This week, I discuss:  commencing the EdD at Edinburgh University; virtual worlds in education; Elluminate's sponsorship of education blogs; the launch of my school's blog; adding an RSS news ticker to a website; and using SMS with Twitter.

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This week, I am in conversation with Johan Sanders, tutor and co-ordinator at Norton Radstock College.  Johan co-ordinates BTEC IT courses, and has extensive experience of integrating blogs and Web 2.0 collaborative tools such as Google Docs.  He reflects on the effect on students' learning; further arguing that using Moodle has clear benefits in terms of, for example, providing a 'walled garden' and fitting bandwidth restrictions.

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This week, I discuss:  developments in educational blogging and the importance of removing the 'Next Blog' button from a Blogger blog; how I feel the Access Network is developing and building 'online communities of practice' in general; school staff having access to in-house and other CPD audio resources; the embryonic EdTechroundup collaborative podcast; the Quicktionary III Lite personal mobile translator; and some more 'lessons' from Joe Dale's Isle of Wight MFL conference, including thoughts on using Twitter to make events more responsive to attendees' needs.

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This week, I discuss: 'scanning pens' for assisting students with literacy difficulties; Animoto for illustrating learning; pupil-produced audio and video podcasts; Voicethread, free for educators; and some links from Joe Dale's Isle of Wight conference.

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This week, Paul Nisbet of the CALL Centre, based at the University of Edinburgh, talks to me about issues around the 'Books for All' report that he co-wrote.  This show will be of interest to educators with a commitment to ensuring that all students can access learning resources and assessments.

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This week, I preview the K-12 online conference; promote the Map of Future Forces Affecting Education; review an Italian travel, and US teacher development podcast; discuss how my pupils have been using new technologies during an enterprise project; look at how schools are implementing 'A Curriculum for Excellence'; and suggest Animoto as a way of showing how pupils are developing the Four Capacities.

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This week, I promote a CPD event, 'Using the Social Web to Develop the Four Capacities'; look into how Learning and Teaching Scotland are using new technologies to share 'best practice'; comment on the SQA Review; introduce the It's Elementary webcast and Young Scot podcasts, and the idea of a 'backchannel'; and talk about what has been happening in my class recently.

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This week, I share some of my class planning for the school year.  This includes: how I and other educators are using Twitter; my video conferencing plans; using Big Brain Academy and the Wii in class; encouraging pupils to create a podcast to meet assessment outcomes; Sharon Tonner's Voices of the World 'eTwinning' podcast project; Voki talking avatars; creating a orienteering Mediascape; the new Scottish Internet Safety unit qualification; and using Voicethread as part of a teacher and pupil presentation.

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This week, I am in conversation with Linda Hartley, a former Teaching Assistant, who runs the Classroom Displays Flickr Group and is introducing a variety of other Web 2.0 tools for sharing and collaboration between Teaching Assistants and the wider education community.

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In this week's show, I discuss: how a Web 2.0 school website might look; forthcoming (Ed)Tech meet-ups; and some of the tools that I will be using and projects that I will be involved in during the next school year.

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