This is my presentation from the TLT/IT Summit 2007 in Saskatoon. It was a great treat to meet Kelly and John whom I’ve conversed with online but was glad to meet in person.
Here are the slides. (Embedding was not working)
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Apr
05
2007
Podcast 26 Frustrations with Assessment
Posted by: Dean Shareski in Podcasting, assessmentHaven’t done a podcast with just me yakkin’ for a while. Tried using GCast on Steve D.’s recommendation. Not sure it’s for me as it wants to build a player for me rather than just give me an mp3 file I can embed with my own built in player. So thumbs down to GCast, unless their helpdesk lets me know how to link directly to the mp3.
Update1: They did email me back but apparently I needed to complete another step using Garageband.com
Update2: Did that, but they link has a weird identifier that won’t work in PodPress
Update3: Final email states the identifier is needed so I can’t use GCast as I had hoped….Steve, you’ll have to do a bit more selling for me to buy in.
Update4:After 6 days, I uploaded it to good old internetarchive and stick with what works.
This is a brief podcast on some of my recent frustrations on ideas of assessment and accountability.
Time:8:56
Size:6.4 MB
Mar
21
2007
Podcast 25 Conversations on Change Part 2
Posted by: Dean Shareski in Classrooms, Podcasting, change, new storiesI’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)
Technorati Tags: change, conversations, prairiesouth, darrenkuropatwa
This is a presentation I gave on Feb. 20th at our annual Teachers’ Convention. Normally a 2 day convention but shortened to one this year, this session was the last session in the day right before a 3 day break. With that in mind, I decided not to offer anything too taxing on the brain. So 43 Things is stolen from the website of the same name but simply is a collection of resources I feel are essential in a digital lifestyle. Most of this will be stuff many of you use but there may be one or two things you’ll take from this. All the links are embedded in the slides displayed below and you can click on them as well.
Feb
14
2007
Podcast 23 Naked Conversations
Posted by: Dean Shareski in Blogs, Conferences, Podcasting, RSSI called this podcast Naked Conversations because much of the content centered around the book by Scoble and Israel. It was a talk given to various members of Western provincial teachers’ associations. These are the folks who work with large provincial teachers’ associations on things like teacher contracts, grievances, rehabilitation, teacher advocacy, pensions and overall teacher welfare.
After some controversy about posting this, I’ve chosen to take edit out the audience portion and simply post my own voice. Not quite as powerful, but hopefully beneficial. (Thanks Anna for the encouragement.)
The focus of this talk was more suited to a business perspective rather than education and so the tone of the presentation was different from what I’m used to giving. As I drove up I listened to the podcast of Will and Rob Mancabelli. I know included at least 2 ideas from their presentation into mine and I’m not sure if I gave them credit. Not even sure if I needed to …after all I know that very little of my presentation is original thought but I digress.
Also, here are two one minute videos that I showed demonstrating the ease of blog posting and subscribing to content.
Here is the latest edition of the Edtech Posse podcast. The tone of the conversation was to focus on the positive nature of particularly higher education. The theme of the discussion was to focus on positive gains in education, particularly in higher education. Since it begins with celebrating the succsess of our alma mater’s football team, it seemed fitting I created the shownotes while watching the NFL playoffs.
Thanks Rob for editing and uploading.
Show notes:
- Vanier Cup
- University of Saskatchewan
- U of S Learning Centre
- Transforming Teaching
- Digital Internship at the University of Regina
- Kathy Cassidy Video
- The New Face of Learning
- Tools of the New Learning Environment (University of Manitoba)
- ECMP 355
- Bluedot
- Owning the Teaching and Learning
- Google buys Jotspot
- High Tech High Touch
- Rick’s Podcasts
Final Score: Laval 13 Huskies 8. Wait till next year.
Dec
15
2006
Podcast 22 Conversations on Change
Posted by: Dean Shareski in Blogs, Classrooms, Podcasting, change, skypeAbout six weeks ago I pointed a number of key people in our division to Will Richardson’s article The New Face of Learning. It sparked some discussion and interest, and in an effort to bring forward these ideas, we invited any interested teachers to gather informally to discuss what this article might mean for schools.
So we gathered together using a hodge-podge of technology. We had 16 in Moose Jaw, 4 in Assiniboia via Polycom, 1 in Bengough via Skype and 2 in Eston via Skype as well (Kelly Christopherson and a colleague using a mic-less computer but he did participate via chat). Then Will joined us from New Jersey. Here’s a large version of the image.
What you hear is the last 20 minutes of Will’s portion and another 20 minutes of conversation that took place after he signed off. Sorry, I only remembered to start recording after 40 minutes into our talk. What impressed me was the diversity of the group both in both teaching positions (grade 1-12) and in experience using technology. Yet the common understanding seemed to be that things must change. While many have already embraced the change, everyone recognizes it must happen. We may not agree on exactly how that must happen but the beginnings of these conversations are important. Those of us using these tools have been having these conversations for some time so to see others joining in is encouraging.
Here’s a short clip taken with Jeff’s Treo.
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We hope to offer a few of these types of sessions to promote some discussion and interest around web 2.0. We ended by agreeing to bring in students to try and better understand how they use technology…Stay tuned. Thank you Will for taking time…buy your son something nice and send us the bill!
Show notes:
- Will Richardson
- George Siemens
- Alan November
- David Warlick
- Kathy Cassidy (Primary Blog)
- Clarence Fisher (Middle Years teacher blog)
- Clarence Fisher (Middle Years classroom blog)
- Calculus Blog (High School Math classroom)
Nov
21
2006
Podcast 21….Kathy goes to Philly
Posted by: Dean Shareski in Classrooms, Podcasting, Wikis
Kathy Cassidy is on a whirlwind tour. It began with a trip to Saskatoon this fall as the winner of the provincial award for computers in education. Then she was off to Philadelphia as one of 5 teachers honored as a Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award. Next she’s off to Cambodia.
This is a short interview on her trip to Philadelphia. Unfortunately, there is little online information about this program and conference as it relates to Canadians, so thus, no show notes. Have a listen.
As well, her latest class project is an attempt to help her students understand what “1,000″ means. Please add your name to her wiki.
8MB
16:16
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