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EdReach Show #18: Extra
This week’s EdReach Extra asks: How do we approach teachers with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) from a professional development standpoint? The post EdReach Show #18: Extra appeared...
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EdReach Show #19: Has the EdTech Bubble Already Burst?
Thanks so much Judi Epcke and Jay Blackman- this show digs deep into the attention (or lack thereof) that Silicon Valley has been paying to education. To start things off with our EdReach News Nuggets:...
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EdReach #19: Extra
This week’s EdReach Extra asks: What are some of our favorite tools that have died, or joined the dead pool? The post EdReach #19: Extra appeared first on EdReach.
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EdReach Show #20: The Chromebook Has Landed
That’s one giant leap for the cloud. Today the Chromebook was released, and though I was all ready to call it the second coming, my thoughtful contributors were ready to talk me down off of that...
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EdReach Show #21: Keep your hands off my E2T2 !
This week’s theme has us a little concerned over the EETT funding- possibly being cut from some new legislation being introduced in the House of Representatives. Jay Blackman offers some great insight...
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EdReach Show #22: Freemium Blend
This week brings us the debate over whether the “freemium” model of pricing Web 2.o tools and platforms is fair and reasonable. Also, with the recent tornadoes, we share a few teaching strategies and...
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EdReach Show #23: Arrive early and (B)ring (Y)our (O)wn (D)evice.
This week we summarize and add our two cents to the Bring Your Own Device conversation started by Judi Epcke and Scott Meech, and highlight some of the interesting comments that came up during those...
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EdReach Show #24: It Khan’t Be! An Alternative to Khan Academy?
This week’s show brings us more signs that Wikipedia is getting stronger and more relevant to today’s educators and higher educators. Also, we touch briefly on Apple’s iCloud, and the implications it...
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EdReach Special: The Flipped Classroom for Newbies
What is the Flipped Classroom? What is Khan Academy? Should we use these teaching tools and methods in our classrooms? EdReach is all about reaching out to innovative educators and highlighting the...
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EdReach Show #26: Our ISTE Preview!
Exciting! Scott, Judi, and Jay all join me to talk about getting into the ISTE van, and heading to Philly this week for the ISTE Conference. The big story at ISTE definitely seems like it will be...
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EdReach Show #27: We Plus One ISTE
ISTE has come and it has gone, but it was a grand time for all. Today’s show, besides, of course, talking about the possible education implications about Google Plus, we give our ISTE reflections, and...
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EdReach Show #29: 2001- A Reform Odyssey
Welcome back the the EdReach Show! We’ve been off for a couple weeks, so we’re coming back stronger. We’ve actually been spending time researching some video streaming options, so hopefully we’ll have...
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EdReach Show #30: Bloom’s Appsonomy
Blooms Taxonomy for Apps, Matt Damon, and the Social Network Police all make for interesting fodder for the EdReach Contributors this week. Make sure to listen to our One Thing to Share this Week –...
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EdReach Show #31: Will Nanobots Save Us From NCLB?
Textbooks come to the Web in a big way (Kindle), NCLB explained for dummies, and Arne Duncan says that states can have waivers for NCLB this year- with a catch. Make sure to listen to our One Thing...
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EdReach Show #32: It’s about (Steve) Jobs, People!
Well, how can we ignore the Steve Jobs news? We discuss the importance of Steve Jobs to education, as well as talk about Codecademy.com, and again- some wonderful Matt Damon/Arne Duncan news! Don’t...
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EdReach Show #33: Everyone Wants to Kno
This week on EdReach: Gmail and Apps goes offline, the Kno Textbooks App goes postal with college students, and the ERIAL project goes blue on Google Search. Make sure to check out our One Thing to...
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EdReach Show #34: Do Pencils Raise Test Scores?
This week on EdReach: Picking apart Remind101.com, a purportedly new “Twitter” for teachers, making the case for ditching paper textbooks, and that pesky NY Times article creeps back again into...
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EdReach Show #35: The Kindle Sets ‘Fire’ to the Old Library
This week on EdReach: The benefits of having social media helpers in the classroom, why education in Finland is so much better than America, the Kindle Fire helps us saying goodbye to the old library,...
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MacReach Show #25: Thank You Steve for Thinking Different
Thank you Steve for Thinking Different. Tonight’s show was focused on remembering a true visionary: Steve Jobs. This special edition of the MacReach Show looks to honor a creative genius who changed...
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EdReach Show #36: Education Gets Siri-ous
This week on EdReach: We begin to uncover the true educational potential with Siri in IOS5, as well as reflect on Steve Jobs death, now that we are much more removed from the date of his passing....
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EdReach Show #37: Google, Plus Apps!
This week on EdReach: The struggles with updating iPads, and the promises of a Google+ and Google Apps integration lead us to re-think the future of media and broadcasting. Show Host: Daniel Rezac...
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EdReach Show #38: Student Debt Kismet
This week on EdReach: Finally some student loan relief for college graduates- or are we just kicking the can down the road? Also- let’s talk about 1 to 1 computing just one more time. Show Host:...
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EdReach Show #39: To Consume or Produce? That is the Question.
This week on EdReach Show: Riffing off of an Apple Insider article via a Google Plus share from Esther Wojcicki about how schools are soon going to have more iPads than desktops, we react the the...
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EdReach Show #40: Digital Citizen Arrest
This week on EdReach Show: EdReach Show reaches a milestone 40 episodes, and becomes the longest running show on EdReach! This show brings us some great news from Wired.com about Creative Commons...
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EdReach Show #41: #Pencilchat Spat
This week on EdReach Show: Is #Pencilchat the hashtag that gives education its due? Does it evolve or devolve? Here we question whether this is the hashtag that gets those outside Twitter users...
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EdReach Show #42: No Ed-genda and Peppermint Tea
This week on EdReach Show: We turn off the agenda as we run up to the holiday/winter/Christmas/non-religious break. In our discussion of Youtube for Schools- Scott, Greg, and I share stories of kids...
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EdReach Show #43: ePub Rumors Abound!
This week on EdReach Show: We start our focus on Ed Media as we broach the article on the NY Times concerning Idaho’s plan to de-fund teacher salaries to purchase laptops. Second, rumors have it that...
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EdReach Show #44: Apple’s eTextbooks: What does it all mean?
This week on EdReach Show: We continue our new format as we introduce News Bits, thanks to our new Reddit account. It’s looking very likely like Apple will be talking about eTextbooks on January...
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EdReach Show #45: eTextbooks are Coming to Town!
This week on EdReach Show: We can’t contain our excitement for the big Apple education announcement tomorrow, and in the wake of that, we speculate how an eTextbook could transform teaching and...
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EdReach Specials: Conversation with Remind101’s Brett Kopf
EdReach Special: Had a great time learning about Remind101.com with Founder Brett Kopf. Remind101 is a group messaging service for teachers to safely get in contact directly with students and...
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EdReach Specials: Talking “Math Art” with Eli Luberoff of Desmos
EdReach Special: EdReach is happy to welcome back Eli Luberoff, Founder of Desmos.com, now that Desmos is growing so well in the education community. I got a chance to sit down with Eli and get a...
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EdReach Specials: Cisco Heads into the Flipped Classroom
EdReach Special: Do you know how important Cisco is to education? Well, many teachers don’t realize that Cisco is everywhere, however, it’s usually in the walls, in the school servers, and in the...
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EduNationCast Special: A Sit-in with Schoology
This week on the EduNationCast… Last week at ISTE, host Dan Rezac had a chance to sit down and talk to Jeremy Friedman , the Founder of Schoology, to talk about the platform and its exciting future in...
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The EdAdmin Minute 65: Inspiration Tuesday – It’s All In A State Of Mind
In today’s daily dose of The EdAdmin Minute I share the poem “It’s All In A State Of Mind” The post The EdAdmin Minute 65: Inspiration Tuesday – It’s All In A State Of Mind appeared first on EdReach.
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EdReach Show #7: Extra
This week’s EdReach Extra question: Is gaming important in Education?
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EdReach Show #8: What IS EduCon?
For Educators this week, the news really was EduCon, EduCon, and EduCon. What is EduCon, you ask? Well if you are a new teacher, or a veteran teacher looking for a different kind of education...
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EdReach Show #8: Extra
In this week’s EdReach Extra, we have a litte fun with “The EdReach Moment of Validation, as Alfie Kohn echoes our words from last week’s podcast, only with real data and much better articulation.
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EdReach Show #9: The Privacy Police
The EdReach contributors hash through the Facebook teacher firing fiasco, brought to you by the great state of Georgia! We also wade through Indiana’s controversial idea about hiring superintendents...
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EdReach Show #9: Extra!
This week’s EdReach Extra feeds off of the Facebook firing fiasco in Georgia: Should districts do more to educate teachers on social networking privacy and policy issues? See what the panel has to say!
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EdReach Show #10: PETEandC, METC, and TCEA- Oh my!
Wow! What a great show, made so much better by the presence of Jen Wagner. With Judi Epcke out this week, Jen graced us with some great insights on Twitter #hashtags, and shared a great new blog, Miss...
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EdReach Show #11: iPad Lust is Back!!!!
We’re back! We have some great reflections about the Illinois Computing Educators’ Conference, and Rushton Hurley’s nice contribution to that. It was also very hard to resist talking about the iPad 2...
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EdReach Show #12: Use “Penguins” as a Default
This week’s show brings us some very helpful search information via Judi Epcke and Sweetsearch.com. We take a look at the alternative to buying the iPad 2. In this case, we take on Jim Klein’s and Ben...
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EdReach Show #12 Extra: Revenge of the Interactive White Board
In this EdReach Show Extra, we ask: Why is there such vitriol surrounding the Interactive White Board?
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EdReach Show #13: The Tool of the Week!
Well, what a show! This week’s highlights: *Lots of talk about Google, Docs, and Education: Should we not trust Google? *Huffington Posts’ Education section suddenly gets harder to find. * We talk...
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EdReach Show #14: What a Rush(ton)!
Wow! Many thanks to Rushton Hurley for joining us this week! This show’s roundup includes: - Our discussion on the controversy over opting out of state tests. - Chris Lehmann’s thoughtful post on...
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EdReach Show #14 Extra: What is NextVista?
In this EdReach Show Extra, we talk to Rushton Hurley about Next Vista and ask: What is NextVista.org?
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EdReach Show #15: Yoga for Beginners
This week’s show focuses on the issue of test anxiety and the consequences that standardized testing can have on a child. News Watch: Earlier in the week, I interviewed Dr. Roxana Marachi of San Jose...
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EdReach Show #16: The Mobile Learning Express!
This week’s EdReach Show comes live straight from the Mobile Learning Conference in Arizona. EdReach Show contributor Judi Epcke reports and special guest Meg Wilson joins us from there as well. They...
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EdReach Show #17: The Legacy of the Flip
Another one of our beloved Education tools has died. This week’s show mourns the loss of the Flip, only to get excited about the many alternatives that already exist that will take its place. News...
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EdReach Show #18: Remember to FOSS
This show is dedicated to all things free- Free and Open Source Software that is. We welcome Phil Lacey, President of the Illinois Computing Educators (and FOSS guru) to share with us his favorite free...
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