Now that Bud the Teacher has started using Moodle I feel I’m seriously missing a bandwagon here. I mean, there are other educators using it as well and singing plenty of praises.
Alas, I don’t have access to any accounts at the moment that support Moodle or Word Press. Thingamablog is working well enough for me at the moment, but I’d like to have other options open in case I need them.
So … anyone know how to get something like Moodle to work on a .Mac or Verizon account?
25th podcast! Only 75 more to go and I’ll be celebrating my 100th podcast!
Show Notes:
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?
I’m taking a break because summer vacation’s almost over.
I’ll be back soon.
I promise.
The 23rd podcast is here, there’s no use trying to stop it! In this show I don’t really wax philosophic too much … maybe next time.
Show Notes:iTunes 4.9 Now has me listed in it’s podcast directory, although it lists them all out of order for some reason. (I still think iPodderX is a nicer podcatcher.)
My school’s Technology Coordinator and I cleared out the old “Jostens Lab” to use for the Art Club. I’ve posted photos. There were some ancient computers that were beyond upgrading but we now have 8 or 9 boxes ready for tinkering – including a beige G3 donated by Phil Shapiro! (Thanks, Phil!) Computer and digital camera donations would still be appreciated.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
“We cannot get to the future without making a break with the past” – Phil Shapiro
“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” – William Gibson
It’s a bit of a dichotomy here. To get to the future we have to build upon the past, but the past can be very controlling.
Take a look at photo processing. Any good photo editing program will have tools labeled “burn” and “dodge.” Burn makes things darker while dodge makes things lighter. Why do they use these terms? It’s because when you’re developing photos in a darkroom “burning” is when you give an area on the photo paper extra light (which makes it darker) and “dodging” is where you use something – anything – to block the light from certain areas (thus keeping the area lighter). The processes done by the software have nothing in common with the darkroom techniques other than the results, but the names stuck.
When we teach students how to use “new” technology we often have two routes we can take.
As a floating Art teacher who walks into different classrooms everyday I’ve seen a lot of teachers pick #1 because it meant they had to spend less time with the new things they were unfamiliar with, while at the same time I’ve seen other teachers pick #2 because they themselves didn’t know much about that subject matter’s history.
This is where I offer some witty remark about how to fix this problem, but I can’t really think of one. I suppose the best way out would be 1.5 – halfway between 1 and 2, if you can forgive the math pun. Unfortunately, there’s no magic formula that can find that for you. You have to feel it out, I guess, just like any performer has to feel out their audience and know when to deliver the right punch-line.
22 won’t win you a game of blackjack, but hopefully you’ll enjoy the podcast.
Show Notes:iTunes 4.9 is not just an mp3 player, it’s a podcatcher as well! I think the true geeks will keep using programs like iPodderX, but iTunes is a nice way to get podcasting to the masses.
Art Club updates: we’ve got computers, we have space, we have supplies, things are looking up!
You Are Here is a 12.5 meg quicktime music video by Sam Bisbee. His music’s nice, but the video is a wonderful blend of still photography and stop motion animation. He even put the contact sheets online and licensed it under Creative Commons so you can remix it! If you have broadband I reccomend checking this out.
21st podcast – Does this mean it’s “legal?”
Show Notes:New background music. The nice thing about GarageBand is anyone can arrange music. The down side is that ANYONE can arrange music. I hope my efforts don’t disappoint.
Please, for the sake of those subscribing to your Furl or del.icio.us feeds, include comments with your links. Thank you.
A while back I complained about Ourmedia.org not working so well, but made sure to mention that they were in fact alpha testing their service so improvements were almost a given. Well, it’s now better than ever with an almost instant submission turnaround time. Combine this with the fact that all Ourmedia.org content shows up on Archive.org and I think I’ve found my new podcast host. :)
20th podcast – one more and it can drink, even though I don’t.
Show Notes:Weblogg-ed discussed inappropriate sites, so I do too.
PodcastAwards.com – Another podcast popularity contest. Thanks to Steve Dembo for pointing it out.
Bud the Teacher talked about fanfiction, something I used to make a lot of years ago.
I am truly not worthy, but David Warlick added me to his blogroll. He and Steve Dembo are in my opinion the two top educational podcasters, and now they’re both linking to me.
Maybe now I can get more listener comments. ;)