Starcast

Starcast
October 29th, 2008 by ckennedy

Our first Star grant meeting/class was held yesterday. The plan was to have a round (rectangular) table discussion about education and technology (see full description below). We had three participants and produced a 20 minute audio file. For those of you interested look here.

There are several ways that this can be improved upon. First, a larger panel. I think somewhere around five might be an ideal number. More than that and someone might get lost, we had three and needed a bit more at times. Second, better panelist locations around the microphone. I suppose that ideally everyone would have their own microphone, but I want to keep this as simple as possible and right now would argue against anything other than what is built into my laptop. My thought there is that if I want to demonstrate how others can use this equipment I do not want to make the setup so elaborate that one is intimidated by the setup. Just the macbook, that is enough. Third, perhaps a more stimulating topic or maybe more directed. I have mixed feelings on the direction part. I would like the meeting to be somewhat free-flowing.

We hope to have a meeting in November. I’ll post the date here for interested parties.

And the sock puppets… I have a couple of characters made, and am working on myself. Hopefully before the end of November there will be an episode to look at.

Education & Technology: Where Are We Now?
Participants will discuss the relationship between education and technology as they see it now in our district. (More detailed topics/questions will be sent via email once the participants register.) The discussion will be audio recorded, converted into mp3 format, and posted on the internet for listening as a podcast later. Participants will not only engage in the conversation but will be shown how to record and post the file on the internet so others may listen in on the discussion. This could be used later in the teacher’s class for any number of student recordings and postings.