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Hosted by educator Daniel Rezac, the EdReach Show is the show that takes the week's Ed news, Twitter talk, popular blog posts, and rounds them up for you in a sweet listening package. We encourage you to take part by posting your ideas and comments. Shows are posted every Thursday morning approx. 8am CST
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EdReach Show #45: eTextbooks are Coming to Town! | This week on EdReach Show: We can't contain our excitement for the big Apple education announcement tomorrow, and in the wake of that, we speculate how an eTextbook could transform teaching and school districts. Also, there's more Matt Damon news- [...] | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #44: Apple’s eTextbooks: What does it all mean? | This week on EdReach Show: We continue our new format as we introduce News Bits, thanks to our new Reddit account. It’s looking very likely like Apple will be talking about eTextbooks on January 19th- we explore what that means for us. Also,[...] | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #43: ePub Rumors Abound! | This week on EdReach Show: We start our focus on Ed Media as we broach the article on the NY Times concerning Idaho's plan to de-fund teacher salaries to purchase laptops. Second, rumors have it that Apple is pushing more into the publishing realm,[...] | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #42: No Ed-genda and Peppermint Tea | This week on EdReach Show: We turn off the agenda as we run up to the holiday/winter/Christmas/non-religious break. In our discussion of Youtube for Schools- Scott, Greg, and I share stories of kids trying to subvert our networks, and the wonderfu[...] | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #41: #Pencilchat Spat | This week on EdReach Show: Is #Pencilchat the hashtag that gives education its due? Does it evolve or devolve? Here we question whether this is the hashtag that gets those outside Twitter users interested (or even more confused). Also- If the Edu[.. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #40: Digital Citizen Arrest | This week on EdReach Show: EdReach Show reaches a milestone 40 episodes, and becomes the longest running show on EdReach! This show brings us some great news from Wired.com about Creative Commons images, as well as the newest Pew data about teens [...] | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #39: To Consume or Produce? That is the Question. | This week on EdReach Show: Riffing off of an Apple Insider article via a Google Plus share from Esther Wojcicki about how schools are soon going to have more iPads than desktops, we react the the age-old debate of whether the iPad is a consumption [...] | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #38: Student Debt Kismet | This week on EdReach: Finally some student loan relief for college graduates- or are we just kicking the can down the road? Also- let’s talk about 1 to 1 computing just one more time. Show Host: Daniel Rezac Show contributors: Scott Weidig,[...] | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #37: Google, Plus Apps! | This week on EdReach: The struggles with updating iPads, and the promises of a Google+ and Google Apps integration lead us to re-think the future of media and broadcasting. Show Host: Daniel Rezac Show contributors: Scott Weidig The complete sho[.. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #36: Education Gets Siri-ous | This week on EdReach: We begin to uncover the true educational potential with Siri in IOS5, as well as reflect on Steve Jobs death, now that we are much more removed from the date of his passing. Also, we debate how he will and should be remembered[...] | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MacReach Show #25: Thank You Steve for Thinking Different | Thank you Steve for Thinking Different. Tonight’s show was focused on remembering a true visionary: Steve Jobs. This special edition of the MacReach Show looks to honor a creative genius who changed the world as we know it. A very special than[...] | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #35: The Kindle Sets ‘Fire’ to the Old Library | This week on EdReach: The benefits of having social media helpers in the classroom, why education in Finland is so much better than America, the Kindle Fire helps us saying goodbye to the old library, and should teachers go back to the new-and-impr[...] | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #34: Do Pencils Raise Test Scores? | This week on EdReach: Picking apart Remind101.com, a purportedly new “Twitter” for teachers, making the case for ditching paper textbooks, and that pesky NY Times article creeps back again into another show. This show really tried to a[...] | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #33: Everyone Wants to Kno | This week on EdReach: Gmail and Apps goes offline, the Kno Textbooks App goes postal with college students, and the ERIAL project goes blue on Google Search. Make sure to check out our One Thing to Share this Week – some great tools and apps [...] | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #32: It’s about (Steve) Jobs, People! | Well, how can we ignore the Steve Jobs news? We discuss the importance of Steve Jobs to education, as well as talk about Codecademy.com, and again- some wonderful Matt Damon/Arne Duncan news! Don’t forget our One Thing to Share this Week [...] | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #31: Will Nanobots Save Us From NCLB? | Textbooks come to the Web in a big way (Kindle), NCLB explained for dummies, and Arne Duncan says that states can have waivers for NCLB this year- with a catch. Make sure to listen to our One Thing to Share this Week – some great tools and a[...] | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #30: Bloom’s Appsonomy | Blooms Taxonomy for Apps, Matt Damon, and the Social Network Police all make for interesting fodder for the EdReach Contributors this week. Make sure to listen to our One Thing to Share this Week – some great tools and apps in there. Our gue[...] | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #29: 2001- A Reform Odyssey | Welcome back the the EdReach Show! We’ve been off for a couple weeks, so we’re coming back stronger. We’ve actually been spending time researching some video streaming options, so hopefully we’ll have more to share on that [...] | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #27: We Plus One ISTE | ISTE has come and it has gone, but it was a grand time for all. Today’s show, besides, of course, talking about the possible education implications about Google Plus, we give our ISTE reflections, and pore through three segments of Chris Leh[...] | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #26: Our ISTE Preview! | Exciting! Scott, Judi, and Jay all join me to talk about getting into the ISTE van, and heading to Philly this week for the ISTE Conference. The big story at ISTE definitely seems like it will be iPads and tablets. We discuss the controversy over [...] | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Special: The Flipped Classroom for Newbies | What is the Flipped Classroom? What is Khan Academy? Should we use these teaching tools and methods in our classrooms? EdReach is all about reaching out to innovative educators and highlighting the cutting-edge techniques that are being used in ou[...] | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #24: It Khan’t Be! An Alternative to Khan Academy? | This week’s show brings us more signs that Wikipedia is getting stronger and more relevant to today’s educators and higher educators. Also, we touch briefly on Apple’s iCloud, and the implications it has on schools using Apple pr[...] | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #23: Arrive early and (B)ring (Y)our (O)wn (D)evice. | This week we summarize and add our two cents to the Bring Your Own Device conversation started by Judi Epcke and Scott Meech, and highlight some of the interesting comments that came up during those posts. To add on to that, we bring in our new se[...] | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #22: Freemium Blend | This week brings us the debate over whether the “freemium” model of pricing Web 2.o tools and platforms is fair and reasonable. Also, with the recent tornadoes, we share a few teaching strategies and ideas for using that as a teachable [...] | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #21: Keep your hands off my E2T2 ! | This week's theme has us a little concerned over the EETT funding- possibly being cut from some new legislation being introduced in the House of Representatives. Jay Blackman offers some great insight into how his district has benefitted greatly fro[...] | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #20: The Chromebook Has Landed | That’s one giant leap for the cloud. Today the Chromebook was released, and though I was all ready to call it the second coming, my thoughtful contributors were ready to talk me down off of that pedestal, once we started to piece together th[...] | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach #19: Extra | This week’s EdReach Extra asks: What are some of our favorite tools that have died, or joined the dead pool? | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #19: Has the EdTech Bubble Already Burst? | Thanks so much Judi Epcke and Jay Blackman- this show digs deep into the attention (or lack thereof) that Silicon Valley has been paying to education. To start things off with our EdReach News Nuggets: We discuss the glorious news of Delicious bein[...] | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #18: Extra | This week’s EdReach Extra asks: How do we approach teachers with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) from a professional development standpoint? | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #18: Remember to FOSS | This show is dedicated to all things free- Free and Open Source Software that is. We welcome Phil Lacey, President of the Illinois Computing Educators (and FOSS guru) to share with us his favorite free resources, and help explain what all the FOSS i[...] | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #17: The Legacy of the Flip | Another one of our beloved Education tools has died. This week’s show mourns the loss of the Flip, only to get excited about the many alternatives that already exist that will take its place. News Watch: We take our first headline from Mashabl[...] | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #16: The Mobile Learning Express! | This week’s EdReach Show comes live straight from the Mobile Learning Conference in Arizona. EdReach Show contributor Judi Epcke reports and special guest Meg Wilson joins us from there as well. They give us a nice round up of some of the grea[...] | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #15: Yoga for Beginners | This week's show focuses on the issue of test anxiety and the consequences that standardized testing can have on a child. Earlier in the week, I interviewed Dr. Roxana Marachi of San Jose State University, to try to get a picture of the mindset o[...] | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #14 Extra: What is NextVista? | In this EdReach Show Extra, we talk to Rushton Hurley about Next Vista and ask: What is NextVista.org? | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #14: What a Rush(ton)! | Wow! Many thanks to Rushton Hurley for joining us this week! This show’s roundup includes: - Our discussion on the controversy over opting out of state tests. - Chris Lehmann’s thoughtful post on teacher’s unions and our comment[...] | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #13: The Tool of the Week! | Well, what a show! This week’s highlights: *Lots of talk about Google, Docs, and Education: Should we not trust Google? *Huffington Posts’ Education section suddenly gets harder to find. * We talk about Dan Pink’s recent post abou[...] | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #12 Extra: Revenge of the Interactive White Board | In this EdReach Show Extra, we ask: Why is there such vitriol surrounding the Interactive White Board? | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #12: Use “Penguins” as a Default | This week’s show brings us some very helpful search information via Judi Epcke and Sweetsearch.com. We take a look at the alternative to buying the iPad 2. In this case, we take on Jim Klein’s and Ben Grey’s ideas from Twitter abou[...] | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #11: iPad Lust is Back!!!! | We’re back! We have some great reflections about the Illinois Computing Educators’ Conference, and Rushton Hurley’s nice contribution to that. It was also very hard to resist talking about the iPad 2 today, as the lust for the next[...] | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #10: PETEandC, METC, and TCEA- Oh my! | Wow! What a great show, made so much better by the presence of Jen Wagner. With Judi Epcke out this week, Jen graced us with some great insights on Twitter #hashtags, and shared a great new blog, Miss Night Mutter. We start off by disagreeing over[...] | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #9: Extra! | This week’s EdReach Extra feeds off of the Facebook firing fiasco in Georgia: Should districts do more to educate teachers on social networking privacy and policy issues? See what the panel has to say! | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #9: The Privacy Police | The EdReach contributors hash through the Facebook teacher firing fiasco, brought to you by the great state of Georgia! We also wade through Indiana’s controversial idea about hiring superintendents and educational leaders who have no formal e[...] | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #8: Extra | In this week’s EdReach Extra, we have a litte fun with “The EdReach Moment of Validation, as Alfie Kohn echoes our words from last week’s podcast, only with real data and much better articulation. | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #8: What IS EduCon? | For Educators this week, the news really was EduCon, EduCon, and EduCon. What is EduCon, you ask? Well if you are a new teacher, or a veteran teacher looking for a different kind of education conference, Mr. Jon Orech came by this week to explain th[...] | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #7: Extra | This week’s EdReach Extra question: Is gaming important in Education? | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EdReach Show #7: Our Sputnik Moment | This week’s show has us wondering what our real Sputnik moment is. We go over President Obama’s State of the Union speech, dive into the bits and pieces of Race to the Top, and decide whether test taking helps learning. Also, the vitrio[...] | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Overtime Ed Reach: Episode #6 | This fabulous Overtime Episode asks: If you only had $100 for technology for your classroom, how would you spend it? | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ed Reach Show #6: Flipping for Silence | Have you had your 15 seconds? Of silence that is. This week we struggle over Illinois’ forced moment of silence, and we extoll the virtues of the flipped classroom, where homework happens- during class! Also, keep on the lookout for college st[...] | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Overtime Ed Reach: Episode #5 | In this Overtime Episode, we ask the question: was there anything that appeared at the Consumer Electronics Show that may have an effect on technology in education? | 1/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ed Reach Show #5: The Tablet Conundrum | This week’s show brings us into Gary Stager’s blog, as we draw inspiration from his post about Charlie Rose’s interview of the Twitter co-founder. And, of course, we also talk a whole bunch of iPad news and the trickle down effect[...] | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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