Archive for the 'Podcampuk' Category

Podcasting in Plain English plus Frankley Talks again.

Monday, April 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Students at Frankley High have returned to their experiment with podcasting which I was helping to support last year. It’s taken a while to get back but we’re hoping to create a learning group where those who worked with us last year begin to show the teachers how to use the kit.

We also went [...]

It’s 99% crap

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | No Comments »

Please read this sobering but accurate post from Gia Milinovich after her first visit to TED – the place where the currency is quality ideas, focussed leaders, ambition for change worth working for.

Podtreasure

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

Stephen Fry starts podcasting. What a voice. What a mind.

Bungling brum makes podcast

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

The stories of Birmingham City Council’s failure to establish a relaible system for paying it’s bills has made number one on computer weekly.com. The site makes a podcast each week from it’s 5 most popular stories. Our blessed financial frippery made number one slot. Link to the site is a touch [...]

Podcasts worth $165 million in the USA

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

Techcrunch has some guestimates from eMarketeer that reckon the number of active podcast consumers in America was 6.5 million last year (who yielded advertising worth $165 million) and will grow to 25 milion in 2012. Now the bold use of future numbers (licked finger in air) is why I’ve always struggled with a business [...]

Blog rules for schools and young people - to txt speak or not?

Monday, September 10th, 2007 | No Comments »

I thoroughly enjoyed PodcampUK at the beginning of this month, but the session which I found most helpful was from Joe Dale. Joe teaches French at a Middle School on the Isle of Wight and what caught my interest were his blog rules.

They help manage the tricky problem of comments, which really motivate pupils [...]

 
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