Thursday, July 23, 2009

Join us for a Wicked Decent Listener Call In Show... Tell us what excites you about the upcoming school year.

We're scheduling another Wicked Decent Listener show via Skype on Tuesday, July 28th at 8:00PM Eastern Standard Time. If you'd like to join us, all you have to do is...

1. Add "Wicked Decent Learning" as a contact on Skype (don't have Skype, it's free and easy to install on Mac or PC).

2. Log on to Skype between 7:30 PM EST and 8:00 PM on July 28th. Make sure you have a working microphone, headphones, and that you know how to mute yourself (this will cut down on the noise interference).

Our topic will be "what excites you about your upcoming school year". If you want to chime in, we'll come up with a batting order to make it simple and orderly (imagine that, order at WDL).

The only disclaimer here is that if you are joining us we have the right to use your voice on the show (kind of a no-brainer, but important to say anyhow).

If you know you'll be joining us, send an email to wickeddecentlearning@gmail.com to let us know how many people to expect. It's not required, but it would really help.

Hope to see you then!

-Jeff WDL

Episode 74 Can I Get a Little P-L-C?

Show notes:
Discussion @ 3:42
Dan and Jeff discuss Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
http://allthingsPLC.info

Tech Talk: @ 49:19
Jeff shares some great online museum exhibits
http://www.tenement.org/
http://www.benfranklin300.org/timeline/index.html
http://www.movingimage.us/site/online/index.html
http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/

Media Integration @ 55:53
Jeff reviews http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

Book Talk: @ 58:56
Dan reviews “Johnny Hiro” by Fred Chao

Didya See/Listener Feedback @ 1:06:07
TeachJ leaves a comment about teachers as role models. https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7100420518492265811&postID=3025902095627422247

Music in this week's episode comes from Penmachine Podcast. “Meltdown Man” intro music by Derek K. Miller. Bumper music, “Pizzaro & Cortez” by: Slim on the album “Interstate Medicine” available via Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License at http://www.jamendo.com/en/download/album/3100

Listener feedback is encouraged. Contact us at wickeddecentlearning@gmail.com or leave us comments at http://wickeddecentlearning.blogspot.com or on Twitter, name Wicked Decent, or on Skype- Wicked Decent Learning. Leave us a voicemail at 1.888.887.3127 (in the US), channel code 17760, password 207. This episode was recorded July 22, 2009.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Episode 73 Rolling out the New Models.

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Show notes:
Discussion @ 6:05
Dan and Jeff discuss the educator as role models.

Tech Talk: @ 58:06
Jeff shares some sites for iPhone/iPod/iTouch users.
www.ipod-notes.com
http://appshopper.com/education/free
http://online.movavi.com/
www.iear.org and the wiki http://iear.wikispaces.com

Book Talk: @ 1:07:09
Dan reviews “The Eternal Smile” by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim.

Media Integration: @ 1:12:33
Dan shares the DVD miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon”

Didya See/Listener Feedback @ 1:17:11
http://tinyurl.com/kstwza MSNBC story on “Tech in Schools: Federal Cuts Sow Concern”

Music in this week's episode comes from Penmachine Podcast. “Meltdown Man” intro music by Derek K. Miller. Bumper music, “Pizzaro & Cortez” by: Slim on the album “Interstate Medicine” available via Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License at http://www.jamendo.com/en/download/album/3100

Listener feedback is encouraged. Contact us at wickeddecentlearning@gmail.com or leave us comments at http://wickeddecentlearning.blogspot.com or on Twitter, name Wicked Decent, or on Skype- Wicked Decent Learning. Leave us a voicemail at 1.888.887.3127 (in the US), channel code 17760, password 207. This episode was recorded July 15, 2009.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Episode 72 Modeling School

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Show notes:
Discussion @ 3:26
Dan discusses the “ICLE Model Schools Conference” with Jeff. Check out the links that were discussed.

Conference Website http://www.modelschoolsconference.com/
Model Schools
http://www.dsusd.k12.ca.us/schools/LQHS/
http://www.generalmclane.org/
http://www.brocktonpublicschools.com/page.cfm?p=3
Featured Presenter http://www.leadered.com/aboutbrooks.html
Conference Downloadable Resources http://www.leadered.com/keynoterRelatedResources.html
http://www.leadered.com/rrr.html

Tech Talk: @ 57:25
Jeff shares some sites that provide grant resources for teachers.
http://www.grantwrangler.com/
http://www.neafoundation.org/grants.htm
http://www.donorschoose.org/teacher/index.html

Book Talk: @ 1:04:46
Dan reviews “This I Believe” and “This I Believe II” compilation by NPR and editors Jay Allison and Dan Gediman.

Media Integration: @ 1:08:23
Dan shares Design History.org’s History of Graphic Design (Thanks Austin Kleon).

Didya See/Listener Feedback @ 1:12:20
Listener comments from Jim Burke and Robert Courtemanche.
http://learninginmaine.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-was-your-favorite-k-12-teacher_9181.html is where Jim blogs about his favorite teachers.
RIVALS documentary opens MIFF.
http://www.thevalleyvoice.org/2009/06/29/maine-international-film-mifffestival/

Music in this week's episode comes from Penmachine Podcast. “Meltdown Man” intro music by Derek K. Miller. Bumper music, “Pizzaro & Cortez” by: Slim on the album “Interstate Medicine” available via Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License at http://www.jamendo.com/en/download/album/3100

Listener feedback is encouraged. Contact us at wickeddecentlearning@gmail.com or leave us comments at http://wickeddecentlearning.blogspot.com or on Twitter, name Wicked Decent, or on Skype- Wicked Decent Learning. Leave us a voicemail at 1.888.887.3127 (in the US), channel code 17760, password 207. This episode was recorded July 8, 2009.