2004 – Podcasting “invented” (according to Wikipedia… remember Adam Curry?).

2005 – The New Oxford American Dictionary names “podcast” as word of the year.

2005 – K12 Handhelds hosts their first podcasting workshops.

2007 – First generation iPhone introduced.

2007-2009 – K12 Handhelds produces and publishes Mashups podcast (and does lots and lots of podcasting workshops).

2010-ish (?) – K12 Handhelds does their last podcasting workshops. (Around this same time, someone brings a “podcasting is dead” article headline to one of my sessions.)

2014 – Serial podcast is produced. Podcasting surges in popularity.

2017 – Podcasts are bigger than ever (though people still don’t know exactly what one is and use the term incorrectly).

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It has all the features I look for in a good MP3 player for schools: rechargeable battery, built-in recorder, low cost, and a display. It also has a few new things (for Sandisk) such as a clip and a standard mini-USB connector. And it’s super small, and I like small!

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It doesn’t cost anything.
It isn’t a commitment.
It’s easy to cancel.
It’s just an easy way to get stuff delivered to your hard drive automatically.

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There is a free curriculum unit on African American history available from K12 Handhelds. It includes an interactive ebook, a virtual field trip, and more.

Also, my mashup this month features audio from black history, as well as some great music. Give it a listen, and make sure to check out the free offer for a lucky listener on the site.

Also, on the mashup page is a list of multimedia resources you can use in your own classroom. Many of these are open, sharable resources that you can use with students to create your own mashups or other multimedia projects.

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This year, I’ll be facilitating 3-hour workshops on audio and video podcasting. Participants will receive a recording headset and a podcasting CD as a part of the workshop.

I’ll also be doing a workshop called “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction.” This is a new workshop that I’m really excited about. Bring your own laptop and mobile device to participate. It’s also available as a free open wiki if you’d like to do it on your own or with a group at your school or district.

I’m presenting several sessions in Seattle. The one I’m most excited about is called “Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All.” This session is about the big world of open source tools and content. Pretty cool stuff and I’ll share a lot of resources that you may not know about.

See you in Seattle!

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The contest is open to students ages 11-18, and entries are due January 4. Visit their web site for all the details.

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Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction [Google Docs]
(See also the workshop wiki for this here.*)

Podcasting: What You Need to Get Started [Google Docs]

Using and Creating Mobile Video for the Classroom [SlideShare]

Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All* [in a wiki; no slide sharing needed :)]

* Licensed under Creative Commons. Feel free to use any way you like.
Other materials are under all rights reserved copyright; email me if you’d like to use them in a way other than showing them online as they are here.

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I’ve structured this in a wiki, and it is intended to be used for either a face-to-face workshop or as an online self-guided learning experience.

This is licensed under a CC BY SA license, so you are free to use it for your own purposes as well.

This is my first attempt at using a wiki to facilitate both a F2F workshop and a self-guided experience. If you go through it, let me know what you think.

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In my on-going quest to differentiate instruction for teachers as a part of workshops I do, I’ve been experimenting with using blogs and wikis as PD tools.

The latest installment in this is a hands on workshop on using mobile technology to differentiate instruction (coincidentally) that I am outlining in a wiki. I’m hoping that this wiki will also be able to be used as a self-study tool for those who aren’t at the workshop (or for those who attend and want a refresher or more in-depth learning later on).

Here’s a preview of a section on using ebooks.

We’ll be using this at my “HANDS ON: Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction” at NCETC on Mon., Nov. 26. If you’ll be there, I’m really looking forward to this. (This is a bring-your-own-laptop-and-mobile-device workshop. Contact me for more info.)

If not, stay tuned for the final version of this. I’ll post a note when it’s done (or as near to done as wikis get :).

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