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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.

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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!

Chat Log

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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Chat Log

Teachers Teaching Teachers #83 - Tagging, Ceramics, Digital Photography, and More

Paul Allison — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:55:29 -0600

Listen in as these eight teachers have a wide-ranging conversation during one of their virtual staff meetings, where they discuss their work together.

Paul Allison, East Bronx Academy for the Future, Bronx, NY
Lee Baber, J. Frank Hillyard Middle School, Broadway, VA
Susan Ettenheim, Eleanor Roosevelt High School, New York, NY
Russ Knopp, Preston Hall Middle School, Waitsburg, WA
Matt Montagne, University School of Milwaukee, WI
Bill O'Neal, Trenton High School West, Trenton, NJ
Chris Sloan, Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, UT
Woody Woodgate, Marshall School, Marshall, AK

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Teachers Teaching Teachers #76 - Coming and Going from Georgia, California, New York, Utah, Virginia...

Paul Allison — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:34:02 -0500

Join our virtual staff room as we check in with a couple of 9th graders from Virginia--Victoria and Zack--along with teachers from these schools:

East Bronx Academy for the Future, New York City - Paul Allison
J. Frank Hilliard Middle School, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia - Lee Baber
High School at UCLA, California - Lynne Culp
Westwood Schools, Camilla, Georgia - Vicki Davis
Eleanor Roosevelt High School, New York City - Susan Ettenheim
Florin High School, Sacramento, California - Bob LeVin
Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, Utah - Chris Sloan

Teachers Teaching Teachers #72 - Building Online Communities for Youth

Paul Allison — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:56:26 -0500

This is our audio presentation for the K12 Online Conference. To join us live on Wed., Oct 24, 9:00 pm EST, click on the Chat Room link and the Listen link.

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K12Online Conference 2007

lee — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:25:48 -0500

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and