Dean, if you end up creating a reflection to share and follow a version of the rubric created by the PD committee, please let me know via email with a link and we’ll share your reflection as an example for others. We’re hoping to have several examples of reflections to highlight so people will get some ideas about how they can reflect on sessions and earn professional development credit. I’ll be curious what you think of Gabcast– I’m amazed we can directly publish audio to the web with just a few clicks on the phone. Having done “all that other stuff” to get podcasts online, it really is a remarkable technology and service.

Gabcast is neat, but I am wondering why the buzz about it now. I know it’s been possible do this directly to a Blogger blog via telephone for at least a couple of years now.

I remember that but I didn’t think it was free? Possibly the difference now is so many more kids have cell phones that perhaps actually using them in classrooms might happen…maybe not though.

Yea, I just found on what happened, I guess Audioblogger (used to be audioblogger.com) went under last November. Here’s the story from BoingBoing. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/05/audioblogger-rip.html

My guess is maybe now people are much more ready for this than they were a few years ago.