Category Archives: Netcast

Podcast 33: Art Club and 1KBWC

Click to play or download.My 33rd podcast’s audio is messed up, but I don’t know how to fix it. It isn’t normally full of pops like this, honest!


Show Notes:

Podcast 32: Books, Clubs, and Conferences

Click to play or download.32 is just like 42, except there’s not as much of it.


Show Notes:

  1. The local Labor Day Festival’s PTA book fair left me with a ton of hardcovers. Why? Can you say Altered Books? Mwa-haha!
  2. Art Club notices have gone out, we’re starting the last week of September.
  3. Looks like I’ll be presenting at a tech conference. I’m looking forward to it.
  4. I’d like a new theme song. Anyone have a good one I may use?

Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

Podcast 31: Opinion Hunt

Click to play or download.31 is fun, if you don’t mind listening to me rant.


In this episode I rant about a “news” story I found in Google News, then make a connection to one of the things that David Warlick talks about: It is not enough to teach our kids how to read and write. We need to teach them to read and figure out if it is RIGHT.Hopefully I’ll get to do that in my Art Club.

Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

… On an unrelated note, I think I need new background music. Any ideas?

Podcast 30: Good Web Page Design

Click to play or download.30 is wordy, but I’ve summarized it below.


In this episode I give tips for how to make a good web site or PowerPoint. I go on for a bit, but it all boils down to this:1. Decide exactly what your website is about. (Example: Mine is about art, education, and technology.)

2. When adding anything, ask if it will support or get in the way of that content.

It sounds simple, but you’d be surprised how many things you can add to a page that you really shouldn’t add.

WebPagesThatSuck.com – a great site that teaches good web page design through bad design. They also have a book and a sequel.

Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

Podcast 29: Art Club and Upgrades

Click to play or download.29 is fine, but I’m sure 30 will be better.


Show Notes:On this episode I geek out. Sorry.

The Art Club computer lab is shaping up, today I upgraded some systems and installed some drawing / editing programs. Tomorrow: Linux!

Why Linux? Because spyware and viruses scare me.

(I forgot to mention this in the podcast, but…) We’ve got a Flickr group for elementary school art projects! … wanna share?

Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

Podcast 28: Moodle, Art Club, Flickr

Click to play or download.28 is great!

Now I’ve got one show for every year of my life.


Show Notes:Steve Dembo set up a moodle page for me to play with! Boo-Ya! It’s very nice and I’m sure I’ll be using it in the future, but for now Thingamablog and BlogMeister meet my needs.

Art Club will be starting soon! I’m setting up computers and scrounging/begging for more. I don’t need to beg for software, thanks to programs like FuturePaint. (Scroll down on that page to see FuturePaint. Yes, I know it says “shareware” on the page but the program’s documentation says it’s freeware.)

We’ve got a Flickr group for elementary school art projects! … wanna share?

Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

Podcast 27: 3 Conference Sessions

Click to play or download.Ok, so I did get lost on the way home today, but
I finally got my 27th podcast uploaded
.


Show Notes:Steve Dembo set up a moodle page for me to play with! Boo-Ya!

On to the sessions!

Session 1:

Keith Haring

Session 2:

Crayola Dream MakersFred the bug says “hi.”

Session 3:

National Museum of the American Indian … I think I got the name wrong for this one when I was recording …

A different session:

I didn’t actually get to attend this session, but I got to see some cool sculptures that were made with clothes hangers, wood, elmer’s glue, and water based paint. (Step 1, Step 2, Step 3)

Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

Podcast 26: Goals for this year

Click to play or download.Ok, so I can’t think of a wisecrack for number 26. I owe you one.


Show Notes:Goals concerning my students:

1) More technology in the classroom

2) More discussion of intellectual property / copyrights / fair use / open source / Creative Commons / etc.

Goals concerning my coworkers:

1) Encourage educators to read and/or write blogs.

2) Encourage educators to listen to and/or record podcasts. (iTunes will really help with this.)

Speaking of podcasts, here are some good ones:

Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

Podcast 25: Open Source Art

Click to play or download.25th podcast! Only 75 more to go and I’ll be celebrating my 100th podcast!


Show Notes:

  • This podcast is a really short one where I consider the potential of a classroom lesson involving “open source art.”
  • I was inspired to do this podcast while listening to another very good podcast.
  • I wasn’t thinking of it at the time, but there are already collaborative drawing lessons that I can take for a spin. The most popular is called “magnificent corpse,” where three people draw a person without looking at what the other people have drawn.
  • Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?

Podcast 24: What do mp3s tell us about curriculum?

Click to play or download.24 is 42 backwards! … does that make this podcast the question of life the universe, and everything? Ok, I’m geeking out a little too much.


Show Notes:*A big hello to everyone who found me using iTunes 4.9‘s podcast directory!

*What do mp3s tell us about curriculum?

*Why dread the question “When are we going to need to know this?”

*Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?