52:57 minutes (24.24 MB)

Our guest, Jennifer Dorman, gave lots of great information about using RSS in education.

1. We defined RSS feeds (sorta like a magazine subscription, but online);
2. We discussed why you would want to use it as a teacher, and in your classroom;
3. We shared examples of how we use it (sometimes for ourselves and our professional development, sometimes to automate information given to and from students); and
4. We talked about opportunities and challenges.

You can find our planning wiki here.

Some featured bookmarks from the show are here:

• From Jennifer Dorman:
  RSS for Educators wiki page
  RSS Presentation file
• RSS in Plain English (from Lee LeFever at CommonCraft, examples it really simply)

A more extensive list of bookmark is here on Diigo.

One issue that came up was the lack of RSS on content pages geared towards students. We've used feeds from Highlights, and Discovery Science. If you have other elementary-age content that has an RSS feed, please share it on in our Diigo group, or here as a comment. Thanks!

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34:00 minutes (7.76 MB) ­ In Medias Res: Research, RSS and Google Reader

We invite you to join us in the middle of what promises to be a series of conversations about research, RSS, and using Google Reader in the classroom. Although we tried to stay focused on Google Reader we did stray into other topics, such as: evaluating easily accessible online resources (blog, podcasts, news articles, magazine and journal articles, Wikipedia entries, web sites...). We also plan to discuss using library database (or the Deep Web) later this month.

We've been here before, especially last spring on Teachers Teaching Teachers:  http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?cat=13

Take note of this podcast: http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=88

Also, now we have Eric Hoefler's "Research 2.0" as a resource: http://hoefler.wikispaces.com/Research%202.0

So if you want to find out where we've been. There are some resources for you!

To follow where we might go next, listen to the podcast attached to this post. On this webcast, TTT 64,  the teachers (and Lee Baber's student, our special guest, CJ) began talking about how we want to do the "research, RSS, Google Reader..." thing better this year. Joining Paul Allison, Lee Baber, and Susan Ettenehim were:

• Donna Bragg, Lehigh Valley Writing Project, Pennsylvania
• Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project, California
• Barbara (Bee) Dieu, Sao Paulo, Brazil ( whose students are aggregated at http://dekita.org/orchard )
• Tricia Scott, Delaware Writing Project

Please join us!

We're working on a wiki page to capture our planning for the fall. We would love for you to take a moment and read our thoughts so far, to follow a few of the suggestions, and to add to this page.

Using Google Reader

And, of course, you've got to join us on this Wednesday's Teachers Teaching Teachers (at 9:00 pm Eastern / 6:00 pm Pacific on EdTechTalk.  Help us form a collaborative project around Google Reader and blogging.

52:10 minutes (23.88 MB) ­This was a special webcast from the National Writing Project's (NWP) ­Tech Matters`07 -- an annual summer institute sponsored by the Tech Liaisons Network of the NWP. In addition to several teachers who are working together in Chico, CA as part of Tech Matters, we were joined by Writing Project teachers Bill O'Neil (Trenton WP) and Bud Hunt (Colorado State University WP). Also two Writing Project teachers who were participants in Tech Maters`06 joined us, Donna Bragg, Penn State Lehigh Valley Writing Project and Lynne Culp, UCLA Writing Project. Thanks also to Susan Ettenheim who streamed for us and edited this podcast, Lee Baber who added more music to our lives, and Doug Symington who was there to remind us about his show EdTech Brainstorms, which on on Thursdays nights(Americas)/Friday (Asia,Oceania) 2amGMT.

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