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Teachers Teaching Teachers #158 - 07.01.09 - Inside Youth Voices: What does the site do well? What does it not need to do?

Paul Allison - Sat, 2009-07-25 04:18

Join the three of the facilitators of Youth Voices, Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and Chris Sloan in a conversation with each other and five other teachers who have recently begun to used the site (or plan to soon):

Carolyn Stanley, a tech integrator in Conneticut
Sherry Edwards, an English teacher Washington
Fred Haas, an English teacher in a school near Boston
Jennifer Bahle (now Razor), an English teacher in Omaha
Michael Dodes, a librarian in the Bronx.

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Join three of the facilitators of Youth Voices, Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and Chris Sloan in a conversation with each other and five other teachers who have recently begun to use the site (or plan to soon):

Carolyn Stanley, a tech integrator in Conneticut
Sherry Edwards, an English teacher Washington
Fred Haas, an English teacher in a school near Boston
Jennifer Bahle (now Razor), an English teacher in Omaha
Michael Dodes, a librarian in the Bronx.

As we begin to plan for the coming fall semester, we talk about some of the things that went well, some of our common goals, some things we don't agree with, some new possibilities in our work together.

Listen to this podcast to learn more about what we talk about when we talk about Youth Voices. If you might want to have your students work on this school-based social network, this might be a good way to find out what our community of teachers and students is all about.

These videos also help fill in some of our thinking:

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These videos, along with the podcast, and the chat log (below) might whet your appetite for joining us this fall in Youth Voices.

Click Read more to see a transcript of a chat that was happening during the webcast.