27 January 2010 2 Comments

Apple’s “latest creation” predictions: it may be more about the content than the device…

Apple’s “latest creation” predictions: it may be more about the content than the device…

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 [...]

13 January 2010 0 Comments

BETT Presentation – Creating Revision Podcasts with Keynote and GarageBand

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.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 7:28 — 10.3MB)

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

28 November 2008 2 Comments

Jornades de Llengües in Girona

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 [...]

24 November 2008 0 Comments

What it’s all about…

This past week I've had the privilege of spending six days in Strasbourg in the company of a fantastic group of young people from schools in East Dunbartonshire. The students were taking part in a Euroscola activity, a day of debate and discussion organised by the European Parliament. Throughout the day the students were mixing [...]