KidCast: Episode 41 - New Edition of Kidcast is Out - Kidcast Awards - Two Minute Soapbox

Summary: Kidcast for April 17, 2007 Still time to get involved in the 2007 Kidcast Awards - plenty of entries have come in, but not in every category. Still looking for more drama and sound seeing tour entries. Sponsors - special thanks to our platinum sponsor Humble Daisy: makers of ProfCast. Our other sponsor is Atomic Learning. ----- Its a very exciting time...watching all this great work fly in...knowing all the creative and constructive energy that goes into it. Thank you to all the vangards out there who are making podcasting happen in your classrooms. -------- The 2nd Edition of KidCast Podcasting in the Classroom....FINISHED IT! - GarageBand's Podcasting Studio - Video Podcasting (including Video Cue Pro) - more ideas about student voice and the fundamentals of podcasting -It is available online at ftcpublishing.com - they have some great bundles - and they can even sell your district a license so that you can reproduce it for staff development within your district. CURRENTLY working on a companion to that book that is a resource and activity book for classroom podcasts - it has over 50 ideas, strategies and Activities "KidCast: Creative Podcasting" - Look for this title out later this spring. ------------ I went down to FLorida last week to speak on a panel at the Technology adn Learning, Tech Forum 2007 Orlando. I spoke with David Warlick and Ginger Jewell about new technologies that are changing education. We took a really fun round robin approach to chiming in with exmples and ideas about collaboration, student publishing and creation, and immersive simulations and games. I popped my iPod on the table and recorded - most of the session - i'll post it as a separate show. --------- Ubercaster - a new tool that i'm going to review soon. - go check it out, mac users. I'd be interested in what you think about this. --------- Videos from dallas' beyond 4 walls keynote are back up... update your feed (or resubscribe) to get them -------- Podcasting and ELL - Allison Wimmer, who is an amazing foreign language teacher has a request for us - she's doing some research and is looking for resources and ideas about blogging, podcasting and ELL. Email her at wimalim@gmail.com ==== Two Minute SoapBox is a new collaborative podcast for teachers about teaching produced....you guessed it...by teachers. Make a short recording and email it to me at dschmit@intelligenic.com or just call (309)401-9353 and leave a posting as a voice mail. ----