Learn 4 Life interviews innovative English teacher and BECTA ICT in Practice Winner Tim Rylands about how he uses Myst and virtual landscapes in his lessons. The interwiew was conducted over Skype using an i-River iFP 790.
A fairly comprehensive look at some of the history behind media copyright and the recent defeat of the Broadcast Flag legislation in the States and why it is relevant to the rise of Open Source Software and the coming "possible" legislation in Europe.
Interview with Ian Usher the E-Learning Co-ordinator for Buckinghamshire County Council's School Improvement Service about the use of Moodle authority wide.
Interview with Josie Fraser, Information Learning Technologies (ILT) Development Officer at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, a sucessful 6th form in Leicester about the use of Moodle over several sites.
Interview with Theo Kuechel, Independent Digital Video consultant. Leon Cych of Learn 4 Life talks with Theo about digital media and social networking, del.icio.us, Our Media and other developments in the UK and US. Theo talks specifically about his action research using DVDs as learning tools and the digital media courses he has developed at Hull University which are now franchised to City Learning Centres in the UK.
Interview with Russell Dyas about the amazing popularity of EduGeek.net and the whole ICT peer to peer support network infrastructure that has suddenly sprung up in the last six months. They now have a 700 + strong membership of ICT support staff already. The workshop is on 30th March and the Conference is on Wednesday 19th April 2006 and the venue will be Rochdale City Learning Centre. More info from http://www.edugeekconference.net/.
Interview with Val Brooks about the use of Moodle in the North East, The Rocks From Space site and project with 9 local primary schools and Moodle ( http://rocksfromspace.open.ac.uk) their contribution is the 'Space Safari' and also links to the CLC's Moodle site.
Interview with Quentin D'Souza - Elementary Resource Teacher in the Academic Information and Communication Technology Department at the Toronto Catholic District School Board, which is responsible for over 80,000 students in Toronto , Canada . He helps teachers and administrators to improve the quality of education that they can deliver to their students through the use of technology. He is also the founder of http://www.TheCanadianTeacher.com, where he has developed and shared a broad range of materials and tools geared specifically to Canadian educators.
Interview with Peter Twining - Interview with Peter Twining about his jointly written document http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=10315 - Educational change and ICT.
Interview with Robin Ball - This month we talk with Robin Ball, Learning Services Manager of BECTA, about the Learning Platform Spec, open source, interoperability, pedagogy, training, NAACE and local services.
Interview with Paul Harrington - This week's interview is with Paul Harrington from Cefn Fforest Primary school in Wales - audio and video blogger extraordinaire. He talks about his classes' use of David Warlick's Blogmeister watch him teach the time in Welsh using Flixn.com - completely transfixing and inspirationall! People like Paul trawl for Web 2.0 apps, find the most relevant and use them in a concrete and very practical way in the classroom - I wish the government and Local Authorities would wake up to this amazing innovative use of technology - if you want to see how embedding ICT in the curriculum is done then go to his sites and employ him in a wider capacity!
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