60:55 minutes (27.89 MB)

 Join the Women of Web 2.0 as we discuss what it means to be a Discovery Educator and then the discussion moves on to Second Life and the presence that DEN members have made on EduIsland. Look for upcoming events.

 

The Delicious Links!   http://del.icio.us/WOW2.0/wow2_20080513 

The Chat

59:33 minutes (27.26 MB)

Welcome and thanks for joining us. This is show 74 and on this show we interview Brent Coley, a podcasting 5th grade teacher turned Asst. Principal,Tovashal Elementary School - Murrieta, CA . During our wow's Sharon brings in Dennis Richards - he is a Superintendent in Massachusetts - http://innovation3.blogspot.com/,  to talk about the wave of technology sweeping the upcoming ASCD conference. Vicki is out for most of May attending to her familiy. You will enjoy all the great links from the chat as well.

Here are more links: http://del.icio.us/WOW2.0

56:30 minutes (25.87 MB)

Jen and Sharon held down the show tonight. Cheryl was on vacation in dial up land, the ski mountains and Vicki was rallying her young charges in spring activities. Great show about Earth Day and student involvement with Pam Shoemaker, Shelia Adams and April . Midway through Patrick Higgins rejoins the conversation.

Don't miss the Delicious links here:

67:20 minutes (30.83 MB)

Join Sharon, Cheryl, Vicki and Jen as we interview Lucy Gray about her global projects and her local school projects. The chat room was rocking with over 50 folks listening and participating. All the great chat is below.

62:04 minutes (28.42 MB)

Women of Web 2.0, Show 70, welcomes you to the gaming show. Join us as Sharon, Vicki and Cheryl interview Karl Kapp, Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D., CFPIM, CIRM / Assistant Director, Institute for Interactive Technologies / Professor of Instructional Technology / Bloomsburg University. The chat has many great gaming links and developments as the show proceeds.

The delicious links: http://del.icio.us/Wow2.0#2008-04-08

64:21 minutes (29.46 MB)

Welcome to Show 69, for Women of Web 2.0. Our guest Patrick Higgins joins us tonight in a great conversation about Diigo, teaching and the passion for teaching and how to increase technology use in our classrooms through a supportive network.

Chat: with all the great links!

69:20 minutes (31.74 MB)

Join Jen, Cheryl, Vicki while we interview the Maine Connection. The Maine Connection, thanks to Doran, Grizz, Jake, Carly and Sam , the students and of course thanks to Kern Kelley , from the Nokomis School District and Alice Barr, from Yarmouth High School,  for inviting their students to the show to talk about the Maine Connection to the 21st Century. What a fantastic show. We tested the SKYPE limits with 9 folks on. The students who joined us made the show.

The chat is below, check it for great links.

66:30 minutes (30.44 MB)

What a great evening with all the 79+ librarians and guests in the chat room. It was a record breaker for WOW2! Join Vicki Davis, Sharon Peters and Cheryl Oakes as we interview Doug Johnson and Joyce Valenza about their impressions of libraries that work!

Chat:

The chat contains many great links, which are also posted at our delicious account. Enjoy!

66:50 minutes (30.6 MB)

Join Women of Web 2.0 as we interview Peggy Petrilli, the turn around principal. Welcome Kathy Shields as she holds down the seat for Jen. Jen is on sabbatical for the month. This is a fascinating conversation about assessment driving instruction, small group focused instruction. As always the chat room was rocking.

Chat 

54:01 minutes (24.73 MB)

Thanks to Deborah Goodman for giving us a guided tour of Big6. An information problem solving strategy developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz. All the links are listed in the following document:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcd32sxg_47xgbzgt53 

 

Chat:

36:23 minutes (16.66 MB)

I believe the answer to virtual worlds in elementary school may be within the Edusim environment.  A protected world where educators along with their students can experiment and create learning environments. 

43:31 minutes (19.92 MB)

We had a great show sharing ideas about recent conferences and we “made new connections” with Kim and Bradley. We welcome the two of you into the EdTechTalk network.

Maria Knee joined us after accepting her Technology Using Educator Award at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference. Check out Maria’s live interview from the conference with out very own Jeff Lebow.

37:55 minutes (17.36 MB)

This week we discuss the subject of homelessness, and I play a clip from an interview that I during a social services fair in Victoria, BC as part of Homelessness Action Week.We also talked about the self-advocacy work being done by and for homeless individuals at Homeless Nation

I was joined by Dave Cormier, Alice Mercer, Jeff Flynn and Arthus -- thanks to them and all who joined us in the text chat.

68:12 minutes (31.23 MB)

Even though we had a change in plans....we had great discussions about podcasting, moodle, and drupal.  Thanks to all for joining.  Leave a comment here in podomatic - to introduce yourself.

We are having a week-long tech institute at our school - the opeing day will provide  frame wiht a focus on Web 2.0 - the importance of students having opportunites to use 21st skills for learning - because of the extrodinary value of the skills themselves. I am looking for a perfect web 2.0 opening - to hook and energize the teachers attending and to give them a sense of what Web 2.0 means - I need ideas !!!!!!

Our guest was Ramit Sehti, co-founder of  PBWiki. Our discussion included uses of wiki's in education, a newsbreaking announcement, how to balance commercial activities with serving the educational community, and what's on the horizon for PBWiki.
Nov. 30 Update:  For a transcript on another extensive interview with Ramit, check out Cody McKibben's interview, Ramit Sethi Will Not Only Teach You To Be Crazy Rich...

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