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Join Kathy and Mark as they discuss emergent trends in education and recent events of late 2009.

From Twitter moments to new book announcements, product reviews to a discussion about the President’s speech to school children, you do not want to miss this action packed set of episodes!

Join Kathy and Mark as they discuss the breakthroughs in distance learning aka virtual learning.

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Produced and copyrighted by Transformation Education LLC, Gura and King, 2007-2009.

President Obama Remarks to School Students

• Arlington, Virginia
• September 8, 2009 – Transcript
• http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

Tech Product

Students collaborate over interactive SMART Table

• Young students at a Florida elementary school are collaborating more in the classroom by using a SMART Table.
• The SMART Table is
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  RESOURCES and Items Mentioned in this Episode!
  

  Another 2-part episode begins with Episode 40 of The Teachers Podcast. This episode is packed with free resources and more discussion related to the realities of budget crunches. But Mark and Kathy spin to the positive side! Join us for a full slate of ed tech resources to reinvigorate your classrooms and your professional learning!

  Bing, Google Wave, Facebook transformations?

  How about

  • a new search engine
  • new forms and dimensions of communication on the horizon
  • history in the making talking to your class!
  • personalized facebook and tools to escalate twitter to greater educational opportunities?
  • digital texts, free texts, free audio texts , more educational audio sources??

  Resources include a detailed comparison of free resources to maximize your educational reach using social media! This is a set of episodes that promise to open new visions of thinking, and approach for your summer school, summer excursions and revitalization. Make us the center of YOUR Ed Tech Universe: www.teacherspodcast.org.

  A new generation of EdTech professional development.

  Contact us at teacherspodcast@gmail.com or comment at the website/blog.

  Telephone message line: 201-693-4935.

  The Teachers’ Podcast: More Ed Tech You Can Always Use Today and Tomorrow.

  Produced and copyrighted by Transformation Education LLC, Gura and King, 2007-2009.

  Short Takes

  • Soldier’s blog teaches Kentucky sixth-graders about Afghanistan
    Aaron Connor is serving near Ghazni City, Afghanistan, with the Illinois National Guard.
    • NY Times article about the blog
  • Microsoft
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    A fabulous episode with scores of possibilities for web 2.0 in teaching and learning, what are the issues and the realities? Hot news from the USA and UK! The U.K. is considering including blogging, tweeting, and podcasting in the elementary school curriculum? Say it isn’t so? Listen in to the debate! Is it what you expect or not? Free resources include a tremendous learning tool- DimDim. Listen as Kathy describes a seminar she did with local and distant participants connected through the free webconference service! Don’t miss this episode It is full of must hear information and great resources.

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    This episode provides a vast array of ready to use and “digest”

    digital media and resources and also tools for brewing your own!

    Do you need Kindle or Kindling for that? (sorry)

    From the hotter than hot Kindle ver 2 review, to our good pal elmo, the favorite teacher ed tech classroom tool, to $20 laptops, 10 podcasts good to go and use NOW, student produced broadcasts and much more.

    Topping off the show is a fabulous conversation about the ASCD blog topic, Curse of the Digitally Illiterate. Not only is it a good topic, but the educational community is demonstrating the power of blogging and producing great insights for us to develop and understand this issue form different perspectives.

    Join us we include a Re-Cap of Current

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    Fresh from the invigorating excitement of Texas Computers in Education Association’s Conference in Austin, TX, breezes in with a plethora of new developments, resources and surprise interview from the floor of the exhibit hall. Don’t miss this episode from listener shout outs and letters, to

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    Launching the new year Kathy and Mark share opportunities, resources and insights for educational technology across grades and content ares.

    Sharing their travels, interactions with teachers and school leaders, as well as incorporating headlines from educational and national news, this episode is a great boost offering vision and action for teachers, instructional technology staff, staff developers and all educators.

    There are many opportunities for producing change from appointments of US Secretary of Education, to the new budgets and surplus plans, join us as we examine the potential for our classrooms, schools and learners!

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