Title: Beyond "Schooly" Flat Classroom Projects to "Natural" Networked Learning
Description: My guest for this podcast is Dean Shareski, instructor of a 21st Century Education class at University of Regina, Canada, and Technology Coordinator of the Saskatchewan School District.
This wide-ranging talk focuses primarily on creating _natural_ global collaboration for students, project-based and student-designed, in order to get away from the one-size-fits-all model informing most globally collaborative projects.
Title: Networked Learning Podcast with International Educators
Description: Here’s another Skype conference call, “quick-in, quick-out,” with people who simply answered a Twitter invitation from me here in Seoul, Korea, to discuss ways to make my Personal Learning Network / Communication Arts English Seminar better. Most of the conversation is with Corrie Bergeron of Cleveland, Ohio - “educator, husband, father, musician, aviation nut” - and a very smart man, with whom I’ve never spoken before submitting a one-line tweet to my Twitter network. He’s interested in this class, and took 40 minutes to discuss it with me instantly.
Other people in my Twitter network came in later: George Mayo of Maryland, USA; Jabiz Raisdana, an international school teacher in Doha, Qatar; and Madeline Brownstone, a teacher and New York City National Writing Project advisor. I’ve talked to George a couple of times, but this was the first voice-to-voice with Jabiz and Madeline.
Let me spell a couple things out: Twitter, Skype, and this blog have very quickly combined into an instant-meeting medium for me to learn from people around the world who are interested in helping me succeed at what I’m trying to do in my own project-based learning - which just happens to be about using the new tools to allow students to learn in new ways. This podcast is at once a datum of and a discussion about Personal Learning Networks.
Title: For the Love of Geeks - I'm a Geek and I'm OK - Episode #1
Description: Episode #1 - For The Love of Geeks, where we talk about what it means to be a geek, and some movies we have seen and some we want to see, We talk about Twitter, Ficlets, and the next Guitar Hero game.
Beyond "Schooly" Flat Classroom Proje...