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by derek bruff, executive director<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>five years ago, i pitched the idea of a podcast about educational technology to a group of colleagues at vanderbilt. i had been thinking about this idea for a while, interviewing faculty and others at vanderbilt and elsewhere who were using technology creatively and effectively to enhance student learning. i even had a list of ten or so people i hoped to interview for the podcast. but i wasn\u2019t sure how i could produce such a podcast by myself. i could probably learn what i needed to make a basic podcast, but conducting interviews, scripting introductions, editing audio, all that would take a lot of time. this was a project that would go better as a team effort, and fortunately my pitch was warmly received by my colleagues. after a few months of planning and preparing and interviewing, the podcast leading lines<\/em> was born!<\/p>\n

we posted our first episode<\/a>, an interview with george siemens, in july 2016. if you pull up that episode page on the leading lines<\/em> website, you’ll see we labeled that episode with a 001. i remember thinking that we might hit triple digits sometime far in the future, so we might as well use a file naming convention we could stick with for a long time. it was hard to believe at the time, when we were wondering how we would find enough interviews to finish our first season, that we would ever reach episode 100, but as of this month, we finally reached that milestone. we posted episode 100<\/a>, featuring an interview with vanderbilt alumna zoe leblanc, on november 15th.<\/p>\n

in leading lines<\/em>, we explore creative, intentional, and effective uses of technology to enhance student learning, uses that point the way to the future of educational technology in college and university settings. through interviews with educators, researchers, technologists, and others, we hope to amplify ideas and voices that are (or should be!) shaping how we think about digital learning and digital pedagogy. in art, leading lines are visual elements in a drawing, painting, or photograph that guide the viewer\u2019s eyes into the scene. i hope that the interviews we share on the podcast lead our listeners through the educational technology landscape, helping them understand what’s happening now and pointing the way to what should happen in the future.<\/p>\n

we’ve covered many different elements of the educational technology landscape, from digital literacy to active learning classrooms to massive open online courses to teaching with games. we’ve had so many great guests that there’s no way i can pick favorites, but i did want to share a few episodes that stood out to me as particularly insightful, at least to me and my explorations of educational technology.<\/p>\n