ViewPodcast top_small http://podcastpickle.com/media/images/ads/other/90x90_PodcastInspector.jpg http://podcastinspector.com top_small http://podcastpickle.com/media/images/ads/other/90x90_PodcastJunk.jpg http://podcastjunk.com top_small http://gateway.sportjunk.net/uploads/chockablock.png http://chockablockdigression.podbean.com/ top_small http://podcastpickle.com/media/images/ads/other/90x90_Lelands.jpg http://lelandswallpaper.com top_small http://www.podcastpickle.com/media/images/ads/pcp/90x90_FastpitchTv.jpg http://www.fastpitchtvshow.com false 14040 paulallison allisonpr@gmail.com 2 http://teachersteachingteachers.org A weekly webcast on the EdTechTalk channel of the WorldBridges network Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:36:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en ©Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke 2003-2006 allisonpr@gmail.com (Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke) allisonpr@gmail.com teaching, k12, writing, blogging, wikis, webcasting 1440 education, skype, webcast, writing, reading, school Keeping it Real in New York City public schools. Skyping, Webcasting, and Podcasting By and For Teachers. Three public school teacher in New York City moderate this podcast that comes from a weekly skype conversation and live webcast. Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and Thomas (Teb) Locke get together, invite their colleagues, and talk about teaching reading, writing, and content with Web 2.0 technologies. Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke allisonpr@gmail.com No no http://teachersteachingteachers.org/images/KeepItRealSmall.jpg http://teachersteachingteachers.org 144 144 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=270 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=270#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:36:43 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=270 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=270 46:56 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4816/Teachers213-2010--08-11.mp3"Download quot;Sometimes the questions just lead us to think in the right directionquot; - TTT 213 - 08.11.10/abr/On this episode of br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4816/Teachers213-2010--08-11.mp3"Download quot;Sometimes the questions just lead us to think in the right directionquot; - TTT 213 - 08.11.10/abr/On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers,we talk to teachers from the Gulf Coast again. School has started in many places along the Gulf, and there are many different and mixed reactions as the emergency has turned into a long-term clean up effort and part of a chronic crisis in the region. On this podcast you’ll learn what teachers and students on the Gulf were thinking about the BP oil spill in at the beginning of August, about 3 weeks after the cap was put on the Deepwater rig. You’ll also learn why they believe that the Voices on the Gulf project is more important than ever. If you havent signed up yet. Wedlove for anybody who listens to Teachers Teaching Teachers to join the site! We expect that students voices will dominate on the site once more schools start up, but wed love to hear your plans, your thoughts, your voices on the site right now! Thanks! On this podcast, Matt Montagne and Paul Allison are joined by: David Pulling, National Writing Project of Acadiana, Louisiana Stacey Ferguson, Live Oak Writing Project, Mississippi Catherine Tibbs, Live Oak Writing Project, Mississippi Lynette Herring-Harris, Program Associate, National Writing Project, based in Mississippi Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,National,Writing,Project,,Matt,Montagne,,planning,,Lynette,Herring-Harris,,Louisiana,,BP,oil,spill,,Voices,on,the,Gulf,,Catherine,Tibbs,,voicesonthegulf,,Stacey,Ferguson,,Mississippi,,David,Pulling Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=269 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=269#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:37:12 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=269 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=269 41:26 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4815/Teachers212-2010--08-04.mp3"Download A community of teachers building quot;Voices on the Gulfquot; - TTT 212 - 08.04.10/abr/As you will hear on this episode of br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4815/Teachers212-2010--08-04.mp3"Download A community of teachers building quot;Voices on the Gulfquot; - TTT 212 - 08.04.10/abr/As you will hear on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we are very excited about the new website, http://voicesonthegulf.org! On this podcast we are joined by: Andrea Zellner, Stumbling Toward Proficiency Chris Sloan, Sloan Space Matt Montagne, The Digital Downlow Diana Laufenberg, Living the Dream Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Library Lisa Nielsen, The Innovative Educator We are putting together a team to help us to develop this site " and fast. We’ve set up the following Community Managers: David Pulling (Louisiana) - Site Manager Paul Allison (New York) - Site Manager Catherine Tibbs (Mississippi) - Art and Humanities Ellen Steigman (Louisiana) - Art and Humanities Susan Ettenheim (New York) - Art and Humanities Paige Baggett (Alabama) - Community and Culture Suzie Boss (Oregon) - Community and Culture Jeff Mason (Florida) - Health and Wellness Andrea Zellner (Michigan) - Health and Wellness Natasha Whitton (Louisiana) - Money and Careers Chris Sloan (Utah) - Money and Careers Alicia Blair (Mississippi) - Nature and the Environment Matt Montagne (California) - Nature and the Environment Kyle Meador (Louisiana) - Social Issues and Human Rights Diana Laufenberg (Pennsylvania) - Social Issues and Human Rights Stacey Ferguson (Mississippi) - Our Space (K-6) Margaret Simon (Louisiana) - Our Space (K-6) Gail Desler (California) - Our Space (K-6) Kevin Hodgson (Massachusetts) - Our Space (K-6) Along with this growing group of National Writing Project teachers, teachers from along the Gulf Coast, teachers in Edutopias pblcmp, AND/OR teachers involved with the EdTechTalk/WorldBridges community, we have been organizing (and working with Bill Fitzgerald at FunnyMonkey) to build this site that will do the following: Provide a place where we can collect, amplify, and engage the poems, stories, and essays that students along the Gulf Coast bring to their teachers this month, as schools open. Layer these stories, poems, and essays with online sources, including news releases and poetry (such as the poems on Poets for Living Waters). We dont know yet! Many of us have been working for some time on building a site like Voices on the Gulf, and we have some idea what directions this will take, AND we want to allow the discussions on the site to help us know how to develop. The most important item, above is #1 - we are working as fast and hard as possible to get the site out to teachers, and for it to be easy to use. If you would like to add a poem, thought, or anything, please sign up, then once youve been made into a member, youll see the Add Discussion button. Please go in and write a brief reflection, add photo, a video, or almost anything " just to see how easy it is to do. AGAIN, THANKS! Students have been coming back the past couple of weeks in many Gulf Coast schools. A lot of our connections with teachers on the Gulf have happened this summer on a live webcast that we do every Wednesday evening. You may have already been on the show. We would love it if you would come back. Weve been able to make a lot of invaluable connections. You can see what we mean here: http://edtechtalk.com/teachersteachingteachers We would love to invite you to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. Pacific / 8:00 p.m. Central / 9:00 p.m. Eastern. If you use Skype, please email Paul Allison or Susan Ettenheim and let us know your Skype name (again)" just helps us to know who to look for! We hope that you will be able to join us soon on a Wednesday evening. Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,Chris,Sloan,,Matt,Montagne,,curriculum,,Diana,Laufenberg,,Andrea,Zellner,,Lisa,Nielsen,,Buffy,Hamilton Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=268 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=268#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:58:47 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=268 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=268 61:31 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4812/Teachers211-2010-07-28.mp3"Download A Real Team Challenge: Spill! TTT 211 - 07.28.10/abr/This summer, we could feel the energy growing around teachers building curric br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4812/Teachers211-2010-07-28.mp3"Download A Real Team Challenge: Spill! TTT 211 - 07.28.10/abr/This summer, we could feel the energy growing around teachers building curriculum about the BP oil spill. This episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers one example. This conversation is part of our ongoing series of podcasts focused on collecting stories, ideas, curriculum, connections, and resources that will help us teach about the Gulf oil spill this fall. Our guests include: Teachers who worked together on project plans, It Affects Us All, in Suzie Bosss Problem-based Learning camp at Edutopia join us. We are also joined by Andy Rosenbloom, Program Director for the Virtual Team Challenge: Spill! Andy writes: Even though youre busy this summer with countless poolside BBQs, its never too early to plan ahead for Fall semester curriculum.The Virtual Team Challenge is an entirely FREE online, multiplayer business simulation that takes place in the animated 3D world of New City. The team objective in the simulation is to help the mayor stage the most efficient oil spill recovery effort. Top-performing teams are eligible for prizes for themselves, their teachers, and local charities! Virtual Team Challenge will run this Fall from October 12 " November 24. See our article in The New York Times to read about one NJ teachers success with the program. Virtual Team Challenge comes complete with lesson plans and in-class exercises which form a curriculum that highlights general business acumen, business ethics, negotiation skills, decision-making processes and accounting while placing a special emphasis on important life/career skills such as teamwork, communication, professionalism and research methods. Register now at www.virtualteamchallenge.com. Teachers from the Gulf join us as well. Even though on this show we feature teachers and resources from "elsewhere," it is always a welcomed moment when we can hear from our new friends from along the Gulf Coast. Oh, if you listen to the end, you’ll catch Bill Fitzgerald who had just put up Voices on the Gulf hours before this webcast. If you haven’t joined us at Voices on the Gulf and at Youth Voices, please consider joining now. These are the best ways for keeping up with the work of this community of teachers represented on this podcast this fall. Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Susan,Ettenheim,,Bill,Fitzgerald,,curriculum,,gaming,,Ellen,Steigman,,BP,oil,spill,,pblcamp,,Voices,on,the,Gulf,,voicesonthegulf,,Problem-based,learning,,Edutopia,,Virtual,Team,Challenge,,Andy,Rosenbloom Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=267 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=267#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:20:12 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=267 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=267 45:46 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4810/Teachers210-2010-07-21.mp3"Download Eywitnesses to the largest oil spill in U.S. history - TTT 210 - 07.21.10/abr/The series of podcasts about the Gulf oil spill that .. br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4810/Teachers210-2010-07-21.mp3"Download Eywitnesses to the largest oil spill in U.S. history - TTT 210 - 07.21.10/abr/The series of podcasts about the Gulf oil spill that we started at the beginning of June continues on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. We are joined by Alicia Blair a 5th grade science teacher from Mississippi who has been an important voice on many of these podcasts this summer. It was also a delight to listen to Ann Dobie, author, professor, and former Writing Project Director from Louisiana. Ann Brewster Dobie taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for thirty-eight years, where she is now professor emerita of English. She directed graduate studies in rhetoric and the universitys writing-across-the-curriculum program. She is the author or coauthor of six college writing textbooks and author of numerous articles on literature and composition. She is the editor of Something in Common: Contemporary Louisiana Stories, Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Contemporary Louisiana Poets, and Wide Awake in the Pelican State: Stories by Contemporary Louisiana Writers. Ann received her doctorate in the teaching of writing from Columbia University. Biography on http://anndobie.com Given our interest to work with teachers in the Gulf to collect the stories of students there, take a look at this description of Ann Dobies newest book, Fifty-Eight Days in the Cajundome Shelter, which was published in 2008. Fifty-Eight Days in the Cajundome Shelter Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed thousands of homes, schools, and businesses across the Gulf Coast and changed the face of southeast Louisiana forever. However, nearly a hundred miles northwest of New Orleans, in Lafayette, Louisiana, a different story was unfolding. As men, women, and children waited on their roofs for rescue, executive director Greg Davis hurried to prepare the Cajundome in Lafayette as an emergency shelter. The workers and volunteers in the Cajundome provided food, showers, and medical care to more than eighteen thousand evacuees that came to Lafayette. From the first busloads of newly homeless to the disasters caused by Hurricane Rita, Fifty-Eight Days in the Cajundome Shelter shares personal accounts of heartache and joy, tragedy and triumph. For the first time, here is a collection of the stories of the volunteers and evacuees. Their heroism, courage, and despair are etched into these stories as they endured the first few weeks in a hurricane-ravaged world. Retold here is the bravery and leadership of Donald Williams as he took charge and led a convoy of handicapped and elderly to safety. Readers will also be captivated by the unforgettable story of the Prevost family as they climbed their way to the roof of their home and their heartbreaking journey to dry land on I-10. The author includes her own personal accounts of what really happened in the aftermath of Katrina and the bravery and selflessness of countless people who struggled to make a difference. We are excited about the number of teachers who have joined us this summer for this exploration into how we can be good neighbors with our friends in the Gulf Coast. Al Doyle, a NYC teacher of gaming, joined us from the woods of a summer camp in Maine, and a new teacher Rebecca from Pennsylvania, had some things to say as well. Some of the things to listen for in this podcast are some of the reasons we have been working with Bill Fitzgerald at FunnyMonkey to build an extension of our Youth Voices site. Two quotes from this podcast help define our mission for Voices on the Gulf: I think sometimes when your there at that Ground Zero, if I can borrow that phrase, it’s a little overwhelming. But I talked with several people and got together with our [Writing Project] director, and we just had a real brainstorm. And w Paul,Allison,,Susan,Ettenheim,,National,Writing,Project,,Al,Doyle,,NWP,,BP,oil,spill,,pblcamp,,Voices,on,the,Gulf,,voicesonthegulf,,Alicia,Blair,,Edutopia,,Ann,Dobie Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=266 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=266#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:00:46 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=266 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=266 44:46 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4808/Teachers209-2010-07-14.mp3"Download Rethinking school with four Gulf Coast teachers - TTT 209 - 07.14.10/abr/Our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers are br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4808/Teachers209-2010-07-14.mp3"Download Rethinking school with four Gulf Coast teachers - TTT 209 - 07.14.10/abr/Our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers are: Kyle Meador, the Director of Education at Our School at Blair Grocery, New Orleans. To learn more about Our School at Blair Grocery, check out this video. Then click here to visit their photo slideshow. This is well worth your time! And while you are there, please contribute to their construction efforts. You’ll find a donate button on the right side of the site. We met Kyle on Edutopias official PBL Camp kickoff this Monday. This was a webinar led by Suzie Boss, and it was attended by more than 100 campers. If you missed the live event, you can view an archived recording, and/or download the slide presentation. Suzie also joins us on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teacher. There was a lot of synergy between Edutopias Problem-Based Learning Camp and our webcast this summer. It was great to be a small part of this work. All of of the materials of this camp areopen to everybody and there is PBL wiki. On this episode, we also welcome two teachers from the Live Oak Writing Project which is on the coast in Mississippi. High school science teacher, Alicia Blair who had been with us the week before returns with a colleague, Stacey Ferguson who teaches 5th grade. Middle-school science and technology teacher, Jeff Mason joins us once again to give us his perspectives from Pensacola, Florida. On this show, we talk about getting a website ready in time for the students on the Gulf Coast, to make it easy for them to share their stories, poems, photographs, essays, and cartoons with us. Bill Fitzgerald and his colleagues at FunnyMonkey pulled it off! Students are coming back along the Gulf Coast this week and next week. "Voices on the Gulf" is ready. We expect that student voices will dominate on this site eventually, but we invite you to join now, and add a discussion. What are you thinking about the BP oil spill? How will this event change your teaching? Please plan to join us to plan curriculum and make connections with teachers in the Gulf. Browse over to http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA every Wednesday in August./ World Times. Well see you then! Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,Susan,Ettenheim,,Suzie,Boss,,curriculum,,BP,oil,spill,,Voices,on,the,Gulf,,Jeff,Mason,,voicesonthegulf,,Alicia,Blair,,Stacey,Ferguson,,Problem-based,learning,,Our,School,at,Blair,grocery,,Klye,Meador,,Edutopia Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=265 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=265#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:06:08 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=265 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=265 44:32 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4807/Teachers208-2010-07-07.mp3"Download Wondering about fossil fuel and enjoying the power of twitter in the NWP - TTT 208 - 07.07.10/abr/On this episode of Teachers Teachin br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4807/Teachers208-2010-07-07.mp3"Download Wondering about fossil fuel and enjoying the power of twitter in the NWP - TTT 208 - 07.07.10/abr/On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Alicia Blair, a science teacher who lives near the beach in Mississippi, asked us to think of her the next time we pump gasoline into a gas-guzzling automobile. Later in the show her heart went out to an art teacher, April Estep, who lives 20 minutes from the site of Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mining disaster. Casey Daugherty, a co-director of the Ozarks Writing Project, observed, "We’ll think of April every time we switch the lights on." Sandwiched between these ongoing conversations about how to respond to the BP oil spill and similar disasters such as the Big Branch disaster, we talked about how to raise teacher voice and how to push out audio and video on social networks like Twitter. This summer our guests brought twitter and social networking to and from their local Invitational Summer Institutes of the National Writing Project. Paul Oh leads us in this discussion of how the face-to-face, intense summer work widens when social networks become part of the mix. Our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers were: Alicia Blair, Live Oak Writing Project in Southern Mississippi Casey Daugherty @caseydaugherty , Ozarks Writing Project in Missouri- @OzarksWP Steve Moore - @SteveJMoore , Greater Kansas City Writing Project - @GKCWP April Estep - @MsEstep , Coalfield Writers/Marshall University Writing Project in West Virginia - @MUWP Paul Oh - @poh , Program Associate, National Writing Project - @writingproject - @nwpsiteleaders Learn more from these folks and others on this recent NWP resource page, Tweeting in the Summer Institute and Beyond: Writing Project teachers have found Twitter to be a serious learning tool. Many sites across the country integrated Twitter into their summer institutes this summer, and teachers have built "personal learning networks""groups of people who casually join together to communicate and collaborate on common topics"where they discuss serious educational issues. Story behind the image: As an ornithologists son, watercolor artist Paul Jackson grew up spending Christmases in the park rangers cabin on Horn Island, Miss. Over several weeks, he turned his outrage into Fowl Language, in which a least tern, stilt, egret, cormorant and other Gulf birds sit atop a dropping-streaked BP sign as an oil rig smokes in the background. He posted a photo of the painting on his Web site while the paper was still damp. Within two hours, it was selling as a T-shirt on the art-sale Web site Zazzle.com. The Columbia, Mo., painter has since created his own site, Art vs. Oil Spill. About 100 artists from as far away as India and Malaysia have offered works, with all proceeds going to nonprofit groups working to clean up the oil or oiled animals. Artists find ways to protest Gulf spill #124; Associated Press #124; The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,Susan,Ettenheim,,National,Writing,Project,,Paul,Oh,,twitter,,social,networks,,Ozarks,Writing,Project,,BP,oil,spill,,Upper,Big,Branch,mining,disaster,,summer,professional,development,,Steve,Moore,,personal,learning,networks,,Live,Oak,Writi... Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=264 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=264#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:14:29 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=264 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=264 50:32 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4804/Teachers207-2010-06-30.mp3"Download quot;We#039;ve been taken over once again by something that we couldn#039;t stop, can#039;t stop.quot; TTT 207 - 06.30.10lt br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4804/Teachers207-2010-06-30.mp3"Download quot;We#039;ve been taken over once again by something that we couldn#039;t stop, can#039;t stop.quot; TTT 207 - 06.30.10/abr/This the fourth week of a summer series in which we have focused Teachers Teaching Teachers on the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Our guests included: Matt Montagne, who has been collecting materials, such as: October 28th, 2010 TEDxOILSPILL Talks. The Google Doc that Matt can be found at http://tinyurl.com/voicesonthegulf - And stay tuned! There much more to come under the domain: "VoicesOnTheGulf." (We also eventually agreed on the common tags: "voicesonthegulf" and "edoilspill" Diana Laufenberg, a history teacher from Science Leadership Academy who joined us on this topic 3 weeks ago will try (from her family#8217;s farm) to join us again. Natasha Whitton, one of the three teachers from the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project two weeks ago, hopes to join us again Andrea Zellner, a biology and English teachers from the Red Cedar Writing Project in Michigan will be with us again! AND NEW to our webcast: Catherine Tibbs, a former high school English teacher who works for the Live Oak Writing Project in Mississippi joined us. (She is also invited colleagues who will be heard on future podcasts. Catherine wrote this on a Monday late in June : I don#8217;t know if you know this or not, but oil reached the MS beaches this weekend. We had been fortunate so far to avoid this mess. From what I understand from the media, the manpower was not coordinated in the Gulf to skim the oil that is now reaching us. Isn#8217;t that always the case? Also new to the podcast is Jeff Mason from Penscola, Florida, a biology and technology teacher. We met a Twitter, and we look forward to a continuing connection. (Jeff came on the webcast last week as well, so look for more from him on future podcasts.) We hope you will be able to join us in this ongoing project. Help us know how to respond as teachers#8212;and with our students#8212;to this monster that will continue to reek havoc for weeks? months? to come! Join us to talk about what’s happening in the gulf every Wednesday at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA (World Times). Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,Susan,Ettenheim,,National,Writing,Project,,students,,Matt,Montagne,,planning,,curriculum,,NWP,,Diana,Laufenberg,,Andrea,Zellner,,science,,edoilspill,,pblcamp,,Voices,on,the,Gulf,,Catherine,Tibbs,,Jeff,Mason,,multidisciplinary,,Natasha,Whi... Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=263 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=263#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:00:32 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=263 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=263 41:57 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4802/Teachers206-2010-06-23.mp3"Download Will our students find the oil spill complelling? 3rd in a series - TTT 206 - 06.23.10/abr/On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teach br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4802/Teachers206-2010-06-23.mp3"Download Will our students find the oil spill complelling? 3rd in a series - TTT 206 - 06.23.10/abr/On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers -- the third in our summer series on the Gulf oil failure -- Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim are joined by Chris Sloan and Andrea Zeller. We talk about building curriculum around the Gulf oil spill and other topics, wondering how to keep student self-motivated inquiry at the center of our work while also introducing topics such as the environment, art history, obesity, AP English, or the earthquake in Haiti and other current events. Chris Sloan teaches at Judge Memorial Catholic High School in Salt Lake City, and he is a member of the Wasatch Range Writing Project. He teaches digital photography, media studies and AP English. Chris, Paul and Susan and their students have been working together on a school-based social network, Youth Voices for the last six years. Andrea Zellner has been a frequent guest on TTT this summer, we are delighted to say! Andrea is a former high school teacher in Michigan, who taught both English and Biology. Currently Andrea works for the Red Cedar Writing Project. Susan Ettenheim teaches at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in New York City. Susan and Paul have been doing Teachers Teaching Teachers together for almost five years. Susan teaches computer arts, art, and digital photography, and she is the librarian as well. This year Susan is also teaching a Caribbean Art History course for the Virtual High School. Paul Allison teaches at the East-West School of International Studies in Flushing, Queens. He is also the Tech Liaison for the New York City Writing Project. Paul teaches English and he started a school/community garden this spring. We hope you enjoy this conversation between four veteran teachers. Just as we build on each others ideas, we hope you build on ours and let us know what you are thinking in the comments below. We invite you to join us each Wednesday this summer to listen to teachers from the Gulf and to hear how teachers are planning to bring these issues into their classrooms this fall. Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,Susan,Ettenheim,,Chris,Sloan,,Curriculum,Planning,,English,,curriculum,,Andrea,Zellner,,Gulf,oil,disaster,,YouthSpill,,science,,Art,History,,BP,oil,spill,,current,events,,edoilspill,,inquiry,,pblcamp,,Project-based,Learning,,Voices,on,the... Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=262 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=262#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:31:39 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=262 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=262 45:36 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4799/Teachers205-2010-06-16.mp3"Download Three teachers from Louisiana talk about a dull ache - 2nd in a series - TTT 205 - 06.16.10/abr/Obama seems to have missed ... br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4799/Teachers205-2010-06-16.mp3"Download Three teachers from Louisiana talk about a dull ache - 2nd in a series - TTT 205 - 06.16.10/abr/Obama seems to have missed another opportunity in a major address that he gave about the BP oil spill last month (June 15). Earlier he was right to call the Gulf Oil Disaster our environmental 9/11. Both are life-changing disasters that have many of us asking where we need to stop compromising. On Teachers Teaching Teachers this summer, we are asking what needs to change in our schools and in our lives as teachers. We hope that Thomas L. Friedmans comments in May 2010 wont be the last word on the 9/11 comparison. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of those rare seismic events that create the possibility to energize the country to do something really important and lasting that is too hard to do in normal times. On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we talked about what we can do now that we might not have done before this disaster or failure. This is the second of a series of shows we will be doing on the Gulf oil disaster. In the previous podcast (TTT 204), we had a thoughtful, productive conversation with history teacher Diana Laufenberg about responses in our curriculum to the Gulf Oil Disaster. One of her ideas was to set up Skype connections for our students with people in Gulf states to personalize and more deeply understand the impact of this ongoing disaster. To move this idea forward, we were joined by teacher-consultants from the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project " Carolyn Kirk, Tasha Whitton, and Ellen Steigman " on this podcast. On this podcast, we wre also be joined by teachers Matt Montagne and Andrea Zellner " two of our favorite angry, young environmentalists! Wont you join us too? We will continue our conversations about what needs to change all summer on Teachers Teaching Teachers. We want to know what you are thinking. Join us in the chat room or get ready to join us on Skype at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,Susan,Ettenheim,,Writing,,Matt,Montagne,,planning,,curriculum,,Andrea,Zellner,,Gulf,oil,disaster,,Gulf,oil,spill,,YouthSpill,,BP,failure,,Carolyn,Kirk,,Ellen,Steigman,,Louisiana,,science,,Southeastern,Louisiana,Writing,Project,,Tasha,Whitton Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=261 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=261#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:28:50 +0000 Paul Allison http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=261 http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2&p=261 46:19 br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4798/Teachers204-2010-06-09.mp3"Download quot;We can#039;t not deal with it!quot; says Diana Laufenberg - 1st in a series - TTT 204 - 06.09.10/abr/This is the br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4798/Teachers204-2010-06-09.mp3"Download quot;We can#039;t not deal with it!quot; says Diana Laufenberg - 1st in a series - TTT 204 - 06.09.10/abr/This is the first in a series of TTT webcasts that we are doing this summer in response to BP’s gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. We are asking teachers from all over to join us each Wednesday evening this summer to put together a curriculum that will help our students build their own responses to the human, animal, and ecological devestation that has been happening every day since April. Incredibly, this "spill" promises to continue wrecking damage into the fall and winter. Diana Laufenberg, a teacher at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, started us in this series of shows with a the powerful, clear-eyed stance of a history teacher commited to helping her students find their own answers to "How does this go on?" Diana’s descriptions of a project in which her students made infographics this spring will inspire, and her ideas for connecting her students to students in the Gulf will make you want to join us in this endeavor. We also spoke to a math teacher, Matthew, from Pennsylvania. Diana Laufenberg ( @dlaufenberg and Living the Dream ) is a history teacher at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. On the schools website, she is described as a nomad. Diana is a true life-long learner. She currently works with 11th grade students at SLA. Experiential education is an integral part of her educational pursuits taking students from the classroom to the real world and back again. Before finding her way to Philadelphia, she was an active member of the teaching community in Flagstaff, AZ where she was named Technology Teacher of the Year for Arizona and a member of the Governors Master Teacher Corps. In the second and fourth webcasts in June, podcasts of which will be available later this week, we were privilidged to have teachers from the Gulf join us. We are working to find a place for all of us to contribute resources, connections, and ideas. On this webcast we talk about the possibility of connecting in some way through the Learning Network of the New York Times. (See "The Gulf Oil Spill in the Classroom.") Another possibility is for some of us to work with Suzie Boss and the teachers who have signed up for Edutopia’s Project-Based Learning Camp, which will start in the middle of July (although it’s now closed to new participants). Also Matt Montagne started this Google Doc to begin collecting our thoughts, resources and plans. Please enjoy to this podcast. Diana gets us off to a great start on this journey! And please plan to join us this summer 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times. Go to EdTechTalk to see a copy of the chat that was happening during the webcast. Paul,Allison,,Susan,Ettenheim,,planning,,curriculum,,Diana,Laufenberg,,Matt,,Gulf,oil,disaster,,Gulf,oil,spill,,infographics,,YouthSpill Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Thomas (Teb) Locke no No false