Ed Tech Crew Podcast

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW220.mp3 The Levelling up continues as Darrel strives to make sense of some Google Apps terminlogy and work practices. He is also on the look out for good iPad apps for preps! Tony gives us the good, the good and good from MOTM13! Then the debate and conversation turns to neutral BOYD lessons, lists of 21st century teacher skills and how to eat an elephant one bite at a time! Amongst the banter are some great sites from the Ed Tech Crew diigo group. 

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW219.mp3 This week Tony gears up for MOTM 13. Darrel gets some good feedback on Levelling Up and how to solve his podcast issues. Other topics include Telstra shaping P2P ADSL networks, the rate of drop outs in MOOC's and many interesting websites from listeners. Tony also has an interesting interview with year 6 student Sam who attended MineCon in Paris.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW218.mp3 The Ed Tech Crew are back for 2013! In our first episode for the year Darrel talks about his apporach to staff development and goes on to outline some nautical themes in regard to open source software. Tony talks about some online courses he is involved in and goes in hard on the Windows Surface as a great device for education. Lots of good links and discussion as well.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW217.mp3 The End of Year Hangout! A great list of educators joined us in a Google Hangout for the end of year wrap-up. We discuss what happened this year and what we are looking forward to next year. Some really interesting discussions from educators all over - enjoy! And we'll see you all in 2013. The Ed Tech Crew (Darrel Branson and Tony Richards)

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW216.mp3 This week the Darrel shares is his experiences about the long awaited Nexus 7 and Tony shares all of his resources from the Cyber Safety Days he has been doing with schools. Then it's onto some great contributed websites from listeners about tools, video sharing, links lists, web games, apps and plenty more. And lastly we discuss why your password just isn't good enough anyone!

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW215.mp3 This week we catch up for an interview with Julie Lindsay and discuss Flat Classroom projects. We discuss Julie's journey in education, her work with International Schools, global collaborative projects and of course, the Flat Classroom Project - What is it? How it came about and where is it headed? A really interesting interview that also discusses skills and aptitudes needed for learning in the 21st century and a whole lot more! Enjoy :)

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW214.mp3 In this episode we chat with the organisers of the Meeting of the Minds unconference - exlore the ideas for next years event and what people can look out for.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW213.mp3 This week we cover all the latest tech news and hardware that has been released as well as covering a few links and resources and a couple of videos. Darrel is hanging out for the next Google event and Tony is just looking forward to the big things (Assassin's Creed III).

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW212.mp3 Tony finally returns from overseas and Darrel is finished holidaying! So this week we catch up for a big chat about the Google Apps for Education Summit and the ULearn conference, both held in New Zealand over the past few weeks. Lots of great resources and links from both events.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW211.mp3 This week we have a wonderful discussion with James Vaughan, creator of Plague Inc - a fasinating game for iOS (and soon for Android!) We discuss app development, the genesis of the Plague Inc game and the game mechanics behind it, global collaboration, games new and old, and a whole lot more!

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW210.mp3 A great interview with Stephen Elford about the use of MinecraftEdu in his teaching and some of the successes and challenges. Darrel has also released a substandard quiz app about a little known AFL football team, Tony is not sure Darrel has all the copyright, trademark agreements sorted but check it out if you are areally bored :-).

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW209.mp3 Lots of great discussion in this episode about the 'flipped classrom', web literacy, big resource lists, and heaps more. As usual, there are some great listener contributed links as well a few good iOS games to burn up a bit more of your time! Enjoy :)

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW208.mp3 This week the Ed Tech Crew interview the leadership team from St. Joseph's College in Echuca.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW207.mp3   This week Tony and I team up in Melbourne for the two day VITTA conference on Aug 5th &6th. Vitta is the Victorian information technology teachers association, the venue was Caulfield Race Course in Melbourne and we had a great two days.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW206.mp3 Lots of great discussion this week but not all is well in the land of Ed Tech! Tony get's fired up over the Victorian Education Department 's two page 'iPad Trial' report event after spending close to half a million dollars. While Darrel spends the discussion trying to justify his position on the use of the word curriculum in the same sentence as change! Then we move onto look at an article around Digital Natives that was certainly of a much higher research base, even though it had way to many references for Darrel's liking. Lastly, Tony has some great interviews from the Ted X Melbourne event and the event run by the State Library Association of Victoria.