Episode description

The Maker Movement is for everyone. Roger Wagner's awesome software HyperStudio has allowed my students and me to create amazing interactive projects from earliest days of teaching to creating interactive iBooks Author widgets today. In this podcast I interview Roger Wagner. Roger Wagner is a former Physics, Chemistry and Math teacher, patent-holding inventor, and was named by Technology & Learning Magazine as one of the top 5 "Most Important Educational Technology Gurus of the Past Two Decades", along with Seymour Papert, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Roger is best-known for his creation of the program HyperStudio, and more recently, the HyperDuino. As an educator, software designer, and educational technology visionary with 30 years of experience, Roger Wagner has worked with numerous K-12 schools, as well as college and university teacher preparation programs, in their models for the creation of highly interactive student projects.

Mentioned in this Podcast:

HyperStudio: Software every teacher and student should use. One word review: Amazing!

HyperStudio Author: Create powerful widgets for iBooks Author easily. 

Hyperduino: Roger's new project for work with Arduinos

Roger Wagner's website.

Book: The Maker Movement by Mark Hatch

Books: Jules Verne's Classics by Jules Verne

Book: Who Owns the Future? by Jaren Lanier

Book: Non Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright

Book: You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier

Book: Along Came a Leader by Kelly Croy (Signed or multiple copy discounts)

Book: Along Came a Leader by Kelly Croy (Amazon link: softcover & digital)