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Welcome to the programme notes of the second edition of #L4LTV

I was hoping to keep the episodes down to under 20 minutes once a fortnight but there are so many things happening at the moment that the running order has just expanded to meet content. The second show will be hitting the 1

We had over 1000 views in the rst hour of the show on Games and Gaming in Education a fortnight ago so everything got off to a good start.

hour mark as well.

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Part of the unique quality of L4LTV is that teachers contribute the content and you have to be a very brave teacher to put yourself in front of a camera to do this. In this weeks edition we have a video contribution from Martin Robinson (@surrealanarchy on God, the universe and creativity in teaching If you fancy buying his book or seeing him in the esh then pop along to the Idler Online and go and see him on the 13th February. http://idler.co.uk/product/events/how-the-trivium-will-save-education-with-martin-robinson/

Another brave contributor is Rachel Jones, (@jlj1981 on Twitter), a sociology and classical civilisation teacher at a 6th form college in Hampshire. She is also Google Certied teacher and a member of Pedagoo Admin.

When I suggested the idea of a Web TV Station to ll the gap left by Teachers TV but with much more dynamic and current content, a lot of people offered to help but only a few people actually took me up on the offer and made video

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http://tv.L4L.co.uk contributions. Rachels contributions were incredibly concrete and practical and very much in the spirit of giving inspiration to teachers to take control of their own CPD. She delineates, very precisely, the entry points and where to begin with teacher networks. You only have to read her blog over at http://createinnovateexplore.com to see how dedicated and resourceful she is with everything she does in education.

Another contributor, this week, is Phil Beadle (@philbeadle on Twitter) whom I went to see at his home in Catford.

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He agreed to be lmed and set me a series of challenges that youll see in the programme. The result was a number of limericks he wrote around the subject of formal/ informal education in the persona of The Shadow, Phils latest book is How to Teach: The Book of Plenary is out now.

I also talked with Richard Taylor about his entrepreneurial seminars and scheme to get more teachers involved in the process of contributing to educational tech right from the start rather than at the end of the process of involvement.

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Richard, together with OCR, has organised a series of workshops which provide funding for supply cover to enable teachers be released to reassess their role in the world of edtech. These workshops will be delivered in three formats: 1-day program Part-time (afternoons or evenings) program Virtual ed-invent (the format will vary slightly). From these, 30 people will be invited to participate in the residential weekend nal being held at The Belfry in Cambridge over the weekend of March 28-30 2014. Participants will spend two days working on their ideas supported by a team of edtech entrepreneurs and OCR staff. On Sunday afternoon teams will pitch their ideas in an attempt to win various prizes, including: 1st place will recieve 3k, on-going mentoring and encouragement to apply to edtech incubators like Imagine K12, or Wayra 2nd place will receive 1k Internships - the opportunity to undertake internships at tech companies inc.Touch Press and Night Zookeeeper Tech prizes there will also be several small tech prizes (we are leaning towards a couple of iPad minis). Read more at http://www.ed-invent.com/ !2

http://tv.L4L.co.uk Francis Gilbert was the very rst teacher to answer my call for video contributions.

He had been making videos for his pupils on YouTube for some time. If you go to his website at http://www.francisgilbert.co.uk you will see that he makes copious resources and study guides for his pupils on a regular basis. I visited him at school to lm him talk about the way he constructs subject specic blogs in the English curriculum for his students.

Continuing on the subject of blogs and writing, I interviewed David Mitchell (@DeputyMitchell on Twitter) about the way he was able to get junior school boys to extend their writing using blogging and the idea of writing for a global audience using Quadblogging.

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I remember trying to get the idea of blogs and blogging off the ground in the late 90s and making a list of all the local authorities that were starting to do this but it never really got traction until recently. David outlines the history of his simple but very effective idea in the

He spends his time now going into schools and giving hands on workshops showing how to use edtech with writing techniques to extend boys writing in particular. You can visit his website here: http://asksir.co.uk/

interview.

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Sponsorship for L4LTV Sponsorship for the L4LTV Station is quite unusual in that sponsors give money for kit or projects that further CPD for networks of practising teachers. This is a pretty unusual business model but enables me to give courses or disseminate kit to people who will use it to share their expertise and wisdom with others through the medium of lm, text or audio resources. The idea is to gradually widen the circles of teacher driven CPD where teachers take charge of their own training at grass roots level.

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http://tv.L4L.co.uk Computing at School gave sponsorship money to enable me to pay for the transcripts of my interviews with several of their Master Teachers in Computing - these will be released as a free ebook in time for the spring term well ahead of the introduction of the new curriculum.

I do still teach in schools and am a STEM ambassador and I have interviewed 10 of about 20 teachers at different key stages to see how they are going about implementing the new Computing Curriculum that is due to come out in the next academic year. One of the rst interviews I did was with Jon Chippindall (@DrChips_ on twitter) back in July 2013 when I

was setting up and looking for funding for the Web TV Channel.

John had written a whole series of curricular resources for Key Stage 1 and 2 - he is one of a handful of Primary practitioners with the expertise to translate the computing curriculum into activities that are easy and enjoyable to use as a starting point for the new curriculum. The interview I did with him was a catch-up and he is currently looking at dovetailing both the computing and Maths curriculum in the future. Highly ambitious so it looks as if Ill be back to visit him again.

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Id like to take the opportunity to thank the other sponsors who have helped get the TV Channel off the ground. They are Rising Stars, who are donating money to a portable lming unit that will allow uni teacher training staff to enable teachers to show what projects they have been involved in in their classrooms and to disseminate that over the web and through the TV Station. I am pleased to be working with Helen Caldwell (Senior Lecturer in Education (Computing) University of Northampton School of Education) for six months to teach teachers how to present, lm, document, archive and disseminate what they do in the classroom for other teachers in their area.

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I really do have to also thank Richard Smith (@amazingict) and Igloo in Education over at http:// www.iglooineducation.com/ for a large donation of money for kit to do the same thing with another group of teachers in other parts of the country. Last, but not least, I have to thank Graham Newell - Director of Education of Iris Connect who donated three HD Cameras for teachers to be able to shoot and send me videos about their practice. Iris Connect like all the sponsors I have mentioned have deep tap roots into teacher communities that inform their business models. Their businesses are about enabling and fostering the growth of teacher networks so that aligns perfectly with the model of extending CPD through the medium of lm that the TV station is setting out to foster.

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http://tv.L4L.co.uk Learn 4 Life TV is about enabling teachers to take control of their own destiny and share, by example, their successes and failures.

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Without exception all the teachers I have spoken to in connection with the TV Project have been extremely frank and open about their successes and failures. No-one is peddling quick xes or magic bullets. I have personally sunk over 15,000 of my own funds into this venture to try and get people reecting on and working together to show each other how to improve their practice. I am very grateful to all sponsors who have helped make the project a reality. Please do go to https://new.livestream.com/L4L/L4LTV to see the live stream of the programme on 14th December 2013 or go to http://tv.L4L.co.uk for the archive in the fortnight following. Lastly L4LTV Is also live streaming a number of events that teachers are interested in but highly unlikely to be able to get to due to pressures of work or the simple fact that the event is too far away. At least twice a month we will be live streaming in HD video a TeachMeet or similar teacher networking event. In January it will be the Teacher Development Trusts and Teach Firsts seminar on Classroom Observation on Monday 13th Jan. We will also be covering BETT Ed Tech education show and Havering TeachMeet in February. The whole ethos behind Learn 4 Life is that the media is informed by what teachers are up to or talking about week on week. It is driven by grass roots activity yet the TV Station aims to be global in its reach by 2014. No-one has evolved a model for niche media for the teaching profession like this before so we aim to be the rst but we also aim to be as authentic as possible (as possible as it is able to be through media!) in our mediation of what is happening on the ground with the teaching profession and CPD developments in the UK and beyond.

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Informal education will also be a big part of that and the wider educational cultural activities that will inevitably impinge on schools in terms of organisations and systems driven by new technologies . The web TV Station has been formed to monitor, document, reect and disseminate news of those changes then push them out through the ubiquity of devices now becoming increasingly available to everyone but the station has its roots very rmly in teacher network activity and allied organisation coming together to build new CPD Channels of engagement. Anything else would be rootless and ineffectual in the long run.

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So we need your content and we need allied sponsors with a similar vision! Get in touch here: http://www.l4l.co.uk/?page_id=1777 Have a well earned break. !5