Archive for the ‘Savvy Technologist Podcast’ Category
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Dr. Michael Searson is the Dean of the College of Education at Kean University in Union, NJ. We met last July in San Jose, CA at the ADE Summer Institute and I knew right away that Mike would be a thought-provoking podcast guest.
We covered a variety of issues in this ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
I sat down with David Glick recently at a local library that just happens to have a coffee shop. We talked about online learning while I sipped my chai latté. Dave has been consulting with organizations that are developing online learning programs for a couple years now, and before that ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Moodle is the biggest open source course management system in the world. It competes head-to-head with Blackboard on features and crushes the commercial competition on price. I've posted about the use of Moodle in my school district in the past, and anyone who's read any of those posts knows that ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
Scott Roiger and I gave our presentation on the Hopkins 1-to-1 computing project this morning. I think it went pretty well and we were fortunate to get a mixer installed in our room so that we could record the session. This may be the first session ever podcast from a ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
My colleague and roommate for the week sat down for a little recap of Wednesday's T+L2 events. I'm going to skip doing detailed show notes since it's 1:42 a.m. here. I will point out, however, that I give the wrong URL for Rubistar in the podcast. The correct address is ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
I discovered Comic Life last April and blogged about it. Since then we've installed Comic Life on over 1,000 computers in my school district, and our teachers are finding new uses for it every week.
Robert Grant, head coder, and Cris Pearson, UI designer, were good enough to chat with me ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Here's Part II of my recent conversation with Professor Scott McLeod from the University of Minnesota. I had quite a bit of feedback on Part I of our conversation on data-drive decision making so I hope you will enjoy this talk about legal and ethical issues facing educational technology leaders. ...
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Tim Lauer couldn't make it, but that didn't stop Steve, Will, and me from recording another episode of Ed Tech Coast to Coast Tuesday night.
Our conversation centered mostly on the topic of access to technology and how full-time access changes the teaching and learning environment. Will's school just launched a ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2005
The No Child Left Behind Act has forced school districts across the U.S. to take a hard look at data about their students' achievement. Lots of data. But some districts have gone beyond the requirements of NCLB and have embraced data and used the information to identify best practices and ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
My guest for this edition of the Savvy Technologist Podcast is Earle Harrison. Earle is an assistive technology consultant and owner of Triumph Technology, a source for adaptive technology and adaptive media solutions. We talk about universal design, assistive technology, and accessible Web design. I learned a lot during my ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
The gang, minus Steve Burt, got together via Skype to record another episode of Ed Tech Coast to Coast. Tim Lauer, Will Richardson, and I started with the broad topic of "barriers to technology implementation" and started vamping from there. All of us spent way more than our $0.02 during ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2005
Dr. Larry Anderson is founder and director of the National Center for Technology Planning, an organization dedicated to providing resources for schools and school districts who want to develop dynamic and effective technology plans. From their Web site:
The National Center for Technology Planning (NCTP) is a clearinghouse for the exchange ...
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