Geek!Ed! is a frequently-weekly netcast produced by five geeks (and occasional guests) from Pinckney Community Schools, MI. We're geeks in education who are geeked about the impact of technology on education.
Email us at edu.geek@gmail.com
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Image search. What’s safe for kids?
wget is a command-line tool for downloading a web site.
Teenagers!
Culture!
Viral education (a little bit).
Geek of the Week:
SumoPaint http://www.sumopaint.com/home/
Aviary http://www.aviary.com/
Technology is for the Nerds…
We go to a deeper level of geekiness on this one:
Web Content Management
The most inexpensive email archiving EVER!
More on Jane – (not Moron Jane)
We’re Back!
Budget issues continue to impact the district and the tech dept. is trying to keep up. Chris and Diane are teaching new classes and Michael has been sleeping in his car.
Diane is the Technology Prophet!
Does instruction need to be hi-tech to be good? Diane’s adventures in private school.
Netbooks! Ehhh…. maybe.
Geek of the Week
Tom likes [...]
“So what are you doing back?”
“Well, I set back and thought about the things we used to do.
It really meant a lot to me, you mean a lot to me.”
“I really mean that much to you?”
“Girl, you know it’s true.”
Tom, Nancy, Jennifer, Jodi, Lori, Wendy, Tom, Rick, and Michael P.
Reflections on the second year of working with a class of eighth graders who have been in a 1:1 laptop program.
Very interesting…
Chris, Ted, Tom, Diane (for a few minutes), and Michael P.
A conversation about what tech skills should be expected of a new hire – administrator or teacher.
It all ends with The Lament Of Desmond R. G. Underwood-Fredrick IV
Ted, Tom, Diane, Chris, Mikey P.
@2:40 – A shameless plug for the Beauty and the Beast at LCS
@3:30 – Cincinnati is a little bit safer.
@5:00 – twitter is back in favor at geeked… Tom’s thoughts on twitter as a more valuable tool.
…at least I think it’s 128…
Chris, Diane, Ted, Tom, and Mikey P.
Topics:
Prezi (http://www.prezi.com)
A mention of pptPlex (http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx)
Some on teaching problem-solving skills to teachers…
We’re at it again, and less than 2 weeks later with our first en plein air netcast. No students this time, but there is a lot of silliness.
Here are some of the topics (perhaps you should review this before listening):
April fools pranks/jokes on the web
2:00 xBox 360 hoax – http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/a/alpinelegend/
4:30 our MicroSoft Connection is with [...]
Geeking from MACUL 2009 in Detroit, Michigan. Tom Chris and Diane are joined by:
Dean Meyer and his 5th grade students from Laingsburg, Michigan,
Bball23,
Pbandj,
Bballstate,
Eeyore,
Mexico
Fatima from Universal Academy
Derek Kauneld from Taylor Schools
Danielle Letter from Bridgeport-Spaulding Schools
Daryl Tilley from Ingham ISD
