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1/15/07 Update:

What are they? How can I use them in my Classroom?

Here’s the outline of my NYSAIS Professional Development Seminar for Tuesday. Any comments would be appreciated. Bring Blue SnowBall, Get Richardson: Blogs, Wikis and Podcasting. Review last blogging outline:

Goal of Day: Exposure to RSS, Blogs, Poscasting, Social Bookmarking and
Wikis. The ability for participants to [...]

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The momentum is here — arvind and I have been discussing how to extend the 2006 NYSAIS Conference for Managers of Technology on our webcast this fall. I’m on the planning committee, and arvind is the blog manager (or blog master as I like to call him:D). With the help of our NYCIST [...]

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What follows is a podcast discussion about Podcasting in Education that took place at the NYCIST meeting on October 19, 2006.
2006-10-19-NYCIST
Show Notes:
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/NYCIST_Data_Collection
http://odeo.com/
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
http://www.apple.com/ilife/

http://www.bluemic.com/

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On Friday and Saturday, I followed the Podcast Academy at Boston University, via Jeff Lebow from Educational Bridges. Jeff and his partner Doug Symington (in the studio) webcast the conference live.  Jeff interviewed participants and attendees via his cell phone live during the breaks.  The surprise of folks he was interviewing when he told them [...]

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The following podcast is a recording of a professional development day that I led on Thursday, April 13, 2006. The topic was Blogging, Wikis and Podcasting in the classroom. As Alan November would say, I hope its good enough to criticize.
Download Podcast Here - This is a 20 meg file, so you will [...]

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I’ve been quiet over the past week or so.  The reason is that last Thursday (4/13) I ran a professional development day at my school.  The topic was blogging, wikis, and podcasting — sorry to steal your book name Will:-).  It was the culmination of much of what I have learned by blogging over the [...]

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Dean Shareski podcasted a show about a 1.5 hour blogging seminar for a high school writing course that he did recently. Check it out here. He ended his podcast asking about way to make this type of seminar more effective. I don’t have any good answers, but here is what we have [...]

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On Friday, February 17, 2006, I had a conversation with Jeff Mao, Coordinator of Educational Technology for the Maine Learning Technology Iniative (MLTI), about 1:1, the stories of the Maine laptop program, and what schools who are thinking of 1:1 should be doing to prepare. I’ve known Jeff for at least six years [...]

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