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Savvy Technologist live

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Here’s something to consider adding to your schedule for this year’s NECC.

I will be doing a live Savvy Technologist Podcast on Thursday, July 6 from 5:00–6:00 p.m. in California Gold, 31B (that’s the room). I don’t know exactly what I’m going to do, but I know there will be plenty of audience participation! I’ll probably try to corral a couple guests and then take a bunch of questions from the audience. Stay tuned for more about that as NECC approaches.

My Ed Tech Coast to Coast colleagues and I will also be doing a live version of that podcast. We’ll be recording on Wednesday, July 5 from 5:00–6:00 p.m. in the same California Gold, 31B room. We should have the whole crew there.

I’ve never done a live podcast before so this should be quite an adventure. Don’t leave me hanging. I need an audience!

Ed Tech Coast to Coast lives!

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Steve Burt has been busy. He’s posted three new editions of Ed Tech Coast to Coast in the last couple weeks. In particular, we recorded something from FETC a couple weeks ago and most recently a chat with a superintendent and school board member following their blogging panel discussion at the NSBA Conference. You’ll find links to the panelists’ own blogs at the NSBA blog entry on the session.

You can listen and subscribe to the feed at ODEO.

Latest ETC2C

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Steve Burt and I sat down for a chat last month at the NSBA conference in Denver. We discussed the conference and got off on a smartboard tangent for a while. You can find this episode of Ed Tech Coast to Coast at edtechcoasttocoast.com. I’m not going to publish them anymore on this blog, so if you want to hear our rantings and ravings I would encourage you to subscribe to the feed. [Subscription links: iTunes, RSS]

The next episode is already “in the can” so there should be more ETC2C on the way soon.

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Ed Tech Coast to Coast #3: Access to technology

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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 tablet PC project for teachers, and we’re in the second year of a 1-to-1 project with 600 elementary students and their teachers. We’ve both found that if teachers let it happen, 1-to-1 environments can change the day to day work of teaching and learning dramatically.

Are we approaching a day when not providing a computing device to each and every student constitutes educational malpractice? A laptop changes nothing by itself, of course, without a well-trained teacher to create and facilitate learning activities that exploit the technology. At least if you send the technology home with the students they can explore things on their own regardless of what goes on at school.

Download: ETC2C-20050922 (19.5 MB, 42:32)

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Ed Tech Coast to Coast #2 is here

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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 the 40-minute chat.

It’s not exactly an earth-shattering insight, but I was reminded how similar the challenges are for those of us out there trying to inspire, convince, and train teachers to use technology in new ways. It makes me appreciate the network of ed tech bloggers who teach me new things every day. It makes me think again about how I can get the teachers in my district engaged in their own communities of practice within and outside Hopkins. It’s an enormous challenge to be sure.

Download: ETC2C-20050901 (18.7 MB, 40:43)

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