Thursday, December 31, 2009

Episode 88 Good Golly Ms. Molly

Jeff and Dan provide you with your somewhat irregular dosage of goodies from technology, media integration and books useful for you classroom.

Tech Talk

Jeff shares some sites he thinks you should try in the new year!

http://www.stfrancis.edu/content/cid/copyrightbay/

http://www.micdl.org
http://www.gwap.com


Book Talk

Dan discusses the book "Boiler Plate: History's Mechanical Marvel" See a trailer for the book here:

http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/book.html

Media Integration

Dan shares the documentary film "Pond Hockey" found at http://www.hulu.com/watch/118204/pond-hockey

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 (207) 518-8827. This episode was recorded December 31, 2009.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Episode 87 I Was Born in a Small Town

Jeff and Dan discuss the challenges and possible solutions to address diversity in rural schools.

Link mentioned in the show:

http://skypeinschools.pbworks.com/

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 (207) 518-8827. This episode was recorded December 15, 2009.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Episode 86 Goody Goody Gumdrops!

Jeff and Dan provide you with your somewhat irregular dosage of goodies from technology, media integration and books useful for you classroom.

Tech Talk

Jeff shares some sites he's pleasantly surprised with...


https://phuser.com/
https://www.dropbox.com/ and the tips wiki http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks
http://www.mapanno.com/mashup/about-mapanno-mashup.html
and a late show mention
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/lin-manuel-miranda-performs-white-house-poetry-jam-8-8

Book Talk

Dan discusses a collection of geek-based short stories. Check out Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci

http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/geektastic/index.html


Media Integration

Dan shares the 7 minute video documentary "The Mixtress"

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_mixtress/


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 (207) 518-8827. This episode was recorded December 7, 2009.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Episode 85 How do you measure that?

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Show Notes:
Dan and Jeff discuss how schools measure their success and achieve their vision.
Links mentioned in the school http://www.neasc.org

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 by calling (207) 518-8827 (in the US). Your comments may be used on the show . This episode was recorded November 24th, 2009.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Episode 84 “Oh Goody!”

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Jeff and Dan provide you with your somewhat irregular dosage of goodies from technology, media integration and books useful for your classroom.

Tech Talk

Jeff shares some sites he just figured out...

http://screenr.com/

https://www.globalgridforlearning.org/p/splash

http://www.celtx.com/

http://www.google.com/squared

Book Talk

Dan discusses the graphic novel “Outlaw the Legend of Robin Hood” by Tony Lee

http://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Legend-Robin-Tony-Lee/dp/0763644005/ref=ed_oe_p

http://www.tonylee.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&itemid=2

http://www.samhartgraphics.com/bio.html


Media Integration @

Dan shares his impressions of the film “Food INC”
http://www.foodincmovie.com/

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 (207) 518-8827. This episode was recorded November 8, 2009.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Episode 83 ACTEM MainED 09: The Aftermath

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Show Notes
Dan and Jeff recap their experiences at ACTEM's MAINED 09 Conference http://www.actem.org

Check out the links mentioned in this weeks show
Mark Spahr's Cover It Live blog of the WDL workshop and the Google presentation link

Seedling's Geek of the Week Lunch links

Marco Torres's student project "The Power of One"


Check out Seedlings Geek of the Week Lunchtime Session on iTunes "Seedlings at Bit-By-Bit" Show 72.

Special Thanks to all of our workshop participants! Listen to the end of the show for your input.

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 by visiting our website. This episode was recorded October 25th, 2009.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Episode 82 The Road to ACTEM

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Episode 82- “Road to ACTEM”

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Dan and Jeff give a preview of ACTEM’s MainED ’09 conference. Check it out at

http://www.actem.org

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 October 12th, 2009.