WOW is all I can say. Last week I ran a full day cyber Safety session with 105 year 5 and 6 students. The experience was amazing I am so proud of the students for the effort and work that they put in. On the day all the students were prepared and ready to put in a big day concentrating on the task at hand, one which they had selected in groups of 2 or 3 (see previous post). 

So how did it all pan out....

At the start of the day I had worked out with the class teachers 4 students that would not be directly involved in group work but would be assigned to record the day. These students were asked to come in a little earlier so we could make sure things were sorted for the day. I had five forms of recording the day: photos via camera, video via iPod touch, video via Flip camera and audio via microphone recorder with the fifth element being a GoPro camera capturing still images every 30 sec. The following video is a slide show put together using some of the still images taken by my recorders on the day, I say some of the photos as these students didn't hold back on taking photos at the end of the day there were over 1300 images captured from the day.

There will be more artefacts from the day as we get them downloaded and edited.

Check back here in the next few days with more details about the day and the amazing work that the students created.

I had the pleasure of participating in the 2nd Community Connect session tonight talking about my experiences in the development and production of the Podcast I am a co-host called the Ed Tech Crew. It was a great webinar with a really good audience and some very goo questions.

We talked about our experiences, views and developments around connected teachers and connected comunities and the changes we have seen over the last few years.

You can listen to the session here. It was great to be connected. 

I do a podcast called the Ed Tech Crew with a great mate Darrel 'The ICT Guy' Branson and recently we have the opportunity to interview the Internationally acclaimed author Dan Pink (of 'Drive' and 'A Whole New Mind').

It was a great conversation around motivation, education, technology and much more - enjoy.

Episode 171

Over the weekend I was a participant and presenter at the ICTEV 2011 Conference. I was involved in presenting a live podcast session with my good friend Darrel Branson for the Ed Tech Crew podcast that we create on ICT in Education. Part of our goal for the session was to use a wide range of online tools within the session, one of these tools was the use of uStream to stream out presentation. the following video is recorded live from our session using an iPod Touch connected to a wireless directional microphone. Take a look and let us know what you think:



Whilst at the conference I was lucky enough to meet Mark O'Meara who inspired me with his ideas and thoughts on a range of subjects. The following video is of his work - take a look: