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Sessions to be Podcast
What is Podcasting?
How Does It Work?

Apple is hosting the official podcast channel for NECC 2007, which includes the sessions listed below.

See the sidebar at right for other ways to find podcasts about NECC.

Sessions to be Podcast

Monday, June 25
Spotlight	Daring Conversations: An Actor Shares the Voices of Students Deneen Frazier Bowen, ActWith
Lecture	Five Obstacles to Information Fluency (and How to Remove Them) Carl Heine, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Lecture	Classrooms and Libraries for the Net Generation Doug Johnson, ISTE/Mankato Area Public Schools
Lecture	Making the Laptop Disappear: Moving to Seamless Integration Howard Levin, The Urban School of San Francisco
Spotlight	Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab
Lecture	Online Learning Tools 2007: Inspiring Examples, Expanding Opportunities, Promising Technologies Maureen Yoder, Lesley University
Tuesday, June 26
Lecture	Multiple Purposes of Digital Stories and Podcasts in ePortfolios Helen Barrett, The REFLECT Initiative
Spotlight	Staggeringly Good Things Integrating Media and Google Earth Hall Davidson, Discovery
Lecture	Students, Technology, and Copyright: Assisting Students in Understanding Copyright Law Anthony (Tony) Jongejan, Western Washington University
Spotlight	Learning Environments For DKs: Education in the New Digital Landscape Ian Jukes, InfoSavvy Group, Inc.
Lecture	Podcasting with Windows: Tools, Tricks, and Strategies for Success! Scott Merrick, UnivSchool Nashville/Vanderbilt CSO
Lecture	Doing 1-to-1 Right! Mike Muir, University of Maine at Farmington
Lecture	Leading in 3-D: Data-Driven Decisions for 21st-Century Educators Chris O'Neal, University of Virginia
Spotlight	Quick and Easy Computer Activities for the Math Classroom Tammy Worcester, ESSDACK
Wednesday, June 27
Lecture	Using Technology for a More Differentiated Classroom Linda Brandon, Lakeland Central School District
Lecture	More to the Story: Technology Supporting the 40 Developmental Assets Robert Craven, Orange County Department of Education
Lecture	A Completely Computer-based Interactive Approach to Middle School Math William Masalski, University of Massachusetts
Spotlight	LoTi Project Schools: Using 21st-Century Skills to Increase Student Achievement Christopher Moersch, National Business Education Alliance
Lecture	Assessing How Schools' Academic Priorities Are Supported by Technology Harry Tuttle, Syracuse University
Keynote	Closing Keynote Tim Tyson, Mabry Middle School
Lecture	Information Fluency Meets Web 2.0 Joyce Valenza, Neverending Search blog
Lecture	First Things First: Technology Successes in the Primary Grades Amy Walker, Cherokee County Public Schools

What is Podcasting?

The word "podcasting" is a combination of the words "iPod" and "Broadcasting." In its current form, it's a way for people to be able to selectively subscribe to audio content over the Internet. This audio content can then be automatically downloaded to a computer or mobile device, such as an iPod.

How Does Podcasting Work?

To understand how podcasting works, we need to take a step back and look at RSS. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication (or Rich Site Summary). RSS provides a way for Web sites to let people receive summaries of new content that has been posted. This is called an RSS feed and is posted online as a text file in a format called XML. You might start to notice that a lot of Web sites have small, orange rectangles on them that say either XML or RSS. This is a link to that site's RSS feed. For example, the link for the NECC RSS feed looks like:

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC_rss.xml

Subscribing to this feed allows you to receive text updates from the NECC Web site. If you just click this link or open it in a Web browser, it might look like jumbled text. However, there are special types of software applications called news aggregators that can read the RSS feed and display the summary for the user. People can subscribe to feeds from Web sites that they like to read, so that the most current information that they are interested in is pushed to them.

Podcasting is accomplished by sending an audio file along with the RSS feed. This is called adding an enclosure to the RSS feed. When the news aggregator sees that there is an enclosure containing an audio file, the aggregator can automatically add the audio file to iTunes where it can be put on an iPod the next time it syncs.

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To Subscribe to NECC Podcasts

Download iTunes 7
Once you have installed iTunes:

Go to the iTunes Store
Select Podcasts
Select the Education category
If NECC podcasts don't show up in the "New and Notable" or "Featured" sections, search for "Conference Connections" in the "Search iTunes Store" window to find the official NECC podcasts, or search for "NECC" to find other podcasts about the conference.

Or, launch iTunes and see the currently available Podcasts that relate to NECC.

Or, visit the Apple Distinguished Educator's Conference Connections

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June 24–27, 2007 • Georgia World Congress Center • Atlanta, GA