ben N ben Show #2 2009-10-22

Ben and Ben interviewed a former student from our high school, Zach, who is now at MIT. Zach did an internship at the FERMI lab this past summer. Zach’s class was the first year of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative in 2002. Ben and Ben wanted to know if having a laptop through high school helped prepare Zach for college.

Geek of the Week links:

Alice: Free and Useful Tools for AP students and ACTEM 2009 sessions

Ben N: Jinni, Find a great Movie

Ben M: Ballotopedia

Chat and podcast

ACTEM sessions are now live

The Way Learning Should Be

The Friday sessions from the ACTEM conference are now available to view. This spreadsheet is being updated, so check back. More are being added every day! Also don’t forget to fill out the evaluation form.

K12Online Conference LAN Party

The K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:00PM to 8:00PM EDT (10pm GMT). The SEEDlings will join Sylvia Tolisano in the EdTechTalk chatroom with colleagues in order to view two past conference presentations and then engage in lively discussions in the EdTechTalk chatroom at http:www.edtechtalk.com/live.

Geek of The Week LIVE at ACTEM

Live from the ACTEM conference, we will be hosting Geek of the Week! We would love to have you participate by contributing a favorite website. Please contribute by filling out this form. We’ll have everyone do this so we should end up with an amazing list of resources which we will share! And be sure to tune in live at http://edtechtalk.com/live on Friday October 16th at 12:00 EST.

UPDATE: Here is the link to the list for the ACTEM GEEK of the Week Session. Thanks to everyone who participated! You can still enter your Geek of the Week. If you would like to watch the session, here’s the UStream

SEEDlings Season 2 Show#5

We discuss accessibility, Universal Design for Learning, Assistive Technology, and how the publishing industry, especially in the educationsector needs to step to the plate and provide mulitple sources of accessibility for a variety of readers and disabilities.

Joy Zabala and Cynthia Curry take us on the journey of AIM and helping us understand how we can provide for our students. Check out aim.cast.org and the aim.mainecite.org

Geek of the Week:

Chat Log

SEEDlings Season 2 Show#4

We interview Wes Fryer and his daughter Sarah. It was such fun to have Sarah join us. I look forward to seeing Wes and Sarah at the ACTEM conference.

Geek of the Week

Chat Log

Learn about Google Earth Part 1

Thomas Cooper and I will be hosting a monthly session called Learn About Google Earth in Elluminate. The first show is archived and covers:

• The Google Earth windows
• Completing searches
• Creating folders to store searches
• Saving searches
• Working with layers
• Basic troubleshooting

SEEDlings Season 2 Show#3

Bronwyn Stuckey joins us from Australia to talk about Quest Atlantis.

Geek of the Week links

Chat Log

SEEDlings Season 2 Show#2

We talk to Tim Hart, from the University of Maine, College of Human Development and Mary O’Brien, 3rd grade teacher from Manchester, ME. We have a great conversation and learn a lot about Second Life and the courses Tim teaches and Mary speaks as a student and extraordinary builder in Second Life!

Tim mentioned this article from the UMaine Today magazine where Lyra Hall talks about her experiences with John Sherblom’s Communication and Technology Course.

Geek of the Week links

Chat Log

SEEDlings Season 2 Show#1

Beth Holmes helps us kick off the new school year.

Geek of the Week

Chat Log