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Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 18th, 2008
The nineteenth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing the ‘Year’s Best Science Fiction’, 22nd Annual Collection anthology.
This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005 and still growing!
This blog and podcast is the fifth and final part of a discussion of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois, as a valuable, one-volume text for teaching modern SF.
Seven stories from the anthology are discussed in Part 5, including stories by Robert Reed, James L Cambias, Eleanor Arnason, Peter F Hamilton, Paul Di Fillipio and Walter John Williams, in relation to the five themes of SF studied at the secondary level .
If you want to read more about the mySF Project you can find an overview at the Microsoft Education website.
The text of this podcast can be found in the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.
The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 23M in size, in mp3 format, running for thirty-three minutes anmd including a last overview of the whole anthology as a teaching text.
The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
mySF Project podcast, number 19
Direct download: mysf_019_2008_07_17.mp3
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
The eighteenth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing the ‘Year’s Best Science Fiction’, 22nd Annual Collection anthology.
This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005 and still growing!
This blog and podcast is the fourth part of a discussion of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois, as a valuable, one-volume text for teaching modern SF.
Five stories from the anthology are discussed in Part 4, including stories by Colin P Davies, Stephen Baxter, Caitlin R Kiernan and Brendan Du Bois, in relation to the five themes of SF studied at the secondary level . If you want to read more about the mySF Project you can find an overview at the Microsoft Education website.
The text of this podcast can be found in the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.
The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 14M in size, in mp3 format.
The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
mySF Project podcast, number 18
Direct download: mysf_018_2008_07_16.mp3
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The seventeenth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing the ‘Year’s Best Science Fiction’, 22nd Annual Collection anthology.
This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005 and still growing!
This blog and podcast is the third part of a discussion of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois, as a valuable, one-volume text for teaching modern SF.
Five stories from the anthology are discussed in Part 3, including stories by Vernor Vinge, Mary Rosenbaum, Vandana Singh, Albert E Cowdrey, William Sanders and Daniel Abraham, in relation to the five themes of SF studied at the secondary level .
The text of this podcast can be found in the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.
The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 20M in size, in mp3 format.
The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
mySF Project podcast, number 17
Direct download: mysf_017_2008_07_15.mp3
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
The sixteenth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing the ‘Year’s Best Science Fiction’, 22nd Annual Collection anthology.
This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005 and still growing!
This blog and podcast is the second part of a discussion of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois, as a valuable, one-volume text for teaching modern SF.
Five stories from the anthology are discussed in Part 2, including stories by Michael F Flynn, M John Harrison, Terry Bisson, James Patrick Kelly and Kage Baker, in relation to the five themes of SF studied at the secondary level .
The text of this podcast can be found in the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.
The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 15M in size, in mp3 format.
The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
mySF Project podcast, number 16
Direct download: mysf_016_2008_07_14.mp3
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The fifteenth podcast for teachers of secondary students studying Science Fiction, discussing the ‘Year’s Best Science Fiction’, 22nd Annual Collection anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois.
This podcast relates to the mySF Project, created in 2005 and still growing!
This blog and podcast is the first part of a discussion of the ‘Year’s Best Science Fiction’, 22nd Annual Collection anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois, as a valuable, one-volume text for teaching modern SF. Five stories from the anthology are discussed in Part 1, including stories by Pat Murphy, Benjamin Rosenbaum, David Moles, Nancy Kress and Paolo Bacugalupi, in relation to five themes SF studied at the secondary level .
The text of this podcast can be found in the mySF Project Scripts section of the mySF Project.
The purpose of the podcast is to join other educators to collaborate on the construction of great SF teaching resources. The podcast is 15M in size, in mp3 format. It runs for 22 minutes. Background and other music was created by michaels with a pet theramin and the much better bits by slowalan.
The mySF Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
mySF Project podcast, number 15
Direct download: mysf_015_2008_07_11.mp3
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