NECC Meet-UP for TTPOD

ISTE NECC Teacher’s Podcast Meet-Up and Focus Group

• Free events -  Community opportunity
• Raffle Give-aways - Podcast book (signed), Otterbox iPod and iPhone cases, sports headphones
  
• Meet with your co-hosts: Mark and Kathy in San Antonio
• Teacher Podcast and Fin Lit Collectibles!

Focus Group- Financial Literacy Podcast Launch

• June 30, 2008 3:00-4:00 pm
• Hilton Hotel Palacio Del Rio
  
  • Launch and Introduction
  • Focus Group
  • Sound-off at the round table
  • Opinions, feedback,
    
  • Fin Lit and TTPOD collectibles
    

• RSVP teacherspodcast@gmail.com RE: FinLit Launch at NECC

Teacher’s Podcast R3: Revelations, Reunion & Recordings 

• June 30, 2008 4:00-5:00 or ?? pm
• Hilton Hotel Palacio Del Rio
  
  • Revelations and Insider Secrets of Teacher’s Podcast revealed
    
  • Photo Opps with TTPOD hosts and community
  • Sound-off at the round table
  • Opinions, feedback, and learning
    
  • Interview opportunities
  • Raffle off of items including 1 free copy Podcasting for Teachers
    
  • Fin Lit and TTPOD collectibles
    

RSVP teacherspodcast@gmail.com RE: TTPOD R3 at NECC

Newsflash!                   Newsflash!               Newsflash!                           Newsflash!

Otter Box is helping to sponsor this event by donating Otterbox cases for iPod touch, iPod Nano, iPhone and Headphones to be raffled off to some of re participants

 Thank you Otter Box for making fine products and caring about teachers!!

Please note, you must be present at the focus group and Teacher’s Podcast Reunion to be eligible to win one of these prizes donated by Otterbox  www.otterbox.com

Check Out The Podcast Series:

Talking Financial Literacy

Talking Financial Literacy Podcast and its companion resource site is a resource for educators. If you are seeking to gain information, resources and insights about incorporating teaching and learning about personal finance into a variety of content studies, this is the place to check for current, interesting and top-notch assistance.

Building on the power of new media, whether you are reading the web, checking the web links or listening to the podcast, you will find an abundance of help in this growing community of educators interested in the same pursuit.

Your Talking Financial Literacy Podcast hosts and producers are Mark Gura and Dr. Kathleen P. King.

Themes and Topics

The series investigates and reports on the current state of Financial Literacy Education in our nation’s schools. The reporting is done with an eye toward identifying gaps and insufficiencies and makes recommendations on approaches to remedy these. The series’ website provides links to content resources that listeners may use in better understanding this area and preparing themselves to provide a better learning experience and program for their students.

The series provides content in the following areas which are traditionally associated with personal finance and economics instruction and for which, traditionally, material for use in schools has been produced:

• Life Skills (career skills, etc.)
• Social Studies (economics)
• Mathematics

Furthermore, a significant portion of the podcast series is devoted to interviews of expert and highly knowledgeable professionals in these and other areas of education that may address instruction in Financial Literacy.

In addition to covering traditional dimensions, the series will ask the questions:

• What is “Financial Literacy?” Is the answer to this question something of a moving target?
• Why MUST ‘Financial Literacy’ literacy as mission critical education be re-defined and re-established for young people NOW?
• How has the world, and peoples’ relationship to economics and financial literacy evolved to make this so important?

One way of addressing the above will be to present relevant headlines and news articles.

The series also examines areas of advanced and exemplary activity in Financial Literacy Education, i.e. states that have developed standards specific to it and that have provided content and other resources to with which to implement them.

Discussion Threads

During the course of the 24 episodes a wide variety of topics will be explored, each giving insight into the place, importance, and methods for a facet of Financial Literacy Education. These will include:

• Banking
• Saving
• Budgeting
• CREDIT
• Loans (including student loans)
• Taxes
• Investing
• Entrepreneurship
• What does Joe Citizen need to know about global economics?

Please contact us with your ideas,
Your Talking Fin Lit Cohosts podcast@talkingfinlit.org