January+Agenda

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=The first hour: Introductions and Podcasting= The second hour is on this page.


 * After a rocky start, we began by introducing ourselves. Here are the participants** (Please add your name if I overlooked you):
 * 1) Chris Harbeck,Winnipeg, Canada (grade 8 math) //charbeck1//
 * 2) Vinnie Vrotny, Winnetka, IL, US, (I teach a digital publishing course and an intro to programming course. Most of my work is helping teacher and students implement technology into the curriculum, from pre-k through 12th grade) //vvrotny//
 * 3) Marsha Ratzel, Prairie Village,KS
 * 4) Jeanne Simpson, Decatur, AL (7th grade math) //jeannes1109//
 * 5) Jennifer Wagner, Corona, CA (helps teachers use technology) //Jenw0424//
 * 6) Graham Wegner, Adelaide, SA, Australia (5th & 6th grade) //graham_wegner//
 * 7) Susan Roseman, Ottawa, Canada //tedandsue//
 * 8) Paul Harrington, Gilwern, Wales //pj23harry (PaulMRH in TI?)//
 * 9) John Evans, St. Francois Xavier, Canada (principal, grade 4 technology and science) //joevans12//
 * 10) Allanah K, Nelson, New Zealand //allanahk//
 * 11) Nancy Scofield, Colorado, US //nancy.scofield//
 * 12) Silvia Tolisano, Jacksonville, FL, US //langwitches.org//
 * 13) Sharon Peters, Montreal, Canada, Gr. 7 (12-13), Gr. 9 (14-15), //eebee1//
 * 14) Darren Kuropatwa, Winnipeg, Canada, //dkuropatwa//
 * 15) Joe Dale, Newport, Isle of Wight, //joedale100//
 * 16) Cheryl Oakes, Wells, ME //cheryloakes//
 * 17) Maureen Beyrer, New York (4th grade), //mbeyrer//
 * 18) BJ Berquist, Tapped In moderator
 * 19) David Weksler, Tapped In HelpDesk volunteer, leads a discussion about math education and technology in TI, New Jersey
 * 20) Marlene K, Alberta, Canada, (I used to teach Jr High Science and was involved in global communication projects with my students in Russia. Moving now to audio using skype for educational forums.), //mkonduc//
 * 21) Pam Wi, UK
 * 22) Terry Freedman


 * Participants shared how they are using podcasting in education.**
 * Jennifer Wagner -- severalpodcasts at podomatic.com -- [|http://womenofweb2.podomatic.com/entry/2006-12-13T11_16_59-08_00]She interviewed several people and recorded the interviews as podcasts. Children did dramatic readings of novels they studied (//Charlotte's Web).//
 * Paul Harrington -- http://podfather.podomatic.com/
 * John Evans -- http://joevans.podomatic.com/ I have taught several sessions on How to Podcast and have done 3-4 with or/for students. I used Audacity on a PC then used PodOmatic for my hosting. http://joevans.pbwiki.com/Podcasting
 * Allanah K, Nelson -- [|http://www.allanah.podomatic.com/>]
 * VincentV: I am working with 3rd graders this february and march to work on a podcasting unit with our third grade teacher. We have done the background research about names around our schools. We were going to use either audacity or garage band.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/ http://del.icio.us/joedale/audacity The best one is Assignment: Podcast by British Telecom http://screencastsonline.com/sco/ http://podcasting.about.com/od/podcastingsoftware/qt/Beginaudacity.htm http://www.open-of-course.org/audacity-tutorial-2.html http://screencasting.blogspot.com/2006/08/audacity-and-lame.html http://ti2data.sri.com/transcripts/mst/2006/ http://ti2data.sri.com/transcripts/mst/2006/20060130sigtcpodcasting.pdf
 * Tutorials for podcasting**


 * Questions about podcasting**
 * My podcast had a lot of mushy "s" sounds - how can I filter that out?
 * I am looking for some good tutorials for using garageband and podcasting .. I have looked at the Apple site..but looking for something more step by step with the current version of Garageband. Have a look at Atomic Learning - http://www.atomiclearning.co.uk/podcasting

http://www.gigavox.com/levelator Here is a link for a great app - levelator - which levels the different audio levels in your wav files
 * Misc. Suggestions**

[|Free Math Videos Online] – An excellent math podcast featuring a large collection of free animated math videos and other great resources for students and teachers.

http://www.onlineprojects4teachers.com/ JenW: My OnlineProjects4Teachers.com is pairing teachers up together i Tools of Web 2.0 podcasting, wiking, blogs, etc

http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/ DavidWe: Radio Willow Web, Kids in elementary school podcasting, Wonderful teacher, Tony Vincent, from an elementary school in Omaha, Nebraska led a discussion a year ago, I believe.

DarrenK: A link to my whiplash! workshop which deals with RSS, Social Bookmarking, Wikis, Podcasting and other Cool Tools ... [|http://whiplash.pbwiki.com]

JoeDa: Here are all the posts I've written about podcasting on my blog: [|http://joedale.typepad.com /integrating_ict_into_the_ /podcasting/index.html]

If you would like to find another classroom to work with your students, leave your name, email, and other information here.
 * Several people expressed interest in linking up with students from other parts of the world**

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