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Episodes of the Savvy Technologist Podcast for your listening pleasure.

Doug Johnson: Library Media Programs

8 Oct 2006

Doug Johnson is a maven of media here in Minnesota and elsewhere where he is known as an author, teacher, and presenter. His blog, The Blue Skunk Blog, has also become quite popular in the last year.

Doug’s been in the business long enough to be able to reflect on the changing role of the library media specialist in our schools. He’s not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom either. We talked about media programs, Wikipedia, and a few other topics in this interview recorded via Skype last summer.

Download: STP-DougJohnson (12.3 MB, 26:50)

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The Savvy Technologist Live!

7 Jul 2006

I had a great time on Thursday afternoon recording an episode of my podcast in front of a live audience.

My first guest was Sonny Portacio, geocacher and Director of Technology for the Escondido Union High School District. Sonny has been doing a ton of work with geocaching lately. He’s created a wiki site for collecting lesson ideas at edcaching.wikispaces.com and a weekly geocaching podcast at podcacher.com. We talked about geocaching and how it can be used in schools.

I also talked to Jeff Utecht of The Thinking Stick blog and Utecht Tips. Jeff has been teaching in Shanghai, China for the last year and we talked about the state of blogging in China and how he’s using blogging with his students there.

All in all I had a great time recording the podcast. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to watch and participate.

Download: The Savvy Technologist Live! (17.1 MB, 37:17)

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Introducing the Read/Write Web

7 Jul 2006

I had a great time presenting at NECC on Wednesday. I captured the audio (albeit in a low-quality version) and attached my Keynote slides as an enhanced podcast. I’m also linking to a pure audio MP3 version in case your computer can’t handle AAC-encoded media.

I posted the links for my talk previously, so please have a look there for details.

Download enhanced podcast with Keynote slides: Introducing the Read/Write Web (27.7 MB, 56:32)

Download audio-only MP3: Introducing the Read/Write Web (25.8 MB)

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Bernajean Porter: Digital Storytelling, Part 3

12 May 2006

Here’s the followup to my first interview with Bernajean Porter. We continue the digital storytelling podcast series with a discussion of assessment and the importance of craftsmanship in the storytelling process.

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Please feel free to leave feedback or questions for Bernajean in the comments for this post. I’m sure she will be happy to reply and interact with anyone there. I’m finalizing the plans for the fourth and final episode in this series, so stay tuned.

Download: STP-BernajeanPorter-2 (14.4 MB, 31:08)

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MinneBar: Paul Cantrell on the future of art

10 May 2006

Paul on the Internet

Paul Cantrell is a blogger and music podcaster who also happens to be a software engineer. (I wonder which one is his superhero alter ego?) He spoke at last Saturday’s MinneBar conference on “The Internet and the Future of Art.” It was an interactive session which made things a bit tricky to record, but I think you’ll be able to hear most of the audience questions pretty well.

Just to keep things on topic for this blog, I think you could take most of what Paul says about the big music business and apply it to the educational business. He’s really talking about the “Long Tail,” which applies just as much to educational content as it does to artistic content.

Update: Here are the diagrams Paul created during his session.

Download: STP-MinneBar-PaulCantrell (17.9 MB, 38:45)

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Minnebar: Mark McCahill on virtual worlds

8 May 2006

Croquet screenshot

Mark McCahill is from the University of Minnesota and is one of the architects of the Croquet Project, an open source peer-to-peer system for building virtual worlds like those found in World of Warcraft and Second Life. Those of you who’ve been around the Internet block a few times might remember one of Mark’s first projects, the University of Minnesota’s Gopher hypertext system.

This is a recording of Mark’s talk from the Minnebar conference entitled “Building Synthetic Worlds.” He hints at it in his talk, but there is great potential here for learning environments. Can you imagine meeting for a professional development session somewhere in a virtual world?

Download: STP-Minnebar-MarkMcCahill (20.5 MB, 44:32)

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Bernajean Porter: Digital Storytelling, Part 2

18 Apr 2006

It’s been a long time coming, but the second part of my podcast series on digital storytelling is ready. My guest for the podcast is Bernajean Porter, a writer, speaker, and digital storyteller. I heard Bernajean present last October at the T+L Conference and blogged about it.

Bernajean picks up where the first episode with Joe Lambert left off. We talk about some of the resources available on Bernajean’s DigiTales site, and she gives some great tips for teachers who are interested in trying a digital storytelling project with students. Check out her Digital Storytelling Camp page for links to specific documents that she mentions.

I didn’t have the cleanest Skype connection for this recording, and you’ll hear some distortion in Bernajean’s voice. The distortion isn’t too bad though, and the podcast is definitely worth a listen.

Download: STP-BernajeanPorter-1 (17.9 MB, 38:50)

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Joe Lambert: Digital Storytelling, Part 1

14 Mar 2006

Working on the 1-to-1 computing project in my school district has really opened my eyes to the power of storytelling as a learning activity. I’m delighted to present the first in my podcast series on digital storytelling. My guest is Joe Lambert, founder and director of the Center for Digital Storytelling. Joe does a great job of setting the stage for the rest of the series by laying out some of the “big picture” ideas.

Perhaps you’ll listen and think of a few questions that you’d like to ask. If so, feel free to email text or audio questions to savvytechnologistpodcast@gmail.com. I’ll work as many as I can into future episodes.

Download: STP-JoeLambert (15.6 MB, 33:45)

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