LMSD Podologue

The LMSD Podologue is a professional development and technology podcast for the Lower Merion School District and beyond. Our primary target audience is the professional staff of the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania. However, all educators are welcome with the hope that these podcasts will inform, inspire, incite, and, possibly, enrage or engage you in the never-ending pursuit of professional growth and development.

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We are aware that “podologue” is French for “podiatrist.” Although we came up with “podologue” as a combination of “podcast” and “monologue,” we fully embrace the French meaning of “podologue” because we believe professional development is a necessary foundation in the never-ending pursuit of professional excellence in teaching practice. Just as the foot, ankle, and leg propel humans through life, professional development energizes and improves teaching throughout an educator’s career. (How’s that for spinning a serendipitous semantic similitude?)

Questions, Comments, or Suggestions are welcomed by email.

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Episode 15 – Balancing Act: Web 2.0 Tools vs. Network Integrity - Panel Discussion from PETE&C 2009

Date: February 9, 2009 (posted February 13, 2009)
Description: Full audio recording of the two-hour panel discussion.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton, panel moderator

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Episode 14 – Tech4DI: Presentation Exerpt from PETE&C 2008 Hands On Session

Date: February 11, 2008 (posted June 25, 2008)
Description: Excerpt from PETE&C 2008 Presentation during hands-on, differentiated session. This video podcast presents a quick overview of Differentiated Instruction and how digital technology is an important tool for DI. This podcast will also be used at a BYOL session at NECC for those needing an introduction to DI.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton

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Episode 13 – Three Suggestions

Date: October 10, 2007
Description: Three basic suggestions for implementing digital technologies in your classroom this year or any year. These suggestions are based on the premise that productive and effective use of digital technologies are fundamentally necessary to adequately prepare students for their 21st Century future.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton

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Episode 12 – Tech to D.I. For: Technology and Differentiated Instruction

Date: February 12, 2007
Description: Session presented at the 2007 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition and Conference (PETE&C) in Hershey, PA. The topic is technology and differentiated instruction and introduced the Tech 4 D.I. public wiki for sharing strategies for differentiating instruction using technology.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton

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Episode 11 – Understanding by Design: Part 4, Assessments

Date: February 6-7, 2007
Description: This is the fourth of four podcast episodes from presentations given at the third in-service day for the LMSD new teacher assistance program (NTAP). This fourth episode deals with the importance of developing summative performance-based assessments aligned to the standards and benchmarks, enduring understandings, and essential questions in Stage 2 of the UbD framework.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton with Camille Conrad

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Episode 10 – Understanding by Design: Part 3, Essential Questions

Date: February 6-7, 2007
Description: This is the third of four podcast episodes from presentations given at the third in-service day for the LMSD new teacher assistance program (NTAP). This third episode introduces Essential Questions to focus teacher design and inspire and direct student learning.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton with Camille Conrad

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Episode 9 – Understanding by Design: Part 2, Enduring Understandings

Date: February 6-7, 2007
Description: This is the second of four podcast episodes from presentations given at the third in-service day for the LMSD new teacher assistance program (NTAP). This second episode deals with big ideas, standards and benchmarks, knowledge and skills and how that all can be expressed as enduring understandings in the UbD framework.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton with Camille Conrad

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Episode 8 – Understanding by Design: Part 1, Introductory Overview

Date: February 6-7, 2007
Description: This is the first of four podcast episodes from presentations given at the third in-service day for the LMSD new teacher assistance program (NTAP). This first episode is an introductory overview of UbD and how it relates to Differentiated Instruction.
 Hosts: Bill Dolton with Camille Conrad

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Episode 7 – iPod, uPod, wePod, theyPod: from podcasting to pilot to student iPods -- Part 3, World Language Student iPod Pilot (2006-2007)

Date: December, 2006
Description: The third part of a three-episode series of a presentation given in Apple Seminars on October 25, 2006, at the Chester County Intermediate Unit and, again, on December 7, 2006, at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit. This last episode describes the pilot program of using iPods with students in world language classes.
Hosts: Bill Dolton, Virginia DiMedio, & Mary Kirchner

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Episode 6 – iPod, uPod, wePod, theyPod: from podcasting to pilot to student iPods -- Part 2, Podcast Pilot Project (2005-2006)

Date: December, 2006
Description: The second part of a three-episode series of a presentation given in Apple Seminars on October 25, 2006, at the Chester County Intermediate Unit and, again, on December 7, 2006, at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit. The second episode tells how LMSD got started with student podcasting through a pilot project in the 2005-06 school year.
Hosts: Bill Dolton, Virginia DiMedio, & Mary Kirchner

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Episode 5 – iPod, uPod, wePod, theyPod: from podcasting to pilot to student iPods -- Part 1, Podcasting for Professional Development

Date: December, 2006
Description: The first part of a three-episode series of a presentation given in Apple Seminars on October 25, 2006, at the Chester County Intermediate Unit and, again, on December 7, 2006, at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit. This first part of the presentation describes the initial use of podcasting in LMSD as a tool for professional development.
Hosts: Bill Dolton, Virginia DiMedio, & Mary Kirchner

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Episode 4 – LMSD LoTi Use: Spring 2006 Results

Date: November 27, 2006
Description: This podcast episode is from a presentation made to the Lower Merion Staff Development Council on November 8, 2006, concerning district use of the Levels of Technology Implementation (or LoTi) Framework, and DETAILS online survey of professional staff, with the results from our spring, 2006, data-collection period.
 Host: Bill Dolton

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Episode 3 – Welcome Back 2006

Date: September 20, 2006
Description: Welcome back to school for the 2006-2007 school year with a focus on Web 2.0, new technology projects for the school year, and introduction of department members. Can you find the department member whose identity was stolen?
 Host: Bill Dolton

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Episode 2 – Technology Fear Factor

Date: January 25, 2006
Description: This edition features the stories of seven technology-using teachers who share how they have over-come the inevitable pitfalls, frustrations, equipment failures, power outages, unexpected glitches, and other technological travails in the classroom, and why they feel it is still worth it to implement technology in the teaching and learning process. These stories are intended to help all teachers understand that technology might trip up anyone, but the outcomes can still be positive and are definitely worthwhile.
 Host: Bill Dolton
Interviewees: Jim MacCall, Peter Crooke, Mary Kirchner, Debbie Miller, Jamie Gaffga, Kevin Ginsberg, and Barbara Johnson

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Episode 1 – Technology and Differentiated Instruction

Date: November 22, 2005
Description: This first edition explores the role of technology in Differentiated Instruction addressing resources available on the Internet and local networks, technology specifically designed for differentiation, and combining technology use and differentiated instruction effectively in the classroom.
 Host: Bill Dolton

New: Technology for Differentiated Instruction wiki

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