For many of us Educon 2.1 lived up to its expectations! It was real, grassroots motivation. It was a time to keep connecting, keep challenging, keep on keeping on with changing our schools.
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History of the Internet - an animated documentary about how the basic technological foundations of the internet were invented.

What does writing afford that other media doesn’t? In other words, in a multimedia world why still write? Aren’t we moving toward a more oral and visual culture of communication?

This line of questioning feels like it is coming from the same place that an earlier—and on-going—set of questions was coming from. The earlier set of questions had to do with literature. What is it? Why do we still teach it? So I suppose that is one question, also: Why do we still teach writing? Or what is it now — when so many other forms of communication are available to us?

One way I’ve been thinking about this question of what a particular communication tool affords is to see how close to thought the products tend to be. PowerPoint, for example is a good propositional tool. It’s a good pulpit to preach from, it seems to me. When we coach students to make better power point presentations, we teach them how to be more clear about their main points, concise, single-voiced.

Writing on the other-hand is more multivoiced, meandering, conflicting, discursive… It dances around subjects. Allows more complex, confused thinking in.

Remember The Many Voices of Darfur that George Mayo and Wendy Drexler dreamed up at last year’s Educon?

We’ll be catching up with George and other teachers who are planning projects for this Spring this Wednesday on Teachers Teaching Teachers.

Others of us who will be using Youth Voices will be chatting about our plans as well. Join Alice Barr and Susan Ettenheim and Paul Allison… and more!

What are you planning? Can we join you?

Join us, and let’s start planning for a great Spring! (enough of Winter)

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We have a least three reasons for you to join us this week on Teachers Teaching Teachers. Join us, at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times.

1. Susan Ettenheim, Sarah Sutter, and Chris Sloan brought their digital photography classes together on Youth Voices. Susan and Sarah had their students share final projects recently. Join them as they talk about their work together from this semester, and where it might go in the future. — Digital Photography | Youth Voices
   
   
2. Jack Yu one of the founders of an SAT vocabulary video contest, Brainyflix — http://www.brainyflix.com/ will join us as well. We’ll ask him how he and other MIT alumni came up with this idea for using Internet tools to help young people with the SAT.
   
3. And since those of us working with sites like Brainyflix and Youth Voices are always dealing with issues of copyright and intellectual property, we’ve been interested in a new paper on this issue. We’ll be joined by Peter Jaszi, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law, American University. Professor Jaszi was one of the coordinators of the process that recently led to the publication of the “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for media Literacy Education — http://centerforsocialmedia.org/medialiteracy.

Please join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays World Times.