Interview with Peps Mccrea about OpenPlan

This is an interview I did with Peps Mccrea earlier this month. We talked about OpenPlan and the plans Peps has for its development. I found out about OpenPlan through Twitter and a specific tweet by Laura Kirsop: someone else I need to interview soon. We move through the concepts of 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

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

Interview with Peps Mccrea about OpenPlan

This is an interview I did with Peps Mccrea earlier this month. We talked about OpenPlan and the plans Peps has for its development. I found out about OpenPlan through Twitter and a specific tweet by Laura Kirsop: someone else I need to interview soon. We move through the concepts of Read more

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Digital Divide

Hacking, mentoring and rapid prototyping as new models for learning

Posted on October 11, 2011 by leoncych in #saveTTV, Adult Learning, advisory, blogging, Continual Professional Development, CPD, Curriculum, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, metaverse, mobile learning, teachmeet | Comments Off

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[/caption]                         NEW LAMPS FOR OLD This blog is going to cover a lot of innovation developments very quickly and try to tie together informal and ad hoc wanderings I make over the internet and in “real life”; the people I meet and the reflections they make on education. I have referenced a lot of video in this blog post and I would urge people to take the time to look at these exemplars to get a deeper understanding of the ideas I’m trying to convey in this piece. I often say to people…

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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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All you need to create your own outside broadcast unit and stream video from almost anywhere

Posted on July 8, 2010 by leoncych in Adult Learning, advisory, Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Tools, mobile, mobile learning, podcasting, teachmeet, video, video streaming, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

I made this presentation for TeachMeet Milton Keynes last night #TMMK but didn’t present as I thought the practitioners who turned up more worthy that evening and time was short. So many people have asked me how I did the broadcast from the Treehouse last year http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=690 I thought I’d show what kit was needed and how much it cost. So download the film, go and buy the kit and write the AUPs and agree the policies with your communities and off you go…

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What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each?

Posted on September 17, 2009 by leoncych in advisory, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, KS2, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mobile, mobile learning, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Primary, Web 2.0 | 24 Comments

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Excerpt: The wonderful thing about my job is that I have a network of people I can visit who are involved with prototyping the use of new technologies in education. My latest outing was to a Junior School with a difference this week. Peter Barrett, an old colleague of mine, had told me about the seed of this idea some months back. Knowing Peter I guessed it would be quite ambitious. We have worked on a number of innovation projects in the past and he never fails to surprise me… As well as the school going through a massive rebuilding programme, they have…

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Reflecting on the OpenRSA – modelling the future…

Posted on February 20, 2009 by leoncych in Adult Learning, advisory, art, BSF, Continual Professional Development, databases, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

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Excerpt: Being drawn in Joining the RSA as a Fellow has been on the fringes of my attention for some time now. A couple of years ago I was invited to a meeting to tenatively formulate ways forward to do things differently there by Steve Moore. Since that time I have been observing the process of OpenRSA from a distance – infrequently dipping into the emerging activity coming from that direction. So when I saw, what seemed a pivotal workshop, pushed out through Eventbrite on FaceBook (I think…), I decided to turn up and see what had had happened in the…

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