Teachers Teaching Teachers

Teachers Teaching Teachers #118 - Interactive Communications and Simulations with Jeff Stanzler - 08.20.08

TTT Team — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:29:39 -0500

Our guests on this podcast were:

Jeff Stanzler. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, School of Education, Interactive Communications and Simulations, USA
Kurt Hansen, government teacher, Bishop Hartley High School, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Abbi Gee, English teacher, Da Vinci High School, Jackson, Michigan, USA
Traci Gizzi, social studies teacher, Winston Curchilll High School, Livonia, Michigan, USA

Listen to learn about the web-based simulations and writing projects
hosted by the University of Michigan's Interactive Communications & Simulations group. With the help of university student mentors, students in classrooms around the world are trying to resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict, or are exploring modern China, or bringing historical figures to life as they debate the world's responsibilities in Darfur. Hear from teachers and a former university student mentor about an array of projects your students can join as soon as this fall, which offer fertile ground for exercising their creative imaginations, writing with a purpose, and sharing their ideas with an engaged audience of peers.

"arab-israeli-conflict-3," uploaded on July 20, 2006 by ManilaRyce

For Chat Log click Read more, below.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #117 - Thinking about Classroom Blogging with Sarah Hurlburt - 08.13.08

TTT Team — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:14:57 -0500

In the midst of planning a re-launch of a school-based social network, Youth Voices, we happened upon a paper that clearly and fairly described the problems many of us face when we blog with students in our classrooms. In her paper in the June 2008 Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT Vol. 4, No. 2), Sarah Hurlburt discusses some of "frustrations and puzzlements" that many of us have had in using classroom blogs over the past several years.

Sarah articulates our reasons for wanting to set up a site like Youth Voices. Many of us have felt the gap between the promise of blogging and the results in our classrooms.

The point at which the instructor feels [classroom blogging] to have failed in some way, is when these individual written elements fail to interconnect – when the social element, upon which instructors place high hopes for a subsequent critical element – fails to materialize.

Defining Tools for a New Learning Space: Writing and Reading Class Blogs

Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim invited Sarah Hurlburt on to our webcast to continue the dialogue about blogging, and we were joined by elementary school teachers, Lisa Parisi and Linda Nitsche.

Enjoy the podcast, and read Sarah Hurlburt's paper.

Also, we invite you to help us re-launch http://youthvoices.net on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Join us, right here at EdTechTalk at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times.

For the Chat Log, click Read more, below.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #115 - Imagining a New Chapter- 07.30.08

TTT Team — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:50:58 -0500

Many of us (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), have already returned or will soon return to school. Our summer weeks of reflecting, learning, dreaming, planning, scheming are behind us. Perhaps it's useful to remember what our conversations from a few weeks back sounded like.

On this podcast, recorded a few weeks ago, Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim are joined by three other teachers who were just trying to enjoy their summer break:

Allice Barr, a technology integrator at Yarmouth High School, Maine
George Mayo, a middle school teacher and biker from Silver Spring, Maryland
Margare Fiore, an English Teacher with the New School and a member with the New York City Wriitng Project

One of the projects we've been working on this summer -- and which we discuss in this podcast -- is a new Drupal site for http://youthvoices.net. We are planning to launch the new site on our webcast this week.

We invite you to help us re-launch http://youthvoices.net on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Join us, right here at EdTechTalk at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times.

For the Chat Log, click Read more, below.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #114 - Re-thinking Youth Voices - 07.23.08

TTT Team — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:31:09 -0500

Over the past several weeks, Paul Allison, Alice Barr, Susan Ettenheim, George Mayo, and Chris Sloan have been working with Bill Fitzgerald and other primates at Funny Monkey to move two school-based social networks, The Personal Learning Space and Youth Voices to a new Drupal site. Several teachers have been working together on these projects, and some of the curriculum that we have developed together is available here, at http://youthplans.wikispaces.com/curriculum.

On this podcast, recorded a month ago, Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim welcome a student, a teacher, and our lead reaseacher and advisor for these projects:

Hannah Feldman, a junior at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA, USA
Lynn Culp, Northridge Academy, north of Los Angels, CA, USA
Dave Cormier, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada

We talk about what Youth Voices might become this coming school year.

Much work has been done on this project, and we invite you to join us as we re-launch http://youthvoices.net on Wednesday, August 27, 2008. Join us, right here at EdTechTalk at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times

For the Chat Log, click Read more, below.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #113 - Just-in-time, just-for-me reading - 07.16.08

TTT Team — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:59:11 -0500

Listen to a lively conversation about how to use Shelfari-- or how to get a similar site built -- to create a social networking site for students to share their book logs, reviews, and recommendations with each other.

Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison (and Lee Baber in the chat room) welcomed:

Amanda, the Community Manager at Shelfari
Bill Fitzgerald, our open-source friend and web developer from Funny Monkey
Wesley Fryer, who blogs and podcasts at Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Chat Log for TTT#116 - 08.06.08

TTT Team — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:18:06 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3253

Teachers Teaching Teachers #116 - Remembering Lee Baber - 08.06.08

TTT Team — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:53:42 -0500

At some point, as Alex Ragone suggests toward the end of this podcast, words
begin to fail. Other media aren't much help either.

For more words and media, please refer to Lee Baber - our friend.

Here are a few more of Lee's words and images, sent to us by Bee Dieu.

Lee's Archives (Many of these are not easy to read now.)

Three images from Second Life, Uploaded on August 10, 2007 by netopNyrop

Also see Doug Symington's "Snapshots from SL during Bee's keynote"

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Chat Log for TTT#112

TTT Team — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:12:16 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3234

Teachers Teaching Teachers #112 - Revisiting VoiceThread - 07.09.08

TTT Team — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:23 -0500

This July, Paul Allison and Julie Conason fascilated a 3-week Writing Project Institute for teachers where we used VoiceThread as the focus of one of our weeks together. In the middle of our work with teachers, we invited Steve Muth, co-founder of VoiceThread, and Colette Cassinelli, a technology teacher near Portland, Oregon who started a wiki that collects examples of VoiceThreads.

What will you find on Collette's VoiceThread4Education?

Samples submitted by teachers of VoiceThread projects made by their students

VoiceThreads used in professional development

Resources, including other websites that contain VoiceThread examples

Best Practices - tips and ideas of how to best implement VoiceThread in your curriculum

Subject area ideas

"This is your wiki," Colette writes: "Please feel free to add any ideas, examples or resources to the site and provide appropriate link attribution. If you are not sure how to embed your VoiceThread projects in wikispaces - follow the directions below."

In addition: Paul and Julie invite you to take a look at the "Narrative Discussions" from our Institute, linked below. We would love your comments on these.

VoiceThread Narrative Discussions
by Teachers in the NYC Writing Project's
Open/Advanced Summer Technology Institute
Family Camp by Paul Allison
Quality of Life by JoAnn Chen
Ellie Tells a Story by Julie Conason
Childhood... by Wendy Farkas
Life in Shards by Margaret Fiore
Honeymoon by Mat Gerowitz
My Loving Family by Julia Loving
Family Stories by Aileen Malave
Travel by Sonali Matani
Amsterdam 2008 by Julie Miele
My Running... by Beth St John

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Chat Log for TTT#111

TTT Team — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:53:39 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3231

Teachers Teaching Teachers #111 - A Delight of Learning at NECC 2008 - 07.02.08

TTT Team — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:45:55 -0500

We asked Scott Floyd to sit with some of his friends and colleagues on July, 2, 2008, the last day of the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in San Antonio, Texas.

Scott Floyd talks about meeting with his ePortfolio mentor, Dr. Helen Barrett. Scott Floyd is a Technology Specialist for the White Oak, Texas Independent School District and he's the Tech Liaison for the Bluebonnet Writing Project in Texas. (Image snapped by Bud Hunt, uploaded to Scott's flickr account.)

Christine Voigt, Instructional Technology Specialist at Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas, Texas. Christie talks about a project she did in here school with iPods. (Image from Christine's Twitter profile.)

Michael Gras, Supervisor of the Technology Department in the White Oak, Texas Independent School District, talks about opening things up as much as possible. (Also in this picture is Jeff Utecht, presenting a dilpoma after the Rib Feast. Found in Scott's NECC2008 flickr set.)

Scott Floyd talks with Dean Shareski, a Digital Learning Consultant with the Prairie South School Division in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada. In this podcast, Dean talks about how important it is to find time for teachers to learn how to integrate new technologies into the curriculum. (Paul Wood took this picture during the live webcast. This is also in Scott's NECC2008 flickr set.)

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Chat Log for TTT#110

TTT Team — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:37:26 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3211

Teachers Teaching Teachers #110 - Joyca Valenza on PowerPoint Reform and Gail Desler & Sue Waters on Edublogs

TTT Team — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:26:55 -0500

Joyce Valenza talks about reforming PowerPoint in the first half hour of this podcast. She provided this resource as well: Reforming Powerpoint. (Also of interest, perhaps: DavidByrne.com - Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information.)

In the second half of the show Gail Desler and Sue Waters decsribed the teaching community around Edublogs.

Enjoy!

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Chat Log for TTT#109

TTT Team — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:22:33 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3204

Teachers Teaching Teachers #109 - Cybercamps, Summer Invitationals, Institutes, and Workshops- 06.18.08

TTT Team — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:11:37 -0500

We invite you to join us as we reflect on Writing Project Summer Institutes and other professional development opportunities we have or will be facilitating for our colleagues this summer.

Please take a moment, go register and leave your comments over at our Teachers Teaching Teachers room on http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ttt and take a look at some of the sites we've been collecting there for this Wednesday's live webcast.

Hear what Bud Hunt (Colorado), Mary Meyer (Prairie Lands Writing Project), and Bonnie Kaplan (Hudson ValleyWriting Project) have been up to:

Blogging with Summer Institute 2008
A blog for integrating technology into the Hudson Valley Writing Project's Summer Institute. Bonnie Kaplan, technology liaison will be with us on TTT, Wednesday night, June 18.
Writing With Technology
Mary Meyer will be with us on Wednesday to reflect on this work.
CyberCamp 08
Bud Hunt's work in his district over the past couple of weeks. Bud will be with us (an maybe a participant or two).

What are you doing to bring 21st century literacies to your Writing Project or in your district or school this summer?

Also listen to Julie Conason and Paul Allison on this podcast as they talk about the 3-week institute they are planning for the New York City Writing Project.'

Lee Baber checks in on this podcast as well. Stay strong Lee!

Photo: Uploaded to flickr on August 16, 2007 by Wesley Fryer

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Chat Log for TTT#108

TTT Team — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:25:21 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3194

Teachers Teaching Teachers #108 - Planning all out in the open - 06.11.08

TTT Team — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:12:13 -0500

On this podcast you'll hear Felicia George, Bill O'Neal, Susan Ettenheim, Cheryl Oakes, and Gail Desler as they help Paul Allison and Julie Conason think about this Summer Instutute for teachers in the New York City Writing Project.

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Youth Space

Using Web 2.0 tools to build
social networks for learning
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New York City Writing Project

Institute for Literacy Studies
Lehman College, CUNY
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Summer Advanced Institute
Mondays - Thursdays, 9 - 2
June 30 - July 17
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How can we use technology to put the voices of youth at the center of the curriculum?

Spend 12 days this summer with other New York City Writing Project teachers who use technology in their classrooms. Share the ways we use the Internet to make student-to-student connections. Learn about a curriculum currently being developed and collaborated on by teachers across the nation. Explore how we use blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other tools to inspire young people to do research into their own questions.

Find out why Creative Commons Man is our superhero!

Facilitators: Paul Allison and Julie Conason
Location: Lehman College, CUNY

Participants will receive 3 graduate credits or a $500 stipend.

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Chat Log for TTT#107 - 06.04.08

TTT Team — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:45:24 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3186

Teachers Teaching Teachers #107 - What have we learned this year with VoiceThread? 06.04.08

TTT Team — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:47:25 -0500

Join Matt Montagne, Ben Papelle, Susan Ettenheim, Paul Allison, Chris Sloan, Bill O'Neal, and Hannah Feldman in a reflective conversation about where we have come this year, and where we want to go next year.

We especially look at how to move beyond our initial infatuation with VoiceThread to a more long-lasting relationship that emphasises what VoiceThread probably does best: inspire, generate, and build online conversatons.

Here are a couple of VoiceThreads that were made back in February 2008. Many of us used these to prepare our students for the Many Voices for Darfur project that George Mayo and Wendy Dexler organized in the first week of March 2008.

I present this pair of VoiceThreads as an example. By comparing the presentation that I, Paul Allison, made (top) with the of the kind of collaborative space created by Bill Ferriter (Darth Tater) and his 6th Graders in North Carolina (bottom), we can begin to understand the constructive critique that we build up to on this podcast.

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Chat Log for TTT#106 - 05.28.08

TTT Team — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:50:58 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3178

Teachers Teaching Teachers #106 - What's new about creating projects in the digital age? 05.28.08

TTT Team — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:42:33 -0500

Except for our colleagues in the the Southern Hemisphere, many of us are either already enjoying the summer holidays or we are looking forward to them coming soon. Teachers often use this time to relax and reflect on their work. We collaborate with other teachers in summer workshops and catch up on professional reading. Summer Invitational Institutes are the heart of the work for National Writing Projects across the country. What a better time to stop and take a look at a new book by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss? Their book, Reinventing Project Based Learning was published earlier this year, and many of us will be using this book to guide our project planning processes.

To learn more about this "Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age," we asked Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss to join us on this podcast. The magic of doing this live allowed us to also include Chris Lehman, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA and Gail Desler, Technology Integration Specialist for Elk Grove Unified School District in Sacramento, CA. and Tech Liaison for the Area 3 Writing Project.

Enjoy the conversation! And don't forget to check out the chat and our FriendFeed room that has many of the links that are mentioned in this podcast.

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Chat Log for TTT#102 - 04.30.08

TTT Team — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:11:52 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3172
20:17:25 paulallison: http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Main_Page
20:42:57 paulallison: hi
20:43:55 paulallison: do you have ginger crocket?
20:48:56 SusanEttenheim: hi yes
20:52:08 SusanEttenheim: hi jennar
20:58:46 paulallison: We'll start soon
21:03:48 SusanEttenheim: hi bill you on?
21:03:56 Bill O'Neal: I'm fine. And you?
21:03:57 SusanEttenheim: hi hfeldman hi wlecome
21:04:01 SusanEttenheim: welcome
21:04:05 hfeldman: Hello
21:04:05 SusanEttenheim: where are you?

Teachers Teaching Teachers #102 - Connecting to Place-based Education in Alaska - 4.30.08

TTT Team — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:31:12 -0500

The ice has melted, many are off fishing, and schools have graduated their seniors in the rural areas of Alaska where our guests for this podcast are from. But our colleagues in Alaska have already begun planning for the next academic year, and on this podcast, you can find way to connect with them. In this podcast, we focused on the "Digital Foxfire approach to Placed-based Education" that seems to describe some of the work in the schools in Marshall, Alaska and in the Bering Strait School District (BSSD). Our guides for this conversation were:

John Concilus, Director of Technology, BSSD
Ginger Crockett, teacher Brevig Mission, Alaska
Woody Woodgate, who will soon be working for the State of Alaska's Education and Early Development Department
Flora Evan, Language Arts teacher, Marshall, Alaska

Listen to the podcast, then connect! Click Read more (below), and see what they are cooking up in the Bering Strait School District. Add your thoughts to their survey, and click Contact. We'll see you there.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #101 - Collaborating in the Bering Sea - 04.23.08

TTT Team — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:09:53 -0500

On this podcast Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison are joined by John Concilus, Director of Educational Technology, and a student from one of the schools in the Bering Strait School District. John introduced himself a few weeks ago by responding to an earlier podcast with a "Comment and Invitation for Collaboration."

Learn more about the Bering Strait School District and their work with technology. Then this Wednesday, April 30, join John Concilus again, plus a teacher from Brevig Mission, AK, Ginger Crockett, and others. Woody Woodgate and a colleague may be joining us as well. (Maybe we'll finally find out more about that seal hunt.)

We are excited to continue our connections with teachers in Alaska, and in particular we want to learn more about "place-based education." Here's what John said in a recent email:

We've already decided at the budget meeting to move forward with our Digital Foxfire program next school year. I'll have more information about this by Wednesday, but will have a form set up by then for having potentially intersted partner schools sign up.

Where's Brevig Mission? Check out this map, and use the zoom to find where you are in relation to Ginger's school.

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Brevig Mission School map TTT 101 April 23, 2008
placed-based education
http://edtechtalk.com/node/3101/1231#comment-1231
edtech@bssd.org
blog.bssd.org

Some projects involving sites in multiple locations using our Wiki, Ning, etc...

http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/2008_Social_Networking_Collaboration

http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/2008_Social_Networking_Project_Two

Chat Log for TTT#100:Making Space on Youth Twitter - 04.16.08

TTT Team — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:34:13 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3148

Teachers Teaching Teachers

Teachers Teaching Teachers #118 - Interactive Communications and Simulations with Jeff Stanzler - 08.20.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #117 - Thinking about Classroom Blogging with Sarah Hurlburt - 08.13.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #115 - Imagining a New Chapter- 07.30.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #114 - Re-thinking Youth Voices - 07.23.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #113 - Just-in-time, just-for-me reading - 07.16.08

Chat Log for TTT#116 - 08.06.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #116 - Remembering Lee Baber - 08.06.08

Chat Log for TTT#112

Teachers Teaching Teachers #112 - Revisiting VoiceThread - 07.09.08

Chat Log for TTT#111

Teachers Teaching Teachers #111 - A Delight of Learning at NECC 2008 - 07.02.08

Chat Log for TTT#110

Teachers Teaching Teachers #110 - Joyca Valenza on PowerPoint Reform and Gail Desler & Sue Waters on Edublogs

Chat Log for TTT#109

Teachers Teaching Teachers #109 - Cybercamps, Summer Invitationals, Institutes, and Workshops- 06.18.08

Chat Log for TTT#108

Teachers Teaching Teachers #108 - Planning all out in the open - 06.11.08

Summer Advanced Institute Mondays - Thursdays, 9 - 2 June 30 - July 17 ______________________

Chat Log for TTT#107 - 06.04.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #107 - What have we learned this year with VoiceThread? 06.04.08

Chat Log for TTT#106 - 05.28.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #106 - What's new about creating projects in the digital age? 05.28.08

Chat Log for TTT#102 - 04.30.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #102 - Connecting to Place-based Education in Alaska - 4.30.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #101 - Collaborating in the Bering Sea - 04.23.08

Chat Log for TTT#100:Making Space on Youth Twitter - 04.16.08

Summer Advanced Institute
Mondays - Thursdays, 9 - 2
June 30 - July 17
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