SpaceCast Episode #5 is edited and ready to go. This is our first live event for our middle school elgg students (personallearningspace.com) this school year. After being recorded live on air, I had to edit some choice items but it is still entertaining.
Last year, I had to ask others to broadcast for me since I could not get the firewalls open at school. That problem is now solved and I am able to handle the details. I still must work on getting the chat room to work for me and kids. Paul Allison and I joined Madeline Brownstone for a nice student cast session.
Just as we learn the ins and outs of social networking, so do our students and therein lies the reason for my editing a little of the audio. We will be discussing plans for this friday's SpaceCast tonight on Teachers Teaching Teachers so we can be better guides for out students. See you next week (Friday at 10:30am EST). (Click here to subscribe to SpaceCast)
Comments
Minor Corrections
Lee,
First of all, thanks for Skyping my class in on the first Spacecast of the year. I'm sorry, I thought we were just testing the connections. Did not realize we were L I V E. Indeed, my children were lively. :-) Partially because we were not clear about the format (sorry), and also the conditions. It was luch time (need I say more?). We had one iBook on a high window sill. Speakers blasting into the room and students standing up to the iBook blasting into the wee hole in the side of the screen that servs as a mic.
Corrections: We are not from Montreal. We are 8th graders from BSGE (The Baccalaureate School for Global Education) in Astoria, a small community in Queens, New York. We cut out at 11 a.m. to not only attend to hurt feelings, but also, to go to class. Timing is everyting. I see it as a teaching moment and a number of issues. Listening before talking. Being mindful of differences. Being kind. Taking it slow until relationships and mutual understandings develop.
Madeline
Thanks!
Hi Madeline, I am so glad to have you join us for the webcast. I loved your kids. They seem wonderful and I really missed them last friday. They are so quick and witty. I certainly did not mind them being lively. You all sounded great considering the conditions you had to work with. The quality was no problem. You should hear some our quality from last year. We will zero in on all these things as we go. Its important that we allow the kids to get comfortable and that was a good first step. This week, our students spent quite a bit of time talking about being kind and about the things that were the same and different about each of our classes.
The days leading up to our first webcast were very hectic for Paul and for us with our class curriculum and testing. I have class every minute during the day except for our lunchtime so not being able to talk to you about the situation was my fault entirely. Sorry for the lack of communication about being on air. You know, Madeline, I have listened to the webcast a few times and have thoroughly enjoyed hearing it each time. There is a kind of magic to the dynamics of children (or should I say young adults!)
Well, thanks again. I will look for you online.
Lee
P.S. I really do know you are from NY! I posted this late at night and had written something about Sharon in Montreal then took it out but missed the "from Montreal" Thanks for pointing it out. I have edited it now.