EdTechTalk Community Development

New Show Idea - Conversations with Maria Knee and Lisa Parisi

LParisi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

What is your show concept?

Conversations will be a show inviting people in to converse on various topics relating to education in the 21st century. Some topics to be discussed are extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation, what is a tech rich classroom, setting up social networks for kids, the importance or lack of importance of social networking for administrators.

New Show Idea for Elem. / Middle School Students

LParisi — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:54:12 -0500

Hi Folks,

What is EdTechTalk? Why do you participate?

Jeff — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:24:48 -0500

To help create EdTechTalk Introduction/Orientation materials, we'd like to ask all those who participate in ETT (in whatever way) to answer these questions.

What is EdTechTalk?
Why do you Particpate?
What have been your favorite ETT moments?

In our "commitment to ambiguity", we are using a variety of tools to conduct this conversation and generate remixable media.

You can leave web based text, audio, and/or video comments here
You can call our Snapvine Voicemail at 1-641-715-0101, code: *5518361
You can leave text, audio, video, or phone comments on our VoiceThread
You can record locally and send media files to edtechtalk at gmail dot com.

Thanks

Thoughts on the Audience

jschinker — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:31:42 -0600

And so I've been thinking about this little community that's grown up here. I've been trying to figure out why so many people have found the site frustrating to newcomers. And yet, at the same time, we find

Making ETT more accessible to newbies

alicemercer — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:28:20 -0600

First, there was some question about what is our vision, I threw these out, but you may have thoughts (multiple) of your own:

A vision of working collaborativly to discuss technology use in education, with an emphasis on open source, collaboration, and keeping it real

Some agreed actions I heard were:

Improve players (DAVE), do an openhouse show (SHOW HOSTS, we will at It's E!), tree the front page (DAVE), have a matching service for newbies (ME this summer), share this network when we do PD ourselves (ALL OF US)

We want to be pretty (and functional)

admin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:19:23 -0600

In our ongoing effort to look nice and provide simple navigation for users, we have once again re-themed (to Drupal's Newslfash theme). What do you think? What other ideas/suggestions do you have for improving the EdTechTalk interface?

Is this WorldBridg-ey?

alicemercer — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:16:47 -0500

Hey all, a new blogazine about edublogs is coming. They want interviews. I've volunteered to help. Any issues with doing them in Sandbox, and cross posting to the magazine? I figure it'll help edublogs, and help get the word out about WorldBridges too.

EdTechTalk Management Structure

admin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:30:45 -0500

How can EdTechTalk develop a management structure that
   a) distributes the workload of keeping the site and community functioning
   b) avoids long-term dependency on any individual or group
   and
    c) maintains EdTechTalkyness

Directions for moderating comments!

cheryloakes50 — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:59:35 -0500

Once you are given the permission for administering the comment moderation you will find Administer in your list when you are logged in. Select Administer and you will then have a choice of comments. You will see two choices one is comments, the other is comments in queue. You can select the comments yo u want to OK or delete.

Banal posts

alicemercer — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:39:51 -0500

Frosty the snowclone, had a very boring life...

Setting up a more coherent tagging system

dave — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:56:25 -0500

Hey folks... was just thinking that as the community grows we might want to add another category system to enforce a little more consistency in the tagging. This wouldn't take away the possibility for free tagging... just another drop down menu like the one we have for 'shows' right now.

Some suggestions for possible tags

VLEs, interviews, k12, linux, cool school tool,

something like this... maybe a set of checkboxes... just to give a little more coordination. Then we could highlight a given tag on a given day for instance.

The EdTech Massacre

dave — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:30:41 -0500

A 'famous' brainstorm where a very serious debate was had regarding the necessity of teaching students the exact date of the Boston Massacre... or whether it was more important to only really focus on the 'ideas' around the event.

It's Elementary Webcast on Edtechtalk Channel

coordinator2 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:20:17 -0500

Hi Edtechtalk folk,

Alice Mercer, Lisa Durff and I (Jose Rodriguez) are in the planning phase of our new webcast It's Elementary. We would appreciate some feedback. Check out our webcast planning wiki http://ourwebcast.wikispaces.com

Feel free add your ideas to home on wiki and or post comments here.

Hosting of WebCast Community

HappyTrails — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:36:44 -0500

I am preparing to build a place to start the EdTechTalkK12 home. Anne Leftwich and I are looking at hosting a weekly (?) webcast that focuses more on K12 classroom practices. I can build a drupal on my Bluehost account or should I build one on the WB server. I want to be as connected as possible to the WB/ETT community but don't want to tax resources, I have appropriate alternatives. Jeff, when I asked before you said you were really neutral. If you are still really neutral, then I am thinking about building something that is a component of the WB/ETT world.

Community Introductions & Invitee Wishlist

Jeff — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:33:33 -0600

As I listened to the most recent EdTechPlanning Session , I kept thinking about guests we'd like to meet and topics we'd like to discuss on upcoming shows. Wonder who and what's on other folks EdTechTalk wishlist.

Who would you like to hear on upcoming EdTechTalk shows?
What topics would you like to hear discussed?

Doctoral Dissertation and WebQuests

nelliemuller — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:16:40 -0600

Hi Bloggers, Wiki writers, WebQuesters, and online learners,
I am currently a doctoral student at the University of Phoenix online program in education, leadership, curriculum, and instruction. As much as I love researching and writing papers, I have to come up with a problem statement for my dissertation. I am interested in online learning, WebQuests, and ways of integrating technology into the EFL/ESL classroom. My EFL high school students are not motivated to learn in the classroom because they learn English from TV, the Internet, and through music.

I am also interested in coaching and relationship education as a way to improve learning. The WebQuest seems to have everything I am interested in: teamwork and social skills, higher order critical thinking skills, and learning by means of technology. But, I can't come up with a research question/problem.

New Web Site EdTechReview.com

superdave98 — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:16:46 -0500

Dear Colleagues:

During my 15 years working in technology management in K-12 public education and at the community college level I have frequently had to select technology products for purchase. In order to find the best one, I'd post a bunch of emails to various edtech lists, call my friends, read the trade journals or attend conferences. I also noticed a lot of similar inquiries from my colleagues at other institutions who were in the same boat.

Being a geek, it bothered me that we were all spending an incredible amount of time gathering feedback on these various products and services. Frequently we were looking at the same sorts of products, but we didn't connect until after we'd already made individual decisions.

CMS course

jseal — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:30:24 -0500

I really enjoy listening to your edtechtalk shows and want to start using some of this "stuff" in the high school I teach at, but need more training on web 2.0. On one of the recent shows, you mentioned the CMS course/academy that will be beginning sometime in July. I'm very interested in participating both for me as a teacher and as an Learning Technologies masters candidate (University of Connecticut). Unfortunately, I cannot find the link to the course. Are you still holding one?

Thanks,

Jonathan Seal
Norwich Technical High School

Link for student videos - help

speakingofhistory — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:07:36 -0500

Hello. I just listened to the show with all the projects from the listeners. I'm trying to find the URL for the student created videos - Google I think was one of them. Any help?

Thanks a ton and thanks for the great shows.

Eric Langhorst

Contacting EdTech talk hosts

rodbrent — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:08:50 -0500

Hi,

I'm new to your site/podcast and like it very much. I'm planning to plug your podcast on mine, called "Rod's Pulse Podcast".

http://www.rodspulsepodcast.com

I couldn't find your email addresses on your site -- perhaps you don't want to be spammed.

Do you happen to have a podcast promo for your show?

Thanks,
Rod

How do I subscribe to RSS?

admin — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:16:16 -0600

This seems to be one of our most popular missing links, so re-posting this 'pre-server disaster' exchange.

I keep hearing about RSS, but when I click on the RSS links all I get is strange looking code. What am I supposed to do?

In order to subscribe to an RSS feed, you need to copy the link location of that feed and paste it into a newsreader or podcatcher type of program. For a video explanation, take a look at our first draft of How to subscribe to an RSS feed.

To optimize video clarity, we suggest viewing the video 'full screen'.

Portable MP3 Recording devices

bcgstanley — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:14:51 -0600

I have recently been trying out the Philips Voice Tracer 7880 mp3 recorder and am very impressed with it.

It could be an alternative to the iRiver recorders that were so popular with podcasters before, but now do not feature line ins or work well with Macs.

Details of the machine

It has a built-in mic and speaker (good enough for playback in class) and 2 different sensitities of microphone. You can also select super-high quality, high quality, or 3 other lower audio qualities.

It records directly to mp3 and functions as a flash drive without any need to install any additional software (although it does come with this software if you want it). It also works just as well on a Mac as it does on a PC, and has a line in.