EdTechTalk
Instructional-Design-Live #9 - Student Perspectives on Online Learning
This week, we discussed the experience of online learning with two students at The University of Montana. Amanda Armstrong, an undergraduate student taking a fully online degree in Media Arts and Jamie Lockman, a graduate student taking an online political science course. Topics discussed include:
31:05 minutes (14.23 MB)
Teachers Teaching Teachers #191 - Katherine Schulten and the Learning Network AND "...making the case for the NWP - 03.10.10
n the first half of this weeks episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we had an inspiring conversation with Katherine Schulten editor of The Learning Network at the New York Times. Our theme for this week's Teachers Teaching Teachers was about increasing teacher voice in public debates. Katherine suggested how we might use The Learning Network for that.
In addition, we were joined by:
- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, director of National Programs and Site Development at the National Writing Project, University of California, Berkeley
- and Andrea Zellner a leader at the Red Cedar Writing Project, Michigan State University's site of the NWP.
Andrea and many others in the chat room during the webcast gave witness to why we want to maintain federal funding for the NWP to continue -- an example of a time when we need to get our voices to be heard!
ACTION ALERT! (To learn more, please listen to this week's podcast.)
Those of us who are members of local Witing Projects are asking for your help to keep federal funds for the National Writing Project. Organizers have 26 signatures on the House Dear Colleague letter, and just ONE day left! OUR DEADLINE IS TOMORROW, MARCH 12. Please call your representatives now and urge them to support NWP and to recognize its invaluable contribution to teachers and students across the country by signing on to this letter.
Teachers do a tremendous job educating Congress about the importance of writing project programs. Thank you all for your powerful emal messages and persuasive phone calls, and most important, your follow-up. While we have no control over
the timeline for this process, we do have the power of an extraordinary networkof leaders like YOU!
Now is the time to follow up with all members who have committed support for NWP. If your representatives signed the House Dear Colleague letter in 2009,please thank them for their past support and urge them to sign the letter again.
Your representatives can sign the Dear Colleague letter by contacting Alexandria (Ria) Ruiz in Representative Miller's office at 202-225-3725. ONLY REPRESENTATIVES OR THEIR AIDES, NOT NWP SITE LEADERS, SHOULD CONTACT ALEXANDRIA.
If your representative is not on the list below, please call the DC office and ask to speak to the education aide. If the aide has not seen the letter, please email or fax it to him or her. The letter can be found here:
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/extranet/supportingthenwp.
House Dear Colleague Cosigners
Last Updated: March 11
Deadline: March 12
1. George Miller (D-CA)
2. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
3. Leonard Boswell (D-IA)
4. Lois Capps (D-CA)
5. Russ Carnahan (D-MO)
6. Bill Delahunt (D-MA)
7. John Dingell (D-MI)
8. Sam Graves (R-MO)
9. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
10. John Hall (D-NY)
11. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY)
12. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
13. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
14. Rush Holt (D-NJ)
15. Dale Kildee (D-MI)
16. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM)
17. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
18. Doris O. Matsui (D-CA)
19. Jerry McNerney (D-CA)
20. James Oberstar (D-MN)
21. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV)
22. Mike Ross (D-AR)
23. Joe Sestak (D-PA)
24. Paul Tonko (D-NY)
25. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
26. David Wu (D-OR)
END OF THE ACTION ALERT!
In the first half of this weeks episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we had an inspiring conversation with Katherine Schulten editor of The Learning Network at the New York Times. Our theme for this week's Teachers Teaching Teachers was about increasing teacher voice in public debates. Katherine suggested how we might use The Learning Network for that.
In addition, we were joined by:
- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, director of National Programs and Site Development at the National Writing Project, University of California, Berkeley
- and Andrea Zellner a leader at the Red Cedar Writing Project, Michigan State University's site of the NWP.
Andrea and many others in the chat room during the webcast gave witness to why we want to maintain federal funding for the NWP to continue -- an example of a time when we need to get our voices to be heard!
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast, and to see more about the Learning Network.
67:03 minutes (15.35 MB)
Conversations Episode 66 - Will You Pay?
This week, Sheila Adams, Lisa Parisi, and Maria Knee were joined by Ginger Lewman for a conversation about free tools. How much are we willing to pay if the tools don't stay free?
This week, Sheila Adams, Lisa Parisi, and Maria Knee were joined by Ginger Lewman for a conversation about free tools. How much are we willing to pay if the tools don't stay free?
Chat Archive:
64:22 minutes (29.47 MB)
EdTechWeekly #156
Week 1 without Jeff ... In a special EdTechWeekly, guests Bud Hunt and Zac Chase share their perspectives on two events impacting the education community this week, including the recent TEDxNYED conference and the funding crisis facing the National Writing Project. Dave and John kept the conversation moving while Jen just struggled to remember the passwords to post the audio. Join us next week for the "Dave and Jen Show" to discuss Dave's research ideas.
EdTechWeekly #156
March 7, 2010
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48:18 minutes (22.11 MB)
Teachers Teaching Teachers #189 - Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana: Paul Hankins and student talk about their Ning - 02.24.10
On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you will learn more about RAW INcK: Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana. Our guests were one site’s student managers, Tyler, along with their teacher, Paul W. Hankins, an English Teacher and Creator of RAW INcK. (Another student-manager of the Ning, Jin joined us in the chat room.)
On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, you will learn more about RAW INcK: Reading and Writing in Kentuckiana. Our guests were one site’s student managers, Tyler, along with their teacher, Paul W. Hankins, an English Teacher and Creator of RAW INcK. (Another student-manager of the Ning, Jin joined us in the chat room.) Paul is also a teacher-consultant with the Indiana University Southeast Writing Project and a State Representative to ALAN from Indiana. Listen to find out why we are excited to connect up with RAW INcK, “A Reading and Writing Community Hosted by the Juniors of Silver Creek High School [Indiana]. Now hosting members from all across America! Go INcK!”
Learn about how they set up chat sessions with authors like these:
- Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, and Identical.
- Chris Crutcher. Crutcher’s works include Athletic Shorts, Chinese Handcuffs, Deadline, The Sledding Hill, and King of the Mild Frontier.
- Kimberly Willis Holt, author of When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, My Louisiana Sky, and a host of other YA titles.
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
72:56 minutes (16.69 MB)
K12 Online Echo: Kelly Hines
We were very fortunate to have Kelly Hines as a guest on the Echo. Her K12 Online 2009 presentation, Little Kids - Big Possibilities was streamed. She elaborated on the work she does with her students. It was a lively discussion.
Kelly Hines joined us for a lively chat and discussion. We streamed her k12 Online 2009 presentation, Little Kids- Big Possibilities. Kelly discussed the work she does with her students.
62:48 minutes (28.75 MB)
Week of February 27 - March 5, 2010
Welcome to this week's EdTechTalk (ETT) newsletter! One of our goals in providing this newsletter each week is to make it convenient for our readers to quickly review the excellent ETT webcasts that have been posted in the previous week (in case you missed the live session). We just provide the links and highlights in the newsletter, but if you go to the actual link you not only will be able to listen to the recording, but you can read the chat log and additional information provided by the show hosts.
Instructional-Design-Live #8 Interview with Professor Karl Kapp
This week, we explored differences and similarities between Instructional Design work in corporate and higher education settings with Karl Kapp: http://karlkapp.blogspot.com/, http://karlkapp.com. Karl's background teaching e-learning classes and experiece training CEO's and front line staff gives him a unique perspective on desiging learning for these environments. Some of the points discussed include:
33:30 minutes (15.34 MB)
Seedlings # 82 2010-03-04 with Mike Gorman
Welcome to SEEDLINGS! It seems like we have been on hiatus, but we are back. Well, mostly. Alice Barr was unable to be with us for good reasons. She is being honored as a finalist for Maine Teacher of the Year! Listen in to our show as we interview Mike Gorman who is new to the blogging scene and how he has transformed his school by using project based learning and something called an Integrated Solutions Block.
Welcome to SEEDLINGS! It seems like we have been on hiatus, but we are back. Well, mostly. Alice Barr was unable to be with us for good reasons. She is being honored as a finalist for Maine Teacher of the Year! An update will follow! Go Alice.
63:29 minutes (29.1 MB)
Parents as Partner Episode #34 March 1, 2010
Show hosts Matt Montagne, Lorna Costantini and Cindy Seibel welcomed Mike Herrity, Assistant Head master at Twynham School In Christ Church in the UK. Mike gave an overview of the way that Twynham School works with parents. They engage parents around their student's school work through the use of a portal which is accessed by students, mentors, parents and teachers. Mike talks about the success stories that they are enjoying with increase student achievement with the support of parents.
Show hosts Matt Montagne, Lorna Costantini and Cindy Seibel welcomed Mike Herrity, Assistant Head master at Twynham School In Christ Church in the UK. Mike gave an overview of the way that Twynham School works with parents. They engage parents around their student's school work through the use of a portal which is accessed by students, mentors, parents and teachers. Mike talks about the success stories that they are enjoying with increase student achievement with the support of parents. Through out the show you will hear Mike share advice such as "Listen first and then design";" parent engagement is beyond the data", "its more about the pedagogy than it is technology". Twynham School uses a Sharepoint portal to support students, teachers and parents. Of particular note is the mentorship program put in place for year 11 students. The program uses a biweekly session with mentor and student to review the student progress and develop strategies to improve their work. Parents have access to the discussions which have taken parent/student conversations beyond the "did nothing today". Parents of 15 and 16 year olds have something concrete to discuss.
69:03 minutes (31.61 MB)
EdTechWeekly #155
This week, Dave celebrated Canada's hockey victory while Jeff waxed philosophically about his last show before a 21-week hiatus. John was just along for the ride.
EdTechWeekly #155
February 28, 2010
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42:53 minutes (39.26 MB)
Teachers Teaching Teachers #186 - Texas in the house with Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast on doing digital make-overs - 02.10.10
On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we were excited to have a conversation with Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast about their new book, Using Technology to Improve Adolescent Writing: Digital Make-Overs for Writing Lesson.
Liz Campbell Stephens teaches graduate courses in Educational Technology and is Director of the Office of Educator Preparation at Texas State University-San Marcos. She serves on the National Writing Project’s Board of Directors and was Director of the Central Texas Writing Project for 11 years. She co-authored Technology, Reading, and Language Arts and has written numerous chapters and papers on technology and literacy. Liz is former high school English teacher and brings that experience to her work as a teacher educator, federal programs director, and consultant. Her research has centered on literacy, technology, and teacher education.
Kerry Ballast
is a Teacher Consultant for the Central Texas Writing Project and a secondary English language arts teacher with 14 years classroom experience. She has worked with students in grades 6-12 to explore various forms of writing, both traditional and digital. Currently, she works for the Texas
This podcast is another in a series of Teachers Teaching Teachers shows to feature the authors of a recent outcrop of books on new media and literacy (Copyright Clarity: 184, 135, The Digital Writing Workshop: 172, 171, 170, Teaching the New Writing: 157, 156, 155, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools: 138) Perhaps we have the makings of a new discipline here, or at least a budding new branch on the tree of academic inquiry. See the National Writing Project's list at Teaching Now: Digital Writing Books. What would you add to this list? Let us know by adding a comment below.
On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we were excited to have a conversation with Liz Stephens and Kerry Ballast about their new book, Using Technology to Improve Adolescent Writing: Digital Make-Overs for Writing Lessons.
Stephens and Ballast guide teachers in how to successfully implement technology for writing across the curriculum and create engaging lesson plans. They outline four frames of writing–inside writing, responsive writing, purposeful writing, and social action writing–and present student-centered and inquiry-based reading/writing lessons to connect real-world writing to content area standards. The result is a state-of the-art resource for helping teachers teach every student to write inside and outside of the classroom.
Liz Campbell Stephens teaches graduate courses in Educational Technology and is Director of the Office of Educator Preparation at Texas State University-San Marcos. She serves on the National Writing Project’s Board of Directors and was Director of the Central Texas Writing Project for 11 years. She co-authored Technology, Reading, and Language Arts and has written numerous chapters and papers on technology and literacy. Liz is former high school English teacher and brings that experience to her work as a teacher educator, federal programs director, and consultant. Her research has centered on literacy, technology, and teacher education.
Kerry Ballast is a Teacher Consultant for the Central Texas Writing Project and a secondary English language arts teacher with 14 years classroom experience. She has worked with students in grades 6-12 to explore various forms of writing, both traditional and digital. Currently, she works for the Texas Education Agency.
We were also joined by English teacher, Joel Malley who teaches at Cheektowaga Central School District, near Buffalo, NY. Joel is also the Tech Liaison for the Western New York Writing Project at Canisius College. Troy Hicks had a couple of things to say as well. Troy is the director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University.
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
53:46 minutes (12.3 MB)
Week of February 20 - 26, 2010
Welcome to this week's EdTechTalk (ETT) newsletter! While most of us were tuning into the Olympics and cheering on athlete's from our respective countries, many were also busy producing and participating in webcasts at EdTechTalk, Puentesalmundo, and Koreabridge. During this week, K12Online also webcast a show with Kelly Hines, who presented at the k12Online in 2009. This show will be posted soon, be on the lookout for it!
Teachers Teaching Teachers #188 - A snow day in NYC gives us a chance to do some collaborative planning - 02.26.10
We welcome you to eavesdrop on this impromptu planning session shared by four New York City public school teachers enjoying a rare snow day in New York City: Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Madeline Brownstone, and Shantanu Saha.
What you will hear us discussing on this podcast is the beginning of a plan for a research and gaming curriculum and a proposal for a series of three or four professional development sessions this Spring that are focused on some portion of the game-playing and game-building curriculum that Global Kids has developed. We also have a plan for inviting other interested New York City Writing Project teachers to join us by experimenting with gaming themselves and by developing this curriculum with us.
Because of a rare snow day in New York City, four NYC Writing Project teachers used some of our "found time" to do some impromptu thinking together. Our students are using Youth Voices, and recently we agreed to build a new curriculum this Spring. We got together on Skype today to discuss our budding plans for teaching "I-Search, Diigo, and Gaming."
What you will hear us discussing on this podcast is the beginning of a plan for a research and gaming curriculum and a proposal for a series of three or four professional development sessions this Spring that are focused on some portion of the game-playing and game-building curriculum that Global Kids has developed. We also have a plan for inviting other interested New York City Writing Project teachers to join us by experimenting with gaming themselves and by developing this curriculum with us.
What our small study group, the New York City Writing Project's "Tech Thursdays" group wants to do is to create a curriculum that has modules that can fit into different types of for classes, especially core subject areas. For now we are doing this work in the following content areas:
- Computer Arts (Susan Ettenheim)
- English (Paul Allison and Chris Sloan)
- Technology (Shantanu Saha and Madeline Brownstone)
- Art (Renee Dryg and David Marini)
We are creating a curriculum that assumes that teachers will be able to commit to doing it two times a week for at least 10 weeks (or similar parameters).
Those of us working on this curriculum this Spring will build successful collaborative game-based learning experiences for our students and we will learn from our failures. At the same time, we will be constantly building the rationales and the theoretical framework for including a curriculum like this into core classes in grades 6 -12. We are thinking about how we might involve other New York City Writing Project teachers in this work, perhaps in summer institue that integrates gaming into our current Advanced Summer Institute model. We are also planning for day-long workshops and regular study groups like our Tech Thursday groups in the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011.
We would also welcome your participation! As we say in this podcast, we will be using the What's Up? section of Youth Voices to have our student-gamers become more reflective about gaming, and we'll ask the students to contribute to the knowledge based of serious gaming by developing analyses by adding Discussions to Youth Voices, for example here are Comparative Essays from the first week of our new curriculum. If you have been looking for a way for your students to join Youth Voices, perhaps you could adapt, adopt, and contribut to this curriculum as well. Please join Youth Voices, and let us know!
In the meantime, we welcome you to eavesdrop on this impromptu planning session shared by four New York City public school teachers enjoying a rare snow day in New York City: Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Madeline Brownstone, and Shantanu Saha.
Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.
41:54 minutes (9.59 MB)
Instructional-Design-Live #7 2010-2-26: Learning in the Information Age
Professor Charles Reigeluth from Indiana University shares his thoughts on Instructional Theory for education in the Information Age. Charles and Allison Carr-Chellman recently co-edited Volume III of the seminal Instructional Design Theories and Models (The Green Book): http://www.amazon.com/Instructional-Design-Theories-Models-III-Knowledge/dp/0805864563
36:27 minutes (16.68 MB)
21st Century Learning #118, Internet Safety 101
21st Century Learning #118
January 12, 2010
Internet Safety 101
A discussion about the how to speak about Internet Safety with parents and their kids. Vinnie mentioned a danah boyd podcast that you can find here. Lots of great links in the Chat Transcript too. Enjoy!
21st Century Learning #118
January 12, 2010
Internet Safety 101
A discussion about the how to speak about Internet Safety with parents and their kids. Vinnie mentioned a danah boyd podcast that you can find here. Lots of great links in the Chat Transcript too. Enjoy!
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16:08 minutes (7.42 MB)
It's Elementary #43: Interactive White Boards
We had a small gathering this week, perhaps due to our change in broadcasting time (now at 8/7/6 pm EDT/CDT/PDT). Alice and Maria, joined by Lisa in the chat room discussed the uses of interactive whiteboards.Discussion included, but was not limited to:
44:57 minutes (15.43 MB)
Conversations #65
While Sheila is away in Belize this week, Lisa and Maria co-hosted the show. John Fladd returned this week to contribute to the conversation. This week, the discussion was about people who inspire us to try new things, get our thinking going and provide the models we build upon. Where do you get your inspiration? Whose model do you follow or build on to create new ideas of your own. Does your work inspire others?
While Sheila is away in Belize this week, Lisa and Maria co-hosted the show. John Fladd returned this week to contribute to the conversation. This week the discussion was about people who inspire us to try new things, get our thinking going and provide the models we build upon. Where do you get your inspiration? Whose model do you follow or build on to create new ideas of your own. Does your work inspire others?
Chat Log
52:44 minutes (18.1 MB)
EdTechWeeky#154
This week, Jeff, Dave, and John discussed the olympics, the role of education in technology, and Jeff's extended hiatus from the show. In a rare display of continuity, they also followed up on a few topics from previous weeks.
EdTechWeekly#154
February 21, 2010
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42:54 minutes (39.28 MB)