Mark Pentleton

Today I’ve been in Gateshead working with a group of MFL teachers on sourcing and creating podcasts in the MFL classroom. I covered various things in my workshops, and below you can find the links to the resources I’ve pointed out.
First of all, I run the Radio Lingua Network of language-learning podcasts, and our educational [...]

Today I’m down in Birmingham doing a presentation at the Emerging Technology Conference at Kings Norton CLC. My task is to talk about Mobile Learning in Education – using iPod Touches, iPads, iTunes and iTunes U – in 45 minutes! It’s virtually impossible to cover all the possibilities of this huge topic in such a [...]

It’s a couple of weeks since I was in Cheltenham with enthusiastic teachers from up and down the country at the Apple Teacher Institute. As one of the ADEs I was leading workshops on podcasting and using iPod Touches (and iPads!) in the classroom, but one of my first duties at the conference was to [...]

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I’m really pleased with an article which appeared in yesterday’s Times Educational Supplement about the work I’ve been doing in a North Ayrshire primary school. Pupils in Glebe Primary have been using our One Minute Mandarin lessons to learn Mandarin Chinese and then I ran an animation workshop with them during which they used the [...]

I’ve just finished working on a series of podcasts for Gavinburn Primary in West Dunbartonshire. They’re doing some fantastic work with Games Based Learning and the p3 and p4 pupils are currently doing a major project on the Winter Olympics. The project is a brilliant example of interdisciplinary learning with the pupils looking at the [...]

The wait is over. Last night Steve Jobs announced the iPad, and it looks good. Really good. A 9.7″ multitouch display, 16, 32 or 64gb of flash storage, wifi and bluetooth and a 3G version (annoyingly available a month after the wifi version is released!). Is it what I hoped for? In some ways, yes, in [...]

The long-awaited day has arrived and in about nine hours’ time Steve Jobs will take to the stage in the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and announce Apple’s “latest creation”. Speculation has been peaking over the past few days and weeks as to what form this creation will take, and I think that there [...]

This afternoon I’m running three workshops at the Apple Leadership Conference at the Cumberland which is running alongside BETT and involves educationalists from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. I’ve been asked to focus on creating resources for the languages classroom, and I’ve created a video version of my presentation. There are a few blips [...]

I’m doing this presentation over the next four days on the Apple Education Resellers stand at BETT. It’s aimed at teachers who want to find and organise free educational content for learners to use on their mobile devices. The presentation will help you get more out of iTunes, use it to organise your digital media [...]

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I’m doing this presentation over the next four days on the Apple Education Reseller stand at BETT 2010. It’s for teachers who want to create content and upload it to their VLE to allow learners to learn on their mobile devices.

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I’ve been having massive problems with uploading audio files both here on my 365 songs project, and to the Radio Lingua server with new podcast episodes. The mp3 and m4a files worked perfectly on my computer. The process I was using was as follows:

create audio in Garageband
export aif of voice only
use Levelator to process voice [...]

I'm in Girona, Spain delivering two session on using podcasts in language teaching – the first of these was this evening and was in a mixture of Catalan and Spanish. The second is tomorrow morning, so I'm trying to get a bit ahead of myself and putting up the notes and links from the presentation [...]

Following the launch of our new Catalan course, and my own Catalan language challenge which culminated in lots of Catalan speaking on my recent trip to Barcelona, this article appeared in Sunday’s El Punt. It’s very similar to what appeared on the Vilaweb article. If you want to test your understanding of Catalan, download the [...]

Taking a break from el català, I’ve spent the day working with 玲玲, Líng Líng, our Mandarin developer. We’re currently working on a number of projects, and the first of these – a short course in Mandarin (no prizes for guessing the name of that particular course!) – will be launched along with our Catalan [...]

It’s now official: one of the main reasons I’m involved with Catalan at the moment is because we’re going to be launching what I think will be the very first “teach yourself Catalan” podcast. It will be part of our popular One Minute Languages series which aims to equip learners with the absolute basics of [...]

This post is a summary of the content of a presentation I’m doing in Stirling, Scotland at the Communicate.07 Conference. My presentation is called The Podcast Factory and aims to introduce language teachers from across the country to podcasting and the possibilities offered both by “podcast appreciation” and “podcast creation” within languages education. The following [...]

Here are my handouts for my presentation at Communicate.07 – “The Podcast Factory”.
Download PQG-POD01-update.pdf: Introduction to podcasts
Download PQG-POD02-update.pdf: Recommended podcasts
The pdf guides include live links which should allow you to click directly on the links to access the podcasts in iTunes or on websites.