January 15, 2009
- Taking control of learning through collaboration, cooperation and peer review
Doug Dickinson, Independent ICT Consultant, is doing a seminar at BETT today called ‘Taking control of learning through collaboration, cooperation and peer review. He will discuss how, through the use of a variety or Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasts, teachers can use the power of collaboration and peer-to-peer review to effectively [...]
July 12, 2008
- Podcasting at Killhope Mining Museum
Podcasting at Killhope Mining Museum
Tuesday 10th June 2008
ITSS
Softease
Killhope
Scenario/Scene:
The Killhope mining museum lies at the upper end of Weardale and it was here that eight schools, four children per school and an assortment of staff from ITSS, the schools, the museum and Softease assembled for the ‘great podcast challenge’. - A day in [...]
April 21, 2008
- Inspiring learning and creativity… a podcast about podcasting!
Over the last 18 months or so I’ve thoroughly enjoyed telling people the stories of many teachers who have personally witnessed the power of podcasting to increase pupil engagement and learning through the use of recorded audio and podcasting.
These have included:Infant schools, such as Grays Infant school in Newhaven and Sandon JMI in Hertfordshire
Special schools [...]
January 14, 2008
- Podcasting and the Scottish play - BETT Seminar Jan 12th 2008
Thanks again to Doug for providing theatrics worthy of an even greater stage then the BETT 2008 seminar on podcasting and education last Saturday at London’s Olympia.
A highly entertaining display awoke the audience from their collective Saturday morning slumber as participation from the audience was far more RADA than Ofsted.
Doug has kindly made his slides [...]
December 9, 2007
- Talking for Writing
Moving on for Simon Mills’s ‘Talking for Writing’ literacy unit, his class have now developed the podcast that is well worth listening to. Just goes to show that when you put and enthusiastic teachers and enthusiastic/able children together with an idea then creativity rules.
November 22, 2007
- How podcasting can support children with SEN
I’ve often talked with people up and down the country about the power of podcasting to support children with SEN.
Not only can it help overcome potential barriers of writing or keyboard skills via the use of the pupil’s voice, but it can help extend the quality of their work thanks to the high degree of [...]
November 16, 2007
- Easy to use
“Podium allows the user to very easily record an audio file, play it back, edit it and then broadcast it via the internet”
This is how Podium was described recently in an article by Marc Bowen Deputy Head at Colerne primary school. Marc took part in a pilot trial of Podium last year, his feedback emphasises how [...]
November 7, 2007
- Y3 … you can count on them … in French
I’ve had a terrific day !! This afternoon I worked with a couple of absolutely incredibly, stupendous teachers and 26 Y3 children. We podcasted (with Podium)
The children had never heard their voices before and were so excited to listen to each other and to get me to listen to what they had said. There was [...]
October 10, 2007
- Team 6 Infants release podcast news show with Podium and Espresso
Yet another example of why podcasting is particularly powerful for very young children!
Many thanks to Christine Terry, Head of Grays Infants School in Newhaven, East Sussex, for telling us about a news radio podcasting project recently started by a group of six pupils calling themselves ‘Team 6‘.Christine has very kindly shared with us her [...]
September 20, 2007
- Headphones Help Pupils Improve Their Reading.
There was an interesting article by Helen Ward in the TES on Friday 14th September. She highlighted a study carried out by Exeter University. The study looked at 159 children aged between six and thirteen who were at least a year behind their peers in reading. These pupils then worked on making tape recordings of [...]
September 14, 2007
- Is your podcasting software easy-to-use?
Thanks to Anthony Evans once again for sharing his thoughts about podcasting and Podium.
There’s no doubt that podcasting has huge potential as a transparent teaching and learning tool that can help motivate pupils of all ages and in any subject area you could mention.
However, the reality is that currently the number of schools that [...]
September 6, 2007
- Why infants love to podcast - a real world example
I received a lovely email today from Renate Manners, a teacher at Sandon JMI school in Hertfordshire. They are one of the schools that have been using Podium as part of a project with other schools in the county this year.
As Renate explains:
“We are one of the [Hertfordshire] pilot schools and are having fun using [...]
August 14, 2007
- Podcasting and Podium presentation now online thanks to Zoho Viewer
Thanks to an amazing new free service from Zoho here is a Powerpoint presentation on podcasting and Podium from a few months ago. All I had to do was go to Zoho Viewer and upload the file (it takes common files such as doc, xls, csv, ppt, pdf, rtf, html and txt up to 10MB [...]
August 8, 2007
- So what is Web 2.0?
When I first heard of Web 2.0 I was a little unsure what it meant. I therefore trawled the Internet trying to get to grips with the meaning of the phrase and found the following slide show. It gives an excellent explanation as to what Web 2.0 is (You will need to keep clicking the [...]
July 12, 2007
- Podium Podcasting engages challenging children in Wiltshire
Helen Southwell from Wiltshire LA has published an excellent write-up on the Primary Nuggets blog about the use of podcasting with Podium to engage some Y3,4 and 5 children with challenging behaviour. To quote Helen:
“Despite the challenging behavior sometimes displayed by some members of the group in other classroom situations, they remained focused, worked collaboratively, [...]
June 28, 2007
- Podium Kickstarts Budding Journalists with the New Literacy Framework!
Thames Primary School in Blackpool were one of the first Schools to trial Podium for us. I went back to meet with Stacy Bridge, who is the teacher responsible for bringing Podcasting into the School.
I wanted to get some background to the school and how she used it and we started talking. I quickly realized [...]
June 24, 2007
- Ewan does it again !!
My Feedbliz email this morning popped up another posting from Ewan McIntosh wearing his MFL hat and talking about podcasting … this time in French.
There is some terrific stuff here … I direct you to his bit about getting royalty free sounds from ‘Incompetech’ and ( if you can translate it … ‘come on Ewan [...]
June 23, 2007
- Podium Podcasting explained
I am alerted to the ‘ICT Inspirations’, the blog of Simon Mills, and a neat description of the use of Podium in a class based project on advertising fitting in with the Framework’s unit on persuasive text that is certainly worth the read.
There is also a useful guide to how to use Podium written from [...]
May 31, 2007
- The power of blogging
The session detailed below has been picked up by Joe Dale on his MFL blog
May 21, 2007
- ‘Low-tech, high-touch, high-impact’ - a manifesto for podcasting?
A very big thank you to Ewan McIntosh for joining us at the Podium Launch in Stirling last Wednesday. His keynote speech ‘Communication and Creativity in the Classroom’ was a jam-packed hour of informed analysis and entertaining examples that clearly illustrated how podcasting and the many other facets of social software are already actively engaging [...]
