The Digital Frontier Podcast - Episode #1

A Review of NECC 2008

Dr. Leigh Zeitz is our first guest on "The Digital Frontier Podcast," a new podcast focusing on emerging instructional technologies. Our topic in this episode is a review of the National Educational Computing Conference held June 29-July 2 in San Antonio, TX.

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Podcast Highlights:

• Introduction
• Background on NECC
• The Convergence of Instructional Technologies
• Sunburst Software & Type to Learn 4; teaching elementary-age students to type.
• Crick Software's Clicker & WriteOnline
• Collaboration
• Collaborative Tools and the Quality of Academic Work
• Scientific American and Collaborative Publishing
• Using Emerging Technologies to Create Collaborative Learning Environment
• Dealing with the avalanche of new technologies.
• Using Skype to bring experts live into your classroom.
• Second Life
• Bernajean Porter (on Second Life befriend Charzeee Kitaj )
• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• RAGBRAI
• Leigh Zeitz Contact Information
• Wrap