#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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BETT 2010 – a busy time this week

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Last year's MirandaMod discussions at BETT

[/caption] Every year I have spent less and less time walking around the stands at BETT and devoted more and more time to networking and building video and audio archive resources around people and groups met during the show. For me the exhibition is about communities of practice – renewal of contact with a wide and growing Twitter tribe in education and general catching up what people are doing in all the areas of techEd around the country. This year is no exception and I’ll be covering more events than ever using video, armed…

Educators in Virtual Worlds on Open Sim – the pioneers…

Posted on 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…

Scratch in Open Sim

Posted on by leoncych in advisory, BSF, CLC, Continual Professional Development, control, control_technology, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Educational Change, hosting, Innovation, IT support, Learning Content, Learning Platforms, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, metaverse, open source, pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Second Life, sloodle, twitter, video, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

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Excerpt: Thanks to ReactionGrid and @dstrawberrygirl, Learn4Life now has a place on the Open Sim grid and I am officially a “Gridizen”. Chris set me up an account in minutes and I was able to have a quick play with Scratch for Open Sim. Here’s a very quick video of the basic process. I simply downloaded the Scratch for Open Sim application – written in Squeak here (courtesy of a link from Rich White’s excellent Greenbush Labs Blog – Rich tweaked Scratch for Second Life for Open Sim as a universal app for Windows, Mac and Linux) and then I was able to…

Piglets, Pixels and People…Video/audio event magnification…Outside Broadcast comes of age…how to use it effectively – some ideas…

Posted on by leoncych in Adult Learning, advisory, conferences, Continual Professional Development, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, metaverse, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Second Life, training, twitter, vblog, video, video streaming, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

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Excerpt: HOW TO MAKE VIDEO AMPLIFY AND AUTHENTICATE COMMUNITY ACTIVITY I have been live streaming video for about 6 years now in different guises. From the pre YouTube days when I needed the help of specialist media companies to live stream, and virtually a whole server to push the video out (with a massive bandwidth bill to boot) – to a few years back when I discovered Mogulus (now Livestream), Ustream, FlashMeeting, QIK et al. It always struck me very forcibly how important it is to get both the mediums – (real time synchronous video with commenting from viewers on Twitter) and asynchronous…

Testing the iPhone Codec for Blip.tv

Posted on by leoncych in advisory, Digital Media, Futurelab, Handheld Learning, Innovation, LA, Learning Content, mobile, mobile learning, Personalised Learning, video, video streaming, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

This is a simple test to see if I can run the iPhone codec from Blip. Should work on web and iPhone – here goes. Won’t work on the web if you have a PC and no iMovie player.

OK a bit of recursion – so seems to work – I need to include iPhone links every time now with the usual Flash stuff – great resource and useful for teachers who want to access resources beyond the school network. Sorted…
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