Episode 27 — An Interview with Bob Sprankle
June 9th, 2005
It’s foggy here in the rural community of Williamston, North Carolina, where I’m teaching a group of very talented, if a bit weird, elementary school teachers. They are learning to produce video in their classrooms.
That aside, this podcast is dedicated to an e-mail interview I am having with Bob Sprankle, the producer of Room 208, a weekly podcast that his 3rd and 4th grade class publishes.
It is an impressive interview, and Bob shares a number of ideas that I think extremely important to those of us who are trying to retool our classrooms.
So enjoy!
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1. Brendan Downey | June 9th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Hi David,
Maybe you could address in your cast: why WordPress?
The site looks good! Good idea on the EPN, might have to start a cast of my own.
–Brendan
2. Janice Friesen | June 10th, 2005 at 1:58 pm
Ownership! That is IT! I have been thinking today about Online Projects and what it is about them that makes them meaningful and exciting. It is not a top down type of thing where someone says that everyone has to do the same thing and have the same result (standardized testing) A project can reach the very same curricular goals, but be totally different for each person that participates.
Thanks for the podcast… I am still thinking about podcasting. Someone asked me today if it would be one of those things that everyone gets excited about and a bunch of people try and then gets forgotten… Even if that is true why not be one of those excited few and have students that are learning cutting edge things and thinking!
Janice
3. Dean Shareski | June 11th, 2005 at 9:18 am
David,
Instead of a comment, my podcast is more of a response to yours.
http://shareski.blogspot.com/2005/06/podcast-twowhat-about-bob.html
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5. Patty Giesselmann | July 1st, 2005 at 7:47 pm
I am sitting in class at Wayland Baptist University and just listened to Episode 27. I was so impressed with what you said about your podcast. It was great to hear you say how the children can’t wait to get to class. Several comments you made was very interesting. One was, how the podcast meet two of the human needs, being driven to create and driven to create communities. I was encouraged when you talked about how the students were motivate to read and write and that the goals that you wanted for your class was for the kids to be in control of their own learning. Thanks for sharing this with me and I plan to use this in my class. I only hope mine works as well as your class seems to be.
6. Steve Warren | July 1st, 2005 at 7:57 pm
This podcast idea is great. I am impressed that young students of elementary age can use this technology. They will be far more advanced in computer usage than the college students that did not have this advantage. I think the greatest goal will be to have students getting use to using computer resources. They will be tomorrows leaders and scientist. I use to teach mentally retarded adults. I was wondering how handicap students (mentally retarded, deaf, others) could be trained to use this technology? It could be a great confidence builder for these folks.
7. Vanessa Bruce | July 1st, 2005 at 8:03 pm
Very Interesting! This is exactly what you touched on in your book “Raw Materials for the Mind”. Students approach and complete their work differently for different audiences. They are more motivated when their work will be viewed by their peers opposed to simply turning in a paper that only the teacher will read. I am currently getting my teacher certification and one thing I want to include in classroom is active, engaged learning because this is where true learning takes place. What a great resource to use to achieve this goal.
Vanessa
8. Tommy Burkhead | July 2nd, 2005 at 10:12 am
Dr. Warlick, I just want to thank you again for the Webcast you provided for my class in Lubbock Texas. I thoroughly enjoyed the class and have every intent to utilize. Thanks Again,
Tommy Burkhead
9. Becky Martinez | July 2nd, 2005 at 10:21 am
Mr. Warlick,
Everything in your book completely amazes me. What will they think of next? Everything from blogging to podcasts to websites was completely beneficial for me and I’m still not sure how it all works, but I’m willing to try to learn it all. I love the fact that students have a variety of tools available out there for them to learn and use from. Thanks for visiting Wayland, it was a privilege to have you with us.
10. Kim Sullivent | July 2nd, 2005 at 10:27 am
I really enjoyed listenting to this podcast. We listened to it last night in class at Wayland Baptist Univeristy in Lubbock, Texas with Mr. Wes Fryer. I think you’re right about students becoming constructors of their own learning, and these podcasts give them just that. This concept is also exciting and exactly where our children of today are headed, most of them already know more about this than most of us educators. I think that by bringing this sort of technology into the classroom for these students gives them the ownership and relevence they need to make an assignment meaningful and lasting. I also think they get a big kick out of actually helping their teachers with some of these new and innovative technology ideas. Your ideas are great and I tend to think your probably right about most of your predictions for our future education and world of information that our children are going into. Getting everyone nationally onboard I think is where the real delima lays. Keep up your efforts, they are being recognized.
11. Nelda Lopez | July 2nd, 2005 at 10:30 am
Not only did we get to listen your podcast last night but we also got to visit with you this morning here in Lubbock Texas at Wayland Baptist University. I truly believe that engaging your students will be the key to the success of anything a teacher does in the class room, including incorporating technology. Just like the students in the podcast, students of all ages should want to come school and to learn. All students want to know that their opinion is valued and everything that we have seen, heard, and read from you supports this fact. Thanks for taking the time to visit with us in our class. Just like our students in our future classes, your podcast makes me feel like what I am doing is holds true value to me and my students.
12. Debbie Quintana | July 3rd, 2005 at 12:18 pm
I was totally impressed with how well the students did with this type of computer technology. It is amazing how children now can learn to work with technology. I like that it allows the students to publish to a large audience which motivates them to write. I feel that if the students know that people besides just their classmates and teachers will be reading their writhings, then they are going to be willing to give it their all. I like what was said about the students being excited to learn and also coming to school. Now days, there isn’t that much excitement coming from young kids. Allowing them a change in pace changes the way they feel about school, which allows improvement in academic success.
13. Wesley Fryer | July 3rd, 2005 at 9:49 pm
I have heard and read a great deal about podcasting, but listening to the interview with teacher Bob Sprankle and also Episode 28 with his students really communicated the exciting potential of podcast broadcasting in the classroom for me. Authentic audiences change communication, and the Room 208 podcasts are a definite evidence of this idea. Thanks for sharing and introducing us to Bob Sprankle and his lucky elementary students in Maine. Those teachers who are lucky enough to get graduates from Sprankle’s class next year better watch out! I am sure there will be a lot of positive pressure from them to keep podcasting next year!
14. Tracy Rosales | July 6th, 2005 at 6:46 am
I listened to this podcast at Wayland Baptist University in Lubbock Texas in my Integrating Technology Class with Wes Fryer. I really enjoyed listening to this podcast. I think the one thing that struck me the most was Sprankle’s comment on the students owning this thing. I think he is exactly right in that students have to take ownership for their learning and their attitude about school. I would love to sit in on one of his classes. I bet the atmosphere in his classroom is amazing. It sounds as if he has hit on the key to making his students excited about getting up every morning and going to school. I like the fact that the kids are constantly looking for things within their lessons all through the day that can be used in their podcast. I know that looking for new things has made them pay more attention to what they are doing and consequently helped them retain and learn more of their material. I commend this teacher for embracing the new technology that is out there and using it to motivate his students and give them a stronger desire to go to school and learn.
15. Katie Dove | July 6th, 2005 at 7:53 am
I really enjoyed listening to your podcast on Rm 208. It was my first experience with a podcast and it was very entertaining. I was excited by the possibilities that they provide in the classroom. I also was also motivated by the enthusiasm and positive attitude that the students showed towards the podcast. I also liked all the effects that you added into your podcast, it really seemed like you and Bob were just talking and walking along the beech. I can’t wait to try podcasting myself!
16. Shelli Thompson | July 6th, 2005 at 4:40 pm
I am so impressed with all of the technology available. The Podcast we listened to in class at Wayland Baptist University in Lubbock, Texas was Episode 27 Room 208. It was so cool to listen to. It is very motivating to hear students working so eagerly, talk about activitly engaged!! Thank you, Mr. Warlick, for communicating with our class via I-chat. I have never been involved in anything like that. Technology has always been something that I am little timid off, but now that I have seen the many wonders of technology, I plan to use it as much as possible in my elementary classroom.
17. Carson Thorne | July 6th, 2005 at 5:49 pm
Wow! It is so amazing to hear your points of view on active learning in the classroom. I started as a skeptic about bringing internet into the classrooms full throttle, but after hearing what you had to say brought me to realize that this is a great addition to what I have already learned about being able to teach students the same concept but in different ways. I have had my own experiences with peer teaching and find that it is so much more positive. Podcasting really bring so much more to the classroom and I hope to be able to have more experiences with it in my own classroom.
18. Larry Beam | July 7th, 2005 at 11:48 am
I throughly enjoyed the podcast with Bob Sprankle. I think there are some really neat ways to ivolve technology in learning and Sprankle is doing some really great things with his students in Maine. I really liked the idea of the students taking ownership of the projects and the work that is to be done. This makes education more authentic for students when they are willing to take ownership. Thanks for a wonderful session last Saturday. We all enjoyed getting to talk to you by video conference
19. Mozambique Batts | July 8th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
I enjoyed your podcast. The statements you made were similiar to what you talk about in your book, which I really enjoyed during our semester. Technology will be a an intergral part of our educational future. We must remember however, to teache the foundations before we subject kids to the in the wonderful world of “Technology. I agrre that everyone should come to grips that we are mving into a more advance world, yet we must teach and understand the tools that we are given.
20. Jessica Winfrey | July 8th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
Mr. Warlick,
This was a great podcast. It is so wonderful to hear from other educators who are active in technology and use it daily to inspire their students. Your books have been wonderful tools in my education class this semester and many of the thougts in the podcast mirror the things we have learned from your book.
21. Deanna Moore | July 15th, 2005 at 6:15 pm
I too am a Wayland Baptist Student of Wes Fryer’s. He has introduced us to so much new and amazing technology through his class and your books. I have been intoduced to technology that I would have never thought of using in a classroom until now. Podcasting is such a great educational tool. I relly enjoyed this one. The students were so excited about doing their podcast. For a teacher to get their students that excited about learning has got to be worth a try. I intend to listen to some more of not only yours but the students podcasts. I could definitely see this as something that I would try in my future classroom along with other things that you describe in Raw Materials for the Mind and Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. Thank you so much for the books, commenting on my blog and also for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk to our class.
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