Macworld for Educators Podcast Program

Listen to this episode: iChat in the Classroom

David Wallace has lots of good ideas, and has spent lots of time putting them into practice in the classroom, and collaborating with colleagues on refining and extending them. Yesterday we spoke to David about the recycling and repurposing of learning objects using Garage Band. Today Ian Green interviewed him again, this time about another of his favorite topics: using iChat AV and video streaming to enrich learning and teaching activity, and to connect the local school – or higher education or adult education or for that matter any learning community – classroom to global expertise and experience.

You can access all the material, and more, from David’s Macworld workshop on this subject through the
iChat in the Classroom exhibit, which is on the Apple Learning Interchange site.

The free, online video streaming service that David mentions in this episode is Ustream TV. He also refers to Wirecast.

Participants Comments
Listen to the commentary: Applying iChat in the Classroom

Andrew Raimest, an architect and educator from Saint Louis, Missouri, and Rae Peralta, an educator from St Marys College, Moraga, California, took part in David’s workshop. They spoke after the event with Allan Carrington, reflecting further on the potential of David’s ideas and on practical ideas for, and the challenges involved in, implementing them.

We’re sure that once you’ve listened to these episodes you’ll be itching to fire up your iChat, and there’s no doubt that David will be very happy to hear from you. But please also help fire up collaborative discussion of this topic by clicking the link below and going to our Comment Board to add your ideas.