What is this? From this page you can use the Social Web links to save Ep 51 2009 Virtual Wrap-Up! Virtual Schools and Lifelong Learning to a social bookmarking site, or the E-mail form to send a link via e-mail.

Social Web

E-mail

E-mail It
December 13, 2009

Ep 51 2009 Virtual Wrap-Up! Virtual Schools and Lifelong Learning

Posted in: 21st Century Learning, Ed Tech, Episodes, Gaming, Information Literacy, Kathy King, NCLB, On The Road, Photos, Product Review, Virtual Schools, adult learning

Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.

Click to hear Episode 51
From virtual learning to Thailand, Austin and the Beatles this episode includes a wide-ranging discussion of the future of technology and education. What is coming down the pike? Can we see it and experience it now?

Students with skype

PHOTO BY MIKE SPENCER

Join Kathy and Mark as they discuss emergent trends in education and recent events of late 2009.  Teachers best practices highlights, scores of resources, Teachers Podcast mail bag and much more! What is your family doing for entertainment this holiday season? Listen into hear the trends which may connect to us! As always the discussion is wrapped around the theme of powerful uses of technology for learning.


The Teachers’ Podcast: More Ed Tech You Can Always Use Today and Tomorrow.
Make us the center of YOUR Ed Tech Universe!

www.teacherspodcast.org

Contact us at teacherspodcast ( @ ) gmail.com or comment here at the website. Produced and copyrighted by Transformation Education LLC, Gura and King, 2007-2009.

Short takes

Mark’s Photos from His Thailand Travels!

Mailbag!

  • Hi to all. Thanks for suggestions and notes of appreciation
  • We appreciate each of you our listeners!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT -  The Teachers Podcast iPhone app- See below

iappttpod_234x60

RESOURCES

Articles

  • Videoconferencing provides dance lessons in Minnesota district
    • Northern Elementary: Students learn dance, culture using web technology
    • What if you could instantly bring in someone from Africa to teach you an African dance, or a professional hip-hop artist to teach you the latest break dancing moves?
    Students at Northern Elementary School did just that from Nov. 10-20.
    Using Distance Learning classes, or ITV, professional music artists from Minneapolis were projected onto a wall in the gymnasium via videoconferencing technology…. Click to read more of this article
Telling tales of vine-choked trees and eagle nests big enough to nap in, school counselor Cissie Brooks transfixed Wrightsville Beach Elementary’s fifth-grade science class on Wednesday – from 400 miles away.

Thanks to technology, a good Internet connection and a little patience, Brooks will share her experiences as a temporary volunteer at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland all week long via her blog and a videoconferencing service online.
“I’m trying to show them what I’m doing and answer their questions,” said Brooks, who is also the school’s marine science coordinator. “I want to give them something to think about.”
Brooks’ blog posts about hiking the forest around the Institute collecting leaf samples and measuring trees have been used in classroom discussion all week, but Wednesday was the first time the students got to see her via Web camera. They sat …..  click to read more

iNacol

BONUS  HOLIDAY RESOURCES

  • Wii Holiday advertisements

CURRENT EVENTS

  • Kathy will present a concurrent session on Technology, 21st Century Learning and Career Readiness.
  • Desmond Conference Center for the Mid-Winter Conference
  • Kathy will be presenting a session on podcasting and oral history lessons at FETC
  • We will post the session information as soon as we have it!

Short Articles by Kathy on Career Changing

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Return to: Ep 51 2009 Virtual Wrap-Up! Virtual Schools and Lifelong Learning