#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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Educators in Virtual Worlds on Open Sim – the pioneers…

Posted on September 10, 2009 by leoncych in Adult Learning, advisory, BSF, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, Moodle, MUVE, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Scottish Learning Festival, Second Life, sloodle, Uncategorized, video, video streaming, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

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Excerpt: WHY VIRTUAL WORLDS – WHY NOW? Image attribution Chealion on Flickr under this CC licence This series of posts is intended to be a comprehensive look at the use and development of Virtual Worlds on Open Source technologies in Schools. It is to be the basis for a book I am writing to be released early next year on Lulu about Virtual Worlds, Open Source and Education. Over the last six months, through a series of interviews with people from around the globe, I have been mapping out some of the major developments in this field. The trouble is that presently, technological advances…

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Pixel to Person – real to virtual and back again

Posted on January 23, 2009 by leoncych in art, BSF, CLC, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, metaverse, Moodle, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Second Life, sloodle, video, video streaming, Virtual Worlds | 5 Comments

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Excerpt: Pixel to Person at the Greyhound Pub in Kensington Square At BETT last week I also attended the Pixel to Person meetup at the Greyhound pub in Kensington Square. I have written about this wonderful place in a previous blog but the most amazing thing about it are the people in Real Life who attended this session. Real to Virtual and back again… To get a flavour of the surreal nature of the evening here is a brief video of the sort of setup that was involved bringing together a real and virtual space… Sloodle – Interview with Giannina Rossini by Mal Burns I first…

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Teachers are Heroes just for one day – Open Source Schools @ BETT 2009 – Why you must use Open Source Software

Posted on January 21, 2009 by leoncych in advisory, BECTA, Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, hosting, informal learning, Innovation, IT support, LA, Moodle, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, podcasting, training | 8 Comments

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Excerpt: Open Source Schools

Open Source Schools – BETT Seminar January 19th 2009

[/caption] Every once in a while you see something that makes you think: ‘Yes this really is going to change education in this country’ and it makes you smile inside because you know what is going to happen further down the line and how revolutionary it will be; it will touch the lives of so many people and transform learning – making it more effective, more engaging, more personal and build a sense of community far beyond the initial event itself. Pivotal Moments One such moment was on the…

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Live streaming from the Moodle Moot UK 2007

Posted on October 23, 2007 by leoncych in blogging, blogHUD, CLC, conferences, Continual Professional Development, Innovation, Learning Platform, Learning Platforms, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, metaverse, Moodle, pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Second Life, sloodle, vblog, video, video streaming, Virtual Worlds, VLE, VLE exemplars, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

To see the Live Stream from the UK Moodle Moot just click here. If you have an Avatar in Second Life go to here to chat with others about the presentations especially the one on Sloodle! Pop along to the Moodle Moot Second Life Space at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Learn4Life/134/109/26. Moodle Moot Meet We’ve also set up a Moodle Moot Twitter Group at http://www.twitter.com/moodlemoot07 should you wish to play.

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Learn 4 Life branches out into Second Life

Posted on June 5, 2007 by leoncych in advisory, blogHUD, BSF, CLC, Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Educational Change, FE, HE, Innovation, IT support, LA, Learning Platform, Learning Platforms, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, metaverse, mobile learning, Moodle, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, podcasting, Second Life, sloodle, sloog, Special Needs, training, vblog, video, Virtual Worlds, VLE, VLE exemplars | Comments Off

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Excerpt: Our office in Second Life at Education UK. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Education%20UK/224, 127, 21FUTURE LEARNING Learn 4 Life has always been at the forefront of Innovation in Education, as well as offering free podcasts and videos about teaching and learning in innovation in ICT in the UK and abroad, we are now branching out into providing services in Second Life.PARTNERSHIPSInitially we will be interested in partnering with anyone interested in getting effective and workable pedagogies off the ground through blue sky research and development. After this phase we will be putting our expertise into making solid practical applications that work for schools, universities…

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