Digital Learning Today

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An Introduction to WordPress Aug 01, 2017

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Jeff sits down with Dustin Hartzler to talk about WordPress. WordPress is a free website creation tool where teachers can set up a dynamic and engaging class website.

Featured Websites:

Featured Guest:

Dustin Hartzler is a full-time WordPress website developer who focuses on helping small business create great looking, easy to maintain website. Dustin works for his own company, Hartzler Digital Media (http://HartzlerDM.com), in Dayton Ohio.

Along with developing websites for a living, Dustin also produces the most popular WordPress podcast on iTunes, Your Website Engineer (http://yourwebsiteengineer.com). On the podcast Dustin shares the things that he is learning to help others take their WordPress sites to the next level. He also fields listeners questions on this weekly produced show. Each show has a focused topic that the audience can put in to play each week.

Recorded in 2012

School Leadership: Using the iPad to assist daily activity. Jul 11, 2017

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Jeff sits down with Patrick Larkin from Burlington High School and Jessica Johnson to discuss how they use iPads and technology in their schools.

Topics Covered:

Starting the school year off with a bang… How to prepare for the new semester
What are todays expectations for our students? Graduates? Teachers? Schools? Administrators?
Using Social Media in our schools and classrooms
Should Teachers blog/tweet?, Should Schools blog/tweet?
How can schools develop safe methods for using Social Media in the classroom
How to use todays technology to communicate with parents
How to teach todays parents about what their kids are learning
Safe ways to continue educating after the bell has rung
How to make the most use of our iPad….. How to use the iPad to maximize productivity in yourself… and in your staff
How to run a class… or school using an iPad and what apps to choose
Personal Learning Networks
Creating a 1:1 environment for our schools

Websites and Apps Discussed:

Splashtop Remote
ScreenChomp
Evernote
Google Apps
Flipboard
Blogger

About our Guests:

Jessica Johnson is the Elementary Principal for the Dodgeland School District in Juneau, Wisconsin. She has previously served as a teacher, instructional coach, and Assistant Principal in Minnesota and Arizona. When she made the move from a large urban Phoenix school district to rural Wisconsin she found the isolation of the administrative role to be like an island. She was fortunate enough to discover twitter and continue to learn from others in her Professional Learning Network, which continues to grow each day. She has begun presenting the power of twitter to educators/administrators at conferences in Wisconsin (along with other Wisconsin principals she found on twitter).

In addition she is a co-moderator for the #educoach chat on twitter. You can find her on twitter as @PrincipalJ or follow her blog at www.PrincipalJ.blogspot.com.

Patrick Larkin is the Principal of Burlington High School in Massachusetts where he is in his 14th year as a high school administrator and seventh as a building Principal. Prior to serving as a school administrator, Patrick was a high school English teacher. As an Assistant Principal, Patrick was named Assistant Principal of the Year in the state of Massachusetts. He also is a former Executive Board member in the Massachusetts Secondary Schools Administrators Association (MSSAA) and he recently completed a two year term as a member of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Public Secondary Schools.

Patrick’s school will be making the transition to a 1:1 environment for the 2011-2012 school year. He is active presenting to colleagues on the power of social media for administrators, teachers, and students. In addition, he is an avid blogger and a proponent of social media to better engage teachers, students, and parents in the education process. Patrick is one of the founders of theConnected Principals Blog and #cpchat on Twitter. He is one of the authors of the Super Book of Web Tools for Educators, an avid blogger and a proponent of social media to better engage teachers, students, and parents in the education process.

Both Burlington High School and Patrick have been highlighted in national and regional publications during Patrick’s tenure at BHS.

T.H.E. Journal – When Students Run The Help Desk
Fox 25 Boston Checks Out Our iPad Deployment
USA Today – Students Cast Wide Net For Mentoring With PLN's
Edutopia – How My School Is Transitioning to Digital Textbooks (Organizing: Step 1 of 5)
Edutopia – A Web 2.0 Class: Students Learn 21st Century Skills, Collaboration, Digital Citizenship
Converge Magazine – Principals Learn Through Social Media
Converge Magazine – Four Ways To Transform Your School Culture
T.H.E. Journal – Tweets For Teachers
Boston Globe – Laptop Learning

“I have learned more from my Personal Learning Network (PLN) in less than two years than I did in my previous decade in education,” says Larkin. “This is the most exciting time in history to be involved in education and I am enjoying every minute of it!

Patrick is a graduate of Assumption College and he received his Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Framingham State College.

You can find Patrick's blog here.

Recorded in 2011

What does it take to be the Director of Education? Jul 10, 2017

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Jeff sits down with Jason Glass, the Director of Education from Iowa to discuss the state of education and how teachers can prepare students for their futures.

Topics Covered:

The State of Education
Describe our countries educational system today
What are some of your favorite things to do as Director of the Department of Education
Are teachers, schools, school districts ready to embrace today's technology?
Working within a shrinking budget
How schools are meeting the needs of our students today
What technologies should we be embracing? Leaning away from?
Should Technology be driven by the students, or by the teachers? (or by the community?)
At what age should students be learning social technologies… and how?
Should we be teaching “basic skills” in school? (long division, cursive, etc…)

Websites and Apps Discussed:

About our Guests:

Governor Terry Branstad appointed Dr. Jason Glass as the director of the Iowa Department of Education on December 29, 2010. He was confirmed by the Iowa Senate on April 11, 2011.

Director Glass has pledged that the Department of Education will focus on the values of demonstrating courageous leadership, promoting innovation in education, and acting as a servant to schools and communities in Iowa.

As Director, he works with the Governor, legislators, the State Board of Education, and people across the state in supporting efforts and initiatives to restore Iowa’s tradition as a national leader in education and to lead transformative change.

Born and raised in a family of educators, and married to a teacher, Director Glass’s career in education spans more than 15 years where he has worked in a variety of roles and diverse settings.

After teaching at the high school and university levels in Kentucky, Director Glass worked for the Colorado Department of Education in ensuring a quality education for students with disabilities. Director Glass served as vice president of Qualistar Early Learning in Denver, Colorado where he helped develop an early childhood education quality rating system and raised funds to help providers make needed improvements. He was the Director of Human Resources for Eagle County Schools in Colorado, a pioneering district in innovative human resources strategies including performance-based compensation.

In 2010, Director Glass joined Battelle for Kids as Senior Director of Human Capital, providing states and districts counsel in implementing transformational change as part of the federal Race to the Top program in Tennessee and Ohio.

Director Glass is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, where he received a Bachelor’s degree and two Master’s degrees, and holds a Doctorate in Education from Seton Hall University.

Boosting Student Learning through Educational Technology Jul 09, 2017

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Jeff sits down with Steven Anderson and Eric Sheninger to discuss how they are educating a generation of digital learners.

Topics Covered:

What are we looking forward to as the new school year approaches?
How are we getting ready for school differently this year as opposed to in years past?
Suggestions for starting our students on the right track this year?
Empowering Integration
How should technology be introduced into our classrooms?
How can we help our teachers learn about these technologies?
What types of PD should we be giving our teachers.
What types of technology should be introduced into our classrooms? (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Blogs, Wiki's, Podcasts, iPads, iPhones, internet devices)
What types of accounts should we be asking our students to have? (twitter, dropbox, google…etc..)
Internet Safety and Security…. Keeping students, teachers and school districts safe
Should teachers use more Google in the classroom?
How should we be inviting our students to share files between home and school?
Having phones in school vs having iPads in schools (both students and teachers)
Encouraging our students to help teachers prepare for lessons…. (finding topics online and submitting them for research materials…. livebinder activities)
Are we as teachers preparing our students for the current future or the future yet to come?
How are schools using and managing table devices and app purchases

Websites and Apps Discussed:

Poll Everywhere
Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System
Edmodo
Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students
Wordle
Beautiful Word Clouds
Blogger
Moodle
open-source community-based tools for learning
Ning
Create a Social Networking Site with Ning, the Best Social Site Platform
Twitter
PD 360
The world’s first and largest online, on-demand professional development platform for educators.
SimpleK12
Educational Technology Made Simple
Atomic Learning
Education: Professional Development, Technology Integration and Software Training and Support Solutions – Atomic Learning
Teachscape: K12
Effective Teaching | Teaching Strategies | School Performance | School Improvement | Student Achievement
Groupboard
Evernote
Remember Everything
Dropbox
Cloudbased File Storage
Diigo
Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.
Delicious
Online Bookmarks
http://twitterrific.com/
Twitter Client
Feeddler
RSS Reader for iPad and iPhone
Documents To Go®
Office Suite

Curate Your World using @LiveBinders Jul 08, 2017

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Jeff sits down with Barbara and Tina, the creators of LiveBinders to disgust this revolutionary free web tool that is sweeping the educational universe.

Topics Covered:

What is LiveBinders?
How do LiveBinders work?
Creating an account
Bookmarking your LiveBinder account
Keeping your LiveBinder organized
Sharing your LiveBinder
Following other LiveBinders
Helpful Tutorials
Why should teachers be using LiveBinders?
How should teachers be using LiveBinders?
What types of resources can be found on LiveBinders?”
How can students use LiveBinders?
How to add things to your live binder
Integrating your live binders with your social networks
Taking LiveBinders with you on the road
The Future of LiveBinders

Websites and Apps Discussed:

LiveBinders

About our Guests:

Barbara Tallent has a real passion for creating products that customers love and products that help them communicate. With over 25 years in the Information Technology Industry, Barbara was President/CEO of BoldFish (email marketing software), which she sold to Siebel Systems (now Oracle) She has held executive positions at a number of Internet startup companies and spent six years with NCD, eventually running the Z-Mail division which was one of the first internet email clients.

She volunteers at her local schools where she focuses on technology integration and support. She also volunteers for Astia (Formerly Women's Technology Cluster) where she coaches women on business planning for their start-ups.

Tina Schneider is passionate about creating technology that connects people and ideas; her mission is to enhance digital communication through new forms of narrative. As an MFA graduate student at SF State she applied art theory practice to digital mediums. Tina continued to develop that perspective as in intern at Xerox PARC and then as software researcher with FX Palo Alto Laboratory. In 2003 she received the prestigious Fuji Xerox Innovative Technology Award for her work addressing the communication behaviors of digital natives. Today Tina is focusing her attention on educators, providing a platform that empowers them and their students to be knowledge leaders.

Learning about Educational Technology from “The Wired Educator” – Kelly Croy Jul 07, 2017

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Jeff sits down with Apple Distinguished Educator Kelly Croy, the “Wired Educator” to learn how he uses technology in his classroom.

About this episode:

TeacherCast had the pleasure and opportunity to sit down with Kelly Croy, a middle school English teacher, and Apple Distinguished Educator. We discussed several ways for teachers to be more dynamic in the classroom and how we can foster our students to create a place for themselves in this evolving digital world. Kelly told us about the many ways that he uses websites, podcasts, and Twitter to communicate with parents and make learning fun. Kelly is a fantastic educator and also a performance artist. Kelly can be found online at www.KellyCroy.com

Topics Covered:

Leading students through the development of technologies
“The Adventure of Learning”
Teaching your students to flip every button on the ship
Helping our students content go viral
Teaching Blogs/Essay writing
Empowering our students to be individuals
In what ways do you see our schools preparing students to be achievers and leaders?
What are some fun games or conversation starters we can use our iPads for?
What apps have teachers or educators shown you that you have been passing around to your friends?
What is an Apple Distinguished Educator? How do you become one?
Discussion about Kelly's time as a guest speaker and performance arts.
Importance of Eagle Scout award

Websites and Apps Discussed:

Silent Movie Director
Make silent films with your iPhone/iPad
Edmodo

About our Guests:

Kelly Croy is a seventh grade English teacher at Oak Harbor Middle School in Ohio. He team teaches in a Challenge Based Learning environment that uses technology in unique and meaningful ways. His students are one to one with MacBooks and they are steadily implementing iPads into the classroom. Kelly is the founder and senior writer for Wired Educator a website dedicated to helping teachers explore exciting technologies in their classrooms. Kelly was honored by Apple in 2011 as an Apple Distinguished Educator and is working with ADEs to create content for iTunes University. Kelly also travels as a speaker and speaker and performance artist, inspiring thousands of students and adults with his unique presentations. He lives with five women. (HIs wife and four daughters.) Kelly is excited about the role technology plays in the upcoming educational revolution.

Recorded Fall 2011

Our Favorite Educational Technology Apps for the Classroom Jul 06, 2017

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Jeff sits down with Christopher Hoovler from CleverIOSApps.com and Cary Fields to discuss their favorite apps to use in the classroom.

Topics Covered:

What are the new technologies we will be introducing to our students this year?
What technologies should we be promoting as teachers?
Should we be teaching cursive in school?
Should we ask our students to sign up for social media/file sharing sites the same way we ask them to go buy a pencil?
Social Media in Education (Skype, Twitter, Google+ etc…)
How do we as teachers demonstrate internet safety
Using blogs, wiki's in the class
Should we fear technology for privacy reasons?
Using your iPhone in school vs using your iPad in class

Websites and Apps Discussed:

Keynote and Remote
Presentations on the Mac with a really amazing wireless remote that works on all Mac platforms
iHourglass
Digital hourglass
Bento
Personal Organizer and Filing System
Dropvox
Record your voice and it automatically sends the file to your Dropbox account
Mailing Desk
View Gmail and access your GoogleDocs
Skype
Video and Audio conferencing over the internet
Music Podium
PDF Reader and Annotator
CameraSync
Syncs your entire photo library with your iDisk or Dropbox
PhotoBooth
Create simple videos that can be used for podcasts or online distribution.
CJournal
Helps teachers organize the times they speak with a student, or contact a parent
Grammar App
1800 Grammar Questions
iteleport
View your home computer from anywhere in the world
iBanner
Garageband
Record Music
Teachers Assisstant PRo
Behavior Tracking on the iPad and iPhone
Puppet Pals HD
Make puppet shows from your own photos
Airport Express
Create a wireless stream of music from your iPod to a set of speakers
Roadshow
Search and download educational videos
Evernote
Record and take notes
Planbook
Online Lesson Planner
Random
Number Generator
Clear Tune
Free Chromatic Tuner
Soundhound
Hum a tune and it figures it out for you

Featured Guests:

Cary Fields is a teacher at Castle Dome Middle School in Yuma AZ. This year marks her 13th year teaching. She is a Jr. High English teacher, AVID teacher, and AVID site coordinator.

Cary has been using technology in her classroom for nearly as long as she has been teaching. Currently, she uses Promethean software and clickers in her classroom. Students enjoy the interactive nature of these devices and are more receptive to the curriculum.

She also loves using her iPad2 in combination with a document camera to engage students. Cary strongly believes that students need to be taught differently than we were taught simply because their technical skill set is so vastly different than what we had at their age.

Christopher Hoovler has been teaching instrumental music in Virginia for 14 years. He earned his undergraduate degree in music education from James Madison University and his master’s degree in music education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Chris taught at the high school level for seven years and then took a brief step into the corporate world which only lasted six months before he realized teaching music was a lifelong passion. Chris re-entered the teaching profession in 2005 as a middle school band director and has not looked back. Accolades include numerous superior ratings at state assessment, as well as a three-time “Virginia Blue Ribbon School of Music” recipient, which is the highest honor in Virginia for a music program. Chris is known in his building as the “tech guy” and uses technology extensively in his classroom. Chris has also developed several apps for Apple’s iPad and iPhone including Teacher’s Assistant Pro.

Recorded September 2011

Using Google Plus in your Classroom Jul 05, 2017

Show notes

In this episode, we look at how teachers can use Google Plus in their classroom.

Topics Covered:

What is Google+… Why do I need it in the classroom?
Interface and ways to customize it for classroom safety
What can GooglePlus be used for in the classroom?
Setting up a classroom profile
Creating a “Circle” in your classroom
What are hangouts? Why does my class want to hangout?
Using Sparks to research information
What is a +1 and how can I use it to compile a list of great websites for my class?
Using GooglePlus to showcase photos and videos for student demonstrations
Using Huddles
Creating a digital classroom scrapbook using photos and video
Integrating Google Docs into GooglePlus to provide students with great homework help
Embedding code from other websites such as LiveBinders or ….. (something)
Taking your GooglePlus classroom on the go… mobile apps!
How can we protect our children from online predators when Google+ promotes Hangout's so easily with no consideration of innocence?

Featured Guest:

Dennis Freitas: I was first introduced to personal computers in 1983 my first year of college. We have come along way since then. I have had to many machines to list here. I am what is been referred to a “Flipper” I started on a PC switched to Apple than back to PC (due to work) spent most of my time working on Windows machines. In 2007 with the release of the iPhone I dove back into the Macintosh ecosystem and have never looked back.

In Late 2009 I entered to the world of Podcasting Creating Mac Daily Quick Tips and YourMacShow the Podcast. Soon YourMacShow became a Video tutorial screencast based show. We have also had several other Podcasts over last two years such as Apple Aid, Not Another Mac Podcast and most recently GooglePlusToday and All Things Google.

We have several plans for the future with the next major project to be released this Fall. YourTechNetwork. We have an incredible group of people from all different Tech backgrounds who will be contributing their shows to our new Network. The idea is for YourTechNetwork is to be your one-stop shop for all things tech.

Now, where we will differ from the many of other Tech networks online today is ours is tutorial based. A place to learn all about your particular device. We plan to do this with Podcasts, Video tutorials, quick tips and detailed how-to articles. Most of the Networks online today focus on News and rumors. Our Network’s focus is on You and “Helping you Get to Know Tech”

Dennis Freitas

Recorded September 2011

Back to School Technology for everyone! Jul 04, 2017

Show notes

Jeff sits down with Mark Greentree of EverydayMacSupport, and Stephanie and Terry O'Brien to discuss some of the great new technologies students will use in school.

Topics Covered:

Getting a New iPad… Should I be nervous?
iPad vs Laptop
What to do with your new technology
Great apps for your classroom and how to use them
Cases and keyboards for your iPad
Refurbished iPads and Laptops
Purchasing on a budget
Document sharing… cloud computing… iCloud

Apps Discussed:

Toy Story Read-AlongBy Disney Publishing Worldwide Applications
A fully interactive reading experience packed with Games, Movie Clips, Coloring Pages, Sing-along Tunes, and Surprises on every page. Hear the story read aloud, record your own narration, or explore at your own pace.
Balloonimals HD:By IDEO
Balloonimals HD is a magical iPad activity that will entertain kids of all ages. Simply scribble and swipe to create and play with beautifully animated 3D balloon characters.
See.Touch.Learn.
See.Touch.Learn.™ is a picture learning system designed by professionals specifically for those with autism and other special needs.
Thomas & Friends: Thomas Gets His Own Branch Line
Little Engineers can Read, Play, Listen and Record with their favorite blue engine!
Dexteria
Dexteria is a set of therapeutic hand exercises (not games) that improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults.
GarageBand for iPad
GarageBand turns your iPad into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses on your iPad. They sound and play like their counterparts, but let you do things you could never do on a real instrument.
iMovie for iPad
Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and the amazing new iPad 2. Designed for the Multi-Touch screen, iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips.
Keynote for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad
Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Keynote makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. Use full-screen view to present right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
Pages for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad
Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Pages lets you create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Every page looks stunning and clear on iPad — and also on iPhone 4 and the latest iPod touch, thanks to the high-resolution Retina display.
Numbers for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad
Exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Numbers lets you make compelling spreadsheets in minutes — with tables, charts, photos, and graphics — using just your fingers. Choose from 250 easy-to-use functions.
The Princess and the Frog Read-Along
This FULLY INTERACTIVE App includes GAMES, MOVIE CLIPS, COLORING PAGES and MUSIC to sing along! You can even RECORD YOUR OWN VOICE reading the story.
Shape Builder – the Preschool Learning Puzzle Game for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
Shape Builder educates & entertains your little one with easy to move shapes that snap into place on top of silhouette puzzles. Each puzzle has 5 to 10 pieces & after positioning all of the pieces, the real image is revealed along with a professional voice recording of the word spoken by Jill Dews, a licensed speech therapist that specializes in early child development.
Toontastic
Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a Creative Learning tool that empowers kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons through imaginative play.

About our Guests:

Stephanie O’Brien M.S., BCaBA, has been working with children with autism and other developmental delays for over 10 years. After listening to a guest speaker in college speak about Autism and methods for helping children acquire language and motor skills, Stephanie was convinced that this is where she wanted to focus her efforts. She obtained her M.S. Degree in Early Childhood Special Education from Fordham University, and is a Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst. Stephanie works directly with children with Autism, trains parents, teachers, and therapists, delivers workshops, and consults with school districts on their programs. She is also on the Advisory Board at Brain Parade, helping to develop See.Touch.Learn. It is an application for the iPad, designed for students with Autism and language delays. Her expertise has taken her across the United States, Canada and as far away as Tokyo, Japan. Stephanie has developed and administered programs for schools and districts in WI, MN, PA, CT, NY and New Jersey where she lives today.

Terrence P. O’Brien has been teaching in Moorestown, New Jersey for the last 14 years.He has taught Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade.Terry also enjoys coaching the 8^th Grade Boys Soccer and Baseball teams.Terry received his Education degree from Rider University and his Masters degree in Education from Marygrove College.Terry also coaches Chess and other strategic games during the summer at his camp, Plan of Action.You can contact Terry at POAcamp@aol.com.

Mark Greentree is the principle blogger and podcast creator of www.everydaymacsupport.com. His aim is to inform users at all levels of experience how to get the most out of the Apple hardware and associated software. He is also one of the lead hosts on Not Another Mac Podcast, an Apple based round table discussion with Mac users and experts from all over world.

When Mark isn't producing content for the Mac community he is a at home father to his two children under the age of 5. Hence, educating his children is one of his top priorities and that makes him well suited to be a guest on the TeacherCast podcast. Mark is able to bring a different type of discussion to the table as a result.

Mark is also a qualified photographer and worked for over five years as a scientific and industrial photographer for CSIRO Australia before leaving and working for himself.

Recorded August 2011

School Leadership: Being Effective using Educational Technology Jul 03, 2017

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In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, Jeff sits down with the Jed-iPad Master, Toby Price, and Dave Meister to talk about how administrators use technology in their school districts.

Topics Covered:

How has educational technology changed in the last few years
The role of school districts within the digital community
Reaching out to families without computers in their homes
How are we preparing our graduates for the digital job market
Introducing and integrating technology in the middle and upper grades
Teaching students to blog
Using blogging to foster great writing skills and gain a voice in the world
What new technology experiences are schools creating for our students
Great Educational Apps
How to teach the parents about this great technology
How should we suggest students transfer their digital files?
What types of online accounts can we ask our students to have connections to
How to work around district filters
Presenting resumes in a digital job market.
Coping with a diminishing technology budget
Are we preparing our students correctly for the world?
How to find “Pockets of Excellence”
Teacher Training Programs
Google+ in the Classroom
Should we fear Facebook and other social networking sites
How should teachers keep an online public/private life
The Digital Resume
First thoughts on these topics
Social Media and Social Networking
Facebook
Twitter
Skype
Text Messaging
QR Codes in the classroom
Cell Phones/Internet Devices in schools
Students bringing in laptops to learn with
Students bringing in iPads or tablets to learn with
Google+
LiveBinders.com
Online Learning for credit in k-12 education

Apps Discussed:

Splashtop Remote Desktop
This is the ONLY remote desktop app that streams video and audio from your PC or Mac, allowing you to interact with your PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, Excel, Outlook, Quicken, IE, Firefox, Safari, World of Warcraft, and other PC / MAC applications.
Splashtop Whiteboard
Turn your iPad into a mobile interactive whiteboard!
ReplyNote
ReplayNote is an app that records your writing and voice, then converts it to YouTube video.
ScreenChomp
A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun! Just – Record It. Sketch It. Share It. – to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly.
GolfShot: Golf GPS
#1 Golf GPS App Worldwide
Twitter
Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter app for iPhone and iPad.
Stumble Upon
StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds the best of everything that is out there on the web, recommended just for you. With a touch of the Stumble button, or swipe of the iPad screen, you’ll discover photos, videos and web pages recommended by friends and people sharing your interests.
Flipboard
Named Apple's iPad App of the Year and one of TIME's top 50 innovations of 2010, Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos, videos, and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, and Instagram.
Casey's Contraptions
Help Casey get his toys back by building crazy contraptions. Create Rube Goldberg-like machines with toys and everyday items to solve puzzles and playtime scenarios.

Websites Mentioned on the Show:

About our guests:

Dave Meister is currently the interim Superintendent for Paris Union School District No.95 and the Director of Paris Cooperative High School (PCHS) in Paris, Illinois. PCHS is a one of a kind high school and is the only cooperative high school in the state. It is governed by two school districts who each have three members on their Board of Education. As director, he serves as the Board’s chief executive officer and is also responsible for the duties of the building principal.

Mr. Meister began his career in education as a teacher at Paris High School. He taught Contemporary Problems, United States History, European History, World History, and Psychology. Active in sports, he also coached boys basketball, boys baseball, track, and girls softball. In 1998 he accepted his first administrative position as the principal of two elementary in schools in Paris. In 2001 he was selected to serve as principal at Paris High School. On July 1, 2010, Mr. Meister was named the first Director for Paris Cooperative High School. He has a passion for the use of technology to enhance learning and have authored several grants that have infused more than $300,000 into our local schools to enhance our infrastructure.

Dave Meister is married to Marianne McIntosh Meister (20 years this past December) and has two children. He and his wife also provide a home to three rescue dogs(from L to R Libby, Gigi, and Chloe). Outside of education and computers, his interests include running, golfing, and following his children to their many events.

http://davemeister.net/

@phsprincipal

Toby Price: “There is a fine line between genius and absurdity. I color all over it every day with my purple crayon.”

Recorded August 2011

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