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Podcast number 123 - April 26th 2010
[Running time: 1:06:23 mins, size: 58.4 MB]
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General topics of interest & In the News week
Ning, Ning, Ning
mTouch Moodle App
Native IPhone app for Moodle is on the AppStore and ready for sale from $2.99 USD.
Request from Andrew Williamson - Discuss our top 5 podcasts!
Tony's Top 5 Podcasts (actually Top 7)
Darrel's Top Podcasts
Ed Tech Community
Not very active but worthwhile
Specialist content
- Mathtrain.tv - Mr. Marcos and his Lincoln Middle School Students
- Learning in Hand: Podcasts from iPod touch - Tony Vincent
- TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology - Tech screencasts from Danny Maas.
- Teaching with SmartBoard - Dave Sladkey and Scott Miller
- Technology Integration - Titles - The George Lucas Educational Foundation - videos about the changing nature of education.
- TED Talks - Brilliant content but I gave up!! Too much good stuff going on here! http://www.ted.com
- 2009 K-12 Online Conference Audio Podcast Channel http://k12onlineconference.org/
Recreational and Other Tech stuff
- TWIT Network with Leo Laporte http://www.twit.tv/
- This Week in Tech, This week in Google, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, All time favourite is FLOSS Weekly - Open source interviews.
- Maccast - Adam Christianson (Mac Geek) http://maccast.com/
- Shot of JAQ - Language warning - two brits talking about open computing and issues from the community. http://shotofjaq.org/
- Drupal Podcasts - Mustard Seed media podcast, Be Circle, Drupal Easy, Lullabots Drupal podcast.
Fun
Listener Podcast Feedback Educational:
- Virtual Staffroom - Chris Betcher: http://www.virtualstaffroom.net
- TED - http://www.ted.com
- Terry Freedman - http://terryfreedman.podomatic.com/
- SlowTV - http://www.themonthly.com.au/video
- How Stuff Works - http://www.howstuffworks.com/
- Edpod - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/edpod/
- The Book Show - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/
- The Smartboard Lesson Podcast finished in 2008 but the archive is still there for those who missed it. 150 excellent podcasts to beef up your IWB use: http://pdtogo.com/smart/?page_id=28
- http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ - This is a fantastic format, with great presenters and info, and is all about critical thinking, and they also have a neat 5x5 format for classroom use with kids.
- The Oz version with Richard Saunders and Rachael Dunlop is also very good. http://www.skepticzone.tv/
- http://www.astronomycast.com/ - Another nice format with consistently quality material
- http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm - Now this is very geeky and often propellor-head city ... the material is authoratitive ...and I have listened to this since 2005 and learnt heaps of tech and security from these guys
- The Teachers Podcast: The New Generation of Ed Tech Professionals http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-teachers-podcast-the-new/id264496274
- The Tech Guy: http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/leo-laporte-the-tech-guy/id73802706 not really edtech but worth a listen for the lates tech news from the US.
- R U Connected: http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/ruconnected/id323042625
- I listen to the Internet Marketing Podcast #impc as they often discuss Google, Wordpress, plugins, tips, tricks, and tools that have to do with Web 2.0 and social media. Not explicitly related to education but very informative. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/internet-marketing-insider/id168492891
- Edtech round up - http://www.edtechroundup.com/
- The clever sheep - - Teacher 2.0 - http://thecleversheep.libsyn.com/ Quick podcast
- Stuff you should know - http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/stuff-you-should-know-podcast.htm - Entertaining and knowledgeable great for expanding your general knowledge
- EdTech Weekly - http://edtechtalk.com/taxonomy/term/130 covered
- http://techchicktips.net/ - Helen and Anna are super nice and always have the latest in education on the web.
- http://www.EdTechTalk.com - most of them (EdTechWeekly (new tips, tools, ideas), Seedlings (in-depth interview/conversation with interesting people or on a topic like the Horizon report), Conversations (real teachers talking about real issues - I listen if the topic is relevant; sometimes it gets ranty), Teachers Teaching Teachers (better when they have expert guests), WOW3, Instructional Design, 21st Century Learning)
- EdTechPosse - just fun and funny - higher ed bent to it http://edtechposse.ca/
- PRI's The World Technology - tech in the news, globally http://www.theworld.org/technology-podcast
- NPR Technology Podcast : tech in the news http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4819382
- NYT Tech Talk - new gadgets, tools, ideas, social implications of tech - http://www.nytimes.com/ref/technology/techtalk.html
- Bud the Teacher - whenever he posts something - http://budtheteacher.com/
- Bit by Bit - Bob Sprankle (also posts Seedlings here, but he does his own podcasts sometimes) http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/
- Australian Mac world podcast AMW - keep up with Mac stuff http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/australian-macworld-podcast/id315170280
- Apple quick tips - great to play at PD's- http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/apple-quick-tips/id257243321
- Catalyst ABC great video podcast of their shows- can use on iPods for students inquiry learning-tuning in finding out etc http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/
- Learning in Hand http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/learning-in-hand/id254270774 good tips
- November Learning Podcast Series http://feeds.feedburner.com/blc06 - Interviews with amazing educational leaders. Easy to listen to and very interesting.
- E-Learning Insights http://feeds.edna.edu.au/podcasts The edna podcast - very informative but not a regular podcast.
- EdTechTalk - Women of the Web 3.0 http://feeds.feedburner.com/WomenofWeb2
- Futurelab - http://futurelab.blip.tv/rss/itunes
- ICT Guy - http://feeds.feedburner.com/ictguy
- Learning in Hand - http://feeds.feedburner.com/learninginhandipods
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts - http://feeds.feedburner.com/speedofcreativity/podcasts
Listener Podcast Feedback Entertainment:
- The Book Show - great author interviews & book reviews: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/
- This American Life - Brilliant documentary program with a beautiful narrative style. All sorts of stories:http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
- The New Yorker Fiction Podcast - a monthly short story from the magazine's archive read by one of their current writers, with commentary: http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/fiction
- The Moth Podcast - true stories told live these are short, funny, sad and great stories: http://www.themoth.org/podcast
- Lots of other ABC programs which I podcast when I run out of audio: Philosopher's Zone, Science Show, Verbatim, Awaye, etc
- UK is also a goood source (though sometimes the Brits try a bit too hard to be funny) ...... Jodrell Bank has a nice astronomy series ...http://www.jodcast.net/
- Anything by Ben Goldacre ....http://www.badscience.net/category/podcast/
- Russian language skills via http://www.russianpod101.com
- NPR network where there is a great range of podcasts http://www.badscience.net/category/podcast/
- The Economist: http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-economist/id151230264 - if your into international news and or global economic issues.
- Internet Business Mastery. Very interesting to hear people's success stories and how and why they are using the internet for income. http://internetbusinessmastery.com/
- Pod Surf TV - http://www.podsurf.tv/
- Two of the Quick and Dirty Tips Network - The Digital Marketer and the Get-It-Done Guy. Website: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/ The Digital Marketer covers applications of social media and other web2.0 tools. The Get-it-done-guy covers producitivity in general life, so his tips are very useful.
- Dr Frankel's Podcast - http://fams.podomatic.com/ mostly podcasts his conference presentations, so the audio quality is often poor, but the content is great and it's just like attending a conference in the US for free!
- Hamish and Andy Podcasts - http://www.hamishandandy.com/
- Geotalk Podcast (http://www.geotalkpodcast.com/) Australian Geocaching talk and news
- Geocaching podcast (http://www.geocachingpodcast.com) Geocaching Chat/News
- Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR (funny!) - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=35
- Travel with Rick Steves (wishful thinking) - http://podcasts.ricksteves.com/
- NPR Culturetopia (interesting) - http://www.npr.org/templates/rss/podlayer.php?id=510282
- http://skeptoid.com/ (I also use it with my grade nine students in ESL)
- "Is it just me"- but they have finished the series. Still good for a laugh. http://www.abc.net.au/local/sites/me/default.htm hoping they do a third series
We loved this quote from one of our respondents:
"Buying an iPod touch lead me to podcasts and broadened my personal learning network like never before. I can directly attribute my re-engagement with teaching to the discovery of people with similar pedagogy and interests in education as my own via such podcasts."
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