One of my long term aims with Sounds of the Bazaar is to develop a community around educational podcasting. To that extent, we have encouraged guest participants in the production of Sounds - not only as interviewees but as presneters and technicians.

In April I was in Salzburg at the 3ed EduMedia Conference forganised by Salzburg Research. This year the conference focused on "Open Educational Practices and Resources for Lifelong Learning". How does self-directed, lifelong learning benefits from open training materials of the Internet, of open source based learn- and knowledge software and of common good licences?

And it was there that I met up with Andreas Auwarter. Andeas gained by attention right away, wandering around the conference with his recorder and microphone wearing a teeshirt emblazoned with 'Podcast Crew'. We quickly got talking and decided we would share whatever interviews we undertook. In the eveing we retreated to the bar and got to talk. Andreas studies and teaches at the University of Koblenz-Landau in southern Germany. He is undertaking a dissertation on podcasting, whilst teaching the same subject at the university.

And when I explained the idea of Sound of the Bazaar he was quick to volunteer his services as a guest producer. So here it is.

The first interview in this edition is with Bernie Dodge from San Diego in the USA. Bernie has developed the popular WebQuest aapproach to web based learning?

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium.

"Since those beginning days", Bernie says, "tens of thousands of teachers have embraced WebQuests as a way to make good use of the internet while engaging their students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. The model has spread around the world, with special enthusiasm in Brazil, Spain, China, Australia and Holland."

The second interview is with Tim Hall, director of the EMRC, University of Limerick.

Tim is a co-founder of the Educational Media Research Centre in Limerick, having working in the University of Limerick for the past 25 years. He has a large amount of research experience in eLearning. In the interview Tim talks about Open Source Software, social software and Open Educational Resources.

But you can't keep me out of Sounds of the Bazaar. In my monthly feature spot, I talk about the failing 'industrial model' of schooling and the growing challenges to that model. I suggest we can not reform the schooling model but instead need to develop new paradigms and approaches to learning.

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 Introduction and interview with Bernie Dodge [9:56m]: | Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 Interview with Tim Hall [8:16m]: | Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 Blog of the month [2:08m]: | Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 Graham Attwell on new models of schooling [11:05m]: | Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 Extro [0:39m]: | Play Now | Play in Popup | Download