Lee Baber

Teachers Teaching Teachers #71 - The Left Coast Joins Us

Paul Allison — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:24:57 -0500

On this webcast, we were joined for the first time by Woody Woodgate, an educator from a small town in Alaska. Also joining us were three teachers from California, from north to south: Gail Desler, Matt Makoweski, and Lynne Culp. Moving across the country, we were also joined by Chris Sloan in Utah, Kevin Sandridge in Florida. Lee Baber from Virginia also joined Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim in New York. What did we talk about? Well, we had another planning meeting around this medley of sites:

YouthVoices.net (grades 9 - 12)
PersonalLearningSpace.com (grades 4 - 8)
elggplans.wikispaces.com (common planning)
youthwiki.wikispaces.com (student galleries of video, images and multimedia)
YouthBridges.net (webcasting home & podcasting network)

This week we plan to continue the conversation. Please join us at edtechtalk.com at 9:00 Eastern / 6:00 Pacific.

Chat Log 09.19.07

21st Century Learning #51: The Goals Show

alex.ragone — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:05:30 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #51
The Goals Show

September 26, 2007

Today was our Goal Show! We began by discussing our K-12 Online Presentation. We're asking you, the EdTechTalk community to tell us what the community means to you in an audio recording in order to represent the community for our K-12 online presentation.

Please send your record your audio and send it to us as at 21 [at] edtechtalk.com. You can also just post a link to the audio via the comment field on this post. In your recording, please answer the following questions: Who are you? How did you hear about ETT? What does the community mean to you? What is the most important thing that you have learned as part of the ETT community? Thanks!

In the goals part of our show, we went on to discuss why goals are important and then to discuss our goals, and the goals of our audience. Lisa Durff, Lee Baber, Alice Mercer, Joshua Sommermeyer, and Jeff Lebow posted their goals up on the EdTechTalk forums.

For the next two weeks, we'll be discussing and creating our K-12 Online Conference presentation. Please come by for conversation about online presentation creation.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #70 - Beginning Again

Paul Allison — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:27:16 -0500

Six teachers gathered together to discuss the start up of school from laptop rollouts to getting schedules late, from recording introductory podcasts to using four images to represent themsleves, from curriculum to theory, from play to internet safety. Join us next week! These were the teachers on this week's show.

Paul Allison, East Bronx Academy for the Future, NYC
Lee Baber, F. Hillyard Middle School, Broadway, Virginia
Alice Barr, Yarmouth HS, Yarmouth, Maine
Susan Ettenheim, Eleanor Roosevelt HS, NY, New York
Bill Oneal, Trenton Central High School, West, Trenton, New Jersey
Kevin Sandridge, Boone Middle School, Haines City, Florida

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James Stanger Interview

lee — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:22:11 -0500

Listen in to an interview I did with Dr. James Stanger, one of the experts from

Teachers Teaching Teachers #48 - Hard Questions for Teachers Who Teach Blogging

lee — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:01:23 -0500

After a few months of blogging with all of her classes at YouthVoices.net, Susan Ettenheim sent Paul Allison a few questions:

Teachers Teaching Teachers #46 - Joomala? DrupalEd? Edublogs? Wordpress? Elgg?

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:02:17 -0500

March 28, 2007 - This week, we invited several National Writing Project (NWP) technology liaisons to join us to talk about how they manage Content Management Systems (CMS’s) for their local sites, schools, and classrooms.We discussed the possibilities of using the DrupalEd profile that Bill Fitzgerald has recently been piloting, and is threatening to release within weeks. Our conclusion was less than clear but it will make for a good show next week! See you then.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #42 - What infrastructures do teachers need?

SusanEttenheim — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:58:35 -0600

Bud Hunt and two staff members (technology leaders/thinkers/organizers/teachers) from the National Writing Project (NWP), Christina Cantrill and Paul Oh got together with us to discuss questions that Bud had raised on the NWP’s Tech Liaison Listserv.

This was a discussion between Bud Hunt, Christina Cantrill, Paul Oh, and Jeff Lebow–along with Paul Allison, Pat Delaney, Susan Ettenheim, and Lee Baber.

We invite you to listen to the podcast, and also read the collection of voices on this post, dealing with similar questions:

Teachers Teaching Teachers #37: Rethinking Journalism with Chris Sloan

SusanEttenheim — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:06:01 -0600

EdTechTalk: Teachers Teaching Teachers #37
Rethinking Journalism with Chris Sloan
January 24, 2007
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Writing like the post that we’ve copied here makes it easy to listen to what our students think about our work with them. Here’s what a 9th grader in Chris Sloan’s class thinks about blogging at YouthVoices.net:

What makes a good blog post, by Parker at Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City

To create a really good blog post, I really think that people need to open up to the readers. Honesty is most effective, because the actual emotion that others put down is probably something that others have experienced, or can relate to. For example, i just read a letter a girl wrote to her father, but he passed away four years ago. It was the most personal, morose, true example of sadness that i have ever read, let alone on youthvoices. I don’t know anything like that personally, but the raw openness made it something that i felt, not just read. I’ve also published some poems on the site, and i’ve gotten some varied, but positive, responses to those, and that’s encouraging. more below

Teachers Teaching Teachers #35 - Midyear Reorientation

SusanEttenheim — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:21:26 -0600

Teachers Teaching Teachers #35
January 10, 2007
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This was the kind of conversation that needed more time. Listen as nine teachers from six states — Paul Allison, NY, Lee Baber, VA , Glen Bledsoe, OR, Susan Ettenheim, NY, Kevin Hodgson, MA, Eric Hoefler, VA, Matt Makowetski, CA, Chris Sloan, UT, and Ken Stein, NY (plus a father from China) — who use blogs, discussion boards, and other Web-based communication tools in their classrooms tell stories about the first half of the academic year. We report on what we have been learning about blogging (and using wikis) with students. We also begin to talk about what our plans are for the remainder of the year.

Take a look at our ever expanding Google Notebook for this show: Teachers Teaching Teachers 01.10.07

In the comments at the bottom of this post, please join us with your thoughts about what you’ve learned teaching students to communicate online. What are your stories? Let’s see how many more states — and countries — we can add to the list as we check in with colleagues from all over the globe.

We also want to talk about how to help students who will be ending their classes with us in January can find some closure with their blogs without closing off the possiblities of keeping an ongoing blog.

And please join us next week — and every Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. Eastern — in the text chat room at EdTechTalk.com.