Podcasting education at NECC

The second day of NECC, we made sure to register and got our lanyards/name tags. We added ribbons, including Newcomer and International. They were out of Presenter ribbons, but I did get an international one because the group claimed I was interational to them. We went to the panel of educators who had been on the internet for ten plus years. I posted links from this discussion which was very exciting to hear and learn bits and pieces about, but I did not receive enough information to state any viewpoints.

It was at this panel that we were invited out to a nine course Chinese meal for dinner with a very large group. We were a bit late from spending time preparing for our presentation, which was hard to start on having just met each other and not remembering/knowing exactly what we wanted to say. Still we made it to this dinner, which was way too much food for any of us to finish, but a great many things for us to experience new and several interesting people to meet. There was one teacher who had been in the field so long he had amazing stories about all over the world to tell, his wife had been a Peace Corps volunteer years ago which I was excited to hear about, Lisa Jobson from an exciting organization iEARN was there, and Patsy Wang-Iverson of Research for Better Schools was the main organizer. After Mike, Jennifer and Luke left for their Microsoft grant reception, Dima, Cherrie, Shraddha and I headed over to the Marriott to catch the end of the Student Film Festival. We found, however, that all the films had been shown and all that was left was discussion. Patsy, however, was there and invited us into a very long line to see a presentation on Podcasting.

This presentation I had wanted to go to, but didn't want to force any of the other students to join me on something boring to them, but lucky for me, this session was huge and very popular. There was food and drinks, the room was pack, and they had to do the session a second time after we got to see it. It was excellent to get to see a group of avid podcasters and researchers explain the basics of podcasting and introduce iTunes 4.9 which makes Podcasting more easily available to everyone.

Tonight I have spent some time listening to some education podcasts from both NECC and others, such as Bud the Teacher and Teach42, and would highly suggest others to go check it out with iTunes 4.9, or even more avidly through a search online (such as on Podcast Alley) for there still are many Podcasts out there that have not made it to iTunes. I'm addicted; you should become addicted too!


After the podcasting presentation, here we (Dima, me and Shraddha) sit waiting for the TIG employees to return from their receiving of a Microsoft grant to support TIGed work to get programs into the classroom.