November 14 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

Welcome to week five of this new weekly blog post / email, including the round-up of the week's news and podcast with Audrey Watters.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The 2011 Global Education Conference has begun! 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. Recordings of sessions are going live as soon as the sessions are finished--look for the "QUICK LINKS AND RECORDINGS" page.

EVENTS

• 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 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 Classroom 2.0 LIVE! show is back! Peggy, Lorna, and Kim host Beth Still, who will share the ways she uses technology with her students and teachers that she works with in her unique setup including Moodle.

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/WattersHargadon2011-11-11.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: The Dept of Ed Launches the Learning Registry, Adobe Tables Mobile Flash
• Is There an “Education Graph”?
• The Library as Makerspace
• Preventing STEM Dropouts
• Is NYC’s General Assembly the University of the Future?
• Microsoft Now Controls an Educational .Gov Domain
• Steve Jobs’ Plans to Disrupt the Textbook Industry
• Why Aren’t Students Using Digital Textbooks?
• Apple and Ed-Tech Payola