Podcasting Made Easy

I’m halfway through putting together a series of audio pieces on the poet Gwen Harwood for my Year 12 Literature class; it will be a mix of students reading the poems, to students and teachers discussing the poems: Harwood; the album! I enjoy listening to podcasts, and have tried making them in the past, with [...]

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Andrew Douch on redefining classroom

I was at a network meeting this week where Andrew Douch presented on ‘Redefining classroom’. Andrew is an innovative classroom teacher who has been the recipient of several big awards, including 2008 Microsoft Australia Innovative Teacher of the Year. A Biology teacher in a regional High School, Andrew traced his personal journey with learning technologies, [...]

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Resources: virtual and real

I spent some time tonight doing a presentation at Coburg Senior High to a group of English teachers on a Virtual Resource Centre I’ve been working on with my co-author of The EnglishBoook. The EnglishBook is a senior English resource book aimed at students undertaking their final year in the VCE, published by Cengage Learning. [...]

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Wozcast 16

My latest podcast, Wozcast 16 is now online. It’s a discussion of the ICTEV Conference in a bit more detail including James Farmer’s keynote address on the intoxicating power of content, the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and some new tools I’ve been using, especially for mapping. There’s more detailed notes and download [...]

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GenTech

Steve Whitaker used to produce a great little podcast called WEB2. It seems to have morphed into GenTech. I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet but the topics in the show notes are very interesting including using basic tools for great results, getting started with edublogs, open source software for learning and [...]

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EdTechWeekly #21

I’m usually a couple of weeks behind with getting to listen to these, but I’m always impressed with them when I do. EdTechTalk run a series of educational podcasts but the EdTechWeekly one is my favourite. The focus is educational and there’s lots of links and new sites to check out, all included on a [...]

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Wozcast 15 (update)

I probably should have realised when I saw the new ugly purple ads that podomatic maybe wasn’t travelling well, so after a few days having trouble getting podomatic to play properly, I’ve decided to resort back to ye olde manual podcast handling; uploading it to some web space I’ve got, and uploading the xml file [...]

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Wozcast 15

Having trouble getting podomatic to do the right thing and shoot my new podcast off to innumerable ipods!, and am working on that, so meanwhile here’s a direct link to my latest Wozcast; focusing somewhat geekily this time, on essential software for students and me. Wozcast 15

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Essential software

I updated the page on essential software today and even put together a wozcast on what I thought the important tools and utilities were for a new computer. Unfortunately, Podomatic is playing up. Not only has it now got big ugly ads, but it sort of doesn’t work! I’ll try to upload the podcast and [...]

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wozcast 14

It’s new, it’s fresh, it’s short! It’s Wozcast 14. I just uploaded my most recent podcast. Just less than half an hour on: Day 3 of the VITTA (Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association) Conference at Flemington Racecourse on Nov 22, 2006, including talk about SENSIS, SENSEI, safe searching, online learning platform ‘Study Wiz’, the Heathmont [...]

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