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• King, K. P. (2007, April). Part 2: Lessons on Connections from Digital Natives: Of Podcasting, Pop Culture and “Killer Apps” for Education? Global Voice. Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/kpk-podcasting-popculture-part2-April2007.html

• King, K. P. (2007, Feb.). Part 1: Lessons on Connections from Digital Natives: Of Podcasting, Pop Culture and “Killer Apps” for Education? Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/kpk-podcasting-popculture-February2007.html

• King, K. P. (2007, Jan.). Of Penguins, Pencils, and Laptops: Is Education Finally Ready for Open Source? Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/kpk_penguins to pencils_January2007.html

• King, K. P. (2006, Nov.). Why use podcasting in higher education? Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/kpk-podcast-higher-ed-nov2006.html

• King, K. P. (2006, Sept.). West meets East: Synergy and inspiration . Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/kpk_west_meets_east_sept2006.html

• King, K. P. (2006, August). Raven Spirit Guide – Thinking, global transformation and learning. Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/kpk_raven_august2006.html

• King, K. P. (2006, July). Scorecard: Podcasting 1: Boredom 0 Podcasting as Learning: Power to Change, to Risk or Not To Risk. Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/kpk_powertochange_July2006.html

• King, K. P. (2006, June). Access and Equity- Reaching further through technologies. Writer’s Section, BXRadio.net http://www.kpking.com/articles/KPK_Access_and_Equity_June_2006.html

Selected Presentations

by the Transformation Education Team

Including Print- Audio- Video- Rich Media Presentations

• Podcasting as PD Gura, M. & King. K.P. (2007, June 25). Podcasting as Professional Development NECC Conference ISTE Presentation. Atlanta, GA.

  Innovative strategies for podcasting in education. Introduction of easy-to-implement podcasting approaches and resources to provide inexpensive, high quality, customized professional development to audiences big and small.

  AUDIO >> PFT Episode 95

  • PRESENTATION >> Gura-King-NECC-2007.pdf

• Transformation and Gaming King, K. P. (2007, July 12). Transforming technology in elementary education and the role of simulation gaming. Shawnee Community College, Ullin, IL and Murray State University (Ms. Marsha Nodeen's class) Virtual lecturer- Interactive multimedia, audio and video

Dr. King presents an interactive guest lecture and discussion with a teacher education class in Illinois in July 2007. Using no cost technology connections and modeling the benefits of VOIP for students' access to experts, Dr. King led a session on "Transforming technology in elementary education and the role of simulation gaming: A curriculum model and examples."

• AUDIO >> King virtual-7-6-07
• PRESENTATION >> Integrating Tech and Simulation-King-2007.pdf

 

Portable Classroom- K-12 Education PME EXP- Ontario, CA- 2007 King, K., Gura, M., McQuinlan, J., Baxter, H., Willard, R (2006). The Portable Classroom: Podcasting Techniques for K-12 Educators Podcasting and Portable Media Expo. Ontario, CA.

• Seminar Leaders: Jeff McQuillan (bio), ESL Podcast » Hollye Baxter (bio), The Tech Teachers » Ray Willard (bio), HardxCore Science » Kathleen King (bio) and Mark Gura (bio), Podcast for Teachers at Fordham University

• Description: In this session designed specifically for K-12 educators, a panel of experts from around the country will discuss best practices for utilizing podcasting technology in elementary and secondary education, including using podcasts as part of in-class instruction, using podcasts as homework and out-of-classroom instruction, and the challenges teachers face in using podcasts as an instructional tool. The panel will also discuss how teachers can make the best use of the unique properties of podcasting and how to get principals and district officials on board with the program. Finally, you'll learn interesting ways to motivate student-generated podcasts and how to gauge the success of the overall program.

AUDIO >> PME-K-12 Session- 9-06

 

Distance Ed in Higher Ed - 40 Years of Grants King. K.P. (2007). Harnessing innovative technologies in higher education: Lessons learned from 40 distance education grants. Illinois Online Conference. February 14-16, 2007. http://www.ilonlineconf.org

A presentation based on the award-winning book, Harnessing Innovative Technologies for Higher Education: Access Equity a, Policy and Instruction by King and Griggs (eds), this presentation is a unique multimedia package. The session was presented for the Illinois Online Conference, one of the many virtual conference within which Dr. King has participated.

Audio Presentation (Adobe Flash file) >> King IOC-2-07

 

 

 

• Successful Podcasting at University Level PME EXP- Ontario, CA- 2007 Hogh, K., Greenberg, O., Izutzu, B., Schmidt, M., & King, K. P. (2006). Podcasting at the university level: Berkley, Stanford, and Fordham. Podcasting and Portable Media Expo. Ontario, CA

  Dr. Kathy King participates in higher education panel as replacement for Duke University. She provides challenging questions to the iTunes University representatives and provides a compelling perspective on other innovative applications of podcasting.

Audio File >> PME-2006-Successful Podcasting University Level.mp3

 

Podcast for Teacher's Latest Episodes

Co-hosted and produced by Mark Gura and Dr. Kathy King.

Hosted by Fordham University and supported by Libsyn.com and Transformative Education LLC

Adventures in Transformative Learning's Latest Episodes

Drs. Barbara Heuer and Kathy King co-host this podcast about lifelong learning.

Brought to you by Fordham University and supported by Libsyn.com and Transformative Education LLC

Education Grants 2007-2008 Deadlines Poster from techlearning.com
http://techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/grants/calendar_TnL3.pdf

• Resourceful poster from Tech Learning that you can print out for yourself. It includes information for grant writing planning, grant writing requirement, and deadlines, in a 12 year calendar format to guide you in keeping up with your efforts! Very helpful tool.
• http://techlearning.com/techlearning/pdf/grants/calendar_TnL3.pdf

www.GoDaddy.com -Web hosting, FTP access, blog hosting, PHP, MySQL, Linux and Windows Servers and much more. GoDaddy is much more that domain purchases.Plus it is very reliable support. Check out my blog entry on this great technical resource

Kall8- This is a great place to be able to setup a full-feature tollfree number and fax that is handle via phone, email retrieval. Kall8 costs start at only $2 to set it up and $2 per month plus 6.9 cents per minute for calls from the 50 states of the USA and Canada to the USA. I was amazed at how inexpensive a tollfree line could be! From the same folks who provide free voice mail numbers at K7.net (read on :)

K7.NET These folks provide a free 206 areacode telephone to anyone who needs one. The voice messages are delivered to your email box as a digital wav file (an audio file). This has great possibilities for tech applications. Check it out- http://www.k7.net

SnapKast (TM) is a terrific product which provides the opportunity to power podcast as I would call it!
This is really one-stop-podcasting with great simplicity, but high quality and robust output. You start off with just having to plug a simple microphone into your computer, start up SnapKast and then click the RED Button to record. In addition if you want to add audio to an existing PowerPoint (R) file, it is simple and you end up with a great product that can be used on many platforms.

At Transformation Education LLC we are pleased to announce a new partnership with SnapKast whereby our readers and customers can receive a 10% discount by purchasing their SnapKast copy through us.
Just use the link below to make your purchase and save snapkast.com/buy-tellc.html. Download your trial version of SnapKast and remember Transformation Education is your resource site!

Amazon- One of our favorite places for purchasing books. Amazon has led e-commerce in innovative technologies to serve customers. Check out our books there as well!

Image/graphic/photo editing programs include
PICASA (Made by Google and free: http://picasa.google.com/)

GIMP--open source- windows – free photo editing – image retouching http://
www.download.com/The-GIMP/3000-2192_4-10635470.html?tag=lst-0-1

FxFoto 5.0.066 -- http://www.download.com/FxFoto/3000-12511_4-10656572.html?tag=lst-0-1

Paint.NET 3.08 http://www.download.com/Paint-NET/3000-2192_4-10693835.html?tag=lst-0-1

Adobe Photoshop Elements-- Free TRIAL from Adobe.com: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI -- Free TRIAL from Corel---
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1152796555406

Image directory programs include

PICASA (Made by Google and free: http://picasa.google.com/)

FxFoto 5.0.066 -- http://www.download.com/FxFoto/3000-12511_4-10656572.html?tag=lst-0-1