1: Introducing the Swift Teacher Podcast

In the first episode of the Swift Educator Podcast I give the origin story of the podcast and introduce myself. I lay out the purpose and goals for the podcast. Finally, I discuss what I have seen, the experiences I have had, and my students have had this school year with Swift (*spoiler alert*: it has been awesome!)

I would like to thank my friend and Apple Distinguished Educator colleague Kelly Croy for his help, support, and inspiration in starting this podcast. He has a fantastic podcast [The Wired Educator Podcast](http://wirededucator.com)! I highly recommend it. Kelly can be found on Twitter and is a great follow: [@WiredEducator](https://twitter.com/WiredEducator).

**Links**

[Why Teach Swift](https://www.ifoutty.com/swift-teacher/2017/1/28/why-teach-swift)

[Apple Distinguished Educator program](http://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/)

[Trumbull Career & Technical Center](www.tctchome.com)

[Association for Career & Technical Education](http://www.acteonline.org)

[Swift Playgrounds app](https://appsto.re/us/eHUj2.i)

[Learn to Code 1 & 2](https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1118578018?mt=11)

[Learn to Code 3](https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-playgrounds-learn-to/id1173709121?mt=11)

App Development with Swift curriculum ([Teacher](https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118577558?mt=11)) ([Student](https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/app-development-with-swift/id1118575552?mt=11))

[iTunes U app](https://appsto.re/us/LgcoD.i)

[Notability](https://appsto.re/us/6HJFv.i)

[Connected](https://www.relay.fm/connected)

* Myke Hurley - [@imyke](https://twitter.com/imyke)

* Stephen Hackett - [@ismh](https://twitter.com/ismh)

* Federrico Viticci - [@viticci](https://twitter.com/viticci)

[Canvas](https://www.relay.fm/canvas)

* Fraser Speirs - [@fraserspeirs](https://twitter.com/fraserspeirs)

* Federrico Viticci - [@viticci](https://twitter.com/viticci)

[Accidental Tech Podcast](http://atp.fm)

* Casey Liss - [@caseyliss](https://twitter.com/caseyliss)

* Marco Arment - [@marcoarment](https://twitter.com/marcoarment)

* John Siracusa - [@siracusa](https://twitter.com/siracusa)

You can find the text version of these discussions over on my blog:

[Swift Teacher Blog](http://www.swiftteacher.org)