In this show, Steve talks with two ITRTs who are old friends of the show: Tina Coffey from Salem City Schools, and Sean Sharp, from Floyd County Schools. They share their reactions to the new guidelines and provide insight into the changing and difficult-to-capture nature of their positions.
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Over the Summer, the Commonwealth of Virginia released new guidelines for Instructional Technology Resource Teachers. The new document updates the 2005 version, “revisits the original intent of the ITRT program; examines results, as documented through three studies; and offers recommendations.”
Our guest for this show is Jeff Nugent, Associate Director at the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) . The VCE, founded in 2001, is charged with supporting 3,000 faculty members at VCU and now plays a key role in VCU’s VCU 2020: Vision for Excellence strategic plan.
In this show, Jeff and the boys talk about the CTE and its programs, consider ways to build and sustain community around technology projects and programs, and weigh in on heady matters such as the adoption curve and cognitive issues surrounding the learning of new tools.
A few links from the conversation:
It’s a new season for GenTech, and the GenTech boys are back from Summer with a few fun software and website picks for fun. We also discuss the season to come, and how we’d like you to chime in with show ideas and suggestions.
A few things mentioned in today’s show.
Website
Books/Websites
Applications
And The World’s Worst PowerPoint Presentation.
Oct 172006
With Google’s $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube this month, online video is in the news. In this show, Roger and I talk a bit about the “2.0-ness” of video uploading and sharing and the educational possiblities of it all. We also bring up a few caveats that educators should keep in mind while working with the medium.
A few links from today’s show:
Podcast2.0 is produced biweekly and is hosted by Steve Whitaker and Roger Geyer at the Curry School of Education at UVa. For more information, please visit the Podcast2.0 show site.
http://www.stevewhitaker.net/podcasts/web2/audio/podcast20_show8.mp3 [ 27:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadOct 032006
We have recently been exploring using wikis in our teaching. In this show, the GenTech boys are joined by special guest Linda Wright from the College of Health Professions at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. We discuss some of the opportunities and challenges inherent in using wikis in the classroom.
Links along the way…
Wikipedia
Linda’s course wiki
Mark’s course wiki
Serverside Wiki
Wikispaces
PB Wiki
As always, we want to hear from you. Please leave comments or voicemail, or email us at gentech@stevewhitaker.net.
Social networking describes the practice of connecting individuals together into a connected whole, usually on the basis of common interests or opinions. In just a couple of years, online social networking sites have become immensely popular; Facebook boasts members from over 2,000 colleges and 22,000 high schools, while MySpace has over 106 million registered users – with 230,000 new members each day.
In this show, we discuss social networking and their potential in the classroom. We also make note of the security worries related to these sites.
A few links from the show:
- MySpace
- Wikipedia list of other social networking sites
- Judy Woodruff report on social networking
- Richard III and “Medieval Spaceâ€Â
Sep 192006
Web bookmarking is nothing new – even the earliest of browsers containted “hotlist” features that allowed users to quickly return to favorite sites. Web2.0 social bookmarking sites allow users to store and retrieve their favorite links from anywhere, including the ability to tag and share entries.
Some social bookmarking sites:
And one more link:
- Article: review of social bookmarking sites
Sep 162006
Over the course of the previous eight shows, we’ve talked about various GenTech tools, and how each can be used for educational purposes. In this show, we begin the process of considering GenTech applications in unison, towards a common end: a social studies end-of-unit assignment about immigration.
Several links from along the way:
- Great American Melting Pot (Schoolhouse Rock)
- WikiPedia
- American Memory Archive at the Library of Congress
- Encarta
- Writely
- Gliffy
- PBWiki
- BubbleShare
- Tabblo
- Scrapblog
- Immigration Tales podcast
As always, we want to hear from you. Please leave comments or voicemail, or email us at gentech@stevewhitaker.net.
[tags]gentech, education, teaching, learning, edtech, generative technology, web2.0, social studies[/tags]
Aug 262006
Student publishing is not a new idea, but the advantages brought to the practice by current technologies are quite significant.
Here are some of the sites we mentioned during this week’s show:
As always, we want to hear from you. Please leave comments or voicemail, or email us at gentech@stevewhitaker.net.
Aug 232006
Web2.0 is becoming popular in part because of the “buzz†around it. In this show, we continue our conversation about what some of the buzzwords are, what they really mean, and how they can be applied to educational settings. Today’s focus is on buzzwords related to content and the more technical side of Web2.0.
Some links from the conversation:
More information about the Curry School’s programs in Instructional Technology.
Aug 162006
Web2.0 is becoming popular in part because of the “buzz” around it. In this show, we talk about what some of the buzzwords are, what they really mean, and how they can be applied to educational settings.
Common (and uncommon) Web 2.0 Descriptors:
- Participatory web, read/write web, semantic web, organic web, social web, executable web, web as an ecosystem
Perpetual beta
- O’Reilly article
- Primary Access
- The Long Tail (Wired article)
- the Network Effect
Users
For more information please visit the show’s site.
One of the major strengths of Web2.0 is its potential ubiquity, with users able to access any tool as long as they have internet access. Writely and Zoho Writer leverage this advantage and provide free online word processing. In this show, we discuss these two tools and what they may mean for the classroom.
Writely’s toolbar:
Zoho Writer’s toolbar:
Other links:
- Citrix
- Digital Tools for Digital Students – The Disconnect (Apple article)
For more information, head over to the Podcast2.0 site.
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