EdTechTalk has been a webcasting community of practice since 2005. We meet here to talk about education, technology, our practice and any thing else that's on our minds as educators.
EdTechTalk#39 - EdTech Roundup, Worldbridges Makeover, & The Webcast Academy
April 2, 2006
We discuss components of Worldbridges next stage of development, including widespread use of Drupal and the opening of The Webcast Academy. We also talk about the torture device import controversy at School and other projects in the works including PersonalLearningSpace and Webheadsinaction.org.
Audio from our post-show discussion with Doug and Graham is in the EdTechTalk Wiki Show Archive.
EdTechTalk #38 - News and a Review of the Barnraising
March 26, 2006
The first 20 minutes we covered some news issues from the last couple of weeks, including gada.be, Alice and a way to get around Windows passwords. We then moved into a discussion of the edtech wiki, how the barnraising is going, and some ideas about how to improve it. Jump into it, and help us build the new media curriculum.
A Discussion with Jeff Flynn, Jeff Lebow, Art Gelwicks, Alex Rigone, Cheryl Oaks, and Paul Ellerman. Topics covered include our latest preferences in RSS readers, edtech issues in private vs. public schools, laptop bans in the classroom, student blogging, cyberbullying, concept mapping with smarttech and freemind, conferencecasting, and more.
Wiki Working Spectacular
Wiki Textbook Project Webcast#8
March 15, 2006
Educationbridges number 8 was a continuation of the wikispectacular of last week. A bunch of fabulous educators showed up and put themselves to work dealing with some of the core issues of the project. Who is the audience? Is it the wiki's job to please? How would templates be made? Listen in and join in the fun in the wiki; the project continues.
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