Terry Freedman's Educational Technology Podcast

The trouble with Skype is that you just cannot get any work done, what with friends popping up all day and night. Still, it has its compensations. Last night Elaine and I had a great chat with Shawn Wheeler. We chatted about our house and where we live, and then I waxed lyrical about the forthcoming 2nd edition of the Coming of Age book. It is going to be published, I promise!

Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web, came out just over a year ago and was intended to help teachers who had heard about Web 2.0 stuff (blogging and all that) to dip their toe in the water. That edition consisted of about a dozen contributors and was downloaded at least 60,000 times (I stopped keeping track after that) and almost won an award. The 2nd edition is much expanded, and I give some details in this podcast.

If you missed the first edition, it's still available, it's still free, and it's still here: http://www.ictineducation.org/db/web2

If you'd like to keep up with the developments on this new edition, and maybe even read some previews, then join the Coming of Age community at http://comingofage.ning.com.

And if you're visiting NECC next week, then do stop by the Coming of Age poster session, where you'll be able to say "Hi" to Peggy George and myself, leave your business card or sign up to be sent more information, and say how much you loved the first edition by speaking into a microphone and contributing to a podcast .

There's also a Birds-of-a-feather session where you can say how you'd like the project to develop. I've already had some great ideas presented to me, and I myself am busy planning the next iteration (I must be a masochist!).

My original idea was to do a poster session about the development of Coming of Age, but to be honest that's a book in itself. I think it best to chat to people face to face until I write that book.

Here are the details:

Poster session:

Freedman, Terry: 'The Coming of Age Web 2.0 Book: Idea To Implementation' in Galleria (Posters) at 9:00 on Monday
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Birds of a feather session:

Hargadon, Steve: 'Free, Open Source, and Web 2.0 Software for the Classroom' in B308 at 16:45 on Tuesday
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The jingle at the beginning of this podcast was created for me by Matt Adams through my association with the staff and students of The John Hanson Community School and its wonderful Hanson Radio http://www.hansonradio.co.uk/.

The music after the introduction and at the end is Simple Soulman by The Groovebusters. The music is under a Creative Commons licence. Hear the band at:
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSkYFexYGE

Anyway, here's the podcast: http://www.ictineducation.org/podcast_files/chat_with_shawn_wheeler.mp3

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