Mark Pentleton

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been involved in a number of events where I needed to use my iPad to deliver a presentation or demonstration. I wanted to use AirPlay through Apple TV to allow me to mirror my iPad wirelessly on the screen but I knew that the projectors in the conference [...]

This afternoon I’m running a session on creating podcasts for MFL teachers in the Cornerhouse RTC in Manchester. This presentation and walk-through should be useful for teachers who attend the session. I’ve also included seven useful podcasting tips which I’ve found useful when producing our Radio Lingua podcasts.

Seven useful tips for creating enhanced podcasts in [...]

Since 2005 I’ve been part of a community of educationalists from around the world who are recognised for “doing amazing things with Apple technology”. I first became an Apple Distinguished Educator while I was working on the Partners in Excellence languages and technology project where we were using film-making, animation, music production and podcasting to motivate [...]

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 [...]

Now this looks very interesting indeed, and I wonder if it will answer some of the questions I posted on the announcement of the iPad. Inkling claims to be “the world’s first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content [...] making it easy to bring rich, interactive learning content to tablet devices like iPad”.
It appears to [...]

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 [...]

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’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 [...]