The Big Question

The Diocesan Public Speaking Competition was held last week. Once again the quality of the speakers was exceptional and they should all be very proud of their efforts. Stay tuned for the podcasts of the finals, recorded, edited, produced and published by year 6 at St Francis Xavier.

Podcasting provides students with the purpose and motivation to create spectacular products, like presentations, advertisements, jingles, news reports based on current affairs, interviews and radio programs.

Today we will go through the process of creating an enhanced podcast that will demonstrate our understanding of the following science outcome.

Outcome 4.6: A student identifies and describes energy changes and the action of forces in common situations.

The outcome, learn to and learn abouts and a possible script for your podcast can be found here.

Some images that you may like use can be found here on Picasa

iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT.

Its been active for a few months now and is a great professional learning resource. You can check it out at the iTunes store.

This is a designed to support a professional development session for the Learning Officers from Wollongong Diocese.

In these 3 hours we will discover how to use our ipods more effectively. We will explore their use as a any where, any time professional learning tool and explore ways they are being used within the classroom.

Further podcasting resources can be found in the podcast category of this blog
Part 1

All about podcasts.

What are podcasts, how do we find them, what can we do with them, how do I listen to them?

• iTunes – your pathway to the ipod playlists, importing audio – you can find the apple itunes tutorial here

• exploring iTunes Store

• searching for Podcasts -itunes and feedster

Part 2

How to use your ipod

Connecting your iPod to the computer

Synchronizing your iPod – settings (music, podcasts, video, photos).

Using the iPod, (navigating ff rewind, play)

iSquint – converting movies to ipod movies

Using your ipod as a storage device

Using iSpeak it

Part 3

Classroom ideas

Listening to podcasts The Diocesan Public Speaking Competition

Creating podcasts St Columbkilles Example

Evaluating podcasts Mary Immaculate students reviewing podcasts

Audio recording

Apple’s ipod in the classroom lesson plans

The Presentation from the session can be found here
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New from ABC Radio National is EdPod.
EdPod presents a mix of education stories, from early childhood to the end of secondary school. It’s a jargon-free look at the experience of educators, researchers, parents and students. EdPod examines new education ideas, and asks whether things could or should be done differently. From the classroom to the staff room and on to the home – EdPod brings you the latest ideas about learning.
Why not subscribe with itunes and have each new show delivered once a fortnight.

Ewan McIntosh explains why edublogging and edupodcasting are changing the face of teachers’ and students’ lives.

This was recorded from a BBC Radio Show called “Blogs and Pods”

The following is from Ewans post on the show

Teachers have always shared their ideas within
their own staffroom, but now teachers’ staffroom chat can be more
in-depth, more wide-reaching than ever before. Meanwhile, kids are
already discovering the joys of online social networking. How can
education take advantage of this to increase motivation for learning
and improve the processes we use to teach and learn?

Listen to Ewans talk here Ewan McIntosh on BBC radio

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These podcasts provide some great opportunities for professional learning. Subscribe and enjoy

Connect Learning – David Warlick

K-12 Online Conference 2006

Moving at the Speed of Creativity

National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2006

Learn 4 Life

The Scottish Learning Festival (SETT)

The Online Connectivism Conference (OCC) 2007 You can download the audio from the presentations, view the videos or the powerpoint presentations

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Readings 2007
TEACHnology
moving toward 1:1 for Leaders
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COURSE

The reading list below is provided as stimulus for participants the TEACHnology moving toward 1:1 for Leaders course .

This prereading will enable participants to share a common understanding of the current dialogue around visions for twenty-first century learning.

Participants are asked to read the two articles by Mark Prensky (2001, 2004), a significant speaker, writer and visionary of education and learning. In addition, we would ask you to read the executive summary and sections 1 and 2 (Pp3-29) from Social Software and Learning from Futurelab.

The Podcasts will extend your thinking about technology, 1:1 and creative ways to overcome obstacles. You can listen to the podcasts directly from your computer or download them to your ipod or mp3 player to listen to on the move.

Reading List:

• Owen M, Grant L, Sayers S and Facer K (2006): Social Software and Learning; Futurelab 2006

• Prensky M (2001); Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants; NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No 5, October 2001

• Prensky M (2004); The Emerging Online Life of the Digital native: What they do differently because of technology, and how they do it; Available: http:// www.marcprensky.com/writing/default.asp; [Accessed: December 18, 2006]

Podcasts

One Laptop Per Child	A pioneer of the digital age, Nicholas Negroponte is a founder of Wired magazine and author of the bestselling book Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. Negroponte believes that laptops are both a window into the world and a tool with which to think. Laptops promote independent interaction and exploration and with them, children “learn learning.”
Preventing Your One-to-One Dreams from Becoming Nightmares — Gary Stager	One-to-one computing is inevitable and its backlash growing. Learn to be the imaginative articulate leader required to inspire public support and sustain classroom innovation.
“Unleash the Potential:Remix Obstacles into Opportunities! – Anne Davis	This keynote will reflect on some of the most significant obstacles we face as we focus on best practice in the use of Web 2.0 tools to transform teaching and learning. The discussion will center on the crucial role that relationships, conversations, connections and networks play in supporting effective learning. It will also include suggestions and ideas for action, as well as approaches that foster discussions which result in effective strategies to overcome obstacles.

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At the recent Catholic Schools Expo I was fortunate to sit in on a presentation by staff from St Clares Narellan Vale.

Anita and Trish presented a very engaging presentation on their schools approach to learning, based around a commitment to collaboration, innovation and engaged learning.

St Clares used 21st century pedagogies, collaborative learning and peer observation to drive new classroom design which would empower their students.

You can hear Vince Campbell’s introduction to the presentation here. Unfortunately in an effort to capture all the audio the quality has suffered.

The audio from Trish and Anita’s presentation has had the “interactive” portions edited out but will make sense, especially when listened to in combination with the keynote presentation below. (Please be patient it may take a moment to load.)

Presentation Part 1

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Presentation Part 2

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As I mentioned last post one of our year 5 classrooms decided to use the podcasts of the public speaking. To quote the teacher

“We are focusing on text type ‘review’ in English at the moment ..so it fitted in naturally….plus I wanted to expose the the students to podcasts”

This was the first time the class had listened to podcasts and the student response was really interesting. Below is one boys quick review of the morning session

“I enjoyed listening to the podcasts during this morning’s session of learning. We listened to the public speaking finals and we were able to hear most of the speeches. One of the speeches was on ‘School is important’. That one claimed the winning prize. The next speech we heard was a speech about ‘My worst nightmare’. That one captured the second prize. The last one out of the three speeches was on ‘Creating Peace’. As we were listening to the speeches, we created a mind map to summarise the speech that was our favourite. After that was done, we were able to hear Lance Lagaspi’s speech. Everyone in the room thought that Lance should of come first, not third. His speech was on ‘Creating Peace’ and we thought that it was the best out of the speeches that we heard.

Listening to the podcasts was a great experience for us. I think it is much easier to listen to podcasts, instead of paying money to go to the actual venue….even though the public speaking comp was free …but we were all stuck back at school. Podcasts can be listened to when you’re walking, jogging, biking, working out in the gym, meditating, listening to it in the car and during many other times. They can even be downloaded onto an ‘Ipod’. Having the chance to listen to podcasts is an incredible experience and I’m sure that I will be listening to many podcasts later on in the future. “

Written by,

Kirsten Navarra

You can view 3 of the mindmaps here

Wouldn’t you enjoy lesson reviews like that from your students? I’m sure Kirsten will be podcasting his reviews in the near future.