Get Your PodcampNYC!

If you haven't already registered, you may be out of luck. But try showing up and playing up your teacher profile and maybe they'll let you through the doors. (Come on, the break's almost over anyway.) Podcamp NYC 2.0, April 25-27, is focusing on education, and using new media to rethink and reimagine the way we learn--not only in school, but beyond. It's time to get inspired to work that SmartBoard like the machine it is.

The robust list of speakers is likely to knock you into a new orbit of thinking. Anna Beard's www.freereading.net, a wiki on reading curricula for you and your classroom, will help you say buh-bye to Wilson and Great Leaps. That kind of old-school is starting to feel like no-school.

Barbara Freeman, who teaches at Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at Greenwich High School, will be speaking on "Cashing in on Digital Distribution for Public Schools or 'The High Tech Bake Sale'". Learn about podcasting in the music classroom, and see examples of her students' podcasts. Get in the know about digital media content distribution, sales and how to using digital distribution as a fundraiser for your school program.

Kathy Shields, "Podcasting, Skypecasting, Webcasting and More for the Elementary Crowd," promises to help you maximize motivation by giving you and your students opportunities to interact globally. There's nothing like a little digitime to harness the promise of summer.

Be there or be square.