60-Second Education podcast
Posted by David Wees on Jan 21, 2010
Do you think teachers would download and listen to a 60 second podcast about education? We'd basically take short bite size pieces of ideas, and turn them into interesting audio clips that teachers could download and listen to in their short amounts of free time. Well, anyone who is interested in joining could participate, we all have some great ideas on how to make education better, we just need a wider audience.
If every teacher was in the same social network, or had the same preferences for how they received information, then I'd say "Let's all get on Twitter" and share our information that way. To be honest, I know this won't work because our colleagues are so different. We still need to reach our colleagues though and perhaps subscribing to a short podcast would be easier than learning a the mechanism for change that Twitter represents.
The podcasts could be great conversation starters for professional development for example. Any thoughts?
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About David
David is a mathematics teacher and a learning specialist for technology at Stratford Hall in Vancouver, BC. He has been teaching since 2002, and has worked in Brooklyn, London, and Bangkok before moving back to Canada. He has his Masters degree in Educational Technology from UBC, and is the co-author of a mathematics textbook. He has been published in ISTE's Leading and Learning, Educational Technology Solutions, The Software Developers Journal, The Bangkok Post and Edutopia. He blogs with the Cooperative Catalyst, and is the Assessment group facilitator for Edutopia. He has also helped organize the first Edcamp in Canada, and TEDxKIDS@BC.
Disclaimer: The ideas discussed on this blog are my own, and in no way represent those of my employer.
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60 second Ed
Neat idea. I've listened to a few 60 second science and 60 second psych podcasts and it's just long enough that if you're interested you can do more searching and if you're not interested you don't feel like you've wasted much time.
Arrgghh. should say "if
Arrgghh. should say "if you're interested". I typed too quickly and didn't proofread. Drat.
Fortunately I can edit your
Fortunately I can edit your comments... :)
Yeah so in order to get this
Yeah so in order to get this started, we'd have to get a team of educators together. I'll try and produce one of these for #Edchat on Twitter and we'll see if it's worth proceeding from there.
I'm finding it takes me about an hour to produce 1 minute of reasonable audio, but have also discovered that a microphone with built in noise reduction is really useful. I'm actually going to record these on my iPhone since it has an audio recording app with noise reduction.
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