Going Live

I spent most of this evening trying to figure out how to do a live interactive show for my podcast Wicked Decent Learning. After looking over some tools, we chose to give Skype a try with an added call recorder called PowerGramo. The call recorder will probably cost us about $15.00 USD but if it works the way we are hoping it will be worthwhile.

So here's an open invitation to educators. On April 11th, 2008 at 8:OO PM EST we will be asking for feedback from folks on the topic "What do you think is Wicked Decent" in education. Basically it's a chance to see what ideas people have seen in the classroom lately that are positive, exciting or innovative... you know Wicked Decent.

If you have never used Skype before, it's free, easy to set up, and worth downloading. Even if you don't have a computer microphone, you can text chat during the show with it. Our screen name for Skype is WickedDecentLearning.

Hope to see you there.

Status Symbol

So I made the leap from a blogger to a podcaster this week. It's a little like the feeling of going from the nerdy table in the junior high cafeteria to accepting your nerdiness and joining the A/V club to play with all the toys. The podcast was something my friend Dan and I had been talking about doing for awhile and we finally got around to it by the tail end of 2007. We hope to have new episodes up each week, (the true test of a real viable podcaster). We manage to plan, record, edit and post it in about 5 hours (maybe that will show in the quality) but I'm shooting for less than 3 next time. I've had trouble getting the bells and whistles to work (AAC--Pictures with the podcast and getting iTunes to list us-- we're pending approval now).

If you've a got a little time to kill, check out the "Wicked Decent Learning" Podcast.

I'd appreciate any feedback people might have for us. I'd hate to slip to chess club status or hall monitor.

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