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2012-2-13 SEEDlings with Mike Muir

We’re joined by Mike Muir (Multiple Pathways Leader, Meaningful and Engaged Learning, Projects 4 ME with Dr. Mike Muir, large school change specialist)!

Show Notes

Geek of the Week

Chat:


(22:45:11) Cheryl Oakes ~SEEDLINGS (guest-2410): Check out my settings. Be back at 7:15 pm EST

(23:59:30) Cheryl Oakes! Seedlings (guest-2410): Please go here! http://edtechtalk.com/chat

(00:00:52) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Hi all

(00:06:00) Cheryl Oakes! Seedlings (guest-2410): we are waiting and doing our sound checks

(00:07:24) bobsprankle (guest-2415): hey all

(00:12:05) bobsprankle (guest-2415): Please go here! http://edtechtalk.com/chat

(00:13:59) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Cool iPad skype!

(00:17:42) Cheryl Oakes! Seedlings (guest-2410): Listening at edtechtalkA

(00:22:01) guest-2416: Mulitple Pathways Leader, Meaningful and Engaged Learning, Projects 4 ME with Dr. Mike Muir, large school change specialist

(00:23:27) guest-2416: Update on Projects 4 ME, in Jan. big meeting to reflect on the first half year

(00:25:11) bobsprankle (guest-2415): thanks guest for the notetaking!

(00:25:27) guest-2416: 23 Auburn students and other schools can join in. Student designed learning and standards based.

(00:26:47) guest-2416: It is a program for high risk kids, who are very self-motivated.

(00:27:35) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://multiplepathways.wordpress.com/

(00:28:17) guest-2416: This program is for non traditional students.

(00:28:50) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://www.projects4me.org/

(00:29:04) guest-2416: Alice that for the links!

(00:29:21) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Welcome!

(00:29:36) guest-2416: Thanks for the links!

(00:30:17) guest-2416: http://mcmel-resources.wikispaces.com/Doing+1to1+Right

(00:30:35) guest-2416: http://www.mcmel.org/

(00:30:53) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://www.mcmel.org/

(00:31:05) connect2jamie (guest-2468): Hi all! Glad to "see" you all! Late, but made it!

(00:31:10) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Oh you beat me to it!! Thanks

(00:31:20) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Hello Connect 2 Jamie!

(00:31:21) guest-2416: Jamie, hello and welcome, back.

(00:31:26) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Glad to see you here

(00:31:44) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Did you figure out how to hear?

(00:31:51) connect2jamie (guest-2468): Glad to see all of you too! haven't made it in awhile! Miss you all! :)

(00:32:01) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): School must be here for everyone!

(00:32:08) connect2jamie (guest-2468): Yes I did--took me a minute, but I can hear now!

(00:32:33) bobsprankle (guest-2415): Hello Jamie!

(00:32:54) connect2jamie (guest-2468): Hey Bob!

(00:36:02) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://www.maine.gov/education/plan/index.html

(00:37:12) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): One of the books educators in Maine have been reading is "Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning"

(00:37:48) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://masscustomizedlearning.com/

(00:41:40) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://www.reinventingschools.org/

(00:50:22) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414):http://institute2011.auburnschl.edu/Institute_Resources_files/Resources_...

(00:51:20) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414):http://www.mpbn.net/News/MaineNewsArchive/tabid/181/ctl/ViewItem/mid/347...

(00:56:13) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): Alice great job with these links.

(00:56:15) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): HI Bonnieb abd tomj Can you see how to listen and enter the chat room?

(00:57:20) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): If you go to http://edtechtalk.com/chat

(00:57:24) bonnieb: Yes, I am listening- thanks. Had to take a call for a moment.

(00:57:39) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): ok, glad you are here

(00:57:40) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): No problem. Thanks for joining us!

(00:57:56) bonnieb: Very interested to hear the latest news from Auburn K project :^)

(00:58:26) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Sounds like you have to wait till Thursday :(

(00:58:39) bobsprankle (guest-2415): Hi Bonnie!

(00:58:49) bonnieb: Hi Bob!

(00:59:02) tomj: Yes Alice

(00:59:10) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): WE are piloting iPads in Grade 1

(00:59:24) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): God TomJ Glad youa re here!

(00:59:35) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Whoops! Good TomJ!

(01:01:05) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://palmbeachschooltalk.com/groups/ipadpilot/blog/

(01:01:18) bonnieb: Yes, hope that all we be posted to the website on Thursday. Will spread the word!

(01:02:41) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://institute2011.auburnschl.edu/Agenda.html

(01:02:57) bonnieb: It was great- was delighted to have had the chance to attend.

(01:03:33) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Lucky you! @bonnieb

(01:03:44) bonnieb: Really loved the design- was very effective.

(01:03:44) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Heard it was great!

(01:03:51) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): That is awesome, Bonnie. Do you have an ipad in your classroom?

(01:05:21) bonnieb: I am partnering with some area PreK programs/colleagues in different settings (Montessori, Head Start, family child care, and a public program) testing out iPads with preK children.

(01:05:56) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Oh that's so interesting! WIll be great to have many view points

(01:06:02) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): This is great Bonnie, please share more!

(01:06:24) bonnieb: Also in discussion with Hillary Brumer and a colleague working with English Language learners- have an article to write soon, so trying to explore with younger children.

(01:06:57) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): Great! Hillary is great to work with.

(01:07:11) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Wonderful! We met Hillary when we went to the session for Special ed this summer.

(01:07:29) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): I think the ipad will be a game changer for ELL

(01:08:38) bonnieb: re: Auburn conference, lots of info here:http://institute2011.auburnschl.edu/Institute_Resources.html and did an article for children's technology review which is listed there.

(01:08:58) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): Go Bonnieb!!!

(01:09:12) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): These links will add to our resources.

(01:10:24) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): You go Bonnie! God stuff!

(01:10:35) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Ahck GOOD stuff

(01:14:33) bonnieb: Glad to finally have joined the group-oddly enough, am out of town this week :^)

(01:14:59) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): glad you are here too! Thanks for all you shared.

(01:16:05) bonnieb: Oops-closed iTunes so turned off the sound, but wanted to add free example Lomba Kapal mentioned by an ADE playing with iBOoks author.

(01:16:38) bonnieb: would love to hear more about your iPad experiences with youner children. Thanks!

(01:18:25) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): geek of week!

(01:19:40) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://dotepub.com

(01:22:17) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): http://neoninc.org/budburst/aboutus.php

(01:23:17) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): blogsy writing tool for writing blogs

(01:23:52) connect2jamie (guest-2468): LOVE budburst!

(01:24:06) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): Thanks Jamie, are you a member?

(01:24:46) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): member for budburst?

(01:24:57) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://googleearthwalks.com/

(01:25:06) connect2jamie (guest-2468): No--I meant thanks for the link! It looks really cool. We have done JourneyNorth before and it was really fun and interesting for the kids.

(01:25:33) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): This looks like a very similar one! Enjoy.

(01:25:55) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://www.goodworkproject.org/practice/our-space/

(01:27:13) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): http://edcampme.wikispaces.com/

(01:27:14) Cheryl Oakes ~Seedlings~ (guest-2416): Paperport app! It is awesome.

(01:27:41) connect2jamie (guest-2468): WOW! Our Space looks very interesting! Will def spend some time there.

(01:28:33) connect2jamie (guest-2468): Thanks all! It was very interesting tonight--

(01:28:41) guest-2474: great show everyone - thanks

(01:28:46) bonnieb: Yes- thanks!!!

(01:29:00) connect2jamie (guest-2468): Night all! Have a great week!

(01:29:09) bobsprankle (guest-2415): night all!

(01:29:09) Alice (SEEDlings) (guest-2414): Thank you all!

We’re joined by Mike Muir (Multiple Pathways Leader, Meaningful and Engaged Learning, Projec

2012-1-9 SEEDLings with Gary James

We are joined by Gary James

Gary's website: Apps for Children with Special Needs

Geek of the Week links.

SEEDlings on Facebook

We are joined by Gary James

Gary's website: Apps for Children with Special Needs

Geek of the Week links.

SEEDlings on Facebook

2011-12-12 SEEDlings with Homa Tavangar

The author of Growing Up Global, Homa really wowed us in this last live broadcast of 2011.

Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be at Home in the World

Growing Up Global Website


Geek of the Week Links


Chat:

 bobsprankle ->   howdy

 cheryloakes50 ->   getting ready!!

 cheryloakes50 ->   Yahoo!

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Here we are !

 connect2jamie ->   Hi all!

 bobsprankle ->   hi jamie!

 cheryloakes50 ->   Hello Jamie, welcome can you hear Homo, growingupglobal

 cheryloakes50 ->   sorry, Homa,

 bobsprankle ->   can you hear us, jamie?

 connect2jamie ->   I can hear you and Lisa talking about twitter!

 bobsprankle ->   uh oh

 connect2jamie ->   lost her ipad!

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Uh oh

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Cheryl, you need help?

 cheryloakes50 ->   oh, that might not be our show. alice mentioned twitter, but you should hear Bob, Alice, and I with Homa?

 connect2jamie ->   LOL!

 cheryloakes50 ->   I will say hi to you LIVE,

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Oh maybe that was me with the iPad...

 cheryloakes50 ->   ok

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   I was asking Bob about it

 cheryloakes50 ->   ok

 bobsprankle ->   hmm... i think it's another show...

 cheryloakes50 ->   Homa is discussing global education and 9-11

 connect2jamie ->   Am I in the wrong room? I'm listening to ustream

 cheryloakes50 ->   oh, try edtechtalk and the EdTechTAlkA sound

 connect2jamie ->   I hear Lisa and Maria Knee, but i don't see them in the chat, so I think I'm messed up. Al my peeps are streeaming at once, but not together! LOL!

 cheryloakes50 ->   Look for the Edtechtalk A, stream status and window media or itunes or real playr

 cheryloakes50 ->   But Lisa and Maria have a great show too!

 bobsprankle ->   hi peggy!

 Peggy George ->   Hi all-so sorry I'm late--lots of last minute prep for the K12 online Conference Afterglow right after your show.

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Can you hear us OK?

 bobsprankle ->   yes! we're going to talk about that!

 Peggy George ->   hearing great!

 cheryloakes50 ->   Hello Peggy, welcome, we are here with Homa tonight an d then promoting K12online Afterglow it is in the show notes

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Great! 

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   K-12 Online ROCKED this year :)

 cheryloakes50 ->   It is on the back burner for me, I am writing IEPS in my spare time

 Peggy George ->   it really has been an awesome conference!

 Peggy George ->   do you have a link for our guest?

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   www.growingupglobal.net

 cheryloakes50 ->   alice wins

 Peggy George ->   thanks :-)

 Peggy George ->   I don't have a passport either--never have had one in my entire life!

 Peggy George ->   I do my traveling online :-)

 cheryloakes50 ->   Oh, we 4 out of 5 of us have passports. I am going to get the wallet version.

 Peggy George ->   that's really funny Bob!!! Just a hop, skip and jump to Canada!

 Peggy George ->   I was hoping you'd explain the wallet version :-)

 cheryloakes50 ->   Peggy, you are funny. I want the wallet version so I can just decide to go to Canada.

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Peggy but aren't you close to Mexico?

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   You may just need that wallet version!

 Peggy George ->   yes I'm fairly close to Mexico--about 4 hours away

 cheryloakes50 ->   right alice

 Peggy George ->   haven't been to Mexico since late 1950's :-) didn't need a passport then

 cheryloakes50 ->   Interesting, same kind of thing with Canada, too.

 Peggy George ->   do your students really understand the importance of going global?

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   I grew up going to Canada all the time (Buffalo) now we need passport and it takes forever to go back and forth

 Peggy George ->   when did the passport requirement come about?

 cheryloakes50 ->   What a great idea for your high school to have a chinese teacher from China.

 Peggy George ->   My sister in law got to participate in an exchange with China when she was a principal and said it was such an incredible experience

 cheryloakes50 ->   Peggy, where was she located.

 Peggy George ->   that's really exciting Alice!

 Peggy George ->   I wish I could remember Cheryl--some kind of sister city project and then came to visit her school too

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Peggy it has such an impact on our school. in a good way!

 cheryloakes50 ->   oh, sister city projects are so comprehensive.

 Peggy George ->   that's what she said about the impact on her school

 Peggy George ->   has she talked about her parenting toolbox yet?

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   no...

 cheryloakes50 ->   ef.com/us-home

 cheryloakes50 ->   http://www.ef.com/us-home/

 Peggy George ->   I have never hosted an exchange student. Have any of you?

 cheryloakes50 ->   http://growingupglobal.net/page.php?id=16   Some of Homa's great ideas.

 Peggy George ->   those are great ideas!!!

 cheryloakes50 ->   I love the toolkit idea, it makes it personal!

 Peggy George ->   how do you help students learn about other cultures without creating stereotypes?

 Peggy George ->   I saw that term about the parenting toolbox on her home page

 Peggy George ->   the book really is the toolbox :-)

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Every school should have this toolbox book!

 Peggy George ->   it sounds so wonderful!

 cheryloakes50 ->   agreed

 Peggy George ->   http://www.growingupglobal.net/blog/?p=531

 Peggy George ->   found it :-)

 Peggy George ->   that's an amazing idea for Thanksgiving

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   I tried putting the link in and keep getting booted out of the chat room.

 Peggy George ->   http://abcnews.go.com/millionmomschallenge

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Did you get the link Peggy?

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   OK

 Peggy George ->   yes found it

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   I will not be doing Geek of the week :(

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Cant get the links in

 bobsprankle ->   i got it

 cheryloakes50 ->   ok alice

 Peggy George ->   this is the first time I've been able to drop links in our chat in forever!!!

 cheryloakes50 ->   Go Peggy!

 Peggy George ->   I have not been able to float the chat for months! Today I could do it in Chrome

 Peggy George ->   but I've tried before in Chrome and couldn't do it

 cheryloakes50 ->   me too, chrome is working well for me.

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   I forgot about floating.

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   Thanks for the reminder

 Peggy George ->   I'm going to have to leave you to get the room ready for the K12 Online Afterglow. I'm so glad I got to meet Homa! What an amazing lady!! See you next time.

 cheryloakes50 ->   ok, thanks Peggy for stopping by, good luck with Afterglow!!

 Peggy George ->   thanks :-)

 cheryloakes50 ->   globaleducation.ning.com

 cheryloakes50 ->   Homa is sharing global education conference!! Archived, listen away!!

 cheryloakes50 ->   FREE!!!

 cheryloakes50 ->   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZSJDQTK1cM

 cheryloakes50 ->   Homa's next geek of the week

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   http://powerof1.yarmouthschools.org/

 cheryloakes50 ->   powerof1.yarmouthschools.org   Alice's

 cheryloakes50 ->   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jcCMQUuzTPoRvpzc_NF5Jj5AhsiHQ7W698w3...

 alicebarr (Seedlings) ->   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jcCMQUuzTPoRvpzc_NF5Jj5AhsiHQ7W698w3...

 bobsprankle ->   http://todo.ly/

 cheryloakes50 ->   todo.ly    a task list, with a count down feature!!  and a great alternative for QR codes!  http://qrvoice.net/faq_en-US.html

 cheryloakes50 ->   http://www.thestateoftech.org/

 bobsprankle ->   https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfllcofeninepmljbfgbhjfpfhkcndlh

 cheryloakes50 ->   http://www.ohiotreasurechest.org/

 bobsprankle ->   http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

 bobsprankle ->   http://girleffect.org/

 bobsprankle ->   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5qkcIT5NE

 cheryloakes50 ->   http://a4cwsn.com/

 cheryloakes50 ->   Thanks for listening!!


The author of Growing Up Global, Homa really wowed us in this last live broadcast of 2011.

Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be at Home in the World

Growing Up Global Website


2011-10-24 SEEDlings Wes Fryer - Playing With Media

We meet with Wes Fryer to talk about his new Book "Playing with Media"

Geek of the Week Links

We meet with Wes Fryer to talk about his new Book "Playing with Media"

Geek of the Week Links

2011-10-14 ACTEM SEEDlings Geek of the Week LIVE

 mrichme ->  Welcome Peggy!

 PeggyG ->  hi! looking forward to this

 PeggyG ->  are you at the conference?

 mrichme ->  I am

 PeggyG ->  it sounds fantastic!! Isn't Tony Vincent awesome??!!

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