#SLTeachMeet London 24th May 2013

Here are the 2 hours of #SLTeachMeet from Tuesday 23rd May 2013. 1st Hour   If you can't see the video on your device click here: http://www.youtube.com/embed/v2k5UAr8fhM   2nd Hour   If you can't see the video on your device click here: http://www.youtube.com/embed/XCocT8J-lKY If you are pressed for time then listen to the broadcasts instead on Read more

How to make better voiceovers for your Videos on TeachTweet

This blog entry is to complement the video A short film about sound I made on April 2nd 2013 for #TeachMeet #Ukedchat #TeachTweet Session 147. Because of the limit of 5 minutes, the film could only lightly skirt the theory and process of doing voiceovers. This blog entry augments Read more

L4Lnews 23-04-2013

Details of all the paper and text resources to follow later - in the meantime - here's the podcast on AudioBoo: http://audioboo.fm/boos/1348250-l4lnews-23-04-2013 and on Read more

L4L News Playlist

I have now put all the 26 L4Lnews broadcasts in one playlist - I'll be adding to these with a full searchable index later in the year as part of building searchable data that can be extracted from the broadcasts so I can reference them and for academic research Read more

National Scholarship Fund for Teachers

Here's a quick mindmap of the main points in the £3500 Fund teachers can apply for - I find it useful to make a mind map of various government initiatives now and again - there is a link to the original PDF as well. Hope it's useful. Just click Read more

L4Lnews 08-04-2013

Access this week's show at: SOUNDCLOUD   https://soundcloud.com/l4lnews/l4lnews08-03-2013 AUDIOBOO listen to ‘L4Lnews-08-03-2013 ’ on Audioboo(function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type = "text/javascript"; po.async = true; po.src = "http://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); http://audioboo.fm/boos/1316777-l4lnews-08-03-2013 MIXCLOUD http://www.mixcloud.com/L4Lnews/l4lnews-08-03-2013/ ARCHIVE.ORG Different audio formats archived at: https://archive.org/details/Learn4LifeNews08-11-2012_670 For those of you who prefer reading you can access the Licorize booklet at: http://licorize.com/projects/3yebeams/L4Lnews08-04-2013 The transcript Read more

Why you need production quality sound on videos

I'm really pleased so many teachers and pupils are making their own videos now but there is one thing that people always cut corners on - and that is sound quality. It doesn't take much to make the sound on a video much, much better; here's a little (squashed!) Read more

Weekly Newsletter from this week

From this week we'll be introducing a weekly newsletter informing people of all the new developments on the Learn 4 Life blog and media site. We'll be using the tinyletter site to do this as it is unobtrusive and leaves a small footprint but a well-defined archival trail for people Read more

Nominet Trust - Digital Making

DIGITAL MAKING REVIEW Recently I was lucky enough to be asked by the Nominet Trust to Livestream/post produce films around the discussion involving Julian Sefton-Green's review for them - Mapping Digital Makers - a review exploring everyday creativity, learning lives and the digital. Unlike the recent iPad Review launched by London Knowledge Read more

Online TV and Radio from L4L after Easter

Over the last year I have been working towards building a series of specialist media channels for L4L. In the last decade I have recorded many, many hours of interviews on video, tape and digital recorders. I have given up on mainstream media championing the cause of grass roots teachers' CPD Read more

#PedagooLondon at the Institute of Education 02-03-2013

Here is an ongoing blogpost about the #PedagooLondon event held at the Institute of London last Saturday. Here is the playlist of interviews I did with various participants before and after the meetings. One of the things I was hoping to tease out of people was the difference between #Pedagoo and Read more

TeachMeet London at Walthamstow Academy

Last night I had the pleasure of broadcasting the audio for TeachMeet London at Walthamstow Academy. I have to thank  Kafilat Agboola and Dave Clark for access to the wonderful sound system that made it all possible. I also managed to interview several people before, during and after the event Read more

What I use for a live streaming portable radio station

People have asked me about the dark arts of live audio streaming and the kit I use with iPhone and iPad to do it. Here are the specs. 1)Mixlr First off I have a professional subscription to Mixlr - this is about £4.99 a month (Feb 2013 at the time of writing). This Read more

What is on the L4L iPhone App

What is on the L4L iPhone App - look at this 2 minute video to find out: If you can't see that on your device click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJ19b60zVY The App is free - download it from Read more

Smarter uses of iPads

Last month I went along to the iPads in the Classroom event at the London Knowledge Lab. It was a dissemination of the summation of "research" about the use of iPads in the Classroom. Despite the various studies I am still unconvinced about wholesale use of iPads in classrooms. For Read more

#WonderAcademy - a new type of #Hashtag TeachMeet

Here is the Storify from tonight's #TeachMeet online called #WonderAcademy. The two presenters tonight were: EduTronic - Christopher Waugh and Kevin Bartle [View the story "#Wonderacademy The Twitter academy online" on Storify]#Wonderacademy The Twitter academy onlineStorified by Leon Cych· Wed, Feb 06 2013 14:12:01Christopher WaughRT @Wonderacademy: Welcome to #wonderacademy, let's Read more

Presentation for BETT 2013 Leadership Strand

This is my Powerpoint on the topic of Teacher Communities in Formal and Informal Education for BETT Read more

On the appropriate use of Social Media

For the first time in six years, that I know, I have been publicly affronted on twitter. Who did this thing and what did I do to deserve such overt vituperation? Well - it was the MP Douglas Carswell to be precise. He posted this tweet on Saturday 5th January 2012: Without giving Read more

Online Teacher Communities

I have made a film for Vital's edfutures.net: http://edfutures.net/ You can see the film below and the transcript below that. Please share this film with your colleagues to widen the network. Online Teacher Communities (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; Read more

L4Lnews11-12-2012 Curricular Songs, Transparency, WhistleBlowing, Union Bashing, Gove speaks but not about much

AUDIO L4Lnews11-12-2012 Curricular Songs, Transparency, WhistleBlowing, Union Bashing, Gove speaks but not about Read more

#SLTeachMeet London 24th May 2013

Here are the 2 hours of #SLTeachMeet from Tuesday 23rd May 2013. 1st Hour   If you can't see the video on your device click here: http://www.youtube.com/embed/v2k5UAr8fhM   2nd Hour   If you can't see the video on your device click here: http://www.youtube.com/embed/XCocT8J-lKY If you are pressed for time then listen to the broadcasts instead on Read more

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Nominet Trust – Digital Making

Posted on March 24, 2013 by leoncych in Adult Learning, advisory, Computer Science, Continual Professional Development, CPD, Digital Literacy, Digital Makers, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Games based learning, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, video, video streaming | Comments Off

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Nominet Trust Report on Digital Making by Julian Sefton-Green – Photo attribution Rosie Slosek

[/caption] DIGITAL MAKING REVIEW Recently I was lucky enough to be asked by the Nominet Trust to Livestream/post produce films around the discussion involving Julian Sefton-Green’s review for them – Mapping Digital Makers – a review exploring everyday creativity, learning lives and the digital. Unlike the recent iPad Review launched by London Knowledge Lab I covered at  http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=3454 – Nominet Trust have taken a more strategic view about their research and getting Julian Sefton-Green to produce a review and then launching it with an allied discussion to…

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Smarter uses of iPads

Posted on February 18, 2013 by leoncych in advisory, Computing at School, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Games based learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Learning Tools, Mediated Reality, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, teaching | Comments Off

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Attribution European Parliament on Twitter

[/caption] Last month I went along to the iPads in the Classroom event at the London Knowledge Lab. It was a dissemination of the summation of “research” about the use of iPads in the Classroom. Despite the various studies I am still unconvinced about wholesale use of iPads in classrooms. For me the big issue is the “lockin” that happens when using these devices. One thing that did seem to emerge out of the mist in this session, however, was the ease with which data can be garnered whilst using them. Partway through the morning…

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L4Lnews 3-12-2012 MineCraft Special, Interview with Brian Sharland and all things MineCraft

Posted on December 4, 2012 by leoncych in ASE, blogging, Computer Science, Continual Professional Development, CPD, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Makers, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Games based learning, hosting, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, podcasting, Raspberry Pi, teachmeet, twitter, video streaming | 2 Comments

Image attribution to Brian Sharland

We catch up with Brian Sharland on the bus home from school interviewing him about his installation of MineCraft on his school server. How his pupils use Redstone to control DISCO lights… Audio AudioBoo http://audioboo.fm/boos/1093337-l4lnews-03-12-2012 SoundCloud Listen in higher quality AIFF on Soundcloud. http://soundcloud.com/l4lnews/l4lnews-3-11-2012-all-things Text http://licorize.com/projects/3yebeams/l4lnews3-12-2012

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It’s all about connectivity and community, stupid!

Posted on January 11, 2011 by leoncych in Adult Learning, Curriculum, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Games based learning, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Learning Platform, Learning Platforms, Learning Tools, mediascapes, metaverse, mobile, mobile learning, MUVE, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Primary, VLE | 1 Comment

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Excerpt: cc Licence from niallkennedy on Flickr I’m here at the marvellous Learning Without Frontiers conference and I’m multitasking with streaming, twittering and closely observing all the presenters and it’s a bit like the blind men and the elephant all over again. Each presenter has one part of the solution but no-one seems to be stating the obvious. Ed Vaizey is here representing the government. Disregarding the fact that the DfE wasn’t represented here at all, he made a good fist of trying to understand the landscape. He mentioned the NESTA research into Gaming and Education with an emphasis on lack of understanding…

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Open Source 3D Modelling Wiki

Posted on January 7, 2011 by leoncych in Adult Learning, advisory, Continual Professional Development, control, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Games based learning, informal learning, Innovation, IT support, KS3, LA, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, metaverse, mobile, mobile learning, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Second Life, training, video, video streaming, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

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Excerpt: As the new year starts I thought I would share one of the many Pro Bono projects I am initiating this year. As part of a payback to the educational community for being able to work in the field of innovation I try to recycle any research or resources I come across on the web to do with Open Source software. It struck me some time ago, when working for Open Source Schools, that there was very little information pulling together all allied resources on Open Source or free 3D Modelling/ Graphics software. The use of 3D models, interoperability in this area…

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