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Episode 128 I Say Good Day Sir

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Show Notes:

Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom.

Tech Talk: Dan shares technology links for the classroom.

http://www.arduino.cc/

http://steampunkworkshop.com/

http://www.adafruit.com/

http://www.ladyada.net/

Book Talk

Dan discusses the book "Turn and Jump: How Time and Place Fell Apart" by Howard Mansfield.

Media Integration

Jeff discusses the documentary film "Haze" by director Pete Schuermann.

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 April 18, 2011.

Episode 127 Look Who We Got!

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Jeff and Dan talk with Grace Kendall and Grady Burns, two of the organizers of the "Support Education" Rally at UMF.

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 April 4, 2011.

Episode 126 Goodness Gracious!

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Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom.

Tech Talk: Jeff Shares

http://www.thousandwordsproject.org/index.shtml

http://slidebomb.com/sbo_home.php

http://www.sophia.org/

Book Talk

Dan discusses the book "Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic" by Lauren Smith & Derek Fagerstrom

Media Integration

Dan discusses the PBS series "Circus"

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 March 27, 2011.

Episode 125 What's Going on in Augusta?

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Jeff and Dan talk with Jarrod Dumas, a Maine Social Studies teacher who went to the Appropriation Committee Hearing on proposed pension changes for teachers.

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 March 7, 2011.

Episode 124 Out on Good Behavior

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Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom.

Tech Talk:

http://www.texted.ca/

http://www.useapollo.com/

http://thinklinkr.com

Book Talk

Dan discusses the book The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul B. Janeczko

Media Integration

Dan discusses the videos available on Sophos Security Videos http://www.youtube.com/user/SophosLabs

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 February 7, 2011.

Episode 123 Having a Look at the Charts

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Dan and Jeff discuss charter schools with Judith Jones and Roger Brainerd of The Maine Association for Charter Schools.

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 January 30th, 2011.

Episode 122 Good Gravy!

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Show Notes:

Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom.

Tech Talk:

http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/teachers.jsp

Check out how it's used on their Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/yolinkVideos

http://www.khanacademy.org/

http://disqus.com/

Book Talk

Dan discusses the magazine Wired http://wired.com/

Media Integration

Dan discusses Babies the documentary

http://www.focusfeatures.com/babies

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 January 23, 2011.

Episode 121 Higher Ed. Hook Up

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Dan and Jeff Discuss Governor LePage's concept of the five year high school while partnering with Higher Education.

Links mentioned in the show:

http://www.pressherald.com/news/maine-inaugural-address-text-paul-lepage.html

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 January 17th, 2011.

Episode 120 It's Goodies Again!

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Show Notes:

Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom.

Tech Talk:

http://www.diigo.com

http://www.plum.com

http://www.figment.com

Book Talk

Dan discusses the comic Kill Shakespeare

http://www.killshakespeare.com

Media Integration

Dan discusses the film Restrepot

http://restrepothemovie.com/story/

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 January 9, 2011.

Episode 119 Who Charted?

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Jeff and Dan try to wrap their heads around the push for charter schools in Maine and get easily confused.

Links mentioned in the show:

http://www.uscharterschools.org/pub/uscs_docs/o/index.htm

http://www.mainecharterschools.org/default.htm

http://www.mssm.org/

Want to help build a resource? Click here to submit a statistic that proves schools are doing something right. http://goo.gl/j2pL8

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 19, 2010.

Episode 118 Yeah, That's the Title!

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Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom.

Tech Talk:

Join the fight to stand up for schools on Facebook.

Our Schools Don't Suck

Google Advanced Search adds a reading level sort

Hulu.com adds the ability to link to specific parts of the video and even lets you embed them. Thanks to Richard Byrne for that.

Check out "The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators" Free e-book.

Book Talk

Dan discusses the book "Cognitive Surplus" by Clay Shirky.

Media Integration

Dan tell us about "American Pickers" TV show.

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 13, 2010.

Episode 117 Classroots Campaign

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Jeff gets all fired up to start a "Our Schools Don't Suck" movement and Dan makes sure he doesn't chicken out.

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 14, 2010.

Episode 116 A Good Pair of Shoes?

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Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom but this time on TalkShoe's Live format.

Tech Talk:

http://rome.adobe.com/education/index.html

Project Rome from Adobe

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=87583728-ef14-4703-a649-0fd34bd19d13 "Own Your Space--Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online" Digital Book for Teens by Linda McCarthy

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/pr/ Internet Projects Registry

Book Talk

Dan discusses the comic "Fraggle Rock Volume: 1"

Media Integration

Dan tell us about the John Legend's Album "Wake Up"

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 October 31, 2010.

Episode 115 The State of Our State

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Jeff and Dan discuss the State of their own classrooms this year.

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 October 30th 2010.

Episode 114 Hey Good Lookin, What ya got cookin?

Show Notes:

Jeff and Dan deliver on your free tech, book and media for the classroom.

Tech Talk

http://mcaf.ee/ Shorten a URL with a more secure service.

http://infinitelearninglab.org/ Professor Garfield teaches internet safety to kids.

http://wordnik.com/ A unique online reference source for words.

http://spezify.com/ A visual search that you have to see to believe.

Book Talk
Dan discusses the book "Born to Run" by Chris McDougall check it out at his blog.

http://chrismcdougall.com/blog/

Media Integration

Dan tell us about the Youtube collection from the RSA (Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce). www.thersa.org

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 October 24, 2010.

ACTEM 2010 ampersand

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Dan and Jeff discuss ACTEM's MainEd 10 Conference among other things.

Bob Sprankle's blogged and podcasted interviews with TED X Redmond Speakers and Audience. A whole conference organized by kids ages 10-16.

Vicki Davis's presentation on "Differentiating Instruction With Technology"

Resources from Jim Moulton's "Challenge-based Learning" session (PDF)

Richard Byrne, runner up for ACTEM's 2010 Educator of the Year, presented on "Best of the Web 2010" and shared a great YouTube video. Check out Alfie Kohn vs. Dwight Schrute from "The Office"

Seedling's Geek of the Week from ACTEM 2010. Podcast and Links.

Episode 112 We've got a PR Problem

Jeff and Dan discuss the http://www.educationnation.com debate and ask "What do we do about our PR problem in education?"

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 September 27th 2010.

Episode 111 “It's All Good”

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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 a link for each of his courses he teaches.

http://www.shapeways.com/

http://scenariosusa.org/index.html

http://my.hsj.org/

Book Talk

Dan discusses a graduation speech from “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace.

Media Integration

Dan discusses Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

http://www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com/

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 September 12^th 2010.

Episode 110 The Grind: The Return

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Jeff and Dan discuss going back to school.

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 August 25, 2010.