Best Rich Weller Podcasts (2024)

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Childhood Books and Adventures in Imagination 59:26

6d ago59:26

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Send us a text In this episode of our podcast, we’re diving into the childhood books that shaped us, from Winnie the Pooh to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume. 🐻📚 We disuss how our perspectives have changed from reading these stories as kids to understanding their deeper meanings as adults. The imagination & adventures we loved, the life …

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Saturday Morning Cereals 59:47

1M ago59:47

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Send us a text Remember the days of Saturday morning cartoons and sugary goodness straight out of the box? We’re talking about the classics that shaped our childhood—whether you were Team Frosted Flakes or Team Count Chocula. The prizes, the mascots, and, of course, the sugar rushes! Tune in and relive those bowlfuls of nostalgia with us. What was …

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Saturday Morning Cartoons - 70s 80s, and a peak at a few obscure ones 56:57

2M ago56:57

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Send us a text Join in on our conversation about Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 70s and 80s, a beloved tradition where we eagerly gathered in front of the TV for a colorful lineup of animated adventures. From classic superheroes to fantastical creatures, these shows offered an escape into our imaginations. The era was marked by iconic series li…

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Our Pixelated 70s and 80s - Video Games 1:04:21

3M ago1:04:21

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Send us a text Get ready to power up your nostalgia engines! 🚀🎮 Join us on our latest podcast episode as we dive into our memories of the pixelated past of the 70s and 80s video game revolution! From the beginning of Magnavox Odyssey and Pong to the pixel-perfect adventures of Ms Pac-Man, we’ll explore the games that started it all and the money we…

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Platform Panache: Bell Bottoms - Leisure Suites and Fashion 49:26

4M ago49:26

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Send us a text Step back into the groovy 1970s with our latest Platform Panache episode! Dive into the iconic fashion of bell bottoms, leisure suits, and hair fashions. Relive the nostalgia, Aqua Net, big hair, perms, the shoes and listen to our memories of what we wore. Jay can be found on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/JayWForeman Rich is …

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Poltergeist and Losing a Bet - Missed Opportunity 49:17

5M ago49:17

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Send us a text In this episode, Jay recounts his missed opportunity after watching 'Poltergeist', a $100 bet, bad horror movies of the 80s, big wheels, roller skating, toys and highlights from the 70s, and a lot of nonsense. Jay can be found on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/JayWForeman Rich is a Digital Creator and can be found at: https://…

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Accomplishing the Unthinkable without Thinking 36:03

7M ago36:03

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Send us a text Listen as Jay and Rich discuss when Rich was 5 years old. He mastered riding his bike independently, simply reveling in the joys of childhood. He achieved success without fixating on the outcome or possible challenges. Sometimes, our minds can impede our progress by planting seeds of doubt without us even realizing it. We're just a c…

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E11 Sarah Makris, career success coach 1:14:21

7M ago1:14:21

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Sarah Makris We go back in time to 1997 when our guest, Sarah Makris, turned 21. Sarah reflects on her career journey, her drive, and determination. We discuss understanding your brand and the importance of simple, clear communication. Sarah steps back and looks at the contrasts between corporate l…

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Be Brave Enough to Suck at Something New 45:03

7M ago45:03

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Send us a text Just a couple of dudes chatting about the past, reminiscing about the 70s and 80s, sharing stories about how we handled things back then and reflecting on the mindset we had during those times. We are both moderately successful individuals who have a long 30-year friendship, and… being brave enough to suck at something new like start…

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E10: John Bucchino, composer, songwriter, performer 2:12:37

8M ago2:12:37

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest John Bucchino We go back in time to 1972 when our guest, John Bucchino, turned 21, and look at his trip back to the East Coast from California. John reflects on his earliest musical influences and how he began songwriting. We talk about how John's composing evolved, and the importance of humility a…

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E9: Garry Pearson OAM, teacher, association CEO, mentor 1:12:36

8M ago1:12:36

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Garry Pearson OAM We go back in time to 1973 when our guest, Garry Pearson, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Garry reflects on his experiences commencing as a teacher and then moving into executive roles. We talk about how Garry's leadership styl…

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E8: Craig Norenbergs - journalist, manager, and sports fan 1:31:01

1+ y ago1:31:01

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Craig Norenbergs We go back in time to 1989 when our guest, Craig Norenbergs, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Craig reflects on his experiences growing up in Canberra. We talk about how Craig's leadership style has evolved, and the importance of…

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E7: Michael Manthorpe PSM - former senior Australian Public Servant 42:25

1+ y ago42:25

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Michael Manthorpe PSM We go back in time to 1984, when our guest, Michael Manthorpe, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Michael reflects on his experiences growing up in Queensland, and how then he eventually joined the Australian Public Service. W…

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E6: Russell Dixon - entertainer, director, leadership coach 1:03:10

1+ y ago1:03:10

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Russell Dixon. We go back in time to 1996, when our guest, Russell Dixon, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Russell reflects on his experiences growing up in Dunedin, New Zealand, and then he eventually got involved in the world of entertainment. …

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E5: Katherine Rich - former politician, association CEO, and roller-skater 51:02

2y ago51:02

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Katherine Rich. We go back in time to 1988, when our guest, Katherine Rich, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Katherine reflects on her experiences growing up in Dunedin, New Zealand, and then how she eventually got involved in politics. We talk a…

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E4: Doug Weller - saddler, chef, foreign correspondent 1:15:22

2+ y ago1:15:22

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Doug Weller. We go back in time to 1977, when our guest, Doug Weller, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Doug reflects on his experiences growing up in Queensland, and how he took some chances that came his way and ended up in regional radio. We ta…

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Thank you @OpenEdGlobal for the #OEAward2021 for the @YearsEd Project! 6:36

3y ago6:36

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A huge thank you to the OE Global community for awarding our project a 2021 Open Education Award of Excellence for Reuse/ Remix/ Adaptation. for the 25 Years of EdTech: The Serialized Audio Version. From the OE Global Awards team: The award was given to the project in the “Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation” category and, according to the adjudicators, th…

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E3: Darcy Milne - radio and podcast whiz 1:22:38

3y ago1:22:38

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Darcy Milne. We go back in time to 2015, when our guest, Darcy Milne, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Darcy talks about his career on and off-air, and how he cut a deal with his school principal that saw him eventually work on one of Australia's…

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E2: Hacia Atherton - empowering women in trades 51:20

3y ago51:20

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Hacia Atherton. We go back in time to 2009, when our guest, Hacia Atherton, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Hacia talks about how her life was framed by her passion for horses, and how an accident changed her view of the world - and herself - in…

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E1: Stuart Wenn - finance executive and AFL umpire 1:01:02

3+ y ago1:01:02

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In this episode of Dear 21-Year-Old Me, with guest Stuart Wenn. We go back in time to 1990, when our guest, Stuart Wenn, turned 21, and look at what was happening in the world, and closer to home back then. Stuart talks about his career on and off-field, and what it took to be at top of his 'game' - an Australian Football League field umpire - and …

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Between the Chapters: Retrospective - THE END! 28:34

3+ y ago28:34

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This 25 Years of Ed Tech Audio Project has been a blast! Thanks to all of the community: Readers of the chapters Guests for the "Between the Chapters" book club episodes The community of listeners Martin Weller -- who let us remix his book! We appreciate ALL of you and are grateful for your contributions in this @YearsEd audiobook project. Thanks y…

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Conclusions: Reclaiming Ed Tech 21:47

3+ y ago21:47

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Having surveyed one particular take on 25 years of ed tech, it is now possible to synthesize some generalities. In this chapter, several themes arising from the analysis of this history will be proposed, and then some suggestions regarding what this means for the next 25 years of ed tech will be proffered. Read by Martin Weller.…

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Between the Chapters #25: searching for the commons in the wasteland with @savasavasava & @audreywatters 49:36

3+ y ago49:36

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For Between the Chapters episode, Laura is in conversation with Audrey Watters and sava saheli singh to navigate these troubling waters of educational technology. This episode swirls around the ed tech’s dystopian storm from Chapter 25; however, we all agreed there are many dark aspects from previous chapters and years prior to hit the fever pitch …

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Chapter 25: 2018 Ed Tech's Dystopian Turn 19:33

3+ y ago19:33

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For this final year of the 25, a trend rather than a technology is the focus. There is in much of ed tech a growing divide, particularly in evidence at conferences. One camp is largely uncritical, seeing ed tech as a sort of Silicon Valley-inspired, technological utopia that will cure all of education’s problems. This is often a reflection-free zon…

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Between the Chapters #24: beyond the blockchain buzz with @dkernohan 40:03

3+ y ago40:03

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For this Between the Chapter episode, Laura chats with David Kernohan about the blockchain and other odd things happening around the year 2017: Chapter 24. This episode will not explain what the blockchain is, but take a broad perspective about the times, questioning trust, and changing of systems. Spoiler Alert: We don’t want to crush your hopes a…

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BONUS: #OERxDomains21 Panel: OER & the @YearsEd Project 24:16

3+ y ago24:16

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In contemporary journalism, if a news story is described as “having legs” it means it has the ability to evolve and remain relevant over a long period of time to a wide community. This concept of “having legs” can also be applied to the creation of OER as there is an embedded assumption by the creator of a work that, by assigning an open license to…

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Chapter 24: 2017 Blockchain 19:25

3+ y ago19:25

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Of all the technologies covered in this book, blockchain is perhaps the most perplexing, both in how it works and in terms of its purpose in education. I include it because it received a lot of attention, but also because it is indicative of the type of hype that surrounds a new technology that does not seem to address a clear need. Read by Carolin…

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Between the Chapters #23 looking in the black box of A.I. with @hypervisible 43:05

3+ y ago43:05

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In this episode of Between the Chapters, Laura chats with Chris Gilliard about artificial intelligence (A.I.) in educational technology from Chapter 23 of Martin’s book. If you don’t follow the prolific Twitter account of @hybervisible -- you should. He’s been railing against the broad, sweeping claims ed tech vendors make about A.I. and outcomes o…

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Chapter 23: 2016 The Return of Artificial Intelliegence 12:44

3+ y ago12:44

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is an interesting case study in ed tech, combining several themes that have already arisen in this book: promise versus reality, the cyclical nature of ed tech, and the increasingly thorny ethical issues raised by its application. Read by Maha Bali. Read the chapter and see a list of all the book references on the Athab…

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Between the Chapters #22 open credentials & digital badges with @catspyjamasnz 38:20

3+ y ago38:20

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For this Between the Chapters episode, Laura chats with Joyce Seitzinger about all things badged connected to Chapter 22: Digital Badges. In reflecting back to 2015, we have much to say about microcredential, open badges, and what it means to get digital street cred based on a certificate, credential, course, or training. We share how we have been …

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Chapter 22: 2015 Digital Badges 11:26

3+ y ago11:26

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Digital badges are a good example of how ed tech evolves when several other technologies, such as those that we have seen in this book, make the environment favourable for their implementation. Badges allow for a more fine-grained representation of skills and experience gained in formal education than a degree classification. In this, they are an e…

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Between the Chapters #21 analyzing the metrics & data in learning with @ammienoot & @dgasevic 47:31

3+ y ago47:31

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For Between the Chapters episode for Chapter #21 (2014), Laura is joined by Anne-Marie Scott and Dragan Gašević to talk about learning analytics (LA). This conversation outlines a definition of LA, in terms of higher education -- for practice, within products in ed tech, for online learning/teaching, and evidence-based research. There are so many i…

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Chapter 21: 2014 Learning Analytics 15:51

3+ y ago15:51

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Data, data, data. It’s the new oil and the new driver of capitalism, war, and politics, so inevitably its role in education would come to the fore. Interest in analytics is driven by the increased amount of time that students spend in online learning environments, particularly LMS and MOOC, but also the increased data available across a university,…

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Between the Chapters #20 opening up a textbook & more access to learning with @acoolidge 41:24

3+ y ago41:24

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In this episode of @YearsEd Between the Chapters, Laura chats with Amanda Coolidge about open educational resources (OERs) and the open textbooks. Listen to this book club chat about Chapter 20 (2013): Open Textbooks as we talk about localization of OERs for all teaching and learning classrooms around the world. It’s more than just digital or a pla…

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Chapter 20: 2013 Open Textbooks 12:57

3+ y ago12:57

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If MOOC were the glamorous side of open education, claiming all the headlines and sweeping predictions, then open textbooks were the practical, even dowdy, application. An extension of the OER movement, and particularly pertinent in the United States and Canada, open textbooks provided openly licensed versions of bespoke written textbooks, with the…

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Between the Chapters #19 more about MOOCs with @sukainaw, @davecormier & @RMoeJo 56:34

3+ y ago56:34

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For this episode of @YearsEd Between the Chapters, Laura chats about almost everything related to the acronym MOOC: Massive Open Online Course with Sukaina Walji, Dave Cormier, and Rolin Moe. We dive into The Year of the MOOC (2012) and Chapter 19 of Martin’s book to share how we stumbled upon MOOCs in our work, research, teaching, and learning lif…

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Chapter 19: 2012 MOOC 19:12

3+ y ago19:12

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Inevitably, the selection for 2012 is massive open online courses, or MOOC, with The New York Times declaring it “the year of the MOOC” (Pappano, 2012). We have looked at the roots of MOOC in the explorations of connectivist approaches, but more broadly the MOOC phenomenon can be viewed as the combination of several preceding technologies: some of …

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Between the Chapters #18 @vconnecting with @rjhogue, @bali_maha, @autumm, @friedelitis & @hj_dewaard 51:23

3+ y ago51:23

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In this Between the Chapters episode, Laura talks to the co-directors of Virtually Connecting -- Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, Helen DeWaard, Christian Friedrich, and Rebecca Hogue about all the things related to networked learning. This group unpacks the differences between personal learning environments (PLEs) and personal learning networks (PLNs), t…

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Chapter 18: 2011 Personal Learning Environments 12:52

3+ y ago12:52

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Personal Learning Environments (PLE) were an outcome of the proliferation of services that suddenly became available following the Web 2.0 boom, combined with the thinking around distributed learning that we looked at in the previous chapter. Learners and educators began to gather a set of tools to realize a number of functions. The collection of t…

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Between the Chapters #17 connecting the dots to connectivism with @tanbob 33:09

3+ y ago33:09

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For this Between the Chapters, Laura connects the dots to all things connectivism with Tanis Morgan. In reflecting on how Connectivism (Chapter 17) showed up in 2010, they reflect on the disconnects and missed opportunities, plus what it means to deal with a “pedagogy of abundance” today. This mega theory/framework/ideology/whatever you want to cal…

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Chapter 17: 2010 Connectivism 15:55

3+ y ago15:55

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As we saw earlier, the initial enthusiasm for e-learning led to several pedagogies being resurrected or adopted to meet the new potential of the digital, networked context. Constructivism, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning all saw renewed interest as educators sought to harness the possibility of abundant content and networked lea…

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Between the Chapters #16 being in community on Twitter & social media with @suebecks & @chrissinerantzi 51:14

3+ y ago51:14

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For this Between the Chapters, Laura welcomes Sue Beckingham and Chrissi Nerantzi to talk about all things related to Twitter and Social Media from Chapter 16. Reflecting back to our use of the mediums to be social and talk with educators, learners, researchers, and more -- we see how these public, open spaces have changed and challenged us over th…

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Chapter 16: 2009 Twitter and Social Media 18:27

3+ y ago18:27

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If the Learning Management System (LMS) represents the dominant educational technology, then Twitter is the behemoth of third-party tech that has been adopted in education. There’s too much that can be said about Twitter to do the subject justice in a short chapter, and most people will have their own views on its role in education, but it would be…

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Between the Chapters #15 curating e-portfolios with @orna_farrell & @drdavidwicks 55:42

3+ y ago55:42

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In this episode of Between the Chapters of @YearsEd, Laura dives deep into the land of e-portfolios with Orna Farrell and David Wicks. We chat about sharing standards/competencies, reflecting on learning, and thinking about how to share practical inquiries in portfolio format for the topics of 2008 & Chapter 15: E-Portfolios. We define what e-portf…

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Chapter 15: 2008 E-Portfolios 12:27

3+ y ago12:27

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E-portfolios provide a digital means of gathering together a range of outputs, assessments, and resources for a student. The argument for e-portfolios is a compelling one — they provide a place to store all the evidence a learner gathers to exhibit learning, both formal and informal, in order to support lifelong learning and career development. It …

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Between the Chapters #14 getting a Second Life & Virtual World living with @janesaid6 & @grantpotter 51:59

3+ y ago51:59

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In this episode of Between the Chapters of @YearsEd, Laura talks to Sarah Frick and Grant Potter about Second Life, Virtual Words, role-playing and more! In reflecting back to 2007 in Chapter 14, we talk about how these virtual spaces impacted our working, teaching, learning, and personal lives. This chapter pokes at ways we can play, create, and e…

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Chapter 14: 2007 Second Life 9:25

3+ y ago9:25

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While Virtual Worlds had been around for a number of years, 2007 marked a peak in interest by educators to the environments and, specifically, Second Life. While much of the experimentation in education within Second Life often failed to do more than recreate existing structures and pedagogies that occurred in the "real world", Second Life has pave…

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Between the Chapters #13 connecting to Web 2.0 past with @alexpickett & @BryanAlexander 38:32

3+ y ago38:32

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For this Between the Chapters episode, Laura welcomes Bryan Alexander and Alexandra Pickett to discuss Chapter 13 (2006) web 2.0 and all the user-generated experiences this technology brought for teaching, learning, and more! We talk about the experimentation days of Web 2.0, the connections we made to peers, and the challenges we’re seeing over a …

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Chapter 13: 2006 Web 2.0 14:48

4y ago14:48

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In 2006, the hype about Web 2.0 reaches a fever pitch. Everything was suddenly "2.0" to indicate a new and improved version. Ed Tech and higher education were not immune, with 2.0 things becoming so ubiquitous that the term soon became irrelevant and a joke. So, for something that has become something of a joke, what lessons can educators take away…

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BONUS: Meta Pod with @laurapasquini, @edtechfactotum, & @mweller 28:12

4y ago28:12

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In this bonus episode of “Between the Chapters” Martin, Clint, and Laura take a pause to get meta -- it’s a podcast about the podcast. We share about our audio labour of love, specifically as we discover what it means to augment text to audio and how to share an aural history of ed tech through these episodic personal/professional reflections. Inno…

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