November 7 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

Welcome to week four of this new weekly blog post / email, including the round-up of the week's news and podcast with Audrey Watters. If you haven't listened to a podcast yet, we think they are a blast and hope that you do as well!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference was a huge success, and all of the session recordings are posted on the site!

EVENTS

• The 2011 Global Education Conference is next week: November 14 - 18. Come sign up--it's free! In it's second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. The session schedule is up in all 36 time zones! We are still looking for moderator volunteers, if you would like to help (see the link for volunteers on the main page).
• The Future of Education interview series will be on short hiatus during the two virtual conferences, but then will return on Tuesday, November 22nd, when my guest will be Scott Nine from IDEA to talk about democratic education. New additions to the already-amazing guest schedule are Henry Eyring on The Innovative University, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age, and Cable Green on "public funding should equal openly-licensed resources."
• The Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show is back! Peggy, Lorna, and Kim host the Conference Co-Conveners and Organizers of the "2011 K12 Online Conference" who will share and tempt you a with lively discussion of upcoming topics that the presenters will include in their presentations and keynotes.
• The recordings of recent FutureofEducation.com shows are posted:  Mark Surman from Mozilla on the Open Badges project, David Loertscher on Library 2.0, Gina Bianchini on Mightybell, Tim Wilson on Redirect, Peter Cookson on a Children's Education Bill of Rights, and more!

THE WEEKLY ED TECH PODCAST WITH AUDREY WATTERS

Blogger Audrey Watters (Hack Education) sits down with me (virtually) each week to discuss the ed tech news of the week and drill down on stories that have caught her eye (and attracted her writing talent). Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift, for the data section of O’Reilly Radar, and for the Edutopia blog.

Here's the direct link to our latest podcast: http://audio.edtechlive.com/cr20/WattersHargadon2011-11-05.mp3. The podcast feed link is http://feeds.feedburner.com/edtechlive/hackeducation

HACK EDUCATION POSTS LAST WEEK

To give you a head start in following along with the podcast, here are Audrey's Hack Education posts from last week:

• Ed-Tech News Weekly Roundup: RIP Google Reader, Long Live the (Kindle Owners’ Lending) Library
• Khan Academy Gets $5 Million to Expand Faculty & Platform & to Build a Physical School
• Plagiarism: High School versus College
• Education Platforms: Build On? Or Build One?
• CodeNow: Teaching Programming, Narrowing the Digital Divide
• Pearson and Knewton: Big Data and the Promise of Personalized Learning
• The Open Course Library & the Quest for the $30 College Textbook