Gator Radio Show #22 Podcast

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The Gator Radio Experience celebrated our first birthday by welcoming back project alumnae members Kaitlin Carano, Nicola Schulze, and Stephanie Leung. Angie Moore was also supposed to join us, but was unable to do so at the last minute :-(

We were also joined by our very first guest from our very first show, Doug Symington, from the Canadian Rockies near Calgary. It was run to catch up with Doug once again.

Show Hosts: Sam and Natalie
Support Host: Sarah
Chat Room: Annie
Music Guest: A collection of artists from the past year

Alumnae Reunion Show this Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:00 pm pacific

The Gator Radio Experience is eagerly anticipating our Alumnae reunion show this coming Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:00 pm pacific. We have loose commitments from Stephanie, Kaitlin, Angie, and Nicola to join us live tomorrow night. All four of these college freshmen were instrumental in contributing to the basic idea of trying to produce a regular, live Internet radio broadcast at Castilleja.

This reunion show also coincides with the celebration of the Gator Radio's birthday (Oct 29th, 2008 was our first live broadcast!) Sam will be remixing some of the bands that we've featured over the past year and we hope that we'll be joined by our first guest ever, Doug Symington, who is currently in the Canadian Rockies working a World Cup Ski event.

We hope to see you tomorrow night for our Alumnae reunion broadcast and the celebration of the fact that our project just turned one!

Click here to convert the start time of our broadcast to your time zone/region of the world.

---UPDATE--- We just got word that we will be joined live tomorrow night by Doug Symington, who was our very first guest on Gator Radio back on October 29th, 2009! Doug is working a Worldcup Ski event in the Canadian Rockies and will be joining us via his cellphone to help celebrate our birthday!

Photos from GRE's Coverage of Peace Dot

A few photos from the event. All photos are courtesy of Lorrie Duval (full copyright to these photos applies):

Annie interviews Dr. BJ Fogg prior to the start of the program:

Malaika was a key contributor to the event as a speaker throughout the evening:

Mr. Blair, our Upper School Division Head, was in attendance at the launch:

Gator Radio Experience Coverage of the Peace Dot Alpha Launch

The Gator Radio Experience was pleased to run the webcast for the Alpha Launch of the Peace Dot project at Castilleja School on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009! This was our first ever live webcast involving video. If you watch this, I think you'll agree that Annie did a fine job of managing this 'cast. She reports that at one time during the live webcast we had over 60 participants! We know, too, that people were participating in the live webcast from all over the world!

Enjoy the live coverage of last night's event courtesy of the Gator Radio Experience:

For now we'll link to the video as we're having difficulty with embedding directly in the body of this blog post.

Video Link: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2438084

Gator Radio Experience Episode #21 Podcast

What a show tonight! This was the first time we attempted to have live music on the show and we had a blast. A special thank you is in order to Mr. Contois and his buddy David for joining us and playing live on the GRE. They played a variety of electric guitars, the slide, a banjo, and even a mandolin.

We also heard from Malaika about the upcoming "Peace Dot" launch at Castilleja next week and Annie shared a piece on Monty Python. We were also happy to be joined by GRE project member Natalie for the first time this year. Natalie contributed to the project last year, but has been quite busy this year and we're glad she is back!

Thanks to everyone who listened live and contributed to the chat. It was quite a show!

Please mark your schedule for the following broadcast dates:

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - the Gator Radio Experience covers the "Peace Dot" Alpha Launch at Castilleja. We'll broadcast live from 7:00 pm Pacific - 8:30 pm Pacific and we'll be including video as well as audio. Click here to convert the start time of this broadcast to your time zone.

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - The Gator Radio Experience will by joined by  GRE project alumnae Stephanie Lueng, Angie Moore, Kaitlin Carano, and Nicola Schulze. All four are now in college and were major contributors to helping launch our project last year. We're looking forward to the alumnae broadcast on November 3rd! Broadcast start time is 7:00 pm pacific on November 3rd. Click here for the time conversion.

Join us on Tuesday, October 20th for another Gator Radio First!

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Please join us live at 7:00 pm Pacific (click here to convert to your time zone) on Tuesday, October 20th for another Gator Radio Experience first! We'll be joined by Adam Contois, Castilleja's Help Desk and System Software Engineer, for live music! We'll have a conversation with Adam and he'll play both the acoustic and electric guitars during our music segment.

We'll also spend some time discussing the Alpha Launch of the "Peace Dot" project, which is scheduled to take place at Castilleja School on Tuesday, October 27th at 7:00 pm.

A Few News Items and a Programming Note

The Gator Radio Experience is pleased to announce that our work will receive mention in an upcoming book by two professors from George Mason University, Lynne Schrum and Gwen Solomon. The book is titled How2 Web2 and Where2 Next and will be released from ISTE in 2010. While I'm not totally certain what the book is about, I have a hunch that it deals with student use of various mixed media and that our project will be mentioned in a short paragraph. Congrats to all Castilleja Gator Radio Experience team members, both past and present, for your hard work on this project over the past year! It is quite an honor to be referenced in a book!

Secondly, the Gator Radio Experience's music expert, Sam, will be participating in a Teen Tech Forum at the Western Association of Venture Capitalist meeting here in Menlo Park this week. Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch fame will be moderating the panel.  Good luck and have fun on the panel, Sam. We know you'll do great!

Programming Notes:
Our next show is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 7:00 pm pacific/10 pm eastern. We're looking forward to this show as we'll be joined by Castilleja Tech Department member, Adam Contois, for our music segment. Adam will play live music for the first time ever on the Gator Radio Experience! If you'd like a sneak peak of Adam's guitar playing skills, check out a podcast from the Edtechtalk Brainstorm in June.

Finally, it looks like our Alumnae reunion show scheduled for Tuesday, November 3rd at 7:00 pm pacific/10 pm eastern will actually be happening. While the committments are tentative, it looks like we'll be joined by GRE alumnae Stephanie (UC-Santa Barbara), Nicola (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), Kaitlin (Georgetown), and possibly Angie (Pitzer). All four of these alumnae were key contributors to helping get the GRE project up and running last year it it will be wonderful to check in with them to see what they're up to. The 3rd of November also happens to be near the 1 year anniversary of our project (Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 was our first broadcast). We'll use the 3rd as an opportunity to celebrate one year of Gator Radio Goodness as well!

We hope you're able to join us on these upcoming broadcasts. Thanks for supporting the Gator Radio Experience!

Gator Radio Experience Episode #20 Podcast

A special shout-out to Enrique Allen of the Stanford Persuasive Technology lab for joining us as our special guest on the show tonight. Castilleja will be hosting the Peace Dot "Alpha" launch on October 27th and it was great to connect with Enrique to learn more about the project. A big congratulations to new GRE team member, Sarah, for her super effort in her first Internet radio broadcast.

Thanks to all who listened live and thanks to those who will be listening to our podcast!


Click here to download audio of our conversation with Enrique.

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Join us tonight live!

Join us tonight (October 6th, 2009) live at 7 pm pacific/10 pm eastern for episode #20 of the Gator Radio Experience. We'll be joined live by one of the members from BJ Fogg's "Peace Dot" project which will be launched live from Castilleja School on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009. We'll also hear from our new team member, Sarah, who will be joining us for her first time.

Click here to join live at 7 pm tonight. Please contact one of us if you are in need of the password.

GRE Podcast #19

Episode #19 of the Gator Radio Experience was hosted by Malaika and Annie. We were joined by our new 6th grade math teacher, Ms. Montagne, for our interview segment. Thank you to all who listened live and who are listening to the podcast.

As a programming note, our next broadcast is scheduled for Tuesday, October 6th at 7 pm pacific/10 pm eastern. In the broadcast we mistakenly mentioned that our next broadcast is on October 5th.

Gator Radio Experience Episode #18 Podcast

Our first broadcast of the 2009-2010 school year was anchored by Annie, Malaika and Sam. Jen Wagner was our guest and we featured a music set by Big Surrender. Our apologies to Jen for our technical difficulties and we hope she'll come back and visit with us again in the future.

We are trying to broadcast on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 7:00 pm pacific/10 pm eastern, but we are going to shift our broadcast date for our next show to Wednesday, September 23rd at 7:00 pm due to a school event.

We know the Gator Radio Experience could benefit from improved publicity and PR. Please help us by Tweeting us, posting us to Facebook, reblogging, linking to us, telling your friends about our projects, etc.

The GRE Team thanks all of our supporters and listeners. We're looking forward to a great second season!

*Note-please excuse the slightly wonky audio. We hope that audio from our next broadcast is improved.

GRE Participates in Classroom 2.0 Live!

Classroom 2.0 Live! is a regular Saturday morning free professional development experience for teachers. Visit their website to check out their full archives and to see what upcoming professional development experiences they have scheduled on their Calendar.

Anyway, Sam C and I had the good fortune to participate on last Saturday's CR 2.0 Live show to share about our experience with starting up the Gator Radio Experience this past year. I'm including my slides that we used in the presentation and the recorded audio from Saturday's presentation (courtesy of Jeff Lebow from Worldbridges). If you'd prefer, you may catch the recorded Elluminate session at the CR 2.0 Live Archives. At some point, if I have time, I'll try to sync up the slides with the recorded audio and post as a slidecast over at Slideshare.net. Until then, just click through the slides as you're playing the recorded audio if you'd like.

Thanks to Sam C. for waking up early on Saturday morning and participating with myself and the CR 2.0 Live project!

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GRE Participates in Teachers Teaching Teachers

GRE Participants Malaika, Sam, and Natalie M joined Paul Allison and Susan Ettenheim on the "Teachers Teaching Teachers" Wednesday evening live webcast over at Edtechtalk.com on May 20th to share their thoughts on starting up the Gator Radio Experience live Internet radio project this year. During this conversation we spoke with two of Paul's students who are quite interested in beginning a live Interent radio show of their own. Hopefully we can find a way to collaborate more with Paul and his students in the future.

Click here to listen to the recording of this conversation. To see the audio player and to find the audio download link, be sure to scroll to the end of the page.

Gator Radio Experience Episode #17 Podcast

This was our final official broadcast of the 2008-2009 school year. This night was dubbed "Senior Night," where we bid farewell to our Senior leaders on this project, Nicola Schulze, Angie Moore, and Stephanie Leung. Our fourth senior, Kaitlin Carano, was unable to join us but we were happy that she had the opportunity to co-host one final broadcast on May 5th. Our featured band for this broadcast was Punchface, and our music expert Sam C did the intro and song sequeys for this spot.

The Gator Radio Experience would like to extend a great big virtual shout out to all who have supported us in any way throughout the year. Your participation, contributions, comments and encouragement really have helped us persevere through 17 live broadcasts.

Stay tuned to this blog and our Twitter Stream for more news and updates from the Gator Radio Experience. There is some talk of a few summer broadcasts, but if not we look forward to coming back ready to go during the 2009-2010 school year with the Gator Radio Experience Version 2.0.

Have a great summer!

Final Broadcast of the Year!

Come join us for our final broadcast of the year, which is taking place on Tuesday, May 19th at 7:00 pm pacific/10:00 pm eastern. This is our 17th live broadcast of the year and it is also our "Senior Night." We'll be saying farewell to Nicola, Stephanie and Angie during this show.

The Gator Radio Experience appreciates all of our loyal followers and we hope you're able to join us for our final show of the 2008-2009 school year tomorrow!