Our latest podcast is ready for your listening pleasure (same night as it was recorded – that may be a record for us). Heather Ross is back with us. Heather, Dean, Kyle Lichtenwald and I discussed … well, we discussed a whole bunch of stuff. It’s late at night and I’ve forgotten. Enjoy the show and feel free to leave any comments here or on the EdTech Posse web site. EdTech Posse podcast 5.4 – Grumpy old digital residents

I’ve been thinking about some improvements that I’d like to make during next year’s iteration of my online computer science classes. I’ve come up with a few ideas around course delivery that I think might help some of the students in the course (and also be full of geeky fun). Right now, the idea that I’m finding most interesting is the use of netbooks to deliver the course. In delivering the course, we’ve run into a few hurdles. None of these are insurmountable but I think that bypassing them might help out some of our students. Some of these hurdles are: bandwidth at rural schools (and homes). I’m pretty lucky to work in a place that has the bandwidth we have here. I would like to increase the amount of audio and video content in the course but students at … Continue reading »

One of my colleagues was asking the other day how her students could add her as a member of their private wikispaces so she would be able to view them. Here’s the quickie tutorial I recorded using Jing. I know it’s not a very long video or a complex task, but in the spirit of sharing everything I’ll put it up in case it will be of use to someone.