Podium on the road

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 [...]

Poetry and Podcasting
We used the BBC’s Off by Heart project to kick off our poetry theme.This new initiative from the BBC aims to encourage primary school pupils to engage with learning and reciting poetry. Supplemented with Doug’s amazing collection of poetry books teachers were soon playing with Podium and quickly learning how to record their chosen poems.

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A step in the wrong direction..?
An article recently featured within the Daily Telegraph sees Marks and Spencer raising the hackles of NASUWT by producing a school blazer that has a space sewn into it for iPods. According to the article - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2563929/Marks-and-Spencer-under-fire-for-school-blazer-that-hides-iPod.html - NASUWT representatives believe the blazer encourages students to show disregard for school rules by listening to [...]

Podcasting comes to Surrey
Sometimes people just make my day.
Yesterday I had wakened early (before 5.00) and had begun my drive down the M1 towards Surrey. My route was to take me on to the M25 and then around to J10 and off to Cobham. I gave myself 3 hours to do it … it was not enough. I [...]

Podium Podcasting in Wickford, Essex
4th July found me making the drive round the M25 (it was totally clear!!) to Essex to support my friend Philippa for two sessions of podcasting with Podium.
We had two splendid sessions made the more inspiring by ‘frontman’ Alan Drew, Curriculum Development Advisor, ICT, for Essex County Council who had put real time and [...]

Budding journalists get to grips with Podium
As sponsors of the annual Newsday competition, we were delighted to attend the awards ceremony on Friday to hand out prizes to the winners of the podcast category, of which we were sponsors. The awards ceremony was held at the Guardian Newsrooms in Farringdon, London and was hosted by the lovely people at Learn.co.uk [...]

Podium Podcasting in Luton
The sun shone on us on Friday in Luton where, in the ICT suite of the Luton Learning Resource Centre a group of primary consultants gathered to podcast using the Podium Software.
The idea was for these professionals to discover both the functionality of the software and the curriculum implications behind its use. Able users they [...]

Podcasting in Spondon
With 32 excited Y1 children, 10 laptops and assortment of microphones, 2 teachers and myself we embarked on a podcast of what each of the groups thought of the story of Cinderella.
Firstly we had to set the kit up over lunch time and check that the laptop batteries were charged and that the mics worked [...]

What are your first impressions of Podium multi-tracking?
So what are your first impressions of the new multi-track Podium? Simon Mills, as ever, has been quick off the mark with his views, which certainly seem to mirror my own.
During a recent hands-on training course with ICT co-ordinators in South Wales (thanks to Graham Evans from ESIS for the invitation), I was introducing podcasting [...]

Much ado about secondary podcasting
There has been a lot of emphasis on podcasting in primary schools during the 18 months I’ve been travelling the country extolling the virtues of podcasting with Podium.
Clearly the importance of multimodal learning, speaking and listening as well as the renewed primary framework mentioning podcasting as an ICT application are important factors, as well as [...]

Baldev Singh and Doug Dickinson @ The Guardian, Feb 8th 2008
Many thanks to Lucy Haire, Emma Drury, Margaret Holborn and colleagues at Learnnewsdesk from the Guardian for helping arrange a terrific half-day conference entitled “Raising achievement through podcasting” at the Newsroom venue in central London on Friday last week, which was sponsored by Softease.
Over 80 people packed the seminar room to hear a number of [...]

Podium comes to North Somerset
James and I made the trip on 23rd January to Nailsea to work with Angie Bray and the team from North Somerset and a group of extremely enthusiastic teachers who were going to work with Podium in their schools for the next three months. Apart from anything else the welcome and the sandwiches were wonderful [...]

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 [...]

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.

The 5 ‘P’s
When we were thinking about Podcasting with Podium we came up with the 5 Ps - Prepare, Produce, Promote, Perform and Publish. On Tim Ryland’s Blog I notice that he talks about the 5 P Principles: “Proper Preparation Prevents a Poor Performance” … this really does apply to Podium and podcasting.
Podium Podcasting … easy peasy
Take twenty four, mixed ability, Y6 children with a developing ICT capability, a forward looking teacher willing to ‘give it a go’, a school prepared to let children try things out, a set of wireless laptops that work with decent microphones connected, a good broadband connection with an ISP that does not block FTP, curriculum [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Isle of Wight MFL and ICT Conference
Over 70 MFL teachers gathered on Friday and Saturday 12/13th October at Nodehill Middle School in the Isle of Wight for a Conference to reach out and accelerate the use of ICT across all aspects of the teaching and learning of languages. It was a truly multi-national affair with delegates from as far afield [...]