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Download Meet teachers new to our Youth Voices community on this episode of TTT. This fall, posts on youthvoices.net are popping up from all over: Orem, UT, Bushwick, NY, Austin, TX, and more… Other teachers are ready to jump in with us. Listen in on this open, online staff meeting as we plan the future of Youth Voices together! Take a look at who will be sparking this conversation, and note that you are invited to join us! Paul Allison, Andrew Schoenborn, Jacob Thomas, Denee Tyler, Valerie Burton, Tommy Buteau, Loren EFL, Jennifer Woollven Go to EdTechtalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Teachers Teaching Teachers Download. More about Youth Voices on this episode of TTT. Meet teachers new to the site and teachers who have been using it for almost 10 years. Find out more about our new approach to using the site that we've begun to describe as a school-based ARG (Alternate Reality Game). Paul Allison reports a bit on this experiment on P2PU – See http://youthvoices.net/play He has already give out over 30 badges, issued by P2PU, collected in Mozilla Open Badge Backpacks http://openbadges.org/en-US and displayed on students' profile pages. Check out this example: http://youthvoices.net/users/karinas#badges And find out more about "the grid" http://youthvoices.net/grid If you've been waiting for a good time to join the fun on TTT and with Youth Voices, this is your show! We'd love to introduce you to some new and old friends. Paul Allison, Eric Hoefler, Jim Nordlinger, Chris Sloan, Jack Zangerle, Jeremy Hyler, Monika Hardy Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening at the time of this live webcast.

Teachers Teaching Teachers Download. On this episode of TTT, learn more about student-centered, teacher-developed social networks and online publishing with our colleagues Cliff Manning and Lucy Neale from DigitalMe and makewaves and Matt Hardy, co-founder of Kidblog.   Paul Allison, Monika Hardy, and Chris Sloan welcome our special guests   Cliff Manning, Lucy Neale, and Matt Hardy   along with Paul Oh and Jacob Kauffman   See this episode at EdTechTalk.

Download. On this episode of TTT we get a preview of the 2012 K12 Online Conference with three organizers and three presenters. Paul Allison, Monika Hardy, and Chris Sloan host K12 Online Conference organizers Peggy George, Kim Caise and Susan van Gelder, and K12 Online Conference presenters Karen Fasimpaur, Gail Desler, and Valerie Burton Find out more: Saturday, October 13: Join the Classroom 2.0 LIVE Community for a webinar preview of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference. Organizers will discuss what’s new in this year’s conference, “Learn, Share and Remix.” Get a taste of the presentations coming in our strands this year, Getting Started, Visioning New Curriculum, Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices. Also learn about our dynamic pre-conference keynote presentation, to be shared by Kevin Honeycutt. The homepage of Classroom 2.0 LIVE (http://live.classroom20.com) will have the direct Blackboard Collaborate links the week prior to this show. The 2012 K-12 Online Conference is coming to a computer near you soon! This year’s FREE online conference will take place the weeks of Oct 22 – 25 and Oct 29 – Nov. 2, with a pre-conference keynote by Kevin Honeycutt on October 15th. The 2012 theme is, “Learn, Share, Remix.” The organizer team for this year’s conference selected “Learn, Share, Remix” for our theme because it embodies many of the ACTIONS we can model as 21st century teachers and students. We all want to model lifelong learning. Our digital connections afford us amazing opportunities to SHARE what we are learning along the way. REMIXING is the process taking knowledge and using it in creative and innovative ways. Remixers build on the work of others. REMIXING can also include transforming the ways we teach and learn. In each strand of our conference this year, we hope presenters will explore and model ways we can learn, share and remix our professional development. As we have in the past six years since K12Online started in 2006, our conference will continue to be primarily asynchronous, offering downloadable videos for participants to view at any time. We will also host several live events during this year’s conference. All conference dates will be listed on our 2012 Schedule. http://k12onlineconference.org/?page_id=1046 Gail Desler and Natalie Bernasconi will keynote our “Getting Started” strand, one of two strands to be shared the first full week of our conference October 22 – 25. Karen Fasimpaur will keynote our second strand for week one of our 2012 conference, “Visioning New Curriculum.” This is a new and exciting strand for K-12 Online this year. Mathew Needleman will keynote the “Kicking It Up a Notch” strand of our 2012 conference in week two, which will run Oct 29 – Nov 2. Tiana Kadkhoda, aka “Paul,” from Mathtrain.TV will keynote our “Student Voices” strand during week 2 of our 2012 conference. Announcing K12Online12 Keynoters, Conference Flyer and Hashtag (#k12online12) http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=1068 Announcing K12Online12 Presenters http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=1078 Volunteers for both small and large tasks are still needed before, during and after the conference. View our volunteer brainstorming notes to see if there is something you might be able to help with. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ckwLY_BicJ5tRI5oI5Uc5RNkc9Z0l6nEVlToVO-Q1Y/edit# October 15th, pre-conference keynote presentation by Kevin Honeycutt. Strands for 2012 are: Week of Oct 22 – 25: Getting Started and Visioning New Curriculum Week of Oct 29 – Nov. 2: Kicking It Up a Notch and Student Voices Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast, find out what Digital Storyteller/Maker/String Arts Master/3rd Spacer, Fred Mindlin is up to with Metal Sculptor, Ed Martinez at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Last week, Ed Martinez started a 5-week series of workshops with students to create another in a group of mobiles he’s been working on representing the forage species of the local marine environment in Santa Cruz, California. Fred MIndlin is facilitating student sharing of reflection and analysis about the process and its meaning. Read more about this project at http://forage.storyreach.com/, and see more about Ed’s work at http://junkartscramble.com/ This is a relaxed, reflective, and insightful conversation, thanks in large part to the comments and questions from 8th-grader, Kelsey Shelhart. Please join our dialogue by adding your comments on this Vialogue: See this episode on Edtechtalk.

Download. On this episode of TTT http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast/ , we talk about a new endeavor at Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net/play where students are invited "to become a social media power user through commenting on other players’ posts, responding to literary and informational texts, doing long-term research projects, composing, revising, and publishing with text and media, and becoming a self-directed learner." We're looking for teachers of English, history and social studies, arts and media, and science to come play with the Common Core Standards on Youth Voices. Our guests on this episode are: Erick Gordon Jeremy Hyler Chris Sloan Jennifer Woollven Len Schiff Valerie Burton monika hardy Fred Haas Go to EdTechTalk to see the many details of this new game, available at Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net/play

Download. More about Jimmy Santiago Baca, his poetry and his inspiration on this episode of TTT (recorded earlier this summer). We are joined by +Rex Veeder, +Sara Wedeman, and +Michael MacBride. Rex writes: I am gathering some folks to talk about Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine and it's relationship to education K through Higher Ed. Also: The survive and thrive conference and festival as an example of a different kind of conference for writing, art, education, science, and medicine (integrated), and the the Baca/Gleik kickistarter as an example of the principles in action — how does an event reveal the relationships inherent in putting what we learn into practice? This was the second of two shows http://edtechtalk.com/node/5118 this summer to help our some of our colleagues reach their Kickstarter goal of raising $50,000 to complete a documentary about Jimmy Santiabo Baca. They went beyoud their goal, and (according to a recent email) are busy at work. On the earlier show, we met teachers +Denise VanBriggle and +Kym Sheehan as well as filmmaker +Daniel Glick. They told us more about a film project called "A Place to Stand,” which Daniel is making. The three of them used Kickstarter to raise money to finish a feature-length documentary about the life and poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca http://www.jimmysantiagobaca.com On a recent post on the National Writing Project's Connect http://connect.nwp.org/national/blog/16429/join-us-support-place-stand-documentary Denise and Kym write: A Place to Stand is a documentary film (http://kck.st/NsBX8g) about New Mexico poet Jimmy Santiago Baca and his transformation in the 1970s from an illiterate convict to a celebrated poet. Since his release, Jimmy has become one of the foremost Mexican American poets in America. We're not viewing this as just a film. For us, this is about service. Jimmy’s memoir and poetry have inspired prisoners to leave gangs, drug addicts to stay clean, and countless others to dramatically shift the course of their lives. A Place to Stand will make his inspiring story and poetry available to many who would never find it otherwise. Free copies will be given to detention centers, prisons and schools for at-risk youth, coupled with programming designed to help people find in themselves what Jimmy found through his poetry: a place to stand in life, a sense of self-worth, and a reason to live.   See this episode of TTT at EdTechTalk.

Download. On this episode of TTT (recorded earlier in the summer), join Samantha Adams and Jack West, along with Jeremy Hyler and Erin Wilkey Oh to learn more about mobiles, tablets, games, PLE's, augumented reality, and natural user interfaces. If you haven't read it yet, after listening to TTT#305 you'll want to read the NMC Horizon Report > 2012 K-12 Edition. You can get the report at the NMC site: http://www.nmc.org/publications/2012-horizon-report-k12 or you can join the conversation about on the report at the NWP's Digital Is: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3977. Our guests include: Samatha Adams, Director of Communications at the New Media Consortium (NMC), and here are some of the things Samantha does athe NMC: Lead writer and researcher for the Horizon Report series (http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports) Lead writer/editor – web and print Community manager, social media strategist and analyst Membership, press, and public outreach Webinar production/hosting Content manager for all nmc websites, including nmc.org and navigator.nmc.org Project analysis and user experience for NMC partners — mainly large companies Jack West, physics teachers and advisory board member for the NMC Horizon Report > 2012 K-12 Report. Advisory Board members are the ones who actually vote in the specific technologies to the report. Additionally, he has a very interesting edtech blog: http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/ Jack is also a contributing editor for NMC.org. He will offer his insights about the report and any other topics! Check out this July 2nd post by Jack: http://www.nmc.org/news/over-horizon-k-12-2017 Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download. On last week's TTT edtechtalk.com/node/5123 we were joined by some of the participants from a "3rd Space Conference" ourcolab.org/the-invitational-summer-institutes-teachers-teaching-teachers/ in July and others interested in community collaborations. The conversation centered on combining the insights and work of artists and museum professionals with hands-on art making and collaborative curriculum design. On this episode, we carry on the idea of a 3rd Space, both in regard to physical and mental spaces. We talk about the idea of the entire city as the school, as well as a possible means to ground the chaos in the event an entire city was set free to play with this idea. Imagining a focus more on a networked individualism (B Wellman), than a standard prescription. Monika Hardy is our host and our guests are: Cristian Buendia, Dave Cormier, Dave Cormier, Kirill Kireyev, Kristen Specketer, Mary Ann Reilly, Daniel Craig, Fred Mindlin, and Jeff Lebow. </center>

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download. We talk about badges again on this episode of +Teachers Teaching Teachers. This is our second show of what promises to be more than a few this fall. On the first TTT about badges and learning goo.gl/97zku, we jumped into an ongoing conversation with educators who are developing a practical, pedagogical discourse between the heckling and the hype around badges. +Paul Allison @paulallison, +monika hardy @monk51295, +Chris Sloan @csloan hosted, +Peter Rawsthorne @prawsthorne, +Andrea Zellner @AndreaZellner, +Vanessa Gennarelli @VGennarelli, +Elyse Eidman-Aadahl @ElyseEA, +Sheryl Grant @slgrant, +Sunny Lee @threeqube, +dave cormier @davecormier . There’s only so much that this many thoughtful participants can say in an hour, so we invited everybody back and a few others for this episode of TTT +Peter Rawsthorne and +Sheryl Grant from the first conversation are joined in this episode by: +Barry Joseph – goo.gl/EY6hc, +Doug Belshaw @dajbelshaw– goo.gl/x0x10, +Myrna Rubel – vimeo.com/41312848, +Samuel Abramovich, +Kathryn Godwin, +Leora Wollner, and +Amy Lewark @fat4thought . We welcome you to join us. We’ll continue these conversations about learning and the peril and possibility of badges this fall. We're live at edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesdays at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific. We’ll continue to focus on incorporating badges into K-12 education and beyond. There’s so much to say on the topic. What’s your favorite blog post, video, article, resource about Badges? Please add a couple of links in the comments below. We want to be open and flexile about all of the ways people are talking about the issues involved. And, we are interested in keeping it real. We’ve been developing some ideas around badges for Youth Voices youthvoices.net/play, and there’s more about this on P2PUgoo.gl/oKQ1R. This podcast is also available at EdTechTalk.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download. On this episode we are joined by some of the participants from a "3rd Space Conference" in July and others interested in community collaborations. They discuss their learning together in St. Louis last month, and also talk about and how we can bring this work into our local communities in the future, wherever we are. The 3rd Space Conference, held July 9-13, 2012, in St. Louis,ourcolab.org/the-invitational-summer-institutes-teachers-teaching-teachers/ brought together teams from local sites of the National Writing Project nwp.org and museums around the US to explore creating projects and curriculum that take advantage of collaborations among students, teachers, and local communities. Learn more about combining the insights and work of artists and museum professionals with hands-on art making and collaborative curriculum design. Patricia Swank sent us this video "of my students engaging with a piece of art at the St. Louis Art Museum along with some of their theorizing as to how it impacted them." Third space? Third place? There's a useful summary of some of these concepts on Wikipedia, and it starts like this: The third place (also known as Third Space) is a term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. In his influential book The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg (1989, 1991) argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of place. –Wikipedia (accessed 8.21.12)en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Third_place&oldid=500220817 Ralph Cordova's descriptions of the 3rd space work: "The language of envisioning and possibilities signal to us all that what we're about to experience, although principled and theoretically grounded, is completely yet-to-be-invented." Jump into this conversation with the fascinating educators, artists, museum directors… 3rd Spacers!… and let's see where it takes us! Go to EdTechTalk to to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.

Teachers Teaching Teachers #304 Your browser does not support the audio element. Download As we enter the last couple of weeks of the first annual Connected Educator Month connectededucators.org, on this episode of TTT teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast we celebrate another connected educator, Kevin Hodgson dogtrax.edublogs.org and his work with 6th graders epencil.edublogs.org at the William E. Norris Elementary School wmnorris.com in Southampton, MA. Kevin is also the technology liaison with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project umass.edu/wmwp and a co-editor of the book collection Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom store.tcpress.com/ 0807749648.shtml that examines the role of technology in the writing classroom in the age of standardized testing and assessment. Kevin says that he "also dabbles in the world of classroom-based humor" through his Boolean Squared webcomic www.booleansquared.com. In addition to all of these links, go to Digital Is digitalis.nwp.org/users/dogtrax to find a lot examples of his students' work and to see how and why Kevin does what he does in his classroom. If, like Kevin you're interested to explor visually as well as in text, click away on Kevin's "Clickable Connected Me." Learn more about Kevin in this webcast, recorded on June 27, 2012. Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Our goal in this–and the next–episode of TTT teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast is to join those who are developing a practical, pedagogical discourse between the heckling and the hype around badges. Our conversations are open and wide-ranging, but we have a few questions that must be answered soon, as the fall semester starts up around the US: Does it make sense to wrap Youth Voices youthvoices.net with badges? How would it work? What impacts might there be on different kinds students? How do I start? Of course, it's impossible to pull apart the different philosophical, political, and psychological threads that seem to attach themselves to badges, but the educators in this conversation begin to bring some clarity to the questions involved. In this episode, Paul Allison @paulallison Monika Hardy @monk51295 Chris Sloan @csloan host Peter Rawsthorne @prawsthorne Andrea Zellner @AndreaZellner Vanessa Gennarelli @VGennarelli Elyse Eidman-Aadahl @ElyseEA Sheryl Grant @slgrant Sunny Lee @threeqube Dave Cormier @davecormier There's only so much that this many thoughtful participants can say in an hour, but we hope that there are a few moments while you are listening when you find yourself wanting to enter the conversation. Let us know what you are thinking by posting a comment below. And join us next week as we continue our conversations about badges on TTT with Barry Joseph @radical.media – goo.gl/EY6hc Doug Belshaw @dajbelshaw – goo.gl/x0x10 Myrna Rubel – vimeo.com/41312848 a couple of their colleagues YOU! Anybody is welcomed to join us. We'll continue these conversations live at edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, 15 August at 4PM ET / 1PM PT/ World Times: goo.gl/tERfa. NOTICE THE EARLIER TIME. We’ll continue to focus on incorporating badges into K-12 education and beyond. There’s so much to say on the topic. What’s your favorite blog post, video, article, resource about Badges? Please add a couple of links in the comments below. We want to be open and flexile about all of the ways people are talking about the issues involved. And, we are interested in keeping it real. We’ve been developing some ideas around badges for Youth Voices youthvoices.net, and there's more about this on P2PU goo.gl/oKQ1R. See you on Wednesday. Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download. “Online communities of practice and personal learning networks are grassroots phenomena. Through them, educators are taking charge of their professional learning, and research suggests the value is real and wide ranging,” says Dr. Darren Cambridge, American Institutes for Research (AIR). On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers we are joined by an amazing group of educators as we help to kick off Connected Educator Month http://connectededucators.org/cem/ in our own way—with a conversation about what it all means to us, especially when we think about how important it is to be connected locally and physically as it is to be connected nationally or globally and virtually.  Paul Allison, Monika Hardy and Chris Sloan host this conversation about Connected Educator Month (CEM). This special show focus on online communities of practice and includes guests such as: Darren Cambridge - http://ncepr.org/darren/, director of the Connected Educator Month project Karen Fasimpaur - http://www.k12opened.com/blog/about, founder and organizer of P2PU’s School of Education https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-ed-pilot/ Kevin Hodgson - http://dogtrax.edublogs.org of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/ Pamela Moran - http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=97282&, Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools and a teacher-consultant at the Central Virginia Writing Project http://curry.virginia.edu/community-programs/professional-development/cvwp/ Paul Oh - National Writing Project http://dcomposing.com (http://www.nwp.org) Program Associate Valerie Burton - http://about.me/VRBurton English teacher and new member of the Greater New Orleans Writing Project http://gnowp.org/ Let’s connect the rest of August and beyond! Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Tommy Buteau joins us on this episode of TTT, and it seems perfect to introduce you to him in this Connected Educator's Month http://connectededucators.org/. Tommy teaches in Windsor, Colorado http://youthvoices.net/whs/ and he talks about these three connected projects and more: Letter Writing with “The Things They Carried”http://youthvoices.net/node/41202 Post Modern Multimedia Research Project http://youthvoices.net/node/39997 News Article http://youthvoices.net/node/33404 Add your comments to this post. Let us know what you think about Tommy’s connected pedagogy, and help us look into the future of Youth Voices. http://youthvoices.net. This episode might be a good moment for us to connect to old friends who want to work with us at Youth Voices again or meet new people as well. Joining Tommy on this episode are: Shantanu Saha, Monika Hardy, Jeremy Hyler, Deb Kauffman,Gail Desler,Valerie Burton, Chris Sloan, and Fred Mindlin Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast.