Ped & Tom celebrate a year of podcasting with their first inductions into the Two Bit Geeks Hall of Fame. Discuss the podcast on Reddit. Support the podcast on Patreon. Too Many Cats! [00:00] How Many Cats is Too Many? (Stuffed) Cat Chucking in Belgium ʻOumuamua Update [03:04] The first known interstellar object Light curve of ‘Oumuamua Relevant XKCD 1919 - Interstellar Asteroid Asteroid Capture Sagan standard Occam’s razor Cueball and Megan Evidence Tangent [11:15] The Scientific method vs

Brent Johnson is a senior at Westwood Schools. He has taken my classes for the last four years. We have a frank conversation about technology and a win in the National 4H Competition as a result of some apps he made in my class. Brent has come a long way!  I hope you find this conversation inspiring. www.coolcatteacher.com/e193 FlexPath – only at Capella University  – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. This subscription-based tuition model

Lisa Scumpieru, 10th-grade Literature Teacher, gives us a crash course in Hyperdocs. She shares lesson plans, ideas, and tips for getting started quickly without hassle. www.coolcatteacher.com/e187 Got 5 minutes? That is all it takes to enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. If you’re a US public school teacher of grades 6-12, you and your students just need to come up with a STEAM idea that can help your community. If you’re selected as a finalist, you’ll win technology and prizes to help

Michael Matera @mrmatera, author of Explore Like a Pirate, talks about Purpose Driven Learning in the classroom. www.coolcatteacher.com/e186 Got 5 minutes? That is all it takes to enter the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. If you’re a US public school teacher of grades 6-12, you and your students just need to come up with a STEAM idea that can help your community. If you’re selected as a finalist, you’ll win technology and prizes to help your STEAM project come to reality. The entry period ends

Unless you've been pretty lucky all your life, you've probably had to rely on medical imaging at some point. That could be something simple like an x-ray for a broken arm, or something more complicated like a MRI or CAT scan. Have you ever thought about how those machines work? Photons, atoms, tungsten, H2O and giant magnets for a start! Join us to find out more!

更多英语节目和课程（国际音标，自然拼读，英文分级绘本讲解，小学同步背单词等），包括一些免费线上课程活动，请参考小黑生命教育公众号（eng86ts）：【本期重点句子】广播学口语准时与大家相约，Andy送上最诚挚的问候, good day, everyone !今天我们来学习的两个俚语是He always plays cat and mouse with me.和I’ m as happy as the day is long.【安迪广播学口语】是小黑老师精心打造的经典口语节目。上学时担任校园播音员的小黑老师，毕业后任教于大学英语专业，业余时间担任网络英语节目【笨小孩口语广播】的主创，从策划、写稿、编辑、更新全部一个人完成，每日更新，得到广大英语爱好者的支持。此后小黑老师制作了节目升级版，故事趣味性更强，口语句子更加实用，学习效果更加明显，立竿见影！记得关注主页，订阅专辑【安迪广播学口语】，并坚持收听！也欢迎加入同伴学习微信群哦！

更多英语节目和课程（国际音标，自然拼读，英文分级绘本讲解，小学同步背单词等），包括一些免费线上课程活动，请参考小黑生命教育公众号（eng86ts）：【本期重点句子】广播学口语准时与大家相约，Andy送上最诚挚的问候, good day, everyone !今天我们来学习的两个俚语是He always plays cat and mouse with me.和I’ m as happy as the day is long.【安迪广播学口语】是小黑老师精心打造的经典口语节目。上学时担任校园播音员的小黑老师，毕业后任教于大学英语专业，业余时间担任网络英语节目【笨小孩口语广播】的主创，从策划、写稿、编辑、更新全部一个人完成，每日更新，得到广大英语爱好者的支持。此后小黑老师制作了节目升级版，故事趣味性更强，口语句子更加实用，学习效果更加明显，立竿见影！记得关注主页，订阅专辑【安迪广播学口语】，并坚持收听！也欢迎加入同伴学习微信群哦！

更多英语节目和课程（国际音标，自然拼读，英文分级绘本讲解，小学同步背单词等），包括一些免费线上课程活动，请参考小黑生命教育公众号（eng86ts）：【本期重点句子】广播学口语准时与大家相约，Andy送上最诚挚的问候, good day, everyone !今天我们来学习的两个俚语是He always plays cat and mouse with me.和I’ m as happy as the day is long.【安迪广播学口语】是小黑老师精心打造的经典口语节目。上学时担任校园播音员的小黑老师，毕业后任教于大学英语专业，业余时间担任网络英语节目【笨小孩口语广播】的主创，从策划、写稿、编辑、更新全部一个人完成，每日更新，得到广大英语爱好者的支持。此后小黑老师制作了节目升级版，故事趣味性更强，口语句子更加实用，学习效果更加明显，立竿见影！记得关注主页，订阅专辑【安迪广播学口语】，并坚持收听！也欢迎加入同伴学习微信群哦！

Leslie Swanson-Anaya @InspiredLeslie elementary teacher of the year for Texas region 15 has ideas for awesome technology stations. These apps will work for all ages of students and subjects. Learn how she helps students learn and progress using technology. Today's sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based assessment tool that lets you completely customize assessments, instantly scan and score them using ANY device with a digital camera, and then instantly transfer the grades into your digital grade book. And

Dr. Michelle Zimmerman @mrzphd talks about social emotional learning and education technology. With insights on everything from Minecraft, to digital inking, to common mistakes made with technology and SEL, Michelle gives us an important overview of two things often not discussed together. Today's Sponsor is TeacherVision. TeacherVision gives you professionally curated teaching materials that align with their FutureFit Curriculum enhancement framework. FutureFit aligns social emotional learning and

Heather Callihan's @hcallihan students help with their Facebook and Twitter using some technology tools. Students can have a voice and you can safely let them help your school share the story. Heather teaches us how. www.coolcatteacher.com/e143 Today's sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based assessment tool that lets you completely customize assessments, instantly scan and score them using ANY device with a digital camera, and then instantly transfer the grades into your digital grade book. And it does all

Kecia Ray @keciaray former president of ISTE helps us understand five transformative practices that help teachers become superheroes. If you don't "get" why technology is important, or know people who don't, take a listen to understand and learn about transformative practices that work in education. www.coolcatteacher.com/e135 Today's sponsor is Kids Discover. They're doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. Check out coolcatteacher.com/discover and see how the Kids Discover online

Welcome to Episode 12 of the Planning Period Podcast, the break-room of education podcasts.In this week's episode, I talk to the one and only Vicki Davis, known online everywhere as the Cool Cat Teacher. She is an avid blogger, a massively connected educator, a podcaster, a classroom teacher, and a technology coordinator for a district. About the only thing that Vicki isn't is a sleeper.Vicki and I talk about a lot of topics in this episode, ranging from remembering that you control what's in your

How We Think the Internet Connects Us (18:15) Ethan Zuckerman is the Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. With just a single click, we can access almost anything; cat videos, the profiles of former classmates, the best cinnamon roll recipe, or the

Jessica Gordon @1337teach shares three ways teachers can use technology to make money this summer (or any time.) We talk about some ethical considerations and opportunities. Read the show notes at www.coolcatteacher.com/e87 about 5 hours after this show goes live on iTunes. Listen to the rest of the shows at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast.

Discussion:Digital Learning Day: What did we take away from DLD2013? How did you participate? What did you see others doing around the country?Disney announces that it will be making spin-off movies based on individual Star Wars characters such as Yoda and Boba-Fett in addition to creating Episodes 7,8,9.Can we lobby for the epic war between the Jawa and the Ewok?What if they were fighting over mining rights on Hoth, it could be a fable about fracking. . .Monopoly: The Cat is In… The Iron is

Liz Kolb @lkolb talks about how we can put learning first and a very important reason technology should be second. C heck the show notes for the book giveaway and transcript at www.coolcatteacher.com/e81 about 5 hours after this show goes live on iTunes. Listen to the rest of the shows at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast

Jarrod Robinson, the PE Geek, helps us learn how to use technology in physical education. Lots of fun ideas! Show notes will be available at www.coolcatteacher.com/e70  approximately 5 hours after the episode goes live! See all of the shows at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast .

This week Shannon pops a surprise interview on John, asking all about open source. We talk about what it is, why people do it, and what it means for your cat videos. We round out the show talking about a physics problem that has stumped some of the greatest minds. EP 114 - “Chasrismatic Megafauna” (Flyover App) EP 177 - “Everything is a few weeks away” Open Drone Map Using Open Source Tools to Refactor Geoscience Education | SciPy 2016 | Lindsey Heagy John’s Geotech Class Open Source Hardware

Kitty Tripp shares a breakthrough she's had with helping her students solve word problems. Teach them to become a director! If you're preparing students to take a test or just teaching math, this is a fascinating method of teaching.  Kitty Tripp, an innovative educator with 19 years in the field of education, has experience not only as a teacher and district office administrator but also in a wide variety of experiences integrating technology into the classroom. She has helped teachers,