Episode 6 - Grouping Students, (Not) Leveling Readers

Today's podcast contains some thoughts I've been tossing around regarding grouping students for reading and responding to Romeo & Juliet.  As I mention, I've got a longer post on how I'm teaching the play this year.

It's a Bud the Teacher style recording, done on my ride into work.  You can hear the mighty roar of my 4-cylinder Corolla in the background.  I'll have to play around with microphone placement for next time.

Also, I think I mentioned in the podcast that it's been two years since my last podcast.  This is incorrect.  It's actually been five years.  And what I thought was episode seven is actually episode 6.

Podcast Episode 5

It's been a while since my last podcast (there goes my brilliant plan of one a week over the summer, huh?) Episode 5 is supposed to get me back in the groove. Some notes on Google Reader, blogs I recommend, and substitute teaching.

And if anyone has noticed, I mixed up my Pedagogy in Practice Podcast feed file with the one for the ONE Campaign in Fort Collins. It's fixed now, sorry about that.

Show notes:

www.nanowrimo.org - National Novel Writing Month
http://blogessor.blogspot.com - Professor Cindy OA's new blog
www.lulu.com - on demand publishing
http://reader.google.com - Google Reader (revamped!)

Episode 4 - Graphic Novels

This podcasts begins to examine graphic novels. I interview a young artist who is creating a graphic novel and give a book talk on Persepolis, a young adult graphic novel.




Dowload the video here. You can also get the audio version here. For those of you using the podcast feed, both the video and audio are on there, so check the file sizes before downloading.

Works Cited

McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.

Miller, Frank et al. The Dark Knight Returns. New York: DC Comics, 1996.

Moore, Alan, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins. Watchmen. New York: DC Comics, 1986.

Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. New York: Pantheon, 2003.

Spiegelman, Art. Maus. New York: Pantheon, 1973.

Episode 3 (I think)

Alright, so in theory, all the bugs are ironed out. This is what some might call a "teachable moment:" make sure you can download your podcast before you assume others can.

This week's podcast features me rambling about what I learned trying to make writing workshop work at Boltz Junior High while student teaching. I also talk about my improvements in podcasting, and announce the new Pedagogy in Practice wiki.

Also, if you've subscribed to the podcast using iTunes, you may want to use the new podcast subscribe link to the right, or check for a new listing in the iTunes music store (this one really does work, I promise).

Whoops

So, as many of you have probably noticed, podcast downloading isn't working so well. Now that my internet's back up, I'm going to try to see what I can do.

Episode 3

Let's try this link again.

This week's podcast features me rambling about what I learned trying to make writing workshop work at Boltz Junior High while student teaching. I also talk about my improvements in podcasting, and announce the new Pedagogy in Practice wiki.

Also, if you've subscribed to the podcast using iTunes, you may want to use the new podcast subscribe link to the right, or check for a new listing in the iTunes music store.

The Long Anticipated Episode Two

Since I haven't posted in over a month, I figure I'd better make it up to my loyal readers . . . all two of you. The long awaited Pedagogy in Practice Podcast - Episode Two.

Pilot Podcast

Well, the first podcast is here. In this first one, I interview a fellow student teacher, Cherie Hanavan, who's moving to the inner city of Minneapolis to do her semester of student teaching. I also reflect a little bit on my hopes and fears. The volume is a little piecemeal on this one, you may be playing with your speaker volume a little bit throughout, just to warn you. Hope you enjoy it and please feel free to drop any comments or suggestions.

Podcast Cometh

I have gotten Our Media to work and will be posting the first podcast by the end of December, at the latest.