School Radio – Podcasting Pupils
Podcasting, or online radio, is a way of schools sharing audio recordings of pupils talking about their learning, their discoveries, or discussions about class topics. The voices of the pupils,...
View ArticleWhat technology would you kill in schools?
What is the one technology I would kill off in schools, and which one would I replace it with? Are screens responsible for kids being more demanding and should adults be telling kids how to achieve...
View ArticleNASA Space Sounds free to use on SoundCloud [@nasa @soundcloud]
Following yesterdays post on the Open Content Toolkit I discovered that NASA has posted a massive library of ‘Space Sounds’ on SoundCloud. You are free to use all of these sounds as you wish, because...
View ArticleEngage, Inspire, Empower – language learning and technology
I got back to being a language teacher last night, doing a quick talk and then conversation with some of the teachers participating in our Malta Better Learning with Technologies group. Here is the...
View ArticleKeeping students at school 24/7 through the Seven Spaces of Learning
Imagine designing a school where the bell never rings, the day never ends, that keeps students in for as long as possible, in the same way as Google has designed its campuses to keep employees happy,...
View ArticleGlow Cast
Glow Cast is a new podcast. Just one episode so far. As you would imagine it is a podcast about Glow. The idea is to keep the episodes short and fairly casual. The more important function is to...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 years of edu.blogs.com – could we have yesterday’s time with...
It's ten years today since I wrote my first blog post for me, and I wish we could have today's thinking with the space and time of a decade ago. 1999 I've blogged since around November 1999, one of...
View Articlemp3 (and other files) upload on iOS Finally
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/243117-busker-and-bin-lorry-buchanan-st.mp3 Finally ios allows upload of files from more than the photo library. This is just the first mp3 I...
View ArticleThe Levelator Lives
A while back I bookmarked How to Revive The Levelator in El Capitan on TidBITS and followed the instructions to get this essential piece of podcasting software to work again after updating my mac to El...
View ArticleiOS Workflows for WordPress 2
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Audio-Recording-2016-2-21-at-15.02.mp3 The audio on this post was recorded and uploaded with the Workflow.app on my phone. The images were too....
View ArticleAn indie wave for @joedale
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Audio-Recording-2016-6-09-at-20.58.mp3 This is a microcast, it is microcast number 1 here. There is a few thinks rattling around my head that I...
View ArticleMicrocast 2: Webmention ping-pong
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Audio-Recording-2016-6-10-at-16.11.mp3 So microcast 2 comes hot on the heels of number one. A few interesting things came out of the first one....
View ArticleDrive time listening
I am a pretty regular podcast listener, mostly while commuting. Recently though I’ve been listing to iPlayer radio on the drive home. I listen to today on the way in. This week I’ve restarted the...
View ArticleMicrocast 9: Anchor Again
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Audio-Recording-2017-7-27-at-17.53.mp3 A few thoughts about the third iteration of Anchor.
View ArticleMicrocast 11: podcasting thoughts
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Microcast-11.mp3 A short podcast about my current thinking about and approach to podcasting. i hope to be returning to microcasting more...
View ArticleMicrocast 12: Podcatching Thoughts
http://johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Microcast_12.mp3 A few thought about my listening habits. Some microcasts mentioned: percolator fragmentum Henrik Carlsson Colin Walker Colin...
View ArticleRE: Listening to John Johnston’s Microcast 12: Podcatching Thoughts
Listening to John Johnston’s Microcast 12: Podcatching Thoughts by Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com) I am really interesting listening to your Microcasts John. Chris Aldrich is right, I need...
View ArticleA feed for my microcast
As part of my summer holiday fun with WordPress I though I might create a ‘proper’ RSS feed for my microcast. There are quite a few podcast plugins that would do the job but I though it might be...
View ArticleClassroom Podcasting again
I started a podcast in my previous school in 2005 which produced episode fairly regularly until 2008 when I moved to a development officer post in North Lanarkshire. I found podcasting to really...
View ArticleGetting a Glow Blog Podcast into iTunes
This is harder than it used to be. We have just added our class podcast to iTunes I though it might be worth noting the steps. The RSS feed from Glow Blogs is not optimised for podcasts so I used...
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