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(From home page): "This is the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 400 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals. In our podcast directory, you can access educational content from over 3000 podcasts from different podcast channels. We are accredited by BECTA as a registered content provider for Curriculum Online in the UK. All the educational podcasts in our specialist podcast directory are sourced world-wide and include the best examples of educational podcasting using audio, enhanced and video formats."

"Stingy Scholar" blog lists good sites for free educational resources. Via Google "crowdsourcing & education".

This is an interesting idea. This is more or less the way forty-somethings have decided to use Twitter: can the kids join in too?

(From home page): Landmark project"The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century."

Claims to be first community aiming at crowdsourcing. Seems to be a market place for ideas, - no obvious outcomes. Education page has various people's proposals related to education. Via Google "crowdsourcing & education".

Via Google "podcast & education". Has themes, but still not enough guide to content.

USA site. Home page has directory of all subjects, by theme and sub-theme - education is just 1 theme.

Links to actual interview in MP3 or OGG. Notes about the subjects are covered, eg new digital divide between those able to search and those who don't know how to. Belief in creating smaller class sizes rather than spending on educational technology. Possible interactions between Web 2.0, large companies and open source software.

Article about young peoples' use of the internet while studying and revising. Looks at differences as being Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants phrases coined by Marc Prensky. Cites Rose Luckin and Wilma Clarke from the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education. Work by Brian Kelly also mentioned

US site listing 102 colleges offering online courses.