A month ago I had the privilege of presenting the “Telling the New Story:Live” with Darren, Clarence and Kathy at the IT Summit.

We’ve been meeting for 3 years talking about teaching and learning and how their classrooms are evolving.  There story continues to inspire and encourage others in their making learning better for students.

Here are [...]]]> A month ago I had the privilege of presenting the “Telling the New Story:Live” with Darren, Clarence and Kathy at the IT Summit.

We’ve been meeting for 3 years talking about teaching and learning and how their classrooms are evolving.  There story continues to inspire and encourage others in their making learning better for students.

Here are the slides and the audio is below:

Here’s 4 minutes of random video of some of my day at Edubloggercon. Nothing fancy here but a few moments of learning.  You might get a sense of some of the passion and energy in this short clips. That’s more or less why I came. I came to hear stories, share a few and spend [...]]]> Here’s 4 minutes of random video of some of my day at Edubloggercon. Nothing fancy here but a few moments of learning.  You might get a sense of some of the passion and energy in this short clips. That’s more or less why I came. I came to hear stories, share a few and spend time together.

I’ve used the video annotations within youtube. You’ll have to view it on youtube to see them. I thought others could annotate but it may not be possible.

This podcast goes way back to 2006 when I first interviewed Darren, Clarence and Kathy. Since that time, I interviewed them last year as well have had the three of them talk to a couple of my classes and various other PD events.

Here are the links to the other podcasts in case you missed it:

I’ve been on a bit of a Clay Shirky kick for the past couple of months. I’m about half way through “Here Comes Everybody“, been reading his blog, watched a nice video of a recent lecture and trying to synthesize his ideas.

The older concept that struck me in a new way is the fact that [...]]]> I’ve been on a bit of a Clay Shirky kick for the past couple of months. I’m about half way through “Here Comes Everybody“, been reading his blog, watched a nice video of a recent lecture and trying to synthesize his ideas.

The older concept that struck me in a new way is the fact that while many understand the significant shift in society that is just beginning, many see it as a fad, including educators. Shirky, interviewed by a TV producer about a possible guest appearance defends the producers claim that all this social media was a fad.

I was arguing that this isn’t the sort of thing society grows out of. It’s the sort of thing that society grows into. But I’m not sure she believed me, in part because she didn’t want to believe me, but also in part because I didn’t have the right story yet. And now I do.

I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she’s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn’t what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, “What you doing?” And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, “Looking for the mouse.

Here’s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here’s something four-year-olds know: Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won’t have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan’s Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.

The shift is obviously more clearly demonstrated by our young people. Older generations continue to be more irritated by teens texting and gaming than they are interested in understanding that participation in social media is not a fad and it’s not all bad.

My brain is reeling with many concepts that include distribution of participation, one that suggests equality is not something that is required for social media to work. Many of these ideas fly in the face of today’s educational structures. We know that. What I like about Shirky’s approach as with any good writer is that stories are the key to the message. He builds the theory and depth out of the stories. We need to continue telling the new story. I’ve got my eyes and hears poised.
Image: Clay Shirky by Joi

I had two interesting and challenging experiences the last couple of days. Experiences that cause me to consider my approach to supporting teachers and students.

I met with a small group of high school teachers who wanted to learn more about Web 2.0 and what they might be able to use in their classrooms. I was [...]]]> I had two interesting and challenging experiences the last couple of days. Experiences that cause me to consider my approach to supporting teachers and students.

I met with a small group of high school teachers who wanted to learn more about Web 2.0 and what they might be able to use in their classrooms. I was fully prepared to spend the day showing demos, and working through the technical issues of setting up a blog, wiki or whatever they wanted.What happened instead is we spent the first part of the morning grappling with the big questions of why. Why would we post students online? Why does it feel like asking us to change means that our current practice is all wrong? If this is so important, why aren’t we given time to explore and make change? To be clear, this group of teachers was not simply complaining or naysaying. They just wanted to be convinced and sure that investing time to use these tools would pay dividends. I’ve been telling teachers lately that if they have any hesitation, they shouldn’t bother to blog or use any tool because all it will do is add to the many “binders of guilt” that sit on the shelf labeled, “things I should really do”.I’m not sure that all these questions were answered but I know we moved forward on some. At lunch time, I fired up twitter and posed the question regarding posting online. Thanks to my network I received several key responses that I shared with the group after lunch. 

Again, not that those responses solved the conundrum but it clearly demonstrated that an online presence or network is a powerful thing. So we continued on and continued to deal with some tough questions but after providing some time for teachers to muddle on their own, they left the day feeling like they had some direction or purpose in using the tools. We’re moving forward in a positive way.I thank them for challenging me.

Thursday, I met with all our school administrators and shared our vision and focused on the idea of shifted learning. I showed Did you Know, used some of Ewan’s videos and ideas that focus on a shift in learning and challenged them to consider how learning is changing. In general they are a great bunch of leaders who truly want to make shifts that are good for kids but like many of us, are looking for a recipe, which although we know doesn’t exist, still want one. I challenged them to consider how they might support teachers and after some good discussion, felt like we have set the ground work for the work that lies ahead. The following are the slides I used with my notes embedded underneath…feel free to use this in whatever way you wish.

One school administrator approached me after and asked, “What is it we’re really trying to do?”He talked about an angst he feels about what he sees most kids doing with technology. Useless text messaging with the person right beside them, nothing seems to be interesting to them, jaded attitudes towards violence, and so on; all valid points. He was careful to say he didn’t want to appear to be out of touch but was truly concerned with kids who use technology in meaningless ways. I tried to share my feelings about our duty to .I’m glad he approached and challenged me and the kind of dialogue I had in these two instances does help us move forward. I’ve taught too many workshops where everyone comes happy and excited to be there and leaves happy and excited but never carry on with the ideas and never implement anything. They like new stuff but don’t deeply consider what the true impact of change might be.

I was further encouraged by spending time with two of our superintendents. Both men have been in education for over 30 years and recalled some of the reasons they got into education in the first place. As children of the 1960’s they were excited about the ideas of Summerhill and believed deeply in personalized learning. Somehow the system they entered took things into a more traditional model and my presentation triggered memories of the hope of what a quality, meaningful education can look like.

These conversations are what will matter. Allowing people to tell their stories, share their resistance and consider the change that’s necessary. I’m pretty good at telling my story and perspectives  but at times forget that others need to tell theirs as well. Chris Lehman has written lately about not forgetting the value of our teachers. Another great conversation ensues.  Again, this is not anything profound but once again, reminded me of the importance of those conversations. Conversations about change that lead to implementation.

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A year ago I spent four podcasts talking with Kathy, Clarence and Darren about their classrooms and the new story of teaching and learning. The model these three present continues to inspire teachers locally and internationally. So how have things changed in a year? The following 65 minutes answers those questions and has them [...]]]> A year ago I spent four podcasts talking with Kathy, Clarence and Darren about their classrooms and the new story of teaching and learning. The model these three present continues to inspire teachers locally and internationally. So how have things changed in a year? The following 65 minutes answers those questions and has them look ahead to what their classrooms might look like in the future.

Here are a few show notes:

• Kathy’s class blog
• Darren’s blog
• Yak Pak
• Answer Tips
• John Seely Brown
• Clarence’s blog
• Clarence’s class blog
• Darren’s AP blog
• International Teen Project
• 1000 name wiki
• Science 90 blog

The idea of global citizenship is often a nebulous concept which gets bantered around the blogosphere but often lacks clarity or examples that truly define what it means. One of the best examples was this one from earlier this year.

Today while reading through my aggregator, I came across this story from Christian Long. (Christian [...]]]> The idea of global citizenship is often a nebulous concept which gets bantered around the blogosphere but often lacks clarity or examples that truly define what it means. One of the best examples was this one from earlier this year.

Today while reading through my aggregator, I came across this story from Christian Long. (Christian is always a wealth of good stuff) So I quickly sent out an email to about 5 primary teachers in our division as an idea for their class. About 5 minutes later, Kathy emails me back:

Great idea, so great that we have already sent our cards.

No wonder Kathy has gained “rock star” status as a leader in developing global citizens. (she knows what I’m referring to). The opportunity for our students to connect and make a difference is unprecedented. Teachers who embrace this notion hardly discuss the issues of safety, danger of living in a global, digital world. It’s not that they don’t teach it, it just isn’t the focus anymore because the potential to make a difference is just too great.

On Monday evening, I’m going to be having a Skye call with my three of my favourite teachers and I think best examples of teacher’s developing global citizens: Kathy Cassidy, Clarence Fisher and Darren Kuropatwa. All three believe this to be a critical component of their classrooms and have many examples to share. I’ll be recording the conversation for a podcast.

In the meantime, why not send Shane a card.

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I’ve been trying different ways to awaken folks to the new stories. In December I had Will Richardson skype in and talk about the New Face of Learning. I brought around 20 people in and also had another half dozen linked via Polycom. The intent was simply begin conversations.

On Tuesday, we had part 2. This [...]]]> I’ve been trying different ways to awaken folks to the new stories. In December I had Will Richardson skype in and talk about the New Face of Learning. I brought around 20 people in and also had another half dozen linked via Polycom. The intent was simply begin conversations.

On Tuesday, we had part 2. This time Darren Kuropatwa stopped by via Skype and talked about the things he’s done and is doing in his classroom. I’m going to assume most reading this know who Darren is but if you don’t, you really need to listen to the podcast.

Given the fact that we broke a record for high temperature (16C or 62F) the turnout of about 15 in total wasn’t bad. Darren was truly impressive. His natural, humble and pedagogical sound approach made for very compelling listening. We began about 5:30 and finished near 8:00 with Darren sharing for about an hour. I was pretty tired and wished I hadn’t scheduled this but after spending the time with Darren and listening to the discussion that followed, I was energized.
Darren based all his talk on his wiki. You can follow along if you like. The recording is just over an hour of Darren’s presentation.

Time: 1:09
Size: 33MB (sorry)
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Like much of the western part of North America, we got hit with a pretty nasty blizzard. For my Australian readers, a blizzard is defined as “severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow.” But what does that really mean? Rob posts some photos from outside his school, like [...]]]> Like much of the western part of North America, we got hit with a pretty nasty blizzard. For my Australian readers, a blizzard is defined as “severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow.” But what does that really mean? Rob posts some photos from outside his school, like the one to the left.

While my part of the province didn’t get quite the same weather, I was certainly paying close attention. Daryl Pearson’s class in Meadow Lake posted some very interesting videos of what they did as a result of a depleted school population as well as some weather updates.

“We took the morning to divide our 13 student class into four groups to create a project about the effects of the blizzard. We had a podcast group, a newsletter group, a video group and a digital story group.”

This is what school should be like everyday. Kids creating and publishing content based on what’s important to them and the world. After reading Alec’s post about Lessig, it clearly demonstrates:

Anybody with a $1500 computer can take sounds and images and remix them in ways that say things differently, in ways that express ideas more powerfully than any written text could ever, given the character of the cultures we’ve become. These tools of creativity have become tools of speech. They represent a new potential to speak, a new potential to learn, they are a new literacy for the 21st century, doing for images and music and film what we took for granted growing up, were our freedoms with the pencil and the typewriter. The freedom to capture and share and remix ideas in ways that express them differently.

Too bad it sometimes takes a blizzard to get this.

One of my goals for the year is to do a better job promoting new stories of learning. While I hope to focus mostly on students, I work with administrators quite a bit and am encouraged by the move many are making to embrace and consider more effective ways of teaching and learning.

Scott McLeod has [...]]]> One of my goals for the year is to do a better job promoting new stories of learning. While I hope to focus mostly on students, I work with administrators quite a bit and am encouraged by the move many are making to embrace and consider more effective ways of teaching and learning.

Scott McLeod has been doing a great job of supporting principals and administrators in delving into blogging. While I was skeptic of his goal of getting 100 adminstrators to blog, I want to highlight at least 3 that have begun to create some “intellectual sweat” (I love that term, thanks Will) as they start some great conversations.

• Kelly Christopherson. I became aware of Kelly about a month ago. He lives not far from me but discovered him in a conversation on Weblogg-ed. He’s already amassed some powerful writing and great reflections questioning both his own practice and struggling with the hard questions.

• Trevor Smith. Trevor was my principal about 10 years ago and has always had a heart for doing what’s best for kids. His first few posts will hopefully set the stage for some great things to come.

• Dustin Swanson. Dustin is actually the vice-principal under Trevor. I’ve worked with Dustin for years on various projects and he is truly one of the most insightful, young administrators I’ve met. I always come away from discussions with him challenged to pursue greater things. He’s had a classroom blog and just started a professional one.

I’d recommend you all to head over to these three and leave them some comments. Read their stuff, challenge them and encourage them to dig even deeper. Then add them to your aggregators. These are the types of fresh voices that need to be in the mix.

Update: I had a principal send me this letter that he wanted to use in his January newsletter:

Happy New Year!  I trust everyone had a restful holiday break.  If you are like me you ate lots, slept little, and need to get back to work for a rest.  Oh yes, I forgot the TVs, video games, computers, mp3s, and cell phones.  I think this Christmas was punctuated by the e-generation.

I remember my parents telling me to go and play, get some fresh air, get some exercise, play a game, etc.  Not much has changed.  I found myself telling my kids the exact same thing during the break.  I thought for quite some time about the perceived problem – kids/ people are spending all their time playing video games, watching TV, staring at the internet, talking or texting on their cell phones, listening to i-pods, and …  We are becoming a technology possessed society.  Our social interaction is a computer, our entertainment is some sort of electronic gizmo.  “Entertain me!  I don’t know how to entertain myself!”

Is this really a problem or do we need to embrace the e-generation and change the way we view and do things?  I would be very bold to answer yes or no, but it is something that we all must think about.  Do we keep on seeing things and doing things the way we did them 5, 10, 20 years ago or do we accept our techno world and work with it?

These questions and discussions directly transfer themselves to education and the way we do business with our customers, our students.  We cannot continue to teach and learn the same ways as we did a generation ago.  Thus, how do we join the e-generation and make learning fit the e-generation?  How things will change are anybody’s guess, but one thing is for sure, education, teaching, and learning need to and will change to embrace the e-generation.

(Photo “Ponder” by Lincoln Loggers)

I spent last night listening both to David Warlick’s opening keynote as well as the fireside chat as the K12 online conference begins.

David, as usual, uses his southern drawl and relaxed approach to bring you into the conversation. The method he used was very innovative, speaking and telling stories in various locations around his home [...]]]> I spent last night listening both to David Warlick’s opening keynote as well as the fireside chat as the K12 online conference begins.

David, as usual, uses his southern drawl and relaxed approach to bring you into the conversation. The method he used was very innovative, speaking and telling stories in various locations around his home in North Carolina. Just as blogs are designed to be personal and transparent, so was David’s keynote. While I’ve heard David a number of times and read his blog,(even had coffee on the floor with him once, remember David?) you can’t help be engaged.

I think for me the format was as much a part of the story as the content. Getting up close and personal draws me in. I’m glad the little old lady part and the joggers weren’t edited from his presentation. That’s life and also naturally illustrated David’s point about sidetrips and informal learning.
After listening to the fireside chat, a good deal of the time was focused on barriers and in particular on filtering. I’ll be watching with interest some of the presentations on Overcoming Obstacles.

So if you haven’t checked out this conference you need to and oh ya did I tell you it’s free?
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I got 2 really cool things from Tom Woodward, the bionic teacher. One that everyone should utilize and the other that falls in my “this is interesting but I’m not sure yet how I’d use it” category.

The first is his remix of the Karl Fischs’ presentation called “Did You Know”. Tom was kind enough [...]]]> I got 2 really cool things from Tom Woodward, the bionic teacher. One that everyone should utilize and the other that falls in my “this is interesting but I’m not sure yet how I’d use it” category.

The first is his remix of the Karl Fischs’ presentation called “Did You Know”. Tom was kind enough to send me a larger version. I planned to do a remix of it but felt it stood well on its own for my purposes. I uploaded it to our new youtube group. and called it Education Today and Tomorrow.

The second thing from Tom is this link. Go ahead see if you can stay on this site less than a minute.

Thanks Tom.

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Will was worried his thoughts were murky.  His less than positive experience recently led him to some pretty clear ideas. I concur with them and can also relate to some remarks I’ve heard teachers make regarding professional development like, “just let us teach”. In other words, professional development is getting in they way of teaching. [...]]]> Will was worried his thoughts were murky.  His less than positive experience recently led him to some pretty clear ideas. I concur with them and can also relate to some remarks I’ve heard teachers make regarding professional development like, “just let us teach”. In other words, professional development is getting in they way of teaching. Will writes:

We teach teachers to teach, we don’t teach teachers to learn. Even in professional development, we teach them stuff they need to be better teachers, but do we give them the skills they need to be better learners? Do we evaluate them on what they’ve been reading? On what they’ve been writing? On their reflectiveness?

Tomorrow, I’m talking briefly to all our new teachers and interns. While my portion of the day is largely informational, I hopefully can share the idea of being a learner first.

We hire teachers based on how well they know their subject matter and how well we think they can deliver it to students….What if we hired learners first?

Planning has always been up to classroom teachers. Teachers decide what students are going to learn and how they are going to do it. I’d like to try something new and different. I’d like your ideas. Do have suggestions for assignments and projects? Do you have a resource that you think we should be using [...]]]>

Planning has always been up to classroom teachers. Teachers decide what students are going to learn and how they are going to do it. I’d like to try something new and different. I’d like your ideas. Do have suggestions for assignments and projects? Do you have a resource that you think we should be using in class? Is there someone we absolutely need to talk to? Post it here! This space is for all of us to put our heads together and create the best possible space to learn in that we can. Anything goes. This is a brainstorming space, a planning space, a space for new ideas so anything you can think of can be posted here.

Clarence is at it again. He’s decided to start the year by having his students involved in the planning process. Talk about ownership for learning. Will every kid participate? Not likely but that’s not the point. Creating opportunities for students to participate is what’s important. As Prensky says, ENGAGMENT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CONTENT.  Clarence actually believes that. Some may be asking, “How will he meet objectives? What about the curriculum?” I know from discussions I’ve had with him that he is well aware of the curriculum. If you do have a question for him, just ask him.

Oh by the way, this wiki’s not just for teachers, he’s invited the world.

I subscribe to a Technorati feed for Moose Jaw. I’ve learned many interesting things about my city. Most of the postings are of travellers passing through my town.

Today I across this blog. It appears a single mom from Cincinatti is adopting a child from China. She decided to make a quilt called “100 Good Wishes”. [...]]]> I subscribe to a Technorati feed for Moose Jaw. I’ve learned many interesting things about my city. Most of the postings are of travellers passing through my town.

Today I across this blog. It appears a single mom from Cincinatti is adopting a child from China. She decided to make a quilt called “100 Good Wishes”. She’s invited others to submit a quilt square with a message for this child. So far she has 8 squares with the 8th square contributed by a quilter in Moose Jaw. What an amazing connection between people of common interests! This is what we need to show our students. .  Reminds me a bit of one red paperclip except in my mind more important. Everyone in this project is making a significant contribution using their skills and experiences
Isn’t this what we want the web to be?

On Monday, July 24th I’ll be giving a workshop entitled, “The Joys of Social Software”. I’ll be working with a small group of teachers introducing them to many of the great tools and applications to design a Read/Write classroom.

Having done a number of these types of workshops, I realize I’m simply creating an awareness….exploration, [...]]]> On Monday, July 24th I’ll be giving a workshop entitled, “The Joys of Social Software”. I’ll be working with a small group of teachers introducing them to many of the great tools and applications to design a Read/Write classroom.

Having done a number of these types of workshops, I realize I’m simply creating an awareness….exploration, application, immersion, and implementation is something completely different. I need to keep this in mind as I’m often overly enthusiastic about the possibilities only to realize that for many, it’s just too much to wrap their heads around and in many ways are not really ready for all the awaits them.
Given the basic advice of taking one idea and developing it, what advice would you give them about transforming their classroom? How would you encourage them to use the tools to create a new type of classroom? What should they pay attention to? What should they be weary of?
I will try and provide an opportunity to bring in those who wish to speak live via Skype. I haven’t completely set my agenda but there will only be 5 participants so we can be fairly informal.

So add your thoughts and I’ll be sure to pass them along.

Many of you may have heard of the fellow from Montreal who has been trying to trade a red paperclip for a house. This week he will accomplish his goal. Will Richardson mentioned this at one of his sessions at NECC. I’m assuming he used it to illustrate the power of the internet to express [...]]]> Many of you may have heard of the fellow from Montreal who has been trying to trade a red paperclip for a house. This week he will accomplish his goal.
Will Richardson mentioned this at one of his sessions at NECC. I’m assuming he used it to illustrate the power of the internet to express and explore ideas and make connections. This experiment reminds me of two other recent web ventures. One is the million dollar homepage and the other is the guy who sold all his stuff on ebay. These rather obsure ideas illustrate the possibilities of the web. The ideas behind these innovative projects need to be examined by teachers and their students. Are these “new stories“? Perhaps have students do some research and reflection on why these ideas work.

On a personal note, the house he will be getting is in Kipling, Saskatchewan which is about 100 miles from my house. Before gaining permanent employment in Moose Jaw, 18 years ago, I interviewed for a job in Kipling.

Last Wednesday, Clarence, Darren and Kathy and I were joined by Cheryl Oakes as we put a wrap on our series about telling the new story. In reality, it’s hard to wrap up so the stories will continue.

My apologies to Jeff Utecht and others who waited patiently for the Skypecast to begin. Not completely understanding [...]]]> Last Wednesday, Clarence, Darren and Kathy and I were joined by Cheryl Oakes as we put a wrap on our series about telling the new story. In reality, it’s hard to wrap up so the stories will continue.

My apologies to Jeff Utecht and others who waited patiently for the Skypecast to begin. Not completely understanding how Skypecast works, I went ahead and began the conference call as I usually have done only to realize that you need to login on the Skypecast website. My bad.

Listen to the podcast. (26MB 1:04)

Show notes: (courtesy of Darren…if there was a “Show notes Hall of Fame“, this would be in it!)

The New Story Podcast Series, What Came Before …
Part 1, Part 2, Part 2 – the video, Part 3

Darren Kuropatwa’s Blog

Kathy Cassidy’s Blog

Clarence Fisher’s Blog

Dean Shareski’s Blog

Cheryl Oake’s Blog

skypecasting conference calling info

Jeff Utecht’s Blog – The Thinking Stick

Bloglines

Excellence and Imagination
(Clarence’s Classroom Central Blog)

State of Maine Standards & Assessment

Cheryl’s Class Blog

BPRIME the new format

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Apple 1 to 1 Learning

Maine Learning Technology Initiative

Constructivism

Article from The Vancouver Sun: Boys exhibit high literacy skills with video games
(Registration required)

Sim City

George Siemens Blog

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

Fundamental Change
(Clarence’s post re: becoming a “network administrator”)

Kathy’s class saw a shark

Doug Noon’s Blog (Borderland)

DOPA – The Wiki
(Resources and community opposed to DOPA)

Finding a Voice – Fighting Peer Pressure
(Clarence’s post about his kids’ posts)

WorldBridges

Skypecast Directory

Dean’s Digital Storytelling Workshop

David Warlick – Blogging and the Flat Classroom

Dean’s RSS Analogy

Bob Sprankle

Also you’ll notice I’m linking to the file on Internet archive rather than the nifty little podpress player I used in earlier podcasts. This is because podpress files must be encoded with a sample rate in multiples of 11.025 kHz or else it sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks. I tried for hours to get this done in Audacity but failed miserably. I did it with the previous podcasts but not sure what I did differently. If anyone can help, please let me know. I followed this tutorial but it didn’t seem to help.

This is a bit late but I’m going to be hosting a Skypecast with Darren, Clarence and Kathy at about 10:30EST on Wednesday, May 31st. The discussion will revolve around the new story of their classrooms.  Originally I had planned a closed discussion and would podcast it later. I’ll still record it but wanted to [...]]]> This is a bit late but I’m going to be hosting a Skypecast with Darren, Clarence and Kathy at about 10:30EST on Wednesday, May 31st. The discussion will revolve around the new story of their classrooms.  Originally I had planned a closed discussion and would podcast it later. I’ll still record it but wanted to see if others were interested in listening in and asking some questions.

I’m not sure how many we can handle but I’m willing to give it a shot. So if you’re interested, you can find me in  the Skypecast directory.

The interview I did with Kathy was actually videotaped and included some thoughts from students and parents. I hope this is another way of telling the new story that illustrates the concept of the new classroom.

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Here is the last of my interviews with teachers telling the new story of teaching and learning. Previously we heard from a grade one teacher, a high school calculus teacher and today we hear from a middle years teacher.

Clarence Fisher teaches grade 7/8 in northern Manitoba. He has been expermenting with many of the web [...]]]> Here is the last of my interviews with teachers telling the new story of teaching and learning. Previously we heard from a grade one teacher, a high school calculus teacher and today we hear from a middle years teacher.

Clarence Fisher teaches grade 7/8 in northern Manitoba. He has been expermenting with many of the web 2.0 tools for over a year. This year he truly implemented them into his daily routine.