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RUConnected
by Lois Smethurst & Jenny Ashby
Technology in Education, ideas, links and more. Jenny Ashby and Lois Smethurst are Leading Teachers for ICT in Australian Primary Schools and teach from Prep to Grade 6 children. Jenny and Lois started the RUConnected podcast after attending NECC 09. They work in different parts of Victoria, Australia and have lots to share about integrating ICT into the curriculum.http://ruconnected.global2.vic.edu.au
Episodes
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RUConnected #80 TOM, Reflective Practice & Digital Leverage
Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss: What’s been happening? You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Tournament Of the Minds #TOM Sphero balls and drones in the classroom using the Tickle app to program them and connecting issues at school. Review of S2L 2015...
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RUConnected #79 Holiday Catchup
Lois and Jenny talk about Mobile2015, school visits, shopping and slide2learn. Jenny went to Mobile 2015 in Tucson, Arizona IPad configuring - redeeming free apps Creating online student TV - crucial factors: knowing the students what are their strengths, ability to work in teams, writing and...
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RUConnected Ep #78
Lois and Jenny discuss all things happening lately with their education focus. And the weather of course. Minecraft Camp A Saturday spent at minecraft camp. http://minecrafteps.global2.vic.edu.au https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nhOZkS3hhI Top 10 minecraft songs...
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RUConnected #77 Reinvention
At last we are back. Lois and Jenny discuss their new roles and schools in 2015. The Horizon Centre and the WIM Centres are also discussed. Scratch - project with grades from DET Vic and a feature for Education week, Cracking the Code with a Maths theme. MineCraft club - Jenny keeps us informed...
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RUConnected #76 Being Bored
Lois and Jenny discuss the past, present and future happenings in their schools. PAST Jenny attended Miami Device in Nov at St Stephens episcopal day school -Lead by Felix Jacomino @felixjacomino Daniel Kim from Canada - Boredom at school and an adversity to boredom lead to Pop DanThology. Videos…
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RUConnected #75 Minecrafting with Tim Wicks
Lois and Jenny interview Tim Wicks the Minecraft Guru from the Northern Territory Australia. At the momente he is touring Australia with his minecraft camps. The minecraft camps? Article: http://thinkfizz.com.au/training/asd-minecraft How can teachers begin? http://schools.minecraftcamps.net/...
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RuConnected #74 Post Slide2Learn
Special Guest - Bronwyn McLeod Biggest takeaways Andrew Churches message about teaching in the digital age and student engagement engagement is not entertainment Cathy Hunt’s infographic based on Andrew’s keynote Graham Brown-Martin’s importance of context and tools chosen to make a difference.…
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RuConnected #73 Team China and Slide2Learn
Lois and Jenny discuss the Team China program that Jenny has been involved in this term. Lots of authentic uses of technology with the whole school community and Asian Literacy Development. See also the AEF website for more case studies of schools developing Asian Literacy and the AEF conference...
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RuConnected #72 Post Teachmeet MVP
TeachMeetMelb NT Katherine MacFarlane PS New Pedagogies project - Michael Fullen White Paper 1000schools -10clusters of 100 schools. VIc 80 and Tas 20 ICT peer coaching interviews- revisit last term and goals - google doc used, ėpotential results Persuasive text idea- use Pic Collage to create a...
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RUConnected #71 Skype in the Classroom
Jenny and Lois discuss the use of skype in the classroom. Jenny recently held the 24 hour skype and makes comments about it. Lois has used skype for various activities - You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes My Place - theme connecting with different schools in...
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RUConnected #70 Let's Get Started
Jenny and Lois have just got back to school after the Summer break. In this episode they discuss getting the school blogs up and running again and the different processes that they go through. Different Roles on Edublogs Jenny's Quad Blogging Quick Links to Class Blogs at Lois's School - Berwick...
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RUConnected #69 Holidays and Terms of Service
Thinking about 2014, reflecting on 2013 taking time to catch some time zones in our day. Holiday finds 1. Google hang outs Jerry Blumengarten on 2 guys and an iPad and his twiiterhandle is @cybraryman1 so many resources, an unreal website. Best thing is that Jerry has the authenticity and...
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RUConnected #68 TV or not TV
Lois and Jenny discuss Lois' TV show that Berwick Lodge Primary are producing. Movies, anchor presenters and more. Apps/websites used - iMovie, Explain Everything, Handbrake, Vimeo.
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RUConnected #67 GAFE
Jenny and Lois discuss the following- Teach Meet Sovereign Hill Google Apps For Education Why use google apps when students already have email and teachers have mailing list set up? How can we use google apps at school in Primary school P-2? Google sites...intranets…..whats on the intranet? What...
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RUConnected #66 Holidays!
Lois and Jenny pull themselves out of holiday mode to bring you episode #66 of RUConnected. Jenny has attended Mobile2013 in Tucson- Location.... The Westin la Paloma Tucson Arizona Keynotes- Dean Shareski back to the basics - What really matters. Peggy Sheahy games based learning. 3d gamelab...
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RUConnected #65 Post #auspol
Lois and Jenny Chat about the latest classroom and PD happenings, some handy apps and great gadgets. Post election - website full of Maths and stats Booth Reviews -How did your booth rate? Sausages or cakestall? Conferences &PD Invent to learn - Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez Tour Website for…
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RUConnected #64 Travels and Connections
Jenny tells Lois about her recent trip to the UK. -School visits -Quad blogging........ and David Mitchell Meeting and school visit to Caton Community School -Conferences -Peeps - people Jenny met -Dawn Hallybone - Digital Life Lois tells about her radio show and a new site she is making on…
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RUConnected #63 Scootle from ICTEV13 to Monet
You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss the following - Jenny's visit to Shepparton High School where she had a planning day with teachers (metal work, library, auslan, literacy-writing and medieval history teachers) Work…
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RUConnected #62 Slide2Learn & Workflows
Jenny and Lois discuss what’s happening lately. Lois has been away to Tonga and jenny attended Slide2learn in Perth.You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Slide to Learn has wonderful presenters and keynotes. Jane Ross' students from Jakarta created a book in...
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RUConnected #61 Globally
Lois and Jenny discuss the folowing - Skype Around the World No. 2 http://24hourskype2013.wikispaces.com/space/menu In the Skype Around the World 15 schools participated with grade 5/6 at Epsom Primary School in Australia and spoke about values- things V qualities as some schools were thinking -...
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RUConnected #60 Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Lois has been working with Tony Richards from iTMadeSimple to set up the Berwick Lodge WebTV. Jenny holding #saw24 (Skype around the world in 24 hours) and wikis using multi platforms skills in using the wiki Cybersafety day - Tony Richards visit You can listen in the player below or subscribe to...
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RUConnected #59 Ready Set Google!
Jenny and Lois discuss the beginning of the year and their use of Apple's Configurator to set up the ipads for the new school year. How are you setting up this year? School managed or student managed. Jenny is switching over to school managed and Lois is also using school managed shared model for...
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RUConnected #58 Essential Creative Apps for 2013
Essential Creative Apps for 2013 Jenny and Lois discuss their essential apps and give the results of RUC listeners responses. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois's must have apps Stip Designer, Explain Everything, TinyTap, Toontastic, AudioBoo, Edublogs,...
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RUConnected #57 Skype Around the World in 24 Hours
Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss Jenny's latest project, the Skype around the world in 24 hours project (#SAW24 on twitter) Jenny has also writtten a blog post on the project that contains all the links to forms and documents. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast…
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RUConnected #56 Skype, Skoodle and TeachMeets Oh My!
Jenny and Lois discuss what they are up to school, information from their networks and share some great apps and lesson ideas.
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RUConnected #55 ACEC2012 & Term 4 Plans
Lois and Jenny discuss plans for term 4. Also Lois gives us a run down on ACEC2012. ACEC2012 PowToon Nearpod Student Incident Report Alice
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RUConnected #54 1:1 or Not?
Jenny and Lois discuss some of the complicated issues involved in implementing a school 1:1 program.
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RUConnected #53 Jenny at UnPlug'd
Jenny tells us all about her trip to Canada and the Unplugged Conference she attended while there. Lois and Jenny discuss the introduction of a 1:1 iPad program and some of the management implications in this complex issue. Unplug'd 60 sec science video competition Esmart
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RUConnected #52 Andrew Douch - The Voice
Jenny and Lois have a busy weekend attending the Personal Learning Environment Leaders (#plelead on twitter) at the State Library Victoria in Melbourne and then interview Andrew Douch the original Flipped classroom and Podcaster Master. Preparations for the new term about to begin are also...
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RUConnected #51 Before and After Slide2Learn
The end of term was a busy one for both of us so we've put together two podcasts that we created and thought best to send out together. Before Slide2learn we had the IWB Master conference on in Adelaide. We had a great time presenting our Voices workshop over 4 sessions with our cohort. Greg...
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RUConnected #50 A BIG week
In this episode Jenny interviews Wes Fryer about his wealth of experience in blogging and podcasting. Thanks to Wes for the interview. (@wfryer is Wes's twitter handle) You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Epsom App Eracism Debate (Flatclassroom Project) Wes...
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RUConnected #48 Interview with the TechChef
In this episode Jenny interviews Lisa Johnson from San Antonio Texas. Co-Author of HOT apps 4 HOTS (free iBook) Appy Hour radio show along with Yolanda Barker and Techchef4U (freeapp). Hope you enjoy Lisa's excitement as she talks about the new app and iPad classroom uses.
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RUConnected #47 That's My App
Jenny interviews Adam Phyall from Georgia, USA (@askAdam3 on twitter) about his presentation at Mobile2012 and his use of iBuildapp.com in schools. Links http://www.ibuildapp.com http://thatsmyapp.wikispaces.com/home http://mobile2012.org/wiki/materials/ http://app.gosoapbox.com/ Jenny's blog…
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RUConnected #46 Jenny goes to Phoenix
Mobile2012 in Phoenix Arizona iBuild App BlogTalkRadio Apps Educreations Free Screen Casting Tool Mathtrain TechChef4U App that helps you find Free Apps Research for the "All Free Apps Ipad Image" http://www.iear.org/iear/category/app-of-the-week A community effort to review apps TechChef4U Lisa...
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RUConnected #45 Holidays, Relax and Listen
Lois and Jenny discuss the latest happenings at their schools. Some suggested topics from twitter and give their usual round up of newly tried apps. Hol jobs....clean up the desktop and ipad etc iTunes purchases for TAX Reindex Spotlight on a Mac Dropbox setup (dropbox.com )and sendtodropbox...
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RUConnected #44 Take 4 & The New Ipad
RU Connected Edmodo Eracsism Meeting of the minds #motm Quantum 3D Movie Making Slide2Learn
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RUConnected #43 TeachMeetMelb & Student Virtual Conferences
Jenny and Lois have a chat about the year so far including TMMelb#2, Students presenting Collaborate a virtual conference centre, Synching iPads the legal way, and Edtech conferences for the year. They also have a short list of Apps you might like to try with your class this year. Whats News at...
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RUConnected #42 Getting Started in 2012
Jenny and Lois have a chat about the setting up for the school year and recommend some conferences and apps. Introduction 1:1 technology in classrooms Network issues Blogging Permission Forms for students New teachers get networked Ipads - updating with Xcode XCode Instructions CONFERENCES…
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RUConnected #41 The Virtual Affliate Teacher & The Brock Project
In this episode Jenny interviews Zoe Brannigan-Pipe, Camille Rutherford and Kyle Tuck at Brock University Ontario Canada. Jenny has recently become a virtual associate teacher and so decided to see how the project with trainee teachers was developing via an interview. Apologies to our listeners -...
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RUConnected #40 The iPad Trial Interviews
In this episode Lois interviews Adam Brice and Jenny Ashby who are both at Victorian Government schools and are in the DEECD(Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) iPad trial. There are 10 institutions in the government intiated trial. Evaluations of the trial are happening as…
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RUConnected #39 Getting Updated
Jenny and Lois chat about the iOS5 update and the current happenings in their schools, plus a few app recommendations. PLP Photoblogs - Our stories - grade 5 & Our stories grade 4 New Apps to Share Knowtes for ipad 500scorer VoiceThread Yahtzee notepad Upcoming Dates FtoF or online SLAV conf Oct...
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RUConnected #38 Interview with Brette Lockyer about the Daily 5
Jenny and Lois have a chat with Brette Lockyer and discuss her use of technology and the daily5 in her literacy program. You can listen in the player or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Links The Daily Cafe http://www.thedailycafe.com/ http://daily5cafechat.wikispaces.com/ Brette's blog...
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RUConnected #37 The Asian Connection
RUConnected #37 The Asian Connection or "The Mystery Snorer" Whats News 1. Jenny's Jakarta trip to the Australian International School http://www.ais-indonesia.com/kemangwelcome.html 2. Lois' Singapore Trip 12 students, 4 teachers visit to our sister school and celebrated National Day - The...
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RUConnected #36 Happy 2nd Birthday
HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY wow it is too. Time flies. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes QRcodes for links to text, self and world. Playing4Real ...in the making. Collections, tasks, missions working with Brette Lockyer, Jenny Luca, Donna Benjamin and others #P4R...
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RUConnected #35 Winter Solstice Session
What does the Winter Solstice bring? Jenny and Lois discuss their latest conference experience and the new format that the team at IWBNet were trialling. They talk about the latest apps they have found and about their most recent successes in their schools. You can listen in the player below or...
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RUConnected #34 So Much To Talk About
Jenny and Lois discuss the recent ICTEV2011 Conference where Jenny was awarded "Educator of the Year". They talk about the ICT related activities in their schools including Elluminate and Edmodo and Jenny has a list of iPad Apps that you might like to try as well.
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RUConnected #33 Setting up your class iPads
Do you have a class set of iPads that you need to set up? Jenny helps Lois with her new iPads and explains the tips and tricks that she has developed over the last two years of being part of the DEECD's iPad trial.
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RUConnected #32 Slide2Learn Special
This is the Slide2Learn special. The 2 day, conference was held at the Sunshine University, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Jenny and Lois chat about some of the highlights and resources from the conference. The experience of being at Slide2Learn - mobile immersion- workshops put...
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RUConnected #31 Holiday App SmackDown
Holiday Apps SmackDown - Time to Play AudioBoo for ipods/iphones http://audioboo.fm/ HT Recorder Now Hear This NowHearThis on the iPad/iphone (great for sending a running tweet/facebook message likes in facebook come as cheers gr8 motivation Prizmo - OCR scanner & translator 10 languages Prezi…
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Technology in Education, ideas, links and more. Jenny Ashby and Lois Smethurst are Leading Teachers for ICT in Australian Primary Schools and teach from Prep to Grade 6 children. Jenny and Lois started the RUConnected podcast after attending NECC 09. They work in different parts of Victoria, Australia and have lots to share about integrating ICT into the curriculum.http://ruconnected.global2.vic.edu.au
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Technology in Education, ideas, links and more. Jenny Ashby and Lois Smethurst are Leading Teachers for ICT in Australian Primary Schools and teach from Prep to Grade 6 children. Jenny and Lois started the RUConnected podcast after attending NECC 09. They work in different parts of Victoria,...
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