36  arvind ->  oops, Pam, just finishing up here
2009-04-23 13:48:37  sarah H ->  by all!
2009-04-23 13:49:06  arvind ->  thanks for being here everyone!
2009-04-23 13:49:07  mrsdurff ->  bye
2009-04-23 13:52:27  akatz ->  hi everyone
2009-04-23 13:52:57  akatz ->  got the link off twitter, so i thought id say hello
 

21st Century Learning #101
Lorrie on Social Media in for Advancement and Admissions
April 16, 2009

This week, Lorrie Jackson, Director of Marketing at Lausanne Collegiate School and author of "Are We Really Listening: Social Media and the Marketing of Independent Schools" in the Winter 09 issue of Independent School Magazine joined us. Topic included how our constituents are using social media to make admissions, fund-raising and retention decisions, why every school needs to think beyond the alumni Facebook page and what lessons can be learned from the schools already in the social media fray.

21st Century Learning #99
Sarah Hanawald - Designing Games and Activities for Faculty Professional Development
April 2, 2009

Sarah Hanawald from Greensboro Day School and the Literacy, Technology, and Learning blog joined us this week.  We discussed desiging games and simulations for faculty professional development around using social learning tools.

What are your thoughts about this?  How would you design a game for faculty to learn how to participate in online communities? 

* Photo from: Vizzzual-dot-com