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Podfather's podcast

by Paul Harrington

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  1. Listening to Radio 5 from Pencoed Rugby Club

    Thursday 3rd February 24 hours before Wales v England at The Millennium Stadium Radio 5 live broadcasts from Pencoed RFC :-)

  2. Carcast on Tech in Education

    I have been struck recently while listening to the podcasts recorded by David Noble ( http://booruch.libsyn.com/ ) as part of his Edonis Project ( http://edonis.ning.com/ )about the quality of ICT Professional Development. David has spoken with many of the UK's cutting edge Education IT community...

  3. AAODS Concert in the Millenium Centre Cardiff

    On a genuinely sunny summers day a loyal band of supporters from Abergavenny took the 35 mile journey down to the copper domed Millenium Centre to listen to Abergavenny Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society's afternoon concert in the centre foyer - and were justly rewarded. The location in the...

  4. Mobcast - Homage to Bud The Teacher

    This podcast actually is hopefully the first of many discussions that I hope to promote during my 30 mile journey from home in Gilwern to work at the International Baccalaureate office in Cardiff Gate. This morning was for once bright and sunny and prompted me to consider what makes a blogger…

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  5. A SoundWalk around my home

    I have re-created a walk that I took back in 2007 and used in a Voicethread. We are very lucky where we live I think with such evocative landscape around us, from the valleys and waterfalls to the post industrial landscape from the 18th and 19th Century when this part of Wales was part of the…

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  6. Podfather Audacity on Eeepc900

    This test podcast was recorded using a Medusa Speed Link USB headset and mic together with Audacity on the Asus Eeepc900. Running Audacity on the little Asus is not difficult and only requires a minimal level of Linux programming (blog post...

  7. NECC 2008 San Antonio Texas

    Wow! The Podfather has finally made it to an event live! After many years of being the virtual voice from 'across the pond' or 'up in the Northern Hemisphere' I have finally made it to the same time zone and indeed city as educational colleagues that I have been talking and collaborating with…

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  8. Podfather Podcast 2008

    It's great to be back podcasting agin after a long break, during which I have left the classroom. However this now gives me more time to look at how technology is used in education and reflect on its use from outside. This means I don't have the usual distractions that come with a class of 8 year...

  9. A Special Birthday Edition of the IT Ramble

    This is a special IT Ramble recorded for Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's Birthday on Sunday 2nd December. Shery - Happy Birthday from Wales :-)

  10. Ferrari Experience

    I know that this a isn't really a personal space, more a professional reflection space for me, and yes I do realise that The Podfather hasn't managed a podcast for quite some time .... watch this space. However I have been waiting for a video to process in Blogger for over an hour and I have...

  11. Speed Dating Web 2.0 Style !!!!

    On Tuesday 17th July at 8.30 pm UK time began a web 2.0 Speed Dating style experience for a group oh High School teachers in New York, on a 3 day course with Sheryl Nussbaum Beach discussing the use of New Technologies in Education. Sheryl had in advance gathered together a group of Web 2.0...

  12. A Skype Chat with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

    This is a short podcast of the skype call I took from Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach. Sheryl was presenting at the AET Conference 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama on the use of Web 2.0 tools. She had originally asked Jane Nicholls (ICTUCAN) to skype in with her today. However Jane had a bit of car trouble down...

  13. NextGen Teachers Forum

    Doug Belshaw from NextGen Teachers @ Ning Social Networks organised a Skype Conference on Sunday 13th May @ 6pm GMT. The meeting was well attended from both sides of the Atlantic : Doug Belshaw ( http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/ ) Aaron Smith ( http://www.academicaesthetic.com/ ) as the token...

  14. Outdoor VideoPodcast

    I thought that I would try and record in the great outdoors today - as the weather has been so good. I apologise if the audio quality is a bit quiet - I still can't get over the inherent embarrassment of sitting in the garden talking to myself !!!!!!!!! Sites mentioned :...

  15. K-8 A Sidetrack of the Web 2.0 Highway

    Following a discussion with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and a chat with Allanah King my ramble is about the possibility of opening up a new area of study i.e. K-8

  16. A Lunar Eclipse

    On the evening of the 3rd march 2007 in the UK there was a complete lunar eclipse. It started at around 9.15pm. A Lunar Eclipse is when the Earth gets between Sun and the Moon causing the Earth's shadow to obscure the Moon. What you can't see from the video is the reddish glow that remains, as…

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  17. David Warlick Talking to Teachers in New Zealand

    Sitting at home in Wales on Thursday evening at about 9.15pm I had a skype message from my pal Allanah King. Allanah is at an e-learning conference in Rotorua New Zealand, where one of their keynote speakers is David Warlick. Allanah was sitting in on David's talk on RSS, Aggregators and Social...

  18. Skype chat with Allanah King

    This was a recorded conversation with Allanah King as she spoke to a group of teachers at a conference in Rotorua New Zealand.

  19. A Skype Chat with Italy

    On Tuesday 6th February at 6pm UK time and 7pm in Italy, I had my first 'face to face' video skype conversation with Daniela Lucci Cordisco in Lazio, Rome. It was great to actually speak, we had tried on Monday while I was in school however the line was bad and the echo unfortunately stopped too...

  20. ** 3 Way SkypeConference **

    On a cold winter evening in South Wales I had a brilliant 3 way conversation with Allanah King ( Nelson, New Zealand) and Jane Nicholls (ICTucan - Dunedin, New Zealand). The discussion ranged over how each of us got into Web 2.0 technology to the change in pedagogy needed to implement these...

  21. Cuddly Kiwi Celebrates the New Year

    Cuddly Kiwi spent New Year's Eve 2006/7 at Llangynidr Village Hall with the Harrington family and many friends, he had a fine time enjoying the dancing and chat. A big thank you for the brilliant band Morris Ponk and the Ticker Fixers with their excellent caller who looked after Kiwi for some of...

  22. From Rant to Ramble #1

    I think that the Rant is developing more into a Ramble as I get deeper into web 2.0 work. I don't want to shout anymore, I think that more is to be achieved by being less looouuud !!! To this end the IT Ramble ( part borrowed from Miss K ) is born. This Ramble is largely a collection of what has...

  23. IT Rant #14

    Getting back to the normal format of an IT Rant this week. Apologies for sounding very tired in this rant, I guess the week is starting to catch up with me!!! this is more of a ramble than a rant. Sites mentioned this week include http://booruch.libsyn.com/ David Noble's Booruch Podcast #29...

  24. When Night Finally Falls ( my it's dark in here again!!!)

    Thanks to all of those who made the K12 online conference happen - also thanks to all those online over the weekend. I think that it worked because of the 'flakiness' of skype - enabling us to switch to IM through http://tappedin.org ( where there is a K12 online community - do come and join in…

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  25. K12 Online Ramblings

    This is just a short podcast by way of a thank you to all of those I 'met' during the 'As Night Falls' 24 hour skypecast over the weekend. Thanks Guys and Gals Technorati Tags: k12online06 k12online

  26. Short Rant #13

    A short piece recorded as I left school on Tuesday 24th October...

  27. IT Rant #12

    IT Rant #12 A really busy week in IT this week, with our link to AllanahK's podcasts from Appleby School in South Island New Zealand, and the growing number of quality educational podcasts coming from the Southern Hemisphere : ITUcan, Russley Radio, Room5 and Room 1 podcasts shows how there are...

  28. An intermediate Rant

    The K12online event is getting ever closer, take a look at http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=3 which is the main portal for the virtual conference. The pre-conference keynote by David warlick is already viewable by linking to http://k12online.wm.edu/k12online2006_optz.mp4 David has also set up a...

  29. IT Rant #10

    A short apology podcast, following an e-mail from Mr H The Storyteller from Texas, I realised that my podcast volumes have been quite erratic due to lack of knowledge of using Audacity from me - hence sorry to you the audience. Links to Tom Barrett's site http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/ and…

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  30. IT Rant #9

    IT Rant #9 In IT Rant #9 I ramble about what I am planning to do in school over the next few weeks. http://kmi4schools.e2bn.net/wales_cefnfforestprimary/index.htm our school Making The News site - link to MTN UK . Also link to Judy O'Connell to be found on Podomatic. Tom Barrett UK Teacher site...

  31. Untitled Episode

    IT Rant #8 - It's Friday - I apologise for not sounding as happy as I should on this podcast when I know that the weekend is sooo close !!!! links http://aquaculturepda.podomatic.com (Sue Walters podcast) http://nswlearnscope.podomatic.com ( use of new technology in education) Booruch is David...

  32. IT Rant #7

    IT Rant #7, this rant is mainly a digest of what has been happening to a Primary School IT Co-ordinator in the past week.

  33. IT Rant #6 ( I think !!!)

    it Rant #6 is a mobile podcast recorded on an mp3 player during my commute home from school on Monday 25th September. When I arrived home and logged on I found a message about blogging in Scotland from Ewan McIntosh, it is now posted on the blog at http://ddraig-goch.blogspot.com - my the world…

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  34. A Mobile Podcast

    I went for a walk down to the village near my home this morning listening to a podcast from Geek-ed about a site called Smelly Monkeys http://smellymonkeys.blogspot.com/2006/05/smelly-monkeys-45.html Give it alisten if you haven't already it's an interesting and fun way to use the technology well...

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