Pontydysgu produces a monthly (ish) podcast, Sounds of the Bazaar for the Bazaar project. The autumn series is being produced in conjunction with On-line Educa Berlin.We will be posting a back catalogue of the programme to this section of the site (when time permits). We also intend to develop a resource archive of interviews, presentations and other audio content.
Here it is - the podcast of the live radio show.
On Monday we broke new ground with our Sounds of the Bazaar radio show. We produced a special issue of Emerging Sound of the Bazaar entitled ‘Into the Dragons Den’. The programme was a fly on the wall special following the progress of a Dragons Den session organised by the Jisc Emerge project. What’s it all about? Emerge supports a range of projects funded by the Jisc Users and Innovation programme. The projects are mainly focused on developing social software for use in education. Part of the support process has been through a four stage development model. As part of that model, at different times during the project development, project developers get invited to a session where they are quizzed by ‘Dragons’ on the progress of their project.
The Dragons Den session featured on Sounds of the Bazaar podcast is the Preview project which is developing and piloting models for Problem Based Learning in Second Life. Maggie Savin-Baden represented the project. Paul Bailey and Chris Fowler were the dragons.
I’m not sure the Dragons roared. In fact, I think Maggie slayed the Dragons. But judge for yourself.
As always many thanks to all those who took part in the programme including our phone in guests. Production and music by Dirk Stieglitz. (NB - don’t be offput by the volume on the first minute - I got overexcited).
Photo: Yeweni
As promised a new podcast in our Sounds of the Bazaar series. Dr Jile and Mr. Tian from the Institute of Vocational and Adult Education in Bejing dropped in yesterday to talk about technology enhanced learning.
I couldn’t miss the opportunity to get them in front of the microphone. And it is truly an interesting talk. Many thanks to both of them,
Intro and extro music New Generation by ‘Souled Out‘
OK - the summer break from the airwaves is over. Next week we will broadcast the first of the autumn series of Sound of the Bazaar LIVE - details tomorrow but put Tuesday 1820, CEST, 1720 BST in your diaries now. And here as a warm up is a new podcast produced by the wonderful Andreas Auwarter from the Bildung in Dialog site (English monoglots - don’t be put off by the the German language introduction - the discussion is in English. As Andeas says in this programme notes: “Steve Wheeler in an interview with Patrick Vetter and Christian Czarnowske. Finally Graham Attwell joins the dialog and this interview brings up to an interesting and short discussion about Web 2.0, Adult Education, Web 3.0 and their meanings of those terms.
Soundpainted with podsafe music from http://www.Jamendo.com.”
This was recorded on a beautiful summers day on the terrace of St Virgil’s conference centre in Salzburg at the EdMedia2008 Conference. To be honest, its chats like this outside the official programme which make conferences worth their while.
Once more my thanks to Andreas - and do join us on the terrace and try to imagine the sun.
Sadly I can’t seem to get the stream to play in my blog. But just head on over to Bildung in Dialog to hear this recording.
This is the last LIVE edu-radio show before we take a summer break. The theme: Edupunks. And if you missed it here is your chance to download or listen online to the podcast version. If you heard the live version you can listen again!
First up in the show is Edupunk ‘poster boy’ Jim Groom - the man who first coined the name edupunk.
He is followed by Mike Caulfield from the University of Mary Washington. He talks about edupunks as a metaphor and about change cultures.
Helen Keegan explains how she developed a new ‘do it yourself’ course at the Univeristy of Salford. Helen explains the need for us to loosen up control.
Kathryn Greenhill from Australia explains that punklib is librarians doing it for themselves. She appeals for libraries to free up data.
Martin Weller, believes edupunk is a metaphor for the zeitgeist of our times. He talks about the tension between the culture of social networking and our instututional course provision.
Sounds of the Bazaar resident edu-granny, Leila Gray, reflects on the differences technology has made in her lifetime.
Margarita Perez Garcia wraps up the July edition of Emerging Mondays with three short experimental poems.
The music for this show is from the polish Rock-Punk-Alternative Band Adapters. We feature their album Adapters. You can find this album and a lot more music on the great Creative Commons music site Jamendo.com.
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Graham, thanks for giving me the opportunity to read some poetry. I enjoyed a lot seeking poetry for people who cannot understand Spanish: quite challenging! This time I was more relaxed than the first, when I read Julio Cortazar. I was dying from stress. But managed to say some words in English, fighting my own language ghosts. Also, I have never heard my voice in a recording. This was strange! I adore reading poetry, but I have never dared in public! So a new experience for me as well.
Quite enjoyed listening to this show and the ideas presented around the theme of edupunk. I think the meme captures much of the ethos surrounding participatory media and the culture shifts we are beginning to observe. The new social tools presented to us allow us to be broadcasters–we, the people, can do it ourselves. And punk rock is a fine example of this. Perhaps more importantly, punk rockers are artists. Edupunk embodies this notion of educators as artists, those who intentionally trace and explore traditional boundaries and human expression. The edupunk meme signifies more than just a tart phrase pasted on the media landscape. To truly understand its meaning, you have to live it.
Rock on!
Chris
The podcast version of Emerging Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE summer special. This edition was produced for the Jisc Emerge conference on Exploring User 2.0: the shape of future users. The conference day theme was digital storytelling so we thought we would talk to users - old and young and from across Europe.
First up in the show is an all too short talk with kids from the computer club at Cwmglas primary school, Swansea. Sadly we ran out of bandwidth and had to curtail the talk but I have arranged to go back to make a podcast shwo at the school in a couple of weeks. And make sure you visit their brilliant website. (NB we are trebling our bandwidth next week).
Next up is John Pallister, who teaches IT in a secondary school talking about his discovery of Web 2.0 tools and his increasing fascination with the on-line world.
John is followed by Guenter Behan from Graz in Austria exoplaining the ideas behind the European funded Aposdle project.
Asley Healey from Glasgow in Scotland tells us about her research into communities of practice.
And Leila Gray - an 83 year old computer fan from Blackwood in Wales explains how she uses Web 2.0 applications. Leila was so good we have invited her to become our resident Sounds of the Bazaar Techno-granny (more about that soon).
And to wrap up taodays programme Margarita Perez Garcia reads us a poem in Spanish.
What a show. And between each item we have great music form an album called Cien Anos Despues by Magnolia Chile available free under a Creative Commons license from the Jamendo web site.
Enjoy. You are listening to Emerging Sounds of the Bazaar - the Sounds of the Summer.
Great fun on Emerging Mondays radio show last night. Ignoring risk assessments we broadcast live from across Europe, with Mark Kramer talking live over a public wifi link to skype on a mobile phone from the football fanzone in Salzburg. Many thanks too to Steve Wheeler and George Roberts for their contributions. And of course to our listeners - without you there would not be much of a show.
Icecast server statistics are a little difficult to read. At a minimum we had 69 listeners - although there may have been more. Countries included UK, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium, Romania and the USA.
For those of you who missed the show - or if you enjoyed it so much you want to listen again 
- here is the podcast version. We will also announce the next show very soon.
SleaveNotes
In this issue I talk about Dave Cormier’s paper on Rhizomatic learning and the community as curriculum.
Steve Wheeler reflects on the contradictions facing education institutions using social software.
Hank HorKoff from ChinesePod talks about using new technology for language learning.
Mark Kramer talks live from the football fanzone in Salzburg about how we ware using mobile devices.
Neil Oughton from Beaumont College in the UK explains how he is planning to use Wordpress in his college.
And poet George Roberts reads another of his poems.
The music is by Ally Valentine from the DD10 8TW album. It is available for free download from the Creative Commons supported Jamendo web site.
Agreed re: critical theory. Wasn’t terribly sure that it was the right venue for a critical theory discussion… 2500 word maximum for that journal I was hoping that the D&G references would include their obvious inheritence from that particular field of thought. Would love to discuss further!
just finished listening to emerging sounds while answring y emails. Great Job. Quite inspiring and relaxing. Loved it.
Congrats!
What do you do on Mondays?
Eastenders? Corrie? The Archers? Meet a mate down the pub? Or perhaps a quiet night in?
We have the answer to those Monday evening blues. Its called Emerging Mondays. Emerging Mondays features a once a month topical and lively media meet up for all Emerge members and friends. The format is simple. Starting at seven clock, once a month, Emerging Mondays will feature an hours live internet radio followed by a social event in second Life.
The first of our series is this coming Monday, June 9 at 1900 hours UK Summer Time, 2000 Central European Summer Time.
The theme for our first programme will be “Social software - finding value? The right tools but the wrong approach?
The educational technology community has embraced social software with a wave of experimental projects and activities. But is it working? The tools are great for encouraging new participatory approaches to learning and for building peer activity and networking. However, is there a dissonance between such approaches to learning and the structures and curricula of our education systems? Does the adoption of social software challenge hierarchies and power? What is the role of teachers and trainers in a era where knowledge is distributed through networks.
The radio broadcast can be accessed by going to the following web address: http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/emerge.mp3
This weeks show features Steve Wheeler from Plymouth College talking about social software, Jay Cross from Internet Times on informal learning, Hank Horkoff from China Pod in Shanghai on personal Learning Environments and language teaching and learning and of course our culture spot with the Last Poet in Oxford.. We will be holding a regular ‘phone in’ slot over skype and would love to welcome you live on the show. Make sure I have your skype address – mine is GrahamAttwell and we will be happy to chat to you on Monday evening.
And, of course, I am looking forward to meeting up with you on the Emerge SL Island after the event.
Its enough to make Mondays worth looking forward to.
Not sure if I am going to be bale to make the 1st Monday, but I will make sure to spread the word about this cool event…using social software of course! 
Hi Cris. You already know this history, but I`d like to tell it again. It was a 95 years old lady who was writing short stories and one day her grand-grand-grand son discovered the notebook with the stories. He arranged the stories in a blog and presented it to the lady as a birthday gift. At that time I recommended you not to wait till you are 95 to begin writing. But not just to begin. Continue. Your short stories are easy to read. And what if our friend Carla who is a marvelous photographer add some photos to your stories. And now I am remembering a tool that allows us to make a book with our writings. I agree with you that Isabel Allende is a superb writer. But if she had not published her first book no one had known her. So please, do not abandon your diary. Warm hugs, Horacio.
sounds like a cool way to spend an hour of a Monday evening. I’ve shared this on FriendFeed in order to spread the word - there’s an edubloggers room there if you are interested http://friendfeed.com/rooms/edubloggers
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Hi Cris. I know you are going to give a rest to your computer. But I know how difficult is to resist the call of it. So please, tell me how to acces “Sounds of The Bazaar - LIVE” and forgive for interrupting your nap.Warm hugs, Horacio.
Lat week I was at the Scil Congress in St Gallen in Switzerland. The theme of the congress was ‘The changing face of learning - Creating the right balance’. I presented a keynote (slides to come soon on Slideshare) and ran a workshop on Personal Learning Environments. Not sure I got the timings quite right n the workshop - I got a bit carried away with the discussion. But the group certainly had got the idea. And as a last activity I asked them to make a quick podcast. I gave three groups 10 minutes to storyboard a four minute podcast on ‘The changing face of learning: the next steps’ and then we recorded it.
Only one had made a podcast before. But they did a pretty good job. I have done a very quick post production job. Here is the podcast - it is about twelve minutes in total.
Yeah!
Liked it a lot. Authentic reflection. Really liked the wrap up - great Hymn to change: Changing the culture in schools and in companies.
Can’t agree more.
Today I was thinking it is really hard for instance to squeeze a triangle inside a square. Have you eveer thought about that? It can be quite uncomfortable and cause stress, anxiety, lack of interest, because it doesn’t fit, but if someone tells you to try or else… You will do it!… And that is exactly what our education systems have been trying to do: to add something to the existing reality instead of re-thinking it completely. Educators might wnat to cahnge it but if they don’t get official support, most will struggle with it, some feel very frustrated, others will just try to ignore it, etc…
Only if we are able to replace the old frame work (the square) will there be a be space for the change (the triangle).
I can’t see a major change happening until the curricula are dramatically re-designed (maybe even cease to exist!), classrooms stop being organized in rows (maybe we even stop having classrooms as such) and until teachers are demanded not to assess according to unpersonalized criteria (maybe we have to ban the “teacher role” and convert them in storytellers and mentors!.
One thing is for sure: it has t be a dramatic change to achieve learning (r)evolution. We need to choose if we need the square or the triangle, or maybe even something else. We cannot expect teachers to follow national curricula, prepare kids to succeed national exams and do all of that using a 21st skill approach when certification, handbooks and curricula across the world have been developed to accommodate the chalk and talk methodology.
This takes us to another issue then: professional development: it is recognized everyone learns more outside the school, that networking and interacting as part of a CoP is a more efficient way of learning and further development. SO true. I know it. I have experienced it for years now. But we are still too few perceiving that and doing that that way!! And that is because most people have never experienced it, nor have they give it a chance because they don’t know better. Most time when they need to prove to their bosses they know something they enroll to this course which will grant them that certified paper. They go to boring classes, read those long papers, memorize stuff for their exams, and after that they try to keep away from those school walls till they need to prove something else. Then they will have to play the get-another-certificate-to-keep the-boss-happy- game again!
Thanks for that. You got me thinking here!
Hi Graham and all participants:
first of all congrats for the pod…;-)
Unfortunaly I had to leave on the fly…
Is there a follow up on the plattform you mentioned??
Kind regards
Uwe
PD: Great music, what is it??
Ah - the music - I should have credited it - it is Anas song - from a creative commons remix competition on the jamendo.com web site -= great site for free music.
Sorry being a bit late with the follow up material - hectic here at moment - but will be up soon - and don’t forget the Evolve on-line event on Friday -see my blog for details - will pick up some of the themes we talked about
Susan and I will be there - and we will be accompanying my daughter, Joan and her husband Jim.
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The last in our one week series of live webcasts sponsored by the Jisc Emerge programme.
If you missed the Emerging Sounds of the Bazaar at the Benefits Realisation day of the Emerge Conference, here is your second chance. The one hour live webcast was recorded and is now available as an MP3 podcast.
You can listen in line or download the programme to your MP3 player of choice.
The programme features:
Music is from the Exotica album by Les Juanitos from the Jamendo Creative Commons supported web site - www.jamendo.com
Thanks to everyone who helped produce the programme and especially to the producer, Dirk Stieglitz.
Its been a tiring last six days. First to Karlsruhe for the launch of the Mature research project and then on to Pesaro to teach on the last day of the five day course on materials production for open and distance learning. There were some 15 students from all over Europe. It was hard work but great fun. I did an initial session on Personal Learning Environments (more on that on this blog later) and then a session on podcasting. I got four groups to each storyboard a session and then each group recorded their session live on stage in front of the whole class.
The technology was a bit dubious - it was what I could set up from my bag in five minutes - but the participants were enthusiastic - despite it being a sunny Saturday afternoon, creative and very funny.
I have promised to publish their work. This is a very rough cut - I did it last night when I got home. The sound levels are all over the place and the editing is minimal but I think it shows the potential of using podcasting for creating and creativity. You are all invited to listen - however some of the humour is very much in-group. Sadly there was no time to run a session on editing but we are adding that to the wiki that Critsina and I have created for supporting our teaching and learning sessions.
Thanks to Elmo for organising the Pesaro course and to all the students for their willingness to play.
Graham, this is a great fun! Thanks to you.
Fun indeed, who knows Dr Elmo might become a hype on the inetrnet…
Wonderful!
Very fun indeed! Thank you Graham and Cristina!
Very good work!
What can i say?… it was a good week!… with a very good team work
Thanks to all
Hi Graham all the Pesaro team
It has been great fun in Pesaro and the podcast is great fun.
Tank you all
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