Week of April 3 - 10, 2010
Week of April 3 - 9, 2010
Welcome to this week's EdTechTalk (ETT) newsletter! There was some difficulty with the dissemination of last week's newsletter so last week's will be combined with this week's information. Throughout the past week, there were fantastic sessions offered at ETT. Plans for Eartcast 2010 took place with Matt Montagne and the many organizers for the upcoming 24 hour long webcast on April 22nd. If you would like your class oparticipate in the webcastathon please contact Matt Montagne. Stay tuned for more details and visit the links below for more information.
Of special note, Dave Cormier introduced a new online course he and George Siemens will be offering during April through June. More about their Future of Education course can be found at http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/03/09/the-future-of-education-a-cours... and http://edfutures.com/
Earthcast 2010
Also mark your calendars and begin preparing for the Earthcast this month. EarthCast 2010, an incredible project, involves many EdTechTalk community members and is facilitated by Matt Montagne and Doug Symington. Come and join us! Learn about it: http://earthcast.posterous.com/earthcast-2010-a-global-24-hour-webcastat...
Blog about it ("borrow freely" from the above blog post)
Check out photos contributed for Earthcast09: http://www.flickr.com/groups/earthcast09
Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/#q.b887765.i4731643
Wallwisher http://wallwisher.com/wall/earthcast10
Posterous - http://earthcast.posterous.com/
Hashtags to post and follow comments about Earthcast10: #earthcast10, #earthday, #earthcast
* Earthcast 2010 YouTube video response challenge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBSqUHvkgU
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/earthcast
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/earthbridges
Preliminary Project Participation Google Form: http://tinyurl.com/earthcast2010
Participate Live on April 22nd, 2010 at http://earthbridges.net/live
April 6, 2010
Brad Rathgeber, President of the Board at the Online School for Girls joins us to discuss the new online school specializing in single gender online education for girls.
We are also joined by Chris Wood, a student teacher from Queens College, CUNY who is working with Paul this semester.
is also playing Evoke and she joined us to talk about this Alternate-Reality Game (ARG) as well. Rachel Smith is the Vice President, NMC Services the New Media Consortium. In addition to being the lead writer on the Horizon Report, Rachel writes on her blog that she has
a hard time explaining what I actually do. Some of it is writing (a lot of it, lately, which is not a bad thing). Some of it is drawing, which is pretty cool. I used to doodle in high school and get detention. Now I doodle at work and get kudos. Go figure. I also organize things and direct projects and try to be generally helpful.
Rachel wrote an wonderful introduction to Evoke on her blog, "Urgent EVOKE: Agent Ninmah is Born," and she started a Discussion on Evoke, in which she is “calling all teachers!” to find ways to collaborate.
We were joined by Wes Fryer- Live in Maine the Magical Show! Anne Fraser counted the word magical used 4, 586 times throughout the show. See if you come up with the same number! We had a great conversation in the EdTechTalk studio with Wes Fryer. The conversations were about Race to the Top, Apple's new product release, Maria Knee, and the upcoming workshop at Wells Junior High School.
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This episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, was recorded during a live webcast back in the middle of February. We think you will enjoy this conversation with William Kist and Mike Slowlinski, one of the teachers who is featured in William Kist's new book, The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age. Troy Hicks has a thought-provoking question to ask toward the end of this podcast as well. Get the book, and learn along with all of us.
Of great interest to Instructional Designers in academic settings are models that promote the engagement of facu
lty in redesigning their face-to-face courses into powerful online learning experiences for students. In this episode, Michael Power of the University of Laval, Québec discussed a prototype for working with faculty that can make the process manageable while still addressing key instructional design goals such as tying the learning outcomes of the course to the assessments and activities. Michael provided a number of visuals to help illustrate key aspects of this faculty support and instructional design process. If you're looking for further information on his model, you may wish to refer to A Designer’s Log Blended Online Learning in JOLT. and the recent article on
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