For the next week you can listen again to Ewan Spence's interview with me (or Download RadioFivePodsBlogs.mp3) on why educational blogging and podcasting is such an important step for 21st Century learning.
It was good of Chris Vallance at the Pods and Blogs programme to consider the subject for the show of which I am a huge fan. The hour-long slot is well worth a weekly listen.
With some handy leading questions from fellow Leither Ewan Spence I was able, I think, to get across the main thrusts of why edublogging and edupodcasting are changing the face of teachers' and students' lives. Teachers have always shared their ideas within their own staffroom, but now teachers' staffroom chat can be more in-depth, more wide-reaching than ever before. Meanwhile, kids are already discovering the joys of online social networking. How can education take advantage of this to increase motivation for learning and improve the processes we use to teach and learn?
I really appreciated having the chance to reach out with the progress of our few years' work to a more mainstream audience (even if the live listeners are unhealthily insomniac).
The 9-minute slot can be heard here, about 10:50 into the show.
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