Joe Morelock and I are presenting a podcasting workshop at this year’s NECC. Here are some links to various things we mentioned:
I’ll update some more after this afternoon’s session.
If you want to catch a lot of great content from this year’s NECC, make sure you subscribe to Conference Connections. This is the podcast channel that has taken all my attention away from my own podcasting for the past 6–9 months or so. I’m really stoked that we’re the official podcast channel for ISTE. We’ll be recording at least 25 sessions (including the keynotes) plus as much other content as we can assemble.
If you can’t make it to NECC, or even if you want to expand your NECC experience, you can subscribe to Conference Connections in iTunes by clicking here.
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7:16 a.m. Ugh. That’s a bit earlier than I like for air travel departures. But at least I have several days of interesting conversations and endless audio editing to look forward to.
NECC is back and in Atlanta this year. I’ll be doing two identical half-day workshops (Podcasting—The New Voice for Learners) with a fellow ADE and all-around cool guy Joe Morelock from Oregon. In addition, I’m leading a team of Apple Distinguished Educators who will be producing the official NECC podcast channel on behalf of ISTE.
I’m really looking forward to NECC this year. Every year there are more friends to meet and greet. I’m very impressed with how ISTE continues to embrace blogging, podcasting, and other forms of web publishing. ISTE is really way out in front on this stuff compared to any other conference I’ve attended in the last couple years. They’re even getting on board with a systematic approach to Technorati tagging courtesy of Steve Hargadon.
See you there.
NY Times writer Michelle Slatalla relates her experience tormenting her daughter on Facebook in an article entitled “‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’.”
So last week I joined Facebook, the social network for students that opened its doors last fall to anyone with an e-mail address. The decision not only doubled its active membership to 24 million (more than 50 percent of whom are not students), but it also made it possible for parents like me to peek at our children in their online lair.
It’s an amusing article, but it mirrors some of the experiences I’ve had as a grown-up after interacting with teenagers I know in the online world. Many of them seem genuinely shocked that an old fogie like me knows how to log in to a web site let alone create a MySpace or Facebook profile.
Kids need a safe space to interact with one another beyond the prying eyes of their parents. Those kinds of spaces can be hard to come by in the online world, so maybe we should cut them some slack and keep our online profiles to ourselves. On the other hand, it can be so entertaining to torment your children.