Anytime you get innovative educators with a desire to improve education together you’re likely to have a great event. Podstock 2009 was exceptionally good. It had a unique theme and attitude, the ESSDACK crew went above and beyond to be hospitable, and the presentations (see notes from Day 1, Day 2) were informative and engaging. Here’s a fun music video from Sara Childs that gives you some idea what it was like to be part of Podstock 2009.
Make your plans to join us for Podstock 2010!
These are the slides for my Podstock 2009 keynote. Unfortunately the animations and effects were lost when uploaded to SlideBoom. I’ve shared my notes, resources and video of this presentation over on my wiki, Learning Telecollaboratively. I hope to create a Vidcast or SlideCast of this presentation once I return home and things settle down.
MORE COMING THROUGHOUT THE DAY…
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Getting a Global Perspective: The Power of Collaborative Projects
– Dyane Smokorowski’s presentation resources
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Math Snacks: A Nibble of Conceptual Math – Michelle Flaming and Renee Smith’s podcast and resources
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Publish Audio at Will and Geo-Story Chasing – Wesley Fryer
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Curricularizing to the Podcast World – Diana Wieland
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The Cosmosphere in the Palm of Your Hand- How we fumbled our way to fame(?) – Howie G (a.k.a. Harold George and Joel Walker)
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Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!! – Kim Herron, Tamara Padfield, Linley Voboril
Dean Mantz’s is hosting live blogging throughout the day. Please join the live discussion or visit the archive afterwards.
We’ve been discussing educators’ use of personal learning networks (see here and here). While the responses have been quite favorable (Certainly skewed by the fact that most that saw the request are likely plugged-in to social technologies) several have raised important issues, shared frustrations, and expressed reluctance related to the use of online PLNs. I do not wish to impede that ongoing conversation, but I would like for us to extend the conversation a bit more. So…
Do you think participation in personal learning networks (PLN) can enhance student learning?
NOTE: I’d like to include responses in my Podstock keynote and blog post. You can share your text/audio/video reply in the Comments section of this post or respond to the corresponding Plurk and Twitter discussions.
Thanks for the responses to yesterday’s request for feedback. Here’s is a compilation of the responses to this point. I’ll be sharing more about this during my keynote address at Podstock on Saturday.
Here are the replies from my Plurk buddies.
These are the responses from my Twitter friends.
“Podstock is a brand new conference designed to bring podcast creators and those who see the real value of podcasting as creators and consumers together. We’ll have breakout sessions on podcasting for beginners, as well as sessions for and by seasoned pros. We’ll explore podcasting as well as many other web 2.0 tools that can exhance learning and communication in your world. We invite you to join this site and add your thinking to the initial planning for this event” (Source).
Visit the Podsctock site to learn more about this excellent opportunity.
Join Us
It’s possible for you to join the learning and fun even without physically attending the conference.
Educators, why do your participate/not participate in a personal learning network (PLN)?
NOTE: I’d like to include responses in my Podstock keynote and blog post. You can share your text/audio/video reply in the Comments section of this post or respond to the corresponding Twitter and Plurk discussions.
Thanks for sharing! Together we all learn more.
UPDATE: I’ve compiled and shared your responses here.
