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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12-12-2012 L4L news and Comment – Morning Becomes Electric

Posted on November 11, 2012 by leoncych in ASE, Computer Science, Computing at School, Continual Professional Development, distributed networking, Educational Change, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, podcasting, teachmeet, video, video streaming | Comments Off

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[/caption] And so the second week of #L4Lnews begins with a look at Digital Culture; Online/ Offline Networking; Creative Computing; All you ever needed to know about Badges and making; A brilliant bookmaking resource; the government’s Digital Straategy and crticism of Gove by an independent school head; a very popular and insightful Secret Teacher Blog about Ofsted. Audio http://audioboo.fm/boos/1054096-l4lnews-12-11-2012 Video http://youtu.be/txudm82BB3M Text

L4Lnews-12-11-2012

Morning Becomes Electric – Leon Cych

As well as all this the L4LNews Mixlr realtime Radio Station is up and running – it broadcasts on Sundays from 9 – 10 pm UK time and also every morning…

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Equipment to make professional videos for your school or ITT institution

Posted on December 31, 2011 by leoncych in Academies, Adult Learning, advisory, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Handheld Learning, HE, informal learning, Innovation, IT support, Learning Tools, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, mobile, mobile learning, Peer to Peer, training, vblog, video, video streaming, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

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Excerpt: Photo credit Maz.nu on Flickr This year I have been looking at using solutions to help make “professional standard” videos for release on the web and digital TV. As part of a technical roundup this year I thought I might showcase a few pieces of equipment I use and that may prove useful in a school to make professional grade videos but they could be of interest to anyone who wants to start thinking about making digital content for themselves. Bear in mind I am not talking about quick and dirty “process” video techniques as outlined by Tom Barrett’s excellent crowdsourced…

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Gaming Education – How to create a culture of learning through designing real world games in education

Posted on July 28, 2010 by leoncych in advisory, Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Foundation, Games based learning, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Learning Tools, mediascapes, mobile learning, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

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Excerpt: Gaming Education I have been looking at a lot at “Real World Gaming” and Education recently. This is a subject I have returned to again and again in the course of the last few years. Taking the idea of the culture “around” gaming I outlined in previous blogs, I thought I might explore the natural extension of those ideas into the classroom pulling together various sources and reflect on possible ways forward for teaching and learning. Real World Gaming In “real world” gaming the content of the game is contributed by the players, making it simply a set of tools enabling players…

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Why are we still arguing over Gaming in Education?

Posted on March 3, 2010 by leoncych in Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Games based learning, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Mediated Reality, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning | 2 Comments

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[/caption] When I was little (between 5 and 10 years old) I grew up in the early-sixties, post second world war era London of bombsites and grey realities. Like most boys my age at that time, I watched an endless succession of Brits Vs Germans war films at the saturday cinema club, on (the newly acquired) TV and bought things like the Commando Comic – which was every bit as gruesome as anything you’ll find today in Call of Duty : I used to have endless cap gun fights with my friends in the streets….

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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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