Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss: What’s been happening? You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Tournament Of the Minds #TOM Sphero balls and drones in the classroom using the Tickle app to program them and connecting issues at school. Review of S2L 2015 Field of Mars -TV show -Steve Papp Winning Video - AppMazing Race The rules -Appmazing Race Periscope - Inspire 2 learn sessions S2L 2016 Announced and to be in Cairns with an Environment theme - July 2nd-...
Aug 30, 2015•24 min
Lois and Jenny talk about Mobile2015, school visits, shopping and slide2learn. Jenny went to Mobile 2015 in Tucson, Arizona IPad configuring - redeeming free apps Creating online student TV - crucial factors: knowing the students what are their strengths, ability to work in teams, writing and elaboration, choosing a topic and succinctly but thoroughly presenting the information, performing by being engaging and speaking with authority. Shopping- books, robots, drones and Pendo's Lois Visited Yin...
Jul 01, 2015•33 min
Lois and Jenny discuss all things happening lately with their education focus. And the weather of course. Minecraft Camp A Saturday spent at minecraft camp. http://minecrafteps.global2.vic.edu.au https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nhOZkS3hhI Top 10 minecraft songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHG6-0h4fDk Redstone build designs Crack the Code in Maths Edn week A smorgasbpard of activities- QR code scavenger hunt Letter scamble from visiting the rooms iMovie show and tutorials for parents Minecra...
May 22, 2015•29 min
At last we are back. Lois and Jenny discuss their new roles and schools in 2015. The Horizon Centre and the WIM Centres are also discussed. Scratch - project with grades from DET Vic and a feature for Education week, Cracking the Code with a Maths theme. MineCraft club - Jenny keeps us informed about how the minecraft club is coming along. BuddyVerse Minecraft Camp May 16th-17th in Bendigo at Epsom PS. 24hr skype PineValley Jenny's school participated in @beverley_ladd class' #pvskype24 in the U...
Mar 31, 2015•25 min
Lois and Jenny discuss the past, present and future happenings in their schools. PAST Jenny attended Miami Device in Nov at St Stephens episcopal day school -Lead by Felix Jacomino @felixjacomino Daniel Kim from Canada - Boredom at school and an adversity to boredom lead to Pop DanThology. Videos - The psychology of PopDanthology DanVlog -Miami Keynotes- Kevin Honeycutt - don't hide your genius. Tony Vincent - Make it your own....great as usual. http://learninginhand.com/miamidevice Tony also pu...
Dec 15, 2014•31 min
Lois and Jenny interview Tim Wicks the Minecraft Guru from the Northern Territory Australia. At the momente he is touring Australia with his minecraft camps. The minecraft camps? Article: http://thinkfizz.com.au/training/asd-minecraft How can teachers begin? http://schools.minecraftcamps.net/ Classroom use? https://www.youtube.com/user/EduElfie Great site: http://stem.wesfryer.com/home/minecraft Students seem to have lot of time on mine craft at home how is it different when you have a minecraft...
Oct 26, 2014•55 min
Special Guest - Bronwyn McLeod Biggest takeaways Andrew Churches message about teaching in the digital age and student engagement engagement is not entertainment Cathy Hunt’s infographic based on Andrew’s keynote Graham Brown-Martin’s importance of context and tools chosen to make a difference. The same tech doesn't suit everywhere. One size doesn't fit all even the oldest tech can be transforming - its how its used. http://learning-reimagined.com/ http://learning-reimagined.com/author/gbm/page/...
Jul 13, 2014•35 min
Lois and Jenny discuss the Team China program that Jenny has been involved in this term. Lots of authentic uses of technology with the whole school community and Asian Literacy Development. See also the AEF website for more case studies of schools developing Asian Literacy and the AEF conference website for more information and highlights. The program is part of the 2014 Leading 21st Century schools: Engage with Asia Program The slide2Learn conference is coming up next week so Jenny and Lois dis...
Jun 22, 2014•25 min
TeachMeetMelb NT Katherine MacFarlane PS New Pedagogies project - Michael Fullen White Paper 1000schools -10clusters of 100 schools. VIc 80 and Tas 20 ICT peer coaching interviews- revisit last term and goals - google doc used, ėpotential results Persuasive text idea- use Pic Collage to create a persuasive text piece. 3 pics why, heading, key words etc. Use as a plan. Using tech at a higher level rather than just the same instead of writing. - visual, audio movies thinking SAMR Healthy a Hearts ...
May 11, 2014•32 min
Jenny and Lois discuss the use of skype in the classroom. Jenny recently held the 24 hour skype and makes comments about it. Lois has used skype for various activities - You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes My Place - theme connecting with different schools in Australia to compare and contrast - (Tipperary Station School, Puarumpi School on the Tiwi Islands) - Combined with Google Earth My Place book from Aitken Creek PS Radio Show - Connecting Students and di...
Mar 29, 2014•27 min
Jenny and Lois have just got back to school after the Summer break. In this episode they discuss getting the school blogs up and running again and the different processes that they go through. Different Roles on Edublogs Jenny's Quad Blogging Quick Links to Class Blogs at Lois's School - Berwick Lodge Primary School
Feb 22, 2014•15 min
Thinking about 2014, reflecting on 2013 taking time to catch some time zones in our day. Holiday finds 1. Google hang outs Jerry Blumengarten on 2 guys and an iPad and his twiiterhandle is @cybraryman1 so many resources, an unreal website. Best thing is that Jerry has the authenticity and credability as he's been a teacher in schools. http://youtu.be/qwFIY53H3Zs #eduVue Educational Manifesto’s - interesting discussion and starring @techyturner from Phoenix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUEdgOd...
Jan 18, 2014•26 min
Lois and Jenny discuss Lois' TV show that Berwick Lodge Primary are producing. Movies, anchor presenters and more. Apps/websites used - iMovie, Explain Everything, Handbrake, Vimeo.
Dec 08, 2013•23 min
Jenny and Lois discuss the following- Teach Meet Sovereign Hill Google Apps For Education Why use google apps when students already have email and teachers have mailing list set up? How can we use google apps at school in Primary school P-2? Google sites...intranets…..whats on the intranet? What would you use it for? Apps and more Mavericks over 5 GB download iMovie in iPads not compatible with iMovie on Macbooks Updates for everything - apps ipads - be careful not all are compatable with each o...
Nov 05, 2013•22 min
Lois and Jenny pull themselves out of holiday mode to bring you episode #66 of RUConnected. Jenny has attended Mobile2013 in Tucson- Location.... The Westin la Paloma Tucson Arizona Keynotes- Dean Shareski back to the basics - What really matters. Peggy Sheahy games based learning. 3d gamelab http://3dgamelab.com - game up your classroom People to follow on twitter that Jenny met- @iapplelearner ...Katherine Burdick @techyturner .... Rodney Turner and @tonyvincent ...Tony Vincent Jenny's Travel ...
Oct 06, 2013•21 min
Lois and Jenny Chat about the latest classroom and PD happenings, some handy apps and great gadgets. Post election - website full of Maths and stats Booth Reviews -How did your booth rate? Sausages or cakestall? Conferences &PD Invent to learn - Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez Tour Website for the book Gadgets …...beebots, MakeyMakey, weDo IWBNET IWBnet Kathy Schrock - http://www.ipads4teaching.net/presentation-resources.html https://sites.google.com/site/k12digitalconference/resources http:...
Sep 08, 2013•28 min
Jenny tells Lois about her recent trip to the UK. -School visits -Quad blogging........ and David Mitchell Meeting and school visit to Caton Community School -Conferences -Peeps - people Jenny met -Dawn Hallybone - Digital Life Lois tells about her radio show and a new site she is making on Google Sites http://www.schoolradiocalendar.org/profile/BerwickLodgeStudentHour apple TV pro also avail in the Apple store is a connector adapter for VGA to hdmi so you can use Apple TV on an older projector ...
Jul 12, 2013•29 min
You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss the following - Jenny's visit to Shepparton High School where she had a planning day with teachers (metal work, library, auslan, literacy-writing and medieval history teachers) Work flows for each area and creating was the focus for all subjects. Deploying Evernote with staff.....evernote email address used for handing work into the teacher by students. Lois gave us an update on the bl...
Jun 02, 2013•37 min
Jenny and Lois discuss what’s happening lately. Lois has been away to Tonga and jenny attended Slide2learn in Perth.You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Slide to Learn has wonderful presenters and keynotes. Jane Ross' students from Jakarta created a book in iTunes about their Challenged Based Learning Lois' students are busy creating Movies for their Inquiry based Unit around inventions and Movies for the 60 second science competition. The grade 5 & 6 stud...
May 05, 2013•25 min
Lois and Jenny discuss the folowing - Skype Around the World No. 2 http://24hourskype2013.wikispaces.com/space/menu In the Skype Around the World 15 schools participated with grade 5/6 at Epsom Primary School in Australia and spoke about values- things V qualities as some schools were thinking - What do you value? and others What values do you follow in your school? The Epsom Grade 5/6 skyped over a 24 hour time period and stayed over at school so they could speak to other schools in different t...
Mar 10, 2013•24 min
Lois has been working with Tony Richards from iTMadeSimple to set up the Berwick Lodge WebTV. Jenny holding #saw24 (Skype around the world in 24 hours) and wikis using multi platforms skills in using the wiki Cybersafety day - Tony Richards visit You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois explains.... Setting up blogs for each class - process for " rolling over" so past work is kept. Set the old users to subscribers so their work is not lost or disconnected Add...
Mar 04, 2013•23 min
Jenny and Lois discuss the beginning of the year and their use of Apple's Configurator to set up the ipads for the new school year. How are you setting up this year? School managed or student managed. Jenny is switching over to school managed and Lois is also using school managed shared model for ipad use. Thanks to Chris Sacco for sending me through these links which you may find helpful http://www.apple.com/au/education/volume-purchase-program/faq.html http://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/1....
Feb 03, 2013•29 min
Essential Creative Apps for 2013 Jenny and Lois discuss their essential apps and give the results of RUC listeners responses. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Lois's must have apps Stip Designer, Explain Everything, TinyTap, Toontastic, AudioBoo, Edublogs, Educreations, Popplet Jenny's essential apps Explain Everything, Evernote/Dropbox, Bookcreator, iMovie, Keynote, iTalk, Edublogs Survey - 5 most essential apps result If you could only add 5 apps to your...
Jan 14, 2013•25 min
Lois Smethurst and Jenny Ashby discuss Jenny's latest project, the Skype around the world in 24 hours project (#SAW24 on twitter) Jenny has also writtten a blog post on the project that contains all the links to forms and documents. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes World Clock - App Google Spreadsheets and Maps Map A List Handbrake, Voicethread Accounts Jarrod Robinson's PE app
Nov 26, 2012•22 min
Jenny and Lois discuss what they are up to school, information from their networks and share some great apps and lesson ideas.
Nov 01, 2012•21 min
Lois and Jenny discuss plans for term 4. Also Lois gives us a run down on ACEC2012. ACEC2012 PowToon Nearpod Student Incident Report Alice
Oct 15, 2012•31 min
Jenny and Lois discuss some of the complicated issues involved in implementing a school 1:1 program.
Sep 09, 2012•17 min
Jenny tells us all about her trip to Canada and the Unplugged Conference she attended while there. Lois and Jenny discuss the introduction of a 1:1 iPad program and some of the management implications in this complex issue. Unplug'd 60 sec science video competition Esmart
Aug 19, 2012•26 min
Jenny and Lois have a busy weekend attending the Personal Learning Environment Leaders (#plelead on twitter) at the State Library Victoria in Melbourne and then interview Andrew Douch the original Flipped classroom and Podcaster Master. Preparations for the new term about to begin are also discussed. You can listen in the player below or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Douchy's Biology Podcast Free Math Apps including the Motion Math apps, the Education Services Australia apps and more.
Jul 14, 2012•36 min
The end of term was a busy one for both of us so we've put together two podcasts that we created and thought best to send out together. Before Slide2learn we had the IWB Master conference on in Adelaide. We had a great time presenting our Voices workshop over 4 sessions with our cohort. Greg Gebhart's Keynote session was great as usual and full of up to date information such as The Horizon Report which provided evidence that oral skills are becoming more important than ever....search via voice, ...
Jul 09, 2012•37 min
