geek!ed!

Finally! We got the show posted. Tom and Michael have been on the road since Wednesday (Thanks Kevin!) Now, On with the show….
Our geeks are back in the Green Room today. (All except Chris. He’s at the zoo with kids and cameras. We’ll ask him about it next week!) The [...]

Our geeks chat via Skype today. Kevin Galbraith celebrates his third appearance on geek!ed! with Michael and Tom. Discussions include:

Technology training strategies in staff development
Genesis language lab software
New federal funding for Math and Science
School technology planning
Purchasing used computers and total cost of ownership
Thin Client technologies (classlink2000.com, www.citrix.com, Microsoft Terminal Services, Linux Terminal Services)
Google [...]

Topic of todays episode is “Students as Performers, Not Learners”
Special Guest: Dr. Nancy Staub, Pinckney Community Schools Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction.
Today the crew discusses what it means to think of students as “performers” and how that changes the design of of instruction, assessment and the ways technology can impact the teaching and [...]

Our upgraded webserver (Apache 2.0.52) had a bug that prevented you from downloading our podcasts. We have corrected the problem. Files are now available for downloading.
(Tom kneels and gives thanks to the computer gods….)

We were pumped for this one! A whole list of topics were covered. Here they are:

Server dumps

www.serverlogistics.com

Technology dependancy

Email dependance
Phone directories

Continue the blogging theme

MySpace revisited.

21st Century Skills (con’t)

Phishing scams – ebay pages that phish
Safety on the web
Knowing how the internet works

Future Topics:

Tech Departments that s**k
Students as Performers not learners