Michael Godsey, a Morro Bay High School English teacher, brought "Serial" into his California classroom. Podcasts used for lessons is part of a growing trend.
Stephen Heppell: Each year a selection of ingenious students - from primary to university age - are invited along to BAFTA in London's Piccadilly to show and talk about the extraordinary things they are doing with new technologies in their learning.
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This is one of our class blogs where ads have been appearing recently.
The class teacher contacted me for advice and I suggested that the school could sign up to be an edublogs supporter and then there would be no more ads appearing on their site. I also pointed out that if any other teachers were keen to set up a class blog, then their blogs could be included in the school's 'ad free' package.
The school is happy to do that and the problem will be resolved soon.
Fishbowl Planning is a session led by teachers which uses a technique called fishbowling to initiate discussion about planning. Fishbowling is where a small group of teachers (perhaps 3 or 4) are given a planning scenario. They sit together in the centre of a larger group of teachers who watch the discussion