This is sort of a rush job, I’d not planned to be working on a podcast today. I’d planned to be preparing for my work in Colorado Springs on Monday and then the rest of the week at a Distance Learning conference in Vancouver. But I learned, just now, that there was some porn spam linked in with my podcast in iTunes. After digging I found the source, which was some invisible spam that had been slinked in to the Connect Learning blog. I’ve deleted all of that out, from the 84 blog entries that had be inflected, but I suspect that iTunes won’t refresh its info, until I give it a new RSS feed to grab, like a new podcast — i.e. a new podcast.
I figure that this is part and parcel to doing this, and it isn’t the first time I’ve had to deal with spam in my blog or even in my online handouts. You catch it and you fix it.
What was unusual about this one was how I found out. It seems that a blogger and Twitter user in North Illinois, Greg Noack, happened be sifting through my podcast in iTunes, clicking up the info on individual podcast programs, when he found it. Now Greg doesn’t know me, and although I’ve seen his name, I do not know him. So he sends out a twitter message,
“can someone tell @dwarlick that his latest podcast on itunes has a list if porn vocabulary for tags in the info box.”
Well my friend, Joe Brennan, from suburban Chicago, is following Greg on Twitter, and since I’ve worked with Joe, he has my phone number, and he calls. We dig around together, and with his help, I find the source.
It’s simply another example of the bigger mind that I find myself with, where my work is build and support not just by me, sitting here in my tiny office, or on the road, or where ever, but a community of people I’m in conversation with, and whom they’re in conversation with.
I think it’s pretty cool.
And talking about bigger minds, and pretty cool, I’m adding in some more of my interview back in January with Chris Lehmann, the principal of Science Leadership Academy. My last posting from this interview was about EduCon the conference that Chris’ school organized the first of the year. Here is some conversation about his school and their evolution.
This was a bit of a trip back in time for me, as ThinkQuest was one of my first clients, after leaving the NC State Department of Public Instruction. As I say in the podcast, there is so much about my philosophies of teaching and learning that came from my experience with this phenomenal project.
Bill McGrath, the subject of this podcast, has been a ThinkQuest judge and, it sounds to me, like something that you would want to do as well.
We’re going back to the NCAECT conference on Concord, North Carolina, for the second part of the EduBloggerCon. In this episode, we hear more conversations about Web 2.0 in the world of the classroom. As a reminder, there is a wiki page of resources related to this event, including a list of the questions that drove the discussions and a transcript of the conversation that took place, in parrelle on Ustream.
This was a wonderful day and a very product hour and a half with Sheryl Nussbaum Beach. The event was the NCAECT conference EduBloggerCon. Will Richardson and I did one last year, and it was so highly received that they asked us to do another one this year.
What is included in this podcast is the first 30 or 35 minutes of the event. The rest will appear very soon! I promise!
We compiled a wiki page of resources related to this event, including a list of the prompting questions compiled by the group and also a transcript of the chat generated by Ustreaming attendees.
I got to visit the Science Leadership Academy the day before their Educon 2.0 conference began. I asked him three questions, what is it, what’s the goal, and what do you, Chris Lehmann, hope to learn.
This is a conversation that I had with library media specialist from across the state of North Carolina. Our topics was padcasting — and they were masters at getting the teachers off the subject.
This is the last half of my interview with Pennsylvania educator leader, Holly Jobe. In this part of our conversation, I ask Holly to reflect on the last twenty-something years of the movement to bring technology into our classrooms.
I have to say that this was one of the most rewarding interviews I’ve ever done. Holly’s been doing this for as long as I have, on a plane parallel to mine in a lot of ways, and also different.
One of the most telling things that she shares is how she had a choice to make, to retire or take on the new job with the Pennsylvania DOE to manage the Classrooms for the Future (CFF) project. It seems that that decision is adding the exclamation point to the contributions of a great educator.
It has been a very long time since my last podcast. I have been traveling a great deal lately, and meeting many dedicated and creative educators across the country. But at the top of any list of educators who have had an impact on teaching and learning has to be Holly Jobe. Now the program director of the Classrooms for the Future project in Pennsylvania, Holly and I have worked together several times over the past many years.
For your reference, hear are just a few links related to the CFF 1:1 projecting in PA:
I have been a podcaster since January, 2005, but an educator since deep into the last century. Welcome to my microphone, and some outside the box ideas about classrooms, teaching, and learning in the 21st century.
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I have been a podcaster since January, 2005, but an educator since deep into the last century. Welcome to my microphone, and some outside the box ideas about classrooms, teaching, and learning in the 21st century.
