Episode 21 - WIT Podcast

Streaming video has become very popular, but in schools there is a problems with the availability of video sites. Eric Hammerstrom has overcome that problem with the creation of a video streaming server for his district, Marquette Public Schools, Marquette, Michigan. Here is the website for MQtube.org - http://www.mqtube.org/

WIT Podcast - Episode 20

In this episode we interview Karl Zinn who brought his Pleo friends to the 2008 MACUL conference. You will learn what a Pleo is!

View a short video of the Pleos
Pleoworld - http://www.pleoworld.com/discover

WIT Podcast - Episode 19

This episode comes from the 2008 MACUL conference in Grand Rapids Michigan. In this episode we interview Jay Bennett who is a presenter on Internet Safety

WIT Podcast Episode #21

WIT Podcast Episode #18

Tom Owens, Student Services at GVSU also teaches a course to teaching certificate seeking students. In the Secondary Education course Tom is having his students use blogs to reflect on their learning.

WIT Podcast - Episode #17

Karyn King, professor of literacy studies at Grand Valley State University shares her use of Webquests and Pageflakes in her graduate level Literacy Course.

Here is the link to Russ's screencasts on Pageflakes that Karyn's students are using to help with the technical issues of using Pageflakes to publish their Webquests. The screencast is housed on http://www.sreencast.com/ a source for offsite storage.

WIT Podcast - Episode #16

We received our new XO computers just after semester break and explored their possibilties over the break. In our first podcast of the "08 year we talk about our first impressions.

We also interview students from the Sault Middle School in Sault St. Marie Michigan. The students participated in a "Virtual Summer Camp" which included online learning in Math and Science.

WIT podcast - Episode #15

A wrap up on the year, well perhaps the semester. What's changed in our classes this year -pageflakes, del.icio.us, and some of of our students podcasts on Webkins and One Laptop per Child.