EDUtalk is a non-commercial, education community project to gather the voices of educators. It is based upon the SLFtalk project which encouraged attendees at the Scottish Learning Festival in September 2009 to record voices and then published them online, in one place, with a Creative Commons license. More details on the background can be read here.
EDUtalk is a space to:
- Publish recorded conference sessions
- capture conversations
- phlog your thoughts
- create learning resources
- interview other educators.
To mark the launch of EDUtalk.cc,
John Johnston and
David Noble will be hosting a 30-minute web chat (Flashmeeting) on Monday evening at 8.30pm GMT. You will be able to find out more about their hopes for this resource and the technology behind it. There will be time to discuss this approach to publishing using mobile devices, and you may wish to explore how to best contribute or offer your ideas on other ways in which EDUtalk could be used and how it could develop. To receive the URL of the web chat, please email
scot-ed@hotmail.co.uk or DM @johnjohnston or @parslad.
Competition Time
We would like to invite colleagues to contribute audio to EDUtalk right-away. You may, for example, be attending an education event during the coming week; meeting up for a discussion with fellow educators; or presently have something to say on an education issue or topic. If you fancy contributing some test audio or would like to make a serious contribution as a first attempt, then browse the various straightforward ways in which you can post audio to EDUtalk. We look forward to publishing your audio!
Each person who contributes to EDUtalk between Monday, 2nd and Friday, 6th November will be entered into a draw to win a brand new copy of
'21st Century Skills: learning for life in our times' by Trilling and Fadel. The draw will be made at 9pm on Friday. As you can see from the above links, there are six different ways to post audio to EDUtalk; therefore up to six chances to enter and win! Not only are you exploring new ways to record digital audio and publish podcasts; you are helping EDUtalk by 'road testing' the site and the ways in which it pulls-in audio from different parts of the internet.
Finally, please explore EDUtalk.cc. You can: subscribe to posts; follow
EDUtalkr on Twitter; embed a badge on your website; and browse the Cafe Press store if you want to, for example, spread-the-word at conferences. All monies raised via Cafe Press will be used to maintain the domain name or sponsor a
TeachMeet event.
NB - The introduction to your audio should name the recordee. Any other participants should give permission at the start of the recording for the subsequent posting and distribution of the audio. The audio will be moderated to ensure that permission has been given.
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