Lucky 13! Take a survey, win a pro account for Flickr. Show Notes: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). Egad! How the heck did I make 10th place in Podcast Alley’s education section? I mean, I appreciate it and all, but how did that happen? To those of you who are listening / reading this, some comments on why you keep coming back would be greatly appreciated….Continue Reading “13th Podcast: Ratings and Performance”
I’m thinking of opening I’ve opened up a CafePress account and started putting some Blog / Podcast / Geek / Teacher / Artist / etc. designs up there. Everything’s being sold “at cost,” so CafePress makes a profit but I don’t. Why? because I’m not that interested in making money here. I just want to get these designs out. In any case, I’m trying to think of some good slogans. So far, I have: Blogs in Education: Share the Kool-Aid. Podcasts in Education: Share the…Continue Reading “T-shirts, etc. (UPDATE)”
12th podcast, now there’s one for every month! (But if you only listen to one podcast a month you’re not truly taking full advantage of the media, are you?) Take a survey, win a pro account for Flickr. Show Notes: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). BlogMeister – a blogging engine for teachers and students created by David Warlick. I highly recommend that you also check out…Continue Reading “12th Podcast: Blog Safety and T-Shirts”
Top ten! (If you only count my podcasts…) Show Notes: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). Using email to achieve a paperless system only works if your emails aren’t blocked by another teacher’s spam filter. When podvangelizing, it’s best to break it down and keep it simple. (Does that mean you share Kool-Aid that’s been watered down?) Also, you can leave printouts from various podvangelizing websites in…Continue Reading “10th Podcast: Spam and Kool-Aid”
Here we are on cloud nine, even if it does get a little staticy at the end. Shownote Links: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). Having teachers email me their paperwork works nicer than having them hand me paper, and I get the same participation rate. When installing RAM, make sure you do it right the first time. Also, when you don’t have a deadline and a…Continue Reading “9th Podcast: Paperless, RAM, and a Printmaker”
Eight is great! This episode, expect to hear me talking about teachers helping students with their artwork and my “Do it first, then learn about it” philosophy that I sometimes use. Shownote Links: Silly Grin – A song by Kelley Vice, hosted on archive.org Creative Commons – Share your stuff while still reserving some of your rights. (You pick which ones.) Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?
Mr. Warlick has had some wonderful commentary about the new literacy in his blog and in his podcasts. Long story short: old literacy = reading & writing, but new literacy = reading, writing, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, and any other way modern technology uses language nowadays. It’s important to stress the new literacy because it involves skills used in the “real world” but not skills that are traditionally taught in the classroom. Does this catch your interest? Great! While you let David Warlick’s pages load…Continue Reading “The New Literacy and Art”
[EDIT: I’ve moved this mp3 file to archive.org and changed the link to match the new location.] Number 5 is alive!. This episode, expect to hear… Students like being on both sides of the camera – it can spice up almost any lesson. Students who teach more learn more, so put them in teaching situations. History According to Bob – a great series of podcasts delivered in bite sized chunks of goodness. This is one of those sites that should always rank higher than me…Continue Reading “5th Podcast – 6th Grade Videos and Bob”
[EDIT: I’ve moved this mp3 file to archive.org and changed the link to match the new location.]Looks like I didn’t learn my lesson – here’s my second podcast in all it’s glory! (And it’s a day early, no less!) It’s much shorter this time, so it only came to 12.3 MB. It also looks like practice makes perfect. I still flub things here and there, but I heard fewer “ums” and unintelligible dialogue this time around. This time through I stuck to my notes, discussing…Continue Reading “2nd Podcast”
[EDIT: I’ve moved this mp3 file to archive.org and changed the link to match the new location.]Once again I’m bandwagon jumping, but now I present to you my first audio rambling in all it’s glory! (Just click in the little icon to get it.) I’m not sure how many of these I’ll be able to fit on this server before moving them over to ourmedia.org (This one’s 26.3 meg! Ouch!), but as I only have high speed at school and our firewalls here block ourmedia.org’s…Continue Reading “My first podcast!”