Gator Radio Going on Hiatus

I wanted to pass along this quick programming note to all of our Gator Radio supporters:

The Gator Radio Experience will be going on a hiatus over the next several weeks and perhaps months. We're not entirely sure of the duration, but at this point we're hopeful we can reorganize and refocus our efforts and come back strong before this school year ends in late May.

Please continue to follow our blog, Facebook Fan page, and Twitter account for updates on future broadcasts.

Thanks for all of the support you've given us in getting this project off the ground. We hope to be back on the air soon!

Regards,
The Gator Radio Team

Gator Radio Interviewed on the ben N ben Show from Maine

It was really, really fun last night connecting with the "ben N ben" show from Yarmouth High School outside of Portland, Maine. Natalie M was our only Gator Radio participant on the show and she did a fantastic job. If you listen to this podcast recording, there is a HUGE surprise--it is one of those "Small World" kinds of things.

This is a great show...full of energy, enthusiasm, ideas, and fun conversation.  Listen to the podcast at: http://edtechtalk.com/node/4658

For more information on the ben N ben show and to listen to their archives, visit the following URL:
http://tinyurl.com/bennben

Gator Radio Experience #24 Podcast

The Gator Radio Experience was joined last night by wildlife photographer, David Cardinal, of Cardinal Photography to talk about his work and most recent photo safari to South Africa and Botswana. Natalie M and Annie C moderated a wonderful conversation with David. We were also pleased to be joined during or post show by Jeff Lebow, who recently relocated to Busan, South Korea. Thanks to all of our live listeners and any of you who are catching up with the podcast. This broadcast will conclude our 2009 broadcast season. On behalf of the entire Gator Radio staff, we would like to wish you and your family a safe and relaxing holiday season. We look forward to catching up with all of you again in the New Year!

http://www.archive.org/download/GatorRadio24/Gre24Dec92009.mp3

Gator Radio Experience nominated for a 2009 "Edu-Blog" Award

The Gator Radio Experience has officially been nominated for a 2009 "Edu-Blog" Award under the category of "Best Use of Educational Audio." This is quite an honor for our students to be mentioned along with the many other outstanding projects in this category.

If you think we're worthy, stop over to the Edu-Blogs page and place a vote for us!

Update - Next Broadcast Date Changed Yet Again

Due to scheduling conflicts here at school with the December 8th broadcast date, our next show is in fact being rescheduled to Wednesday, December 9th at 7 pm pacific time. Please plan on joining us for this broadcast and spread the word amongst your various networks. We'd love to have a big audience join us for our next broadcast.

By the way, a little news item came to our attention this past week. The Gator Radio Experience was nominated for a 2009 Edublogs award under the category of "Best Use of Educational Audio." I'm not so sure we'll have enough nominations to show up in the final voting, but hey, to even by mentioned is quite an honor for our student powered team.

Update - This coming Tuesday's show is postponed

Our broadcast scheduled for Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 is being pushed back one week due to scheduling conflicts with many of the GRE team members.

We apologize for the schedule change, but we hope to see you all at our live broadcast on Tuesday, December 8th at 7 pm pacific. We're close to lining up a really interesting guest and it promises to be a fun show.

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