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Teachers Teaching Teachers #101 - Collaborating in the Bering Sea - 04.23.08

Paul Allison — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:09:53 -0500

On this podcast Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison are joined by John Concilus, Director of Educational Technology, and a student from one of the schools in the Bering Strait School District. John introduced himself a few weeks ago by responding to an earlier podcast with a "Comment and Invitation for Collaboration."

Learn more about the Bering Strait School District and their work with technology. Then this Wednesday, April 30, join John Concilus again, plus a teacher from Brevig Mission, AK, Ginger Crockett, and others. Woody Woodgate and a colleague may be joining us as well. (Maybe we'll finally find out more about that seal hunt.)

We are excited to continue our connections with teachers in Alaska, and in particular we want to learn more about "place-based education." Here's what John said in a recent email:

We've already decided at the budget meeting to move forward with our Digital Foxfire program next school year. I'll have more information about this by Wednesday, but will have a form set up by then for having potentially intersted partner schools sign up.

Where's Brevig Mission? Check out this map, and use the zoom to find where you are in relation to Ginger's school.

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Brevig Mission School map TTT 101 April 23, 2008
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http://edtechtalk.com/node/3101/1231#comment-1231
edtech@bssd.org
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Some projects involving sites in multiple locations using our Wiki, Ning, etc...

http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/2008_Social_Networking_Collaboration

http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/2008_Social_Networking_Project_Two

Chat Log for TTT#100:Making Space on Youth Twitter - 04.16.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:34:13 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3148

Teachers Teaching Teachers #100 - Making Space on Youth Twitter - 04.16.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:09:56 -0500

Just before the second issue of Space was published, Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison, from the New York City Writing Project, were joined by:

Kevin Hodgson, a sixth grade teacher from the Western Massachusetts Writing Project
George Mayo, an 8th grade teacher from Maryland, and one of his students Pablo, an editor of the second issue of Space.
Chris Sloan, a high school teacher from the Wasatch Range Writing Project in Salt Lake City, and one of his students, Dane
Hannah, a student from the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia

Join the fun!

Listen to this podcast, as we bounce ideas off each other and plan future collaborations.
Please share Space, Issue #2 with your students.
And register your students at Youth Twitter.

2008space - via kwout

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Chat Log for TTT#99: From elgg to Drupal? 04.09.08

Paul Allison — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:11:47 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3135

Teachers Teaching Teachers #99 - From elgg to Drupal? - 04.09.08

Paul Allison — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:43:09 -0500

For this webcast, we invited Bill Fitzgerald, Dave Cormier and Gail Desler to talk about social networking and what platforms make sense right now. Of course behind all of this talk about Drupal and Edublogs were questions that we are asking about about how we in the, ah... Teachers Teaching Teachers, Youth Voices, Personal Learning Space, Youth Twitter ... group of teachers might want to continue working together ... and how the software decisions we need to make this Spring can support our hopes and plans.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #98 - Learning to be Unschooly - 04.02.08

Paul Allison — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:57:35 -0500

Earlier this month, on Youth Twitter, a student in South Korea, Soojin wrote, "just my opinion about youthtwitter: schooly. concrete."

A bit later, Hannah, a student in Philadelphia, answered on Youth Twitter, "I think Alan's survey is a good example of how not to be 'schooly'. Students should ask questions of each other and interact."

Wow, we thought this would be an interesting conversation on Teachers Teaching Teachers. Perhaps we could have more of a Students Teaching Teachers show.

We invited Soojin, Hannah, Alan, a student from Queens, NY, Lindsea, a studnet from Honolulu, and Ben, a student from NYC to talk about the possibilities and problems with http://youthtwitter on our live webcast, Teachers Teaching Teachers.

What a great a conversation we had about Youth Twitter, and blogging, and social networking and blogging-beyond-school.

OH! We also invited some of the students' teachers. Their insights were invaluable.

We were excited to have Clay Burell, Madeline Brownstone, and George Mayo join us for this conversation as well.

Here's the first paragraph of a blog post that Soojin wrote the day after the webcast. (Click the link to read the whole post, and the responses.)

Enjoy! And pass this podcast on to your students for inspiration.

Unschooly-Youths Conversations Reflection

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Soojin

April 3^rd, 2008 10:00 AM GMT+09, something new happened to my life. Well, yes to quote me that was my “first time Skyping for real-purposes” and, of course, “with bunch of White-people” that lasted more than an hour hosted by a group called TeachersTeachingTeachers (not to forget mentioning Clay Burell’s impression that it was more like StudentsTeachingTeachers :-). Many feelings crossed my heart. Oh well, yes, I was pretty nervous at first I won’t deny (so childish!). And at the same time I was very honored to join this group of 9 out of 6 billion, members consisting of Clay Burell, Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Madeline Brownstone, Lindsea, Hannah, Alan, Mr.Mayo, and Ben, talking about the leading form of education that all world will eventually have (sorry that I couldn’t link all names; please tell me your addresses). Paul told me during the conference that my tweet in YouthTwitter: just my opinion about youthtwitter: schooly. concrete was one of the key inspiration for opening such meeting. Actually, when I decided to tweet that I was afraid if I offended anyone in YouthTwitter but I decided to become honest because I wanted YT to improve. I’ve been blogging since last year, connected since about a month ago, and now I made a difference. Very meaningful.

No Music No Civilization » Unschooly-Youths Conversations Reflection

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Chat Log - TTT#98 - 04.02.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:26:04 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3133

20:44:18 tkidd132: Tyrone has Arrived To the Chat....
20:44:56 paulallison: Hi Tyrone... just getting set up. Hi Bill.
20:45:05 paulallison: http://students2oh.org/
20:45:06 Bill O'Neal: Hi Paul
20:45:11 paulallison: http://nycstudents.blogspot.com/
20:45:18 paulallison: http://lindseak.wordpress.com/
20:45:28 tkidd132: thats good....
20:45:57 tkidd132: Student2.o i love there blog...
20:46:13 tkidd132: Is Arthus going to be on tonight Mr Allison

Teachers Teaching Teachers #97 - Foxfire for the Firefox Generation - 03.26.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:04:35 -0500

This podcast begins with a focus on the work of two technology teachers and two students from The Baccalaureate School for Global Education (BSGE) in Astoria, NY. Madeline Brownstone and Shantanu Saha describe their two-year technology curriculum that has students doing global, multimedia projects.

Madeline and Shantanu have been working with schools here in the US through the New York City Writing Project and World Bridges/EdTechTalk. And their students have been participating in a project with a school in the Netherlands with iEarn.

More recently their students have also begun working with teachers and students involved with the Horizon Project, which was founded by Vikki Davis and Julie Lindsay. Listen to hear how these teachers and students integrate these national and international projects with the curricular expectations of a technology concentration that leads to an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma.

That might be enough, but Madeline and Shantanu and their students also found wonderful ways to relate their work to the collaborative study of rural culture that is being planned by Lee Baber in Virginia and Woody Woodgate in Alaska. Woody tells his students that they are natives of Alaska and the digital worlds.

In this podcast we explore all of these ways of connecting urban, rural, global, and digital youths!

Chat Log for TTT#96 - 03.19.08

Paul Allison — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:34:03 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3090

Teachers Teaching Teachers #96 - Has digital storytelling changed writing? - 03.19.08

Paul Allison — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:14:09 -0500

This spring Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison are experimenting again. This time with Hypertextopia. We have just begun to explore with our students how writing changes in this online environment. To learn more, we invited Mark Bernstein and Jeremy Ashkenas to have a conversation with us.

Mark Bernstein has been Eastgate's chief scientist since 1987. He has developed Storyspace and other hypertext software, and he is the publisher of wonderful hypertexts.
Jeremy Ashkenas is working on Hypertextopia as a part of his final project for his undergraduate degree at Brown University.

We were inspired to invite the spunky programmer/publisher to talk with the upstart literature/computer undergrad after reading through this recent thread on if:Book. Listen to learn more about hypertext writing online, and join us at Hypertextopia!

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Chat Log for TTT#95 - 03.12.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:31:56 -0500

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3082

Teachers Teaching Teachers #95 - Locating the Tyranny of Filtering - 03.12.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:15:36 -0500

It's happening in small, geographically dispersed schools in rural Alaska. Three people are responsible for doing it for over a million public school students in New York City. An independent school in Milwaukee uses the same software that is being used in NYC to do it. In Colorado, an outspoken opponent of it was recently hired for a district level job, and now he is on a small committee that gives the thumbs up or down. In North Dakota, a secret password is emailed each week to a group of thirty teachers who can then undo it in their schools, when needed. In rural Virginia, a teacher carefully measures her arguments for the educational benefit against the possible risks each time she requests for it to be undone. Because so many schools do it in so many different ways, the developers of VoiceThread have to work overtime to keep their Web 2.0 tool available in public schools.

In September, Wesley Fryer "observed from China that the level of content filtering / censorship enforced by the central, totalitarian government was actually LESS severe than the content filtering enforced in many U.S. public schools" (Content filtering in Communist China versus an Oklahoma school » Moving at the Speed of Creativity).

Really? Do the descriptions in the first paragraph accurately represent the tyranny of filtering in U.S. schools today? Or do teachers have more power than we often exercise? It's become too easy for educators to represent filtering as if it's something that oppresses us. What if we find that the enemy is us?

From the discussion captured on this podcast, we can sketch a much more complicated picture of how filtering really seems to work in U.S. schools. See what we mean by clicking Read more, below.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #94 - Music in the Classroom - 03.05.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:01:42 -0500

Recently, Lee Baber and Elderbob Brannan facilitated a 6-week session for the Electronic Village Online. I Got Rhythm: Music in the Classroom.

In today's multi-literate world, music plays an important role. It is one that is often over-looked or neglected in the classroom. With the advent of Web 2.0, Music has taken an even more significant position. Whereas it was once only the subject matter of those who were music majors, it now expands into many relavant areas of expertise. The ability to either select the proper music for a piece or to create music to stand alone, has become a common driver for most students. We beleive that the instructor, though not a music theorist, can offer a variety of resources and information to help students pursue this drive. It is our intent to explore ways that music can be made available in a classroom situation.

EVO 2008 Call for Participation wiki / Music

One of the prizes they found during their class was Joseph M. Pisano, a music professor whose enthusasiam and knowledge bubbles out in this podcast!

Listen to Dr. Pisano, then pass this one on to the music educator in your school. Also check out his blog: MusTech.net

That's not all! Hook your favorite music educator up with Dr. Pisano's campaign, Me Blogger. His goal is to inspire 100 Music Education Bloggers (ME Too!) before 2009. He would like to invite any music educator to become a ME Blogger today. "Join Our “Global Conversation” about music, education, and technology!"

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(Click Read more to see more about Lee Baber and Elderbob Brannan)

Chat Log - Teachers Teaching Teachers #94 - 03.05.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:46:08 -0500

http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/3075

20:47:30 Dr. Pisano: Hi Lee! :)
20:47:37 lee baber: hi
20:47:46 lee baber: I am sending susan the skype ids now for you
20:47:48 lee baber: and elderbob
20:47:54 Dr. Pisano: Great.
20:50:02 lee baber: Welcome Linda
20:50:29 lee baber: Dr. Pisano.. we are getting ready to call you in now
20:50:54 Dr. Pisano: Try again...
20:51:39 lee baber: OK
20:51:54 paulallison: hello
20:51:57 lee baber: Welcome bmuench
20:51:59 Dr. Pisano: Hello

Chat Log - TTT#93 - 02.27.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:37:04 -0500

Teachers Teaching Teachers #93 - 02.27.08

Teachers Teaching Teachers #93 - Open Curriculum Planning - 02.27.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:24:49 -0500

Imagine, if you would, your department meeting webcast live every month or so. At it's core, that's what we aim for at Teachers Teaching Teachers, and there's more. In this podcast, we go back to the basics, back to the making public our private curriculum discussions. Five National Writing Project teachers and two guests joined together to check what our students were doing and what we were thinking. We work together with a group of sites:

Youth Voices social network of 9th - 12 grade bloggers
Personal Learning Space - social network of 6th - 8th grade bloggers
Elggplans Wikispace - a wiki where we gather collaborative plans
Youthwiki Wikispace- a wiki for youths to share multimedia in galleries of work
Youth Bridges - youth podcasting network
Youth Twitter - a safe, twitter-like blogging network for students

The curriculum we build together is beginning to be gathered together in places like these:

On this podcast Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim, from New York City were joined by:

Chris Sloan, Salt Lake City, Utah
Bill O'Neal, Trenton, New Jersey
Lynne Culp, Los Angeles, California
Mike Sansone, Iowa
Jim Sigler, Missouri

Enjoy!

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Chat Log for TTT#92 - 02.20.08

Paul Allison — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:29:00 -0600

http://edtechtalk.com/node/3060

20:50:31 Lee Baber -> hey there ho there
20:50:34 SusanEttenheim -> hi plugusin welcome
20:50:36 SusanEttenheim -> hi lee
20:50:41 Lee Baber -> hi pugusin
20:50:46 Lee Baber -> plugusin
20:50:51 Lee Baber -> where are you from?
20:50:54 paulallison -> hi
20:51:00 Lee Baber -> hi paul
20:51:08 Lee Baber -> hi george may
20:51:13 paulallison -> plugusin is Bill?
20:51:14 Lee Baber -> mayo

Teachers Teaching Teachers #92 - Many Voices for Darfur - 02.20.08

Paul Allison — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:02:00 -0600

Listen to this podcast of 8th grade students from Maryland and Virginia talking about Darfur.

Then go to Many Voices for Darfur with you students and have them add their thoughts.

Thursday and Friday, March 6 and 7, 2008

Many Voices for Darfur

For 48 hours, starting at midnight Eastern standard time on March 6, 2008, many student voices will be collected in the name of those suffering in Darfur. Be sure that your voice is among them. Men, women, and children in the Darfur region of Sudan are dying. The Sudan militia and Janjaweed are responsible for as many as 500,000 deaths and 2,500,000 displaced refugees. You can learn more about the genocide taking place in Darfur by visiting the Many Voices for Darfur Wiki. Once you have had a chance to learn more about Darfur, please post your comment to one or more of the following prompts below:

If you could visit the camps in Chad and sit down one-on-one with a refugee who is your age, how would you explain what you or others are doing in your country to spread awareness and make a difference?
Write an open letter to Omar al-Bashir pleading your case for the Darfur region of Sudan.
Write an open letter to leaders in your country to make a case for government support of international efforts in Darfur.

Please read these RULES and GUIDELINES before posting your comment.

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Chat Log for Teachers Teaching Teachers #91 - 02.13.08

Paul Allison — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:14:46 -0600

Teachers Teaching Teachers #91: Tagging, Tumbling, and Mathcasting 02.13.08

20:36:34 NCavillones - hey, susan
20:36:46 SusanEttenheim - hi!
20:36:59 SusanEttenheim - getting ready then running off for a few minutes... how are you?
20:37:04 NCavillones - early , eh?
20:37:06 NCavillones - im good
20:37:14 NCavillones - been having fun with http://my.nycwp.net this week
20:37:21 NCavillones - i meant to email you about volunteering

Teachers Teaching Teachers #91: Tagging, Tumbling, and Mathcasting 02.13.08

Paul Allison — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:56:00 -0600

This is a jam-packed thirty-nine minutes, where we explore the power of tagging, teachers using tumblogs, mathcasts, VoiceThreads in health, speech, history, math, music, technology, and EFL classes. Join Paul Allison, Lee Baber, Susan Ettenheim, and VoiceThread's Ben Papell (Yes, he's a "regular" by now), as they welcome these fresh voices, fresh at least to us at Teachers Teaching Teachers:

Carla Raguseo, an EFL teacher and Computer Lab coordinator at A.R.I.C.A.N.A., a Binational Center in Rosario, Argentina

Carla Arena, a Brazilian EFL teacher, teacher trainer and site content manager at A Binational Center in Brasilia, but she's on a leave right now.

Jeremy Brown, a Special Education Teacher at the Medow Hall Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland

Judi Epcke, a teacher and Technology Integration Specialist in Northbrook, Illinois

Tim Fahlberg, founder of Mathcasts, after 11 years as a math teacher.

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Chat Log for TTT#90: Microblogging our way toward global awareness 02.06.08

Paul Allison — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:43:40 -0600

TTT #90

20:40:37 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://paulallison.tumblr.com/post/25699379
20:40:50 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://www.observer.com/2008/would-you-take-tumblr-man
20:41:00 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://stopgenocide.edublogs.org/
20:41:06 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com/
20:41:12 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://stopgenocide.wikispaces.com/
20:46:47 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: Hi.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #90: Microblogging our way toward global awareness 02.06.08

Paul Allison — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:07:42 -0600

Some educators, including some of us who meet regularly on Teachers Teaching Teachers, have begun to find places in our curriculum for microblogging.

“Compared to regular blogging, microblogging fulfills a need for an even faster mode of communication. By encouraging shorter posts, it lowers users’ requirement of time and thought investment for content generation. This is also one of its main differentiating factors from blogging in general. The second important difference is the frequency of update. On average, a prolific blogger may update her blog once every few days; on the other hand a microblogger may post several updates in a single day.” (Java Akshay, Tim Finin, Xaiodan Song, Bell Tseng, Why We Twitter: U nderstanding Microblogging Usage and Communitites. August 12, 2007)

At the beginning of this podcast we explore microblogging with David Karp, the 21-year-old fou nder of Tumblr, an interesting new blogging platform that some of us have begun to use. VoiceThread founders, Ben Pappel and Steve Muth join us in this conversation as well. (Read more about microblogging below.)

In the last 15 or 20 minutes, (beginning at 31:14) we are joined by George Mayo, an 8th grade teacher in Maryland, and Wendy Dexler, a 3rd grade teacher in Florida, who joined each other at Educon 2.0 to create a Global Darfur Awareness Event which will take place on March 6th. (Read more about this project below.)

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Chat Log for TTT#89 - 01.30.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:29:38 -0600

20:46:46 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: http://www.observer.com/2008/would-you-take-tumblr-man
20:46:50 Lee Baber -> -EdTechTalk: Hey Jeff..refresh
20:46:54 Lee Baber -> -EdTechTalk: mb
20:47:11 JoseRodriguez -> -EdTechTalk: Music for educators site in the initial building phase
20:47:22 Lee Baber -> -EdTechTalk: Hi Paul
20:47:41 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: Hi Lee.
20:47:49 paulallison -> -EdTechTalk: Susan around?

Teachers Teaching Teachers #89: Is the tool irrelevant? 01.30.08

Paul Allison — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:43:37 -0600

Listen to Scott Floyd, Tech Liaison for the Texas Bluebonnet Writing Project, and Ellen Petry Leanse explain how and why they collaborated on a project that resulted in this VoiceThread, as well as other media versions of the same story. Scott writes on his blog:

Ellen Petry Leanse has a powerful story to tell of her escape from the political unrest in Kenya during the presidential elections over the 2007 Christmas holidays. She and her 12 year old son were there volunteering in an orphanage as well as other humanitarian work. I first encountered her story January 15th on Guy Kawasaki’s blog as a guest post. Her writing moved me. Something inside of me kept saying to contact her and help her share what she and her son went through. As Google would have it, her email came up in the first try, and by 8:11 AM I sent off a personal plea to her to share her narrative through digital storytelling.

A Piece of My Mind - my ideas, thoughts, experiences, and lessons learned in education The founders of VoiceThread, Ben Papell and Steve Muth, also join us in this discussion of the lessons that can be learned from this one example of digital storytelling.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #88 - Me and my inquiry in relation to a whole community of learners - 01.23.08

Paul Allison — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:55:20 -0600

Listen to seven National Writing Project teachers plan a Spring Blogging curriculum together.

Find out if seven people can plan a curriculum together over skype. These seven teachers from Writing Projects across the country met and planned a 15-week blogging curriculum that they have started to put together (click read more).

Bob Levin and Gail Desler (Area 3 Writing Project, Sacramento, CA)
Woody Woodgate (Alaska Writing Project, Marshall, Alaska)
Bill O'Neal (Trenton, NJ Writing Project)
Chris Sloan (Wasatch Range Writing Project, Salt Lake City, Utah)
Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim (New York City Writing Project)

Image Source: Art for the Soul by RICHARD LAZZARA, a Creative Commons image uploaded to Flickr on January 13, 2006.
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