I came across this video via the excellent David Noble podcast at Booruch. This teacher Tim Ryland uses the game Myst to promote literacy in his class, In an age where they say literacy has dropped amongst average children this look like really good use of games and ICT in the classroom. The game helps provides the children with a visual immersive environment that provides a platform they can write about .Some of the sample videos look really impressive with the kids looking really into it ,You can find his blog over here

Barcamp is back and this time it in Dublin Horrahhh, I really enjoyed the last one, and would encourage everyone to head along to this, The wikki for it can be found here.

Have just listened to a really good talk about issues with podcasting from the creator of RSS Mr. Dave Winer. This is a very interesting talk not just about future development in podcasting, but also touches on publishing, community,and the role of the media. The podcast can be found over here

There is a really good podcast over at Conn Ó Muíneacháin Edgecast media winner of the recent digital media awards.This podcast is about using podcasting in the buisness setting and is really good example of how podcasting can increase the knowledge transfer within an organisation.The podcast is a conversation between Michael Byrne of QBC Ltd and conn and is fascinating insight into podcasting benefits within an organization.

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This look like a potentially good idea at Yodio,or your + audio which claims to be the blogger of audio. The benefits are the claimed ease of use where you can record audio from your mobile phone by ringing a number and recording some audio, this can be easily uploaded, with unlimited storage space. What yodio offers is that is your are selling your audio you get 20 % of royalty based on the price you give. Yodio has a Tour feature, which has real potential if integrated with Google maps and Touristr to be quite successful, and also a card and cast feature which has different options for audio space and the size of supported pictures .

This looks like a great tool for those privileged view with macs, the Prof Cast looks like a very affordable solution to recoding lectures. Prof Cast makes very easy way to distribute podcast to your audience or classroom. There is also a feature to record over your presentation slides, so the can digest both the audio content with the slides as they where delivered to you. You can read more in the blog here

Fab channel our now offering all there concerts where you can embed them into your blog.Since there hasn't been any video on the blog for a while thought i might post this.This is from one of my irish favorite bands,the revs