I give all of the credit for this podcast to my amazing students. They were the ones that kept a debate on intellectual property, remixing, and mash-ups going for nearly thirty minutes. They were the ones that came up with the amazing examples to support their points. They were also the ones to inspire many thoughts on creating rules for how we use content in the classroom. I am now convinced that each classroom of students should decide for themselves just what they want to be done with

Homenagem ao meu grande amigo Peu

Sitting at home in Wales on Thursday evening at about 9.15pm I had a skype message from my pal Allanah King. Allanah is at an e-learning conference in Rotorua New Zealand, where one of their keynote speakers is David Warlick. Allanah was sitting in on David's talk on RSS, Aggregators and Social Networking here is what David had to say to his audience - until either the link or the power went from New Zealand... enjoy hopefully with David's permission - it was such a one off that I couldn't

This podcast was brought about because of the classroom discussion that my eighth graders had about what a terrible affect Myspace can have on their lives. I wanted to start brainstorming a school-sponsored space that we could substitute for Myspace that would be an extension of the classroom. This space would have the ability to connect students over academic interests as well as personal interests. It would allow for photo sharing and digital storytelling within these photos. Primarily,

Convincing parents that the skills of School 2.0 are important is going to be one of the biggest jobs facing all teaching in the very near future. I have outlined in this podcast three possible ways of accomplishing this goal: 1. Student exemplars of continual advancement. 2. Constant communication and reflection on learning between parents and teachers, students and teachers, and parents and students. 3. Parent and Student testimonials of engagement and achievement. My hope is that by

On Tuesday 6th February at 6pm UK time and 7pm in Italy, I had my first 'face to face' video skype conversation with Daniela Lucci Cordisco in Lazio, Rome. It was great to actually speak, we had tried on Monday while I was in school however the line was bad and the echo unfortunately stopped too much discussion. However everything worked perfectly on Tuesday and we were able to swap information about the twinning project which Daniela has set up with many schools around Europe. Take a look

I have been thinking a lot about how we have the same graduation requirements that we have always had. We may have upped the number of Math and English classes, but each student has to do the same things in high school, jump through the same hoops. Why is it that none of the new literacies and skills are included in the graduation requirements? Why should each student accomplish the same things in four years, when they will all be doing different things with their lives? Shouldn't we be

‘Erros de gravação’, ‘então grava de novo’, ‘gargalhadas’, ‘destruição de nosso mascote, o microfone. Isto, infelizmente nossos ouvintes não poderão ouvir e vivenciar nesta rádio, mas conhecerão o resultado de um trabalho incansável de crianças de sete a dez anos, de suas professoras, do Renan, do Nenego e do Rodrigo. Dias de pesquisas, manhãs inteiras de gravação e edição, incansáveis repasses de textos, barulhentas gravações de vinhetas, só poderiam resultar neste programa divertido,

IT Rant #12 A really busy week in IT this week, with our link to AllanahK's podcasts from Appleby School in South Island New Zealand, and the growing number of quality educational podcasts coming from the Southern Hemisphere : ITUcan, Russley Radio, Room5 and Room 1 podcasts shows how there are important pockets of technology around the world. Also included in this Rant is a further report on K12 online and the pre-conference podcast from US Podcast Guru David Warlick. I hope that you

IT Rant #9 In IT Rant #9 I ramble about what I am planning to do in school over the next few weeks. http://kmi4schools.e2bn.net/wales_cefnfforestprimary/index.htm our school Making The News site - link to MTN UK . Also link to Judy O'Connell to be found on Podomatic. Tom Barrett UK Teacher site http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/ Enjoy.

IT Rant #7, this rant is mainly a digest of what has been happening to a Primary School IT Co-ordinator in the past week.

This is a Podcast on Best Practices in Online Design. Topics discussed are a) Pedagogy v/s Andragogy b) Learning Styles c) Asynchronous Learning Networks d) WebCt Tools