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TTT#366 Connected Educator Month w/ Sheri Edwards, Valerie Burton, Jo Paraiso, Joann Boettcher, K. Fasimpaur, Alan Levine 10.02

January 4, 2014 by Paul Allison

CEM 2013 is ON http://connectededucators.org/! This is the first of five special episodes of TTT https://edtechtalk.net/ttt we did as part of Connected Educator Month. We gathered for this episode of TTT on October 2 to talk about what it means for each of us to be “connected” — and how this has changed our work with studnets. Enjoy!

Here’s who join us for this episode:

Christina Cantrill Sheri Edwards Valerie Burton
Johanna Paraiso Joann Boettcher Karen Fasimpaur Alan Levine

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,
and to find a couple of links to the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

TTT#364 Youth Voices-Sheri Edwards, Jo Paraiso, Andrew Wyndham, Tricia Clarke, Marina Lombardo, Jake Jacobs, Valerie Burton 9.18

December 31, 2013 by Paul Allison

On this episode of TTT, we invite you to meet other teachers who have been using Youth Voices this fall to connect their students.

We shared our plans… dreams… ideas… worries… as we moved into the fall semester.

We hope you enjoy this informal “meet and greet” — out of which we hope many new connections might grow.

We will be meeting to talk about Youth Voices and how it is (or isn’t) fitting into our curriculum often as 2014 kicks off! We gather at EdTechTallk https://edtechtalk.net/ttt each Wednesday at 9PM Eastern /6PM Pacific.

Please plan to join us when you can.

It has been exciting to see the posts and the comments flying into Youth Voices again this fall!

All that is needed is an hour on Wednesday evening, earbuds, and a Google+ account that you can Hangout on.

Come join us for a conversation that could make all the difference for your students!

Here’s who joined us on this episode of TTT:

Sheri Edwards Johanna Paraiso Andrew Wyndham Tricia Clarke
Marina Lombardo Jake Jacobs Valerie Burton

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,
and to find a couple of links to the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

TTT#359 Scaffolding the Blogging Process with Teachers in the Dakota Writing Project’s Digital Writing Sandbox 7.31.13

August 25, 2013 by Paul Allison

Michelle Rogge Gannon and I invite you to join us on this episode of TTT (which was recorded 7.31.13). Earlier in the summer, Michelle wrote:

Some of the teachers in the Dakota Writing Project Digital Writing Sandbox are asking for resources on scaffolding the blogging process and on evaluating blog entries. I wondered if you might have some resources that you would be willing to share or if you could point to some that might be useful.

“Scaffolding the blogging process and evaluating blog entries” sounded like a great discussion to for Teachers Teaching Teachers, so we invited Michelle and her colleagues to join us toward the end of July.

In addition to these questions, we also asked about anything that these teachers are learning together in the Dakota Writing Project Sandbox, which is described on their web site http://sites.usd.edu/dwp/sandbox :

Taking a 21st-century approach, the Dakota Writing Project Digital Writing Marathon provides educators with a thoughtful, intensive, collaborative exploration of a variety of technology environments and strategies for integrating writing and adapting these technologies appropriately for the classroom. The marathon is offered entirely online, with both synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous communication and activities, with the majority of online work occurring in July 2013, January 2014, and May 2014. The marathon is taught by Dakota Writing Project teacher-consultants with extensive experience in integrating writing and technology for the classroom.

It was a lot of fun to meet and speak with these wonderful educators:

Jennifer Harvey Anne Moege Michelle Rogge Gannon
Valerie Burton Steve Gors Samantha Peil

Enjoy!

TTT#356 Crafting Digital Writing with Audio and Video w/ Troy Hicks, Lindsay Stoetzel, Elana Waugh, Dawn Reed, and more 7.10.13

August 14, 2013 by Paul Allison

On this episode of TTT, we are joined by Troy Hicks, author of the new Heinemann book, Crafting Digital Writing Workshop: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, and three of the teachers who Troy features in the book.

Troy Hicks is the Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University and this is the first of a two-part series exploring the principles and practices described in his new book.
https://twitter.com/hickstro
http://hickstro.org/

For this first episode, we welcome three teachers from the book to describe how they approach the craft of digital writing with audio, video, and other multimedia tools.

Elana Waugh, Bath Elementary School, explains how her students used mixed media to create a digital book project.
http://ewaugh.edublogs.org/

Lindsay Stoetzel, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, describes how she used podcasts with her middle school students.
http://digitalwritingworkshop.wikispaces.com/Crafting_Digital_Writing

Dawn Reed, Okemos High School, discusses the ways that her students use digital video to construct arguments.

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

TTT#347 Spring Conversations with Valerie Burton, Chad Sansing, and Jo Paraiso – May 1, 2013

May 15, 2013 by Paul Allison

On this episode of TTT Monika Hardy and Paul Allison talk with Valerie Burton and Chad Sansing. We are also be joined by Jo Paraiso, whose students in Oakland, CA have been all over Youth Voices recently: http://youthvoices.net/Fremont

What have you been noticing? What dreams are you working to make come true? What connections are you making with people and ideas? What are you doing that's awesome?

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

TTT#338 NWP’s Connected Learning Inquiry Group #2 Stephen Ritz, Bronx Green Connected Teacher w/Nadjib Aktouf, Nikhil Goyal 2/27

March 13, 2013 by Paul Allison

Joel Malley @joelmalley and Stephen Ritz join us on this episode of TTT, the second of a series of episodes this Spring where we are discussing Connected Learning and our OLE (Online Learning Experience) sponsored by the National Writing Project http://connect.nwp.org/online-learning-connected-learning. (Anybody can join the OLE. Just email Joel.)

We're in the middle of the third session, and this webcast looks back to the first session where many of us were introduced to a wonderful example of a connected teacher, Stephen Ritz.

Here's the plan for the next couple of months:

Session 1 – Connected Learning Core Values, Feb 6-Feb 20

Session 2 – Why School?, Feb 21-March 6

Session 3 – Connected Learning is Interest-Powered, March 7-March 20

Session 4 – Connected Learning is Peer Supported, March 21-April 3

Session 5 – Connected Learning is Academically Oriented, April 3-April 17

Session 6 – Connected Learning is Production Centered, April 18-May 1

Session 7 – Connected Learning is Openly Networked, May 2-May 15

Session 8 – Connected Learning has Shared Purpose, May 16-29

We invite you to join these conversations at the Connected Learning Inquiry Group and here on Teachers Teaching Teachers over the next several weeks.

On this episode of TTT, we are joined by:

Paul Allison, Stephen Ritz, Joel Malley, Chris Sloan, Nadjib Aktouf, Scott Shelhart, Nikhil Goyal, Valerie Burton and Monika Hardy

After listening to this first episode in this series on Connected Learning (TTT #336), we hope you are inspired to join our special guest, Stephen Ritz on this episode of TTT.

Check him out here, listen to or watch our webcast — further below, and leave your coments.

And stay tuned! We are live every Wednesday at Teachers Teaching Teachers.

After we read and discuss Will Richardson's Book Why School? on the Connected Learning Inquiry Group site, Richardson will be joining us on TTT on March 27 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/TLFP7 at https://edtechtalk.net/ttt .

Enjoy this episode of TTT, and plan to connect with us all Spring!

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

TTT#319 Youth Voices – New Teachers: Andrew Schoenborn, Jacob Thomas, Denee Tyler, Loren EFL, Jennifer Woollven 10.17.12

October 31, 2012 by Paul Allison

Meet teachers new to our Youth Voices community on this episode of TTT. This fall, posts on youthvoices.net are popping up from all over: Orem, UT, Bushwick, NY, Austin, TX, and more… Other teachers are ready to jump in with us. Listen in on this open, online staff meeting as we plan the future of Youth Voices together! Take a look at who will be sparking this conversation, and note that you are invited to join us!

Paul Allison, Andrew Schoenborn, Jacob Thomas, Denee Tyler, Valerie Burton, Tommy Buteau, Loren EFL, Jennifer Woollven

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

TTT#316 Preview K12 Online Conference w/ Peggy George, Kim Caise, Susan vanGelder, Karen Fasimpaur, Gail Desler, Val Burton 9/26

October 6, 2012 by Paul Allison

On this episode of TTT we get a preview of the 2012 K12 Online Conference with three organizers and three presenters.

Paul Allison, Monika Hardy, and Chris Sloan

host K12 Online Conference organizers

Peggy George, Kim Caise and Susan van Gelder,

and K12 Online Conference presenters

Karen Fasimpaur, Gail Desler, and Valerie Burton

Find out more:

Saturday, October 13: Join the Classroom 2.0 LIVE Community for a webinar preview of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference. Organizers will discuss what’s new in this year’s conference, “Learn, Share and Remix.” Get a taste of the presentations coming in our strands this year, Getting Started, Visioning New Curriculum, Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices. Also learn about our dynamic pre-conference keynote presentation, to be shared by Kevin Honeycutt. The homepage of Classroom 2.0 LIVE (http://live.classroom20.com) will have the direct Blackboard Collaborate links the week prior to this show.

The 2012 K-12 Online Conference is coming to a computer near you soon! This year’s FREE online conference will take place the weeks of Oct 22 – 25 and Oct 29 – Nov. 2, with a pre-conference keynote by Kevin Honeycutt on October 15th. The 2012 theme is, “Learn, Share, Remix.”

The organizer team for this year’s conference selected “Learn, Share, Remix” for our theme because it embodies many of the ACTIONS we can model as 21st century teachers and students. We all want to model lifelong learning. Our digital connections afford us amazing opportunities to SHARE what we are learning along the way. REMIXING is the process taking knowledge and using it in creative and innovative ways. Remixers build on the work of others. REMIXING can also include transforming the ways we teach and learn. In each strand of our conference this year, we hope presenters will explore and model ways we can learn, share and remix our professional development.

As we have in the past six years since K12Online started in 2006, our conference will continue to be primarily asynchronous, offering downloadable videos for participants to view at any time. We will also host several live events during this year’s conference. All conference dates will be listed on our 2012 Schedule. http://k12onlineconference.org/?page_id=1046

Gail Desler and Natalie Bernasconi will keynote our “Getting Started” strand, one of two strands to be shared the first full week of our conference October 22 – 25.
Karen Fasimpaur will keynote our second strand for week one of our 2012 conference, “Visioning New Curriculum.” This is a new and exciting strand for K-12 Online this year.
Mathew Needleman will keynote the “Kicking It Up a Notch” strand of our 2012 conference in week two, which will run Oct 29 – Nov 2.
Tiana Kadkhoda, aka “Paul,” from Mathtrain.TV will keynote our “Student Voices” strand during week 2 of our 2012 conference.

Announcing K12Online12 Keynoters, Conference Flyer and Hashtag (#k12online12)

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=1068

Announcing K12Online12 Presenters

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=1078

Volunteers for both small and large tasks are still needed before, during and after the conference. View our volunteer brainstorming notes to see if there is something you might be able to help with.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ckwLY_BicJ5tRI5oI5Uc5RNkc9Z0l6nEVlToVO-Q1Y/edit#

October 15th, pre-conference keynote presentation by Kevin Honeycutt. Strands for 2012 are:

Week of Oct 22 – 25: Getting Started and Visioning New Curriculum
Week of Oct 29 – Nov. 2: Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices

Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

TTT#313 Play Youth Voices with Erick Gordon, Jeremy Hyler, Jennifer Woollven, Len Schiff, Valerie Burton, Fred Haas 9.05.12

September 17, 2012 by Paul Allison

On this episode of TTT http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast/ , we talk about a new endeavor at Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net/play where students are invited "to become a social media power user through commenting on other players’ posts, responding to literary and informational texts, doing long-term research projects, composing, revising, and publishing with text and media, and becoming a self-directed learner."

We're looking for teachers of English, history and social studies, arts and media, and science to come play with the Common Core Standards on Youth Voices.

Our guests on this episode are:

Erick Gordon

Jeremy Hyler

Chris Sloan

Jennifer Woollven

Len Schiff Valerie Burton monika hardy Fred Haas

Click Read More to see the many details of this new game, available at Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net/play

TTT#304 Celebrate Connected Teacher Kevin Hodgson w/ Terry Elliott, Troy Hicks, Nanci Burke, Joseph McCaleb, Aram Kabodian 6.27

August 18, 2012 by Paul Allison

As we enter the last couple of weeks of the first annual Connected Educator Month connectededucators.org, on this episode of TTT teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast we celebrate another connected educator, Kevin Hodgson dogtrax.edublogs.org and his work with 6th graders epencil.edublogs.org at the William E. Norris Elementary School wmnorris.com in Southampton, MA.

Kevin is also the technology liaison with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project umass.edu/wmwp and a co-editor of the book collection Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom store.tcpress.com/ 0807749648.shtml that examines the role of technology in the writing classroom in the age of standardized testing and assessment. Kevin says that he "also dabbles in the world of classroom-based humor" through his Boolean Squared webcomic www.booleansquared.com. In addition to all of these links, go to Digital Is digitalis.nwp.org/users/dogtrax to find a lot examples of his students' work and to see how and why Kevin does what he does in his classroom.

If, like Kevin you're interested to explore visually as well as in text, click away on Kevin's "Clickable Connected Me."

Learn more about Kevin in this webcast, recorded on June 27, 2012.

Click Read more to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.