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"All The Right Pieces" Podcast

This podcast features Stephen MacKinnon and his role as freelance project leader with Curriculum Services Canada.

Click to MP3 Podcast File 7:56 (MP3 file)

Click to transcript of podcast (Word file)

 

Related Links Mentioned in Podcast

Global Virtual Classroom

International Schools CyberFair

Greenlearning.ca

eCards

eLearning Ontario

Thousand Islands Jazz Festival

Charleston Lake Association

eeZone

Online Articles about Stephen MacKinnon

"Exploring the World Wide Web of Possibilities" Professionally Speaking June 2005

"Teaching in Cyberspace" Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence - Exemplary Practices 1998

Credits

Script Stephen MacKinnon

Voices Erin MacKinnon & Sweeney MacArthur

Photo Meghan MacKinnon

Music "New Moon" by D. Norris-Elye

All used with copyright permission.

This session will focus on creating and sustaining blogging communities. I will explore the importance of expressive writing, the role of the teacher, and the steps required to engage students in using their blogs to build an online community of inquiry. I also intend to share examples of student work and my thoughts on 21classes - the blogging platform that I currently use in my class.

I will also briefly address the idea of classrooms as third places. If you are interested in this concept, please take a look at my presentation on this topic:

http://www.slideshare.net/teachandlearn/classrooms-as-third-places 

I do not expect to have time to address assessment and evaluation. If you are interested in the strategies I use to assess and evaluate student work composed in the context of an online blogging community, please take a look at the following presentation:

http://blip.tv/file/430904/

If you are interested in learning more about 21classes as a blogging portal designed to support class communities of inquiry, please take a look at this blog entry. This discussion thread is also worth checking out.

- Konrad 

Hello,

I will be presenting a session on teacher professional development in our networked world of Web 2.0. The session is scheduled for Thursday, November 8, at 9:00am.

I'm hoping that this forum will give us an opportunity to engage in a meaningful discussion on professional development before, during, and after the conference. 

I'm interested in your thoughts on the following:

1. How can we as educators prepare to better serve the needs of our students?
2. What have you done since September to contribute to your own professional growth?

- Konrad 

I would like to hear what challenges individuals are facing when trying to integrating Assistive Technology into their classroom.

We will be doing our presentation on Global Collaborative Learning with a focus on iEARN projects. iEARN - http://iearn.org - is the International Education and Resource Network, a global network of teachers and students who are using ICTs to communicate and collaborate with each other on a myriad of projects that make a difference in the world. You can check out the 2007/2008 project book at http://www.iearn.org/projects/2007-2008iEARNProjectBook.pdf

In our presentation we will showcase some of the projects we have been involved in, such as the Machinto Project - http://connect.scdsb.on.ca/machintopresentation and the My Hero Project - http://www.myhero.com/myhero - as well as provide some concrete ideas on how to get started.
These projects provide a real and meaningful dimension to the curriculum while integrating new and emerging ICTs in a way that fully engages students, trully preparing them to become global citizens in a digital age.

We would love to help facilitate anyone in getting started at any time, so if you have any questions, thoughts or ideas, let me know.

Thanks,

Hello,

I have just created a community for TD 16 Capitalizing on the Web Conferencing Craze in Education.  Please visit the community and join if you would like to attend the session (or even if you want to browse)  I hope to tailor some parts of the session to what you would like to see during the session as well as the information and demonstration I hope to impart.

 See you at ECOO!

Shawn Allenby 

link to community:http://www.commun-it.org/community/webconf2007/ 

I have just set up a Community for my session - please use this link to visit. Comments will be added within the next couple of weeks to get things rolling.

http://www.commun-it.org/community/tb15/forum

Geoff

Hello everyone,

Quentin D'Souza and I will be presenting on the topic of Web 2.0 at ECCO.  It would be great to have some of your input into Web 2.0 before the conference to help us frame some of our ideas.

I am quite interested in the answers to these questions:

1) How do you, or a teacher you know, use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom?

2) What mobile tools (i.e. iPod, cell phone, etc.) can, or are, effectively used in the classroom?  If you've got any specific examples, please share! 

 

~Rob

Does your camera lens flickr?
Are your bookmarks del.icio.us?
Are YOU in the TUBE?

If so, consider using the tag "ECOO2007" when uploading any items to these services over the next month. Commun-IT areas are being set up to pool together items from across the web that are tagged with this keyword so that they can be easily found by conference participant. More details on this front will be available soon...

Hello, I am a teacher at A. Lorne Cassidy E.S. with the Ottawa Carleton District School Board. My colleague, Nathan Toft and I are looking forward to attending ECOO. Nathan and I are presenting a workshop on the Friday morning about podcasting with elementary students. We both teach grade 5/6 and this is our second year producing our class podcast called Portable Radio (portableradio.ca). We are really interested in learning about what other teachers are doing with technology in their classes. I am particularly interested learning about collaborations between classes around the world.