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Tess is speaking about her experiences trialling Glow.  Highs and lows!  You can find all the presentations and background stuff here.

New stuff for me is the idea of an ebay-style rating system for resources.  Tess raises the scary prospect of potential future employers looking at Glow and seeing what one’s Glow rating is!

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“Premise - podcasting is not an ideal medium for distributing lectures.

There are better ways of flexibly delivering information in an educational context.”

Andrew is talking about higher education, but I guess this is relevant to us in primary/secondary too.  He points out that 20-30 minutes is usually about the maximum time to sustain the engagement of a listener (with some exceptions!)

Andrew also suggests that lectures are out-of-date as a mode of education.

So what would be better?  Provide archive content from BBC spliced with lectures? Much more finely grained podcasts, for small parts of a tough topic. Podcasts of students? - Maybe we are ahead of higher education on this one!

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James from mepath.com spoke about his company, which enables users to build stories about their lives, and get relevant information filtered in a smart way based upon the totality of the stories that you have put into the system.  It’s in closed alpha at the moment, but sounds interesting!  You can sign up on the site.

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I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s BarCampScotland! Unfortunately, the deal is that you have to present something, so I’ve been working this afternoon on a quick presentation about ScotEduBlogs.org.uk: barcamp presentation

My mind wasn’t very focussed, what with it being a Friday afternoon, and I’m not particularly pleased with the slides. Chances are I may not end up having to present anyway though, so I’m not stressing about it!

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