Archive for the ‘Savvy Technologist Podcast’ Category
Sunday, October 8th, 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 ...
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Friday, July 7th, 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 ...
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Friday, July 7th, 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 ...
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Friday, May 12th, 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.
Mentioned links:
Digital Media scoring guides
Adobe Digital Kids Club
Beyond Words: The Craftsmanship of Digital Products in Learning and Leading With Technology
Please ...
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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 ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
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 ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 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 ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 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 ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
I'm delighted to announce that I will be producing a multi-episode podcast series on digital storytelling over the next few weeks. I've got some great guests lined up included Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Storytelling, Bernajean Porter from Bernajean Porter Consulting and Digitales, and Jeanne Biddle, Technology Director ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
I don't know about you, but I don't usually picture -40°F and roving polar bears when think of the perfect classroom. But for Prof. Aaron Doering and the rest of the GoNorth! team, spending a few months in their arctic classroom is the perfect way to connect with millions of ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Paul Nelson is Technology Director at Riverdale High School in Portland, OR and co-creator of the K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project. K-12 LTSP is a really cool way to take older machines and breathe new life into them by connecting them to a powerful server that takes over the bulk ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Dan McCreary has been around the block a time or two in his years of working in the technology industry. He's worked at cutting edge technology companies and started companies of his own. His latest project was building a data dictionary for the Minnesota Dept of Education.
Our conversation centered on ...
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