professional development

21st Century Learning #48: Peter Gow: Online Professional Learning Communities

alex.ragone — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:57:26 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #48
Peter Gow: Online Professional Learning Communities
July 3, 2007

This week, we discussing Online Professional Learning Communities with Peter Gow, creator of Independent Educator and Director of College Counseling and Special Programs and a former Academic Dean at Beaver Country Day School.

21st Century Learning #45:Jeff Mao, Maine Coordinator of Educational Technology

alex.ragone — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:20:28 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #46
Jeff Mao, Coordinator of Educational Technology, Maine
June 12, 2007

This week, we discussing Maine's 1:1 program with Jeff Mao. This is a must listen with many wonderful insights into using technology appropriately in the classroom.

Our apologies for taking so long to post this audio. The end of the year got to us!

To contact us, please submit a comment on this post or send us e-mail at 21 [at] edtechtalk.com.

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21st Century Learning #46: Year in Review, Professional Learning, Summer Plans and Reading

alex.ragone — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:23:38 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #46
Year in Review, Professional Learning, Summer Plans and Reading
June 19, 2007

This week, we discussed our year, our summer plans, a professional development learning network, and our summer plans and reading.

To contact us, please submit a comment on this post or send us e-mail at 21 [at] edtechtalk.com.

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21st Century Learning #44: Jeff Ritter on Faculty Professional Development

alex.ragone — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:53:24 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #44
Jeff Ritter on Faculty Professional Development
May 22, 2007

This week, we discussed faculty professional development with Jeff Ritter, from St. John's School in Houston Texas. Jeff has implemented a wonderful technology professional development program and we can all learn from his experiences.

To contact us, please submit a comment on this post or send us e-mail at 21 [at] edtechtalk.com.

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21st Century Learning #41: Lorrie Jackson and the Laptop Institute

arvind — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:41:54 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #41
Lorrie Jackson and the Laptop Institute
May 1, 2007

Lorrie Jackson from the Laptop Institute at the Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, TN tells about their 1:1 conference/institute and about some best practices for laptop programs. She knows a ton, so give a listen!

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Teachers Teaching Teachers#44 - Connections in Western Massachusetts and Northern California

SusanEttenheim — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:06:00 -0500

We were joined on this wide-ranging podcast by 6th grade teacher and Western Mass. Writing Project tech liaison, Kevin Hodgson and Area 3 (California) Writing Project tech liaison Gail Desler, as well as Ken Stein, a high school teacher in New York City who is just beginning to bring his students into YouthVoices.net. We talk about podcasts, blogging, and many other 21st Century literacies. And we are joined by many others, including Alice Mercer, also from Northern California. In the end we welcomed teachers from New York, Massachusetts, California, Virginia, Florida, and Taiwan. We invite you to also join the conversation!

Kevin passed along these links that he mentioned about their Making Connections project (which is closed to the public):

A report about Making Connections blog project

Student Surveys

Teacher Reflections

21st Century Learning #33: Designing a Professional Development Day

alex.ragone — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:30:32 -0600

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #33
Desiging a Professional Development Day
arvind interviews Alex about designing a professional development day
February 27, 2007

A discussion of the collaborative design and implementation of a professional development day at Collegiate School.

Check out the Chat Transcript for the show notes

A Discussion on Worldbridges Sustainability

admin — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:28:23 -0600

A Discussion on Worldbridges Sustainability
November 16, 2006
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While hanging out on air before EdTech Brainstorm, Brad Hicks skyped in and asked Jeff & Dave about the sustainability of Worldbridges and The Webcast Academy. The discussion that ensued covered non-profit possibilities, other financial considerations, potential management structures and how to avoid participant burnout.

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #25 -Do we need a new discipline: Stories of Student Online Conversation

SusanEttenheim — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:06:54 -0500

Teachers Teaching Teachers
Do we need a new discipline: Stories of Student Online Conversation
October 18, 2006
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Our conversation this evening began innocently enough with Gail Desler, the technology liaison for the Area 3 Writing Project in and around Sacramento, California, describing her work over the past four years with blogging in the classroom. Last year 3 different Writing Projects and 5 schools joined together in a project called “Youth Voices: Coast to Valley.” Given that we have stolen their name, “Youth Voices” in an attempt to broaden our network of schools, we are delighted to include Gail and her teachers in the elgg at http://youthvoices.net! Last night Gail said that some of the same teachers from last year’s work would be joining the new Youth Voices. A great question that Gail has been asking is, “How can we sustain and deepen online conversations on a blog?” And part of this has to do with finding the right balance between personal blogging and common blogging around a theme or text.

EdTechTalk#20 - Disccussion with Stephen Downes & Will Richardson

admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:05:21 -0500

EdTechTalk #20 - part 1
October 16, 2005
Guests: Stephen Downes & Will Richardson

Part 1 (11.4MB, 50:03)
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The first part of our conversation with these two leaders in the field of educational technology. The discussion includes life before web2.0 and the paths each took to get where they are, copyright issues of digital content, politics of edtech, the use of tablet pc's, professional development, differences between U.S. & Canadian educational systems, & lots more