EdTechWeekly#203
October 30, 2011

Topics: Jen starts us off by examining issues brought out during Rory McGreal's Change11 presentation about 'OER for Learning' and OERu Specifically, we contemplate the role of the teacher and/or learning institution when using Open Educational Resources and what about the 'missing piece' between open content and assessment?  John relates this all to his current MOOC experience and his daughter's experience being virtually schooled. Jeff harasses Dave a bit about the lack of interaction during Change11's Friday reflection sessions and the boys stick around for a short post-show as Jen flees the scene.  A good time was had by all. 

EdTechWeekly #194

May 8, 2011

Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John
Guest hosts: iJohn Pederson, mayor of the Internet

This week's Links:

• What scares us, please do tell ... http://www.ijohnpederson.com/2011/03/what-are-you-scared-of/
• Issues of legacy and content preservation
  • Derek K. Miller: http://penmachine-bu.appspot.com/
    
  • What happens to the Google Video content that doesn't get migrated? http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/15/google-video-prepares-to-enter-the-deadpool-for-good/
    • Google Video, incidentally, eliminated the April 29 deadline, and provides a tool to transfer the videos to YouTube. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/update-on-google-video-finding-easier.html
      
  • What if people don't agree to the AVOS TOS? What happens to their data? http://www.delicious.com/help/transition
    
  • What obligations do schools have to maintain the content of their students & staff? Can we just delete their Google Apps accounts when they graduate or retire?

iJohn's Links:

• Seth Odell's "Higher Ed Live" - http://higheredlive.com/ Higher Ed communications, student affairs, etc. A community of higher ed web professionals.
• Dan Benjamin's "Back to Work" w/ Merlin Mann - http://5by5.tv/b2w Dan Benjamin is, IMO, the biggest thing in podcasting since Leo Laporte's TWiT Network. http://twit.tv/
• Related: Merlin Mann's "Cranking" - http://www.43folders.com/2011/04/22/cranking  Not quite "edtech" related, but "Back to Work" is heavily focused on creativity, particularly writing, and how to scratch that itch of balancing work and creativity.
• http://ds106.us/ Radio. What is it? "It is a free form live streaming station that has been setup for this course, and it is being used as a platform to broadcast the work being created in the class, and a space for live broadcasts as well as for programming shows."
• Julia Fallon would kill me if I didn't mention Shifted Learning. http://www.shiftedlearning.org. Focus: ? :)