Ed Tech Crew Podcast

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW235.mp3 This week we get the chance to catch up and have a chat with Alec Couros about a whole heap of ideas about connected teachers and digital discussion.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW234.mp3 This week we have a great interview with a long time friend of the show, Ian Guest from Sheffield in the United Kingdom. We discuss early computing days, teacher PD and Ian also come's up with one of the more innovative ideas for the "What would you make if you could ...?" question.  Enjoy!

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW233.mp3 After a huge couple of weeks we seem to be back on track, exploring the sites, resources, sounds and sights of the amazing web we connect with. Tony shares some of his latest activities and Darrel has been exploring opportunities with his staff and classrooms all over Australia and the world.  

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW232.mp3 This week Tony continues the fight against sloppy bloggers and people who don't respect copyright and other's intellectual property. We also discuss lots of great resources contributed to by our diigo group.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW231.mp3 Well it feels like we are back on track a little. This episode we cover a range of links as well as listen to the 'Angry Edtech' Tony get upset about the qaulity of blog posts and tweets, how passionate do you feel about the lack of quality blogging and tweeting?

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW230.mp3 This week Tony and Darrel catch up for a good chin-wag about Edmodo and Showbie as LMS type environments for ipads. We talk about big developments from Google with Chromecast and the new Nexus 7 as well covering a wide range of other topics. But the big part of this epiosde is interview with Simeon Saëns who is one of the team from Two Live Left  and the creator of Cargo-bot for iOS and one of the minds behind Codea which is a full programming app for the ipad.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW229.mp3 More great interviews from the CEGSA Conference in South Australia. Including Instagram in the classroom, Scootle communities, CEGSA Educator of the year and Greenfoot for game creation.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW228.mp3 This week we take a road trip to Adelaide in South Australia to attend the CEGSA (Computers in Education Group South Australia) Conference. We get to meet the organisers, interview the attendees and the presenters, meet lots of new people and talk about Educationaly Technology for two whole days. This is the first of a series of interviews we recorded.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW227.mp3 After a couple of weeks trying to please the audio gods we get the chance to have a chat. Tony has had some serendipitous expereinces and a bit of travel. Darrel has been pushing the coding boundries with his teachers and students. All in all another good conversation about ICT in education and lots more. 

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW226.mp3 Another week in which Google dominates the list of links, feedback and the headlines. We discuss, Google Drive, Google Storage, Google Chrome Extensions, Google Glass and Google Maps! Both of us are amazed at what can be acheived in the broswer on a modern PC! Darrel shares lots of iPad apps for programming and problem solving and we take a look at a few funny videos as well.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW225.mp3 In this episode we catch up on the interweb and the articles and resources being produced on a daily basis. Darrel meets a new mate on twitter who is a Psychopedagogist, yes that's right a psycho - pedagogist. Darrel had to look up what this was but did he do enough checking or was he duped into a false definition? Tony tells us another story that is not really related to ICT but he thought it was funny enough for the show. As always we have a heap of great links and resources from our amazing listeners.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW224.mp3 This week Tony and Darrel explore the world of glass - Google Glass that is! We discuss privacy & health concerns, attention spans and a whole range of related topics. On other matters, Tony starts digging into peer to peer cloud technolgies and Darrel discovers numberphile (for the second time!) Lots of great links from listeners as well - Enjoy.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW223.mp3 This week Tony gives us a big update on his travels to Sydney. Darrel gets a visit from Rachel Bath and talks about his online Scratch course.  Then Tony and Darrel give the coaltion NBN plan a real workover! As well as lots of great links and listener feedback.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW222.mp3 Episode 2, 2, 2 and Tony decides to play around with some Australian cricketing legends and comedians on the podcast! Darrel talks about his new online Scratch course and Tony fills us in on his latest game playing over Easter. Throw in some April Fool's jokes and some good websites for another interesting edition of the Ed Tech Crew.

play pause stop mute unmute EDTECHCREW221.mp3 A great catch up this week after Tony has been all round the country for the last two weeks. Topics include the Google Reader shutdown, some more 'Levelling Up', why Tony is not big on infographics and we discuss student created BYOD policies. Also lots of great websites from listeners. Enjoy!