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What I Did This School Year
The discussion will be audio recorded, converted into mp3 format, and posted on the internet for listening as a podcast later. Come and share how you used technology this year in the classroom. Let us know if it went well, or share your horror story. We’ll discuss how it could have been better, or worse. Feel free to bring products of the lesson to share. If you have a digital copy of the lesson bring that along also and we can post the file on our Starcast page.

Here is the mp3 file from the April 22 Star grant meeting.  23.6 MB (25 minutes 50 seconds)

Cell phones in Learning 
Cell phones have the capability to become the "Swiss army knife" for student research and organization. First, we explore using cell phones as data collection tools: audio recorders, digital cameras, and digital camcorders. Additionally, we consider how classroom projects can be developed for cell phones: creating ring tones, text messaging, mobile WebPages, and mobile surveys. Finally, we contemplate the future features of cell phones and how those features play a role in learning.

Technological Musings
There’s some line that I’m not literate enough to quote about the best laid plans of men, so I will not try. Our topic today wound up being “technological musings.”

There were only three of us present and before we got started recording a pretty good discussion about technology emerged, so we turned on the microphone and went from there.

Here is the mp3 file from March 25 Star grant meeting.  16.1 MB (17 minutes 34 seconds)
What I Love About Windows/ OS X
The discussion will be audio recorded, converted into mp3 format, and posted on the internet for listening as a podcast later. Come and share your favorite feature tips / tricks about the operating system you use. This will be a best / favorite practices podcast of how we use an operating system and how we (try) to make it more efficient to meet our needs on a daily basis. We will have Windows and OS X machines here so that you can show others what helps you make this piece of technology called a computer work for you.

CSCOPE Discussion- Podcasting Style
Here is the mp3 file from January 27 Star grant meeting.  Star0127  23.2MB (25 minutes 23 seconds)

Let me first say that the audio quality is fair at best.  The sound level is low, so after you download crank up your volume.  I take the blame for this, I had equipment failure and my backup machine wasn't quite up to par. 

I'm not sure that we cleared up much with anyone there about CSCOPE.  There seemed to be a lack of knowledge about CSCOPE  and how to implement, how much to use, and I don't know what.  As much as I hate to say it, we might need some sort of staff development.  Oh, let me say thanks to Craig.  I didn't realize how much he was carrying me through this before today.  He makes facilitating these discussions look easy. 
 

CSCOPE
Here is the mp3 file from this discussion.  13.7 MB (29 minutes 50 seconds)

Craig, Charles, and Dale McCurdy (CSCOPE Content Area Coordinator, Science for Region 16) discuss CSCOPE.  There seems to be a fair amount of confusion about what this is, why this is, and how to use it.  We hope to clear the muddied waters a bit. 
Dale also gave us a pdf of how to use a feedback tool in CSCOPE, so if you are using and want to give feedback check this out. 

Teaching in the 21st century
Here is the mp3 file from December 9 Star grant meeting.  Star1209 14.1MB

We are generally interested in a conversation that hovers about what it is to be a teacher, what is the profession of teaching and all those questions like who we are, what we do, why do we do it, how we do what we think we do, what we say is who we are, who can tell us what to do and what we are and who we are, who we listen to on such matters, what we respect, what we value, how we evaluate how we are doing at what we are doing, etc? (Matters of the heart will never be far from this discussion.)

participants in order of "appearance": Craig, Karen, Tina, Charles, Clint, Joan, Sherry, Tammi, Shamra, Lalonna, Linda

Education & Technology: Where Are We Now?
Here is the mp3 file from October 28 Star grant meeting.  Star1028 9.23 MB

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.