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Barrett Tiger TV - Mogulus Live Broadcast

Every Thursday at 11:30AM EST the second grade students at Barrett Elementary present a live news and variety broadcast. You and your students are invited to watch and participate. If you have a class picture or a video you made that we can share on the air, please let our producer, Renee Shaw, know by emailing her at Renee_Shaw –at– apsva.us

Once you have seen the show, you can participate by contacting Ms. Shaw about creating and sending in one of these segments:

• Meet and Greet - students share their cowboy or cowgirl names (not real names)
• Around the campfire - students share their non-fiction writing and reading fluency
• How To Howdy do - students teach others how to do something
• Vocabulary Valley - students can share words they are learning to make their writing more interesting
• Guinea Pig Gulch - send in student writing or just an audio and we will have Ginny the Guinea Pig read it for you

Don’t worry about the grade level. All grades are welcome to join in the fun. Tune in every Thursday just to watch and feel free to have your class ask questions or answer our survey questions in the chat room.

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National Day of Listening

Jennifer Dorman is such a great resource for websites. I just got this from one of her recent bookmarks.

StoryCorps is declaring November 28 National Day of Listening.

In a nutshell it’s all about listening to other people tell their stories. No matter who you spend the holiday with everyone has a story. Take some time to capture their story before it is lost forever.

I remember growing up that I would spend most of the time in the kitchen with my mom and her sisters. They would tell the best stories about the time they had growing up. I wish they had made recording as easy as it is today. I would have our personal family stories to listen to over and over again. Family members would be able to listen to our own “Running with Scissors” story or “Down the Clothes Chute” story and even “The Never-Ending Stuffing the Turkey” story.

So don’t let those stories get away from you. It is too easy when you think about it. Use your computer or your phone or your mp3 device to get those stories this Thanksgiving and each one annually from now on.

They have Do It Yourself guides along with question generators. There is also a teachers’ toolkit and a library toolkit.

Some tools to use might include:

VoiceThread
Gabcast
Gcast

On my iPhone I have at least 3 different voicerecording apps that were free.

Do you know of any other ways that will make it easy to capture these stories? Let us know in the comments.

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“Inside the Lab” Podcast, a Discussion on Education in Second Life « Official Second Life Blog

This edition of the Inside The Lab podcast focused on education. Claudia Linden and Pathfinder Linden are interviewed. It is a very good presentation to educators that may ask “Why Second Life?”

Give it a listen or read the transcript.

It is my extreme pleasure to share that some of the members of the DEN in SL leadership council will be guests on the Women of Web 2.0 podcast tonight at 9PM EST. Please join us as we talk about the Discovery Educator Network. http://edtechtalk.com/WomenofWeb2.0

You can also head over to their web site and join the WOW2.0 community. http://www.womenofweb2.com/