EdTechBrainstorm #35

19:02:16 SusanEttenheim: stepping away for a few but leaving the chat open
19:50:38 JL: Hey Harold
19:51:04 JL: heard rumors that the Informl gang may be around tonight
19:51:41 USSROVER: good evening
19:51:49 Harold_Jarche: yah, but I may be the only one
19:52:00 Harold_Jarche: who's JL?
19:52:15 USSROVER: ??
19:52:26 Harold_Jarche: I'm not getting positive audio - is it down?
19:52:40 USSROVER: I'm just a tech show junkie :) he-he
19:52:57 USSROVER: http://worldbridges.net:8002/listen.pls is the one I'm using
19:53:37 Harold_Jarche: it works! I think?
19:53:39 USSROVER: uses win Amp or Jet Audio player
19:53:54 Harold_Jarche: I here jeff talking
19:54:24 USSROVER: web casting
19:54:36 Harold_Jarche: where's Doug?
19:55:06 USSROVER: my 1st time in chat during show
19:55:33 Harold_Jarche: Jeff! Are you live??
19:56:20 Harold_Jarche: may just be me
19:56:26 Harold_Jarche: what's skypecast?
19:57:12 USSROVER: Skypecast uses Skype
19:57:37 USSROVER: JL ? have a phone ##
19:57:58 JL: https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=...
19:58:56 USSROVER: reason I ask I have a list of computer / tech shows
20:11:27 rover: can you pass the skype link again this is USSROVER
20:11:46 JL: https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=...
20:11:50 rover: ty
20:12:27 cheryl: great to have students teaching
20:13:29 cheryl: cheryloakes sorry, yeah, can't wait
20:13:40 Harold_Jarche: cool
20:13:45 cheryl: having dinner with the family, brb
20:15:27 JL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomedex
20:16:45 JL: Hi Paul, skypecast at https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=...
20:16:58 Harold_Jarche: vyew.com
20:18:04 Paul_Ellerman: Hi everyone
20:22:05 Harold_Jarche: http://www.squidoo.com/opensource4learning/
20:22:59 rover: off subject I'm a Grand-uncle want pictures ?
20:24:30 rover: Open Office good replacement for MS Office
20:25:36 Harold_Jarche: gabbly.com
20:25:46 JL: http://gabbly.com/
20:26:03 Paul_Ellerman: I have heard of it.
20:26:10 Steve_K: Our websites: http://www.spdc.org http://www.k12opensource.org
20:26:25 Paul_Ellerman: www.gabbly.com/cbc.ca
20:27:01 JL: http://gabbly.com/http://edtechtalk.com
20:28:39 Harold_Jarche: http://gabbly.com/http://edtechtalk.com/
20:31:07 rover: for those that are interested go here http://www.kalnet.com/~ussrover/show.html for a list of over 160 computer / tech shows
20:31:19 rover: I maintain the list
20:32:47 JL: http://www.kalnet.com/~ussrover/c-shows.html
20:33:02 cheryl: i am back to this one.
20:33:10 cheryl: HI susan.
20:33:14 SusanEttenheim: hi everyone
20:33:18 rover: jl that is the web version of the list
20:33:32 rover: Central time is web list
20:34:07 rover: Yes SKYPE as USSROVER
20:34:19 SusanEttenheim: hi
20:34:24 SusanEttenheim: lol
20:34:30 SusanEttenheim: tnx
20:34:37 JL: +99001110009475818
20:34:41 SusanEttenheim: will never live that one down!
20:34:54 JL: https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=...
20:34:59 rover: Speadsheet Excel Open Office usable
20:35:02 SusanEttenheim: too many years with Moms Online
20:35:16 rover: all the shows stream LIVE !! no podcast
20:37:30 rover: I see pop-up with host Susan, Paul & uwe
20:39:04 Paul_Ellerman: When will the next webcast acadmey start?
20:39:47 Harold_Jarche: rover - try the skypecast instead
20:40:11 Paul_Ellerman: July 15th, cool
20:40:26 rover: I may not have skypecast
20:40:38 rover: I have Skype itself
20:40:47 rover: adding you to my list
20:40:49 cheryl: I think opening ceremonies prior to July 31st works for me.
20:40:51 Harold_Jarche: don't need skypecast - just go to the URL
20:41:13 cheryl: Moodle started?
20:41:35 cheryl: I must have checked out by then.
20:41:49 cheryl: Bob and I want moodle, plus 2 other teachers in Wells.
20:43:00 cheryl: Susan you were so calm with all that was happening!
20:43:09 rover: I'm hearing the young lady talking now
20:43:42 rover: I have my transmit MUTED
20:44:19 cheryl: Arnold was just being a bully.
20:44:20 Harold_Jarche: rover - you are in the skype conference
20:45:51 rover: Harold in via Skype :) the way I know works
20:47:06 rover: lost call
20:47:19 rover: I'll try in a tick
20:49:15 cheryl: Susan, I want you as my mentor.
20:49:34 cheryl: Okay, I'll do moodle, there must be someone here in the Linux community who is awesome.
20:50:21 Harold_Jarche: have you asked at moodle.org?
20:50:29 Alex.Ragone: Greetings...
20:52:02 Alex.Ragone: Who is speaking?
20:52:09 rover: me
20:52:14 Alex.Ragone: Hi Rober.
20:52:15 hbryant2: Am I in the chat room for EdTechBrainstorm? I've joined through Skypecast.
20:52:17 rover: aka USSROVER
20:52:18 Alex.Ragone: rover.
20:52:32 JL: http://www.kalnet.com/~ussrover/c-shows.html
20:52:34 Alex.Ragone: Yes --- You're at the EdTechBrainstorm...
20:52:41 SusanEttenheim: could you do a list of all education shows?
20:52:43 hbryant2: Thanks.
20:53:02 Alex.Ragone: Thanks, Jeff!
20:53:39 SusanEttenheim: wow that's great
20:53:47 Alex.Ragone: We'll have to get 2!ST Century Learning up there!
20:53:55 SusanEttenheim: does anyone use eChalk?
20:53:56 rover: Susan You can copy and use my list to your needs
20:54:11 SusanEttenheim: thanks rover- great job- is it a database?
20:54:30 rover: yes open office & MS Excel usable
20:54:33 SusanEttenheim: i used to run a site of websites for women - it was a wonderful task - i loved doing it
20:54:46 cheryl: nice list, thanks rover
20:54:49 SusanEttenheim: it's really satisfying isn't it?
20:54:55 rover: free to all
20:55:25 SusanEttenheim: rover do you have people contribute and send ideas to you?
20:55:30 rover: I'm in the process of trying to get some non-streaming show to stream live
20:55:36 rover: some do
20:55:42 SusanEttenheim: cool
20:56:21 rover: many of the people that email me say I can't see column B in my time zone
20:57:08 rover: I email them find your time zone on Sheet 2 then put Number in Cell D1 on sheet 1
20:57:40 Alex.Ragone: I really like Akisnet -- It's eliminated my wordpress spam.
20:58:13 JL: http://languagelabunleashed.com/
20:59:30 JL: http://www.echalk.com/
21:01:40 DougSymington: hi all
21:01:46 JL: can you call in?
21:01:47 rover: hi Doug
21:01:54 Alex.Ragone: hi doug...
21:02:03 Harold_Jarche: Hi Doug
21:02:24 JL: 1-603-574-4923
21:02:43 rover: is that the land line call in ??
21:02:51 JL: skype in #
21:03:11 cheryl: it looks interesting, right, what is the new and transformative result
21:04:44 cheryl: it was about echalk
21:05:00 Harold_Jarche: http://elgg.net
21:05:06 cheryl: I like open source and just starting to get my district moving in that direction
21:05:08 rover: thanks I added it to NOTE for show
21:05:11 Alex.Ragone: We're going to start testing elgg in the next few weeks.
21:05:31 cwe: Is there a fee for elgg?
21:05:35 SusanEttenheim: yes cheryl I'd like to move the larger community in that direction
21:05:39 Harold_Jarche: elgg is not that mature but real potential - new version in Sept
21:05:56 SusanEttenheim: it's a fine line of how to do that and balance one's own responsibilities on a day to day basis
21:06:28 SusanEttenheim: alex - I'd be very interested in that
21:06:39 SusanEttenheim: what have you been using?
21:07:03 Harold_Jarche: Alex - I've done a lot of testing with elgg - contact me if you want at jarche.com
21:07:18 SusanEttenheim: ahh doug- had someone using php and declaring it as the big thing about 8 years ago!
21:07:24 SusanEttenheim: was she ever right!
21:08:47 SusanEttenheim: harold - what a great clean looking blog - is it wordpress?
21:09:00 Harold_Jarche: yup - WP
21:09:15 cheryl: off see you another evening.
21:09:23 SusanEttenheim: wow - that's encouraging - just trying to get going with that this summer
21:10:34 JL: http://mu.wordpress.org/
21:12:09 Alex.Ragone: Susan -- you should come over to the west side -- we're doing a linux hangout the second or third week of July -- we can geek out and check out wordpress mu, elgg and drupal...
21:12:30 hbryant2: Bye.
21:12:34 JL: http://flickr.com/search/?q=drupalcampseattle&m=tags
21:17:16 SusanEttenheim: JL exactly
21:19:42 Alex.Ragone: Jeff - maybe Susan and I can start off the cms academy?
21:19:57 JL: sounds good
21:20:14 JL: can you come on to announce the opening Mr Headmaster?
21:21:20 Alex.Ragone: Ha!
21:21:20 JL: http://www.cmsacademy.net/drupal/ is pretty much waiting to be launced
21:21:40 Alex.Ragone: Unfortunately -- I have chores -- a usual night!
21:22:15 SusanEttenheim: alex do we want to start drupal or elgg?
21:22:23 SusanEttenheim: see I'm still confused
21:22:29 Alex.Ragone: both
21:22:42 SusanEttenheim: nice but unrealistic
21:22:44 SusanEttenheim: lol
21:23:01 SusanEttenheim: what does everyone else think?
21:23:09 SusanEttenheim: alex do you know php?
21:23:18 Alex.Ragone: Yes -- I'm thinking of starting with elgg.
21:23:27 SusanEttenheim: I'm a notch lower than JL on php
21:23:38 Alex.Ragone: no worries... we'll learn.
21:23:48 cwe: I would like which ever will be best for elementary
21:24:04 SusanEttenheim: I don't know about every one else but I was actually thinking of getting some sleep this summer
21:24:24 Alex.Ragone: Night, Susan...
21:24:24 DougSymington: just in the door from Seattle
21:24:37 DougSymington: speakin' o' sleep
21:24:56 SusanEttenheim: ok alex
21:24:57 Harold_Jarche: it's almost midnight here - Zzzzz
21:25:11 Alex.Ragone: I'll coordinate the elgg learning....
21:25:23 Alex.Ragone: You guys have to be involved though.
21:25:34 JL: Great Alex
21:25:38 Paul_Ellerman: Night all
21:28:00 Alex.Ragone: Teach them to use the forums....
21:28:34 Alex.Ragone: C
21:29:36 Alex.Ragone: I like that Jeff...
21:29:50 cwe: How many tech teachers do you have in your school?
21:29:52 Alex.Ragone: c was somewhat of a joke..
21:30:00 Harold_Jarche: oops
21:30:17 Alex.Ragone: It's very detailed...
21:30:19 DougSymington: 2nd Life is written in a "C-like" language
21:30:19 JL: Amonst the Worldbridges Domain Collection are a lot of coops - i.e. teachercoop.net learningcoop.net etc.
21:32:21 Harold_Jarche: my son's blog http://dragonlance.gnomz.com/22453-sakata.html
21:33:30 JL: http://schools.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
21:36:09 JL: http://teachersnetwork.org/
21:36:57 cwe: I like LEARNNC.org
21:37:19 Alex.Ragone: There's also http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/School_Computing_Home_Page
21:41:07 JL: Hi Jason
21:42:15 SusanEttenheim: harold - how old is your son?
21:42:26 Alex.Ragone: What happened to the stream?
21:42:28 JasonR: Howdy. Just lost the stream. Networked stalled. Rebuffering.
21:42:48 Alex.Ragone: Jeff --- are you weening me off the stream?
21:43:10 SusanEttenheim: I can still hear it fine- no breaks
21:43:32 JL: Oops
21:43:36 JL: not sure what happened
21:43:41 JL: should be back
21:43:50 Alex.Ragone: Thanks! It's back!
21:44:33 SusanEttenheim: school computing is terrific
21:44:59 JasonR: Whoohoo. Dragonlance!
21:45:23 JasonR: Loved that series as a teenager.
21:47:10 JL: Skypecast is at: https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=... if anyone would like to join in
21:47:50 DougSymington: http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/journal/team/aggregator.cgi
21:51:33 SusanEttenheim: url for learners blogs?
21:51:42 SusanEttenheim: tnx
21:51:55 Alex.Ragone: http://www.learnerblogs.org/
21:52:04 DougSymington: http://elgg.net/dougs
21:52:04 SusanEttenheim: http://www.learnersblogs.net/?
21:52:24 Harold_Jarche: learnerblogs.org
21:52:30 Harold_Jarche: elgg.net
21:52:57 SusanEttenheim: this looks great
21:54:11 cwe: Do you think I could use elgg with 4th and 5th graders?
21:54:27 ussrover: Jason I'm an OLD D&Der stred out in CHAINMAIL Series
21:56:05 JasonR: Tried the skypecast URL. No audio. Odd.
21:56:14 JL: hmmm
21:56:50 JL: new URL after I restarted it
21:56:59 SusanEttenheim: did you do that ?
21:57:10 SusanEttenheim: do you host the blogs for the 130 students?
21:57:55 JL: https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=...
21:59:42 Harold_Jarche: http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/bozpage/?hrv
22:00:57 ussrover: thanks for letting me talk about my showlist
22:01:05 JL: thank you
22:01:13 JL: I look forward to checking it out more carefully
22:01:20 JL: and tuning in to some of the shows
22:01:44 ussrover: if you know of any other show computer / tech related let me know email in file
22:02:12 JL: will do... feel free to check and let us know if there are any edtechy shows out there you think we'd be interested in
22:02:14 ussrover: I also have a google calendar
22:02:35 ussrover: :)
22:02:56 JL: what's the google calendar URL?
22:03:01 SusanEttenheim: i'm having trouble hearing doug's audio is anyone else?
22:03:10 JL: he's coming in pretty low
22:03:17 ussrover: it is on my page
22:03:26 ussrover: http://tdurl.com/y << is a redirect
22:03:59 DougSymington: http://drupaled.org/
22:05:06 DougSymington: http://drupaled.org/forum/general-discussion/drupaled-where-can-i-get-it
22:05:39 JasonR: Depending on the Cosmos Commons?
22:05:40 Harold_Jarche: jarche.com
22:05:53 SusanEttenheim: and the sahara..
22:06:06 SusanEttenheim: inside joke... sorry
22:06:12 SusanEttenheim: hhh
22:06:36 Harold_Jarche: good night everyone
22:06:42 SusanEttenheim: wow what a delay
22:07:07 SusanEttenheim: can you just mute everyone?
22:07:50 ussrover: test
22:08:28 Alex.Ragone: night everyone.
22:08:34 Alex.Ragone: thanks for a great conversation.
22:09:07 ussrover: about a 2 hour how norally
22:09:21 ussrover: normally
22:10:25 SusanEttenheim: hi doug
22:10:27 SusanEttenheim: i think
22:10:35 SusanEttenheim: is it cathy?
22:10:42 SusanEttenheim: is she in the chat?
22:14:22 ussrover: hi cwe
22:14:35 cwe: nhe.dare.k12.nc.us
22:16:20 JasonR: http://nhe.dare.k12.nc.us
22:17:35 JasonR: Cathy, does NC do much with videoconferencing in the classroom?
22:18:41 JasonR: Nice website, BTW.
22:19:18 JasonR: She has a cephalopod on the front page :)
22:20:54 SusanEttenheim: wow you really hit that nail on the head doug
22:21:08 SusanEttenheim: lol jason
22:22:43 SusanEttenheim: is the combination what gave moodle the blogs?
22:22:53 SusanEttenheim: I'm pooped
22:23:16 SusanEttenheim: no albert tonight?
22:23:16 JasonR: Indeed. Getting late here too.
22:23:34 cwe: Thanks for letting me in :)
22:24:11 SusanEttenheim: thanks for sharing!
22:24:57 cwe: When is the TEachers teaching Teachers?
22:25:13 JasonR: SL!
22:26:15 SusanEttenheim: TTT is Wed eve 9pm eastern time
22:26:23 cwe: thanks
22:27:09 ussrover: heading out folks have a good one
22:27:14 ussrover: nite all
22:27:15 cwe: bye from NC