… well, actually a bit more than that. Today I brought my new toy into work, and just had to show it off to the media specialist. She liked what she saw, and liked the price tag (only $220!) even more. Just then, our Principal walked in with a smile on her face. She was …
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Academic Aesthetic Netcast 123
This time around I play with a new toy (a digital video camera), lament (sort of) on spending so much on tech, and talk about redefining education. Don’t like the video? I have an audio only version if you prefer.
Room to Read
I’ve recently fallen in love with the podcasts that National Geographic is rolling out on a regular basis. In one of them they’ve posted an interview with John Wood, an ex-Microsoft employee who got the idea of collecting books for impoverished schools in Nepal and Vietnam (and more countries?) after a vacation to the Himalayas. …
Academic Aesthetic Netcast 122
Today’s ‘cast is all about groups and a legitimate concern or two voiced by Bud the Teacher. (I’m cross-posting it on the Next Gen Teachers group partially to check out how well it handles podcasts.) (UPDATE: Looks like it works just fine.) Shownote links: Bud’s post on groups DEN Seedlings Next Gen Teachers Teachers 2.0
His English was better than my Polish
I just spent over 2 hours chatting with a 16 year old student in Poland who found me on Skype and wanted to practice his English skills. We talked about popular culture, politics, school, and anything else he could think up. He had only been learning English for two years, but he was good enough …
World’s Youngest Blogger
Aiden 018, originally uploaded by teach42. Steve Dembo is now the proud papa of a bouncing baby boy! He hasn’t blogged about it yet, but there are a ton of Flickr photos uploaded already. Congrats, Mr. and Mrs. Dembo! Now the fun can really begin. :)
Hear ye! Hear ye!
(Taken from Dangerously Irrelevant) All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to… complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere survey; forward the URL of said survey to all other known education bloggers to ensure decent representation of the education blogosphere; and publicize said survey URL on their own blogs to …
Academic Aesthetic Netcast 121
Chris Craft (a man who is quickly becoming one of my favorite bloggers) wrote a post yesterday that I find difficult to sum up in an introduction. He had a few insights that spoke to me, partially because art and foreign language are both lumped outside that tightly knit group of “core” subjects. (I continue …
Academic Aesthetic Netcast 120b
No real show this week, just me singing poorly while I wish you a Merry Christmas. No, really – this cold of mine has my singing voice shot. …Not that it was any good to begin with… … I’ll stop talking, now.
Academic Aesthetic Netcast 120
I’m giving up. That’s right, I’m giving up on Audacity. It’s a solid program with some nice features, but it just can’t top my copy of GarageBand. Purple tracks extending across the screen, how I missed you! In any case, I recently received an email from Lance Rougeux of the Discovery Educator Network. He was …