Shout Out of the Day: Corey Rogers

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Corey (Marshall) Rogers is one of my bestest friends from GVSU/Houghton Lake. She is an Applied Technology teacher at Orchard Lake Middle School near Detroit. Cor gets the shout out because she had the best day of her life today when she met one of her heroes AND was invited by a very prestigious man to present at a national conference next year.

Corey received a grant last spring to create a podcast with her students starting this past fall. (Just in case this whole podcast thing is new to you, a podcast is an audio file, similar to a radio show, that is available for download from theInternet.) The segment ideas, interviews, and recordings were all done by the students. Corey has now presented at two conferences to teach other teachers about podcasting. You can find the podcasts at her website: http://mrsrogers.net

Corey presented today at the Power Up Conference for Oakland schools. One of the people who attended her presentation was David Warlick. David is a nationally known consultant on technology and education and is also listed on Corey's MySpace account as one of the three people she would love to meet. David completed a live blog during Corey's presentation. He loved her and wrote things like:

OK, the display is up, and she has changed her hard drive icon to the Starbucks emblem. My kind'a geek.

This woman is geekier than I am. I'm loving this. Her students do a classroom podcast

She's teaching me some stuff about Audacity that I didn't know. Very cool.

He even took pictures of Corey at her presentation. (Uh oh Glen, better watch out!)

See more on his blog at http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/04/04/podcasting-session/

Then to make things even better, the Executive Director of MACUL (The Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning) saw Corey's presentation and invited her to present again next year at the MACUL Conference. He even told her when applying to say she was invited by the Executive Director!!!

What a great day Cor!! You're awesome and I'm very proud of you!

http://mrsrogers.net/