Andrew Middleton presents an audio poster entitled 'Educational Podcasting - 99 ideas for a-learning'. In this episode he speaks to several colleagues in the Learning and IT Services department at Sheffield hallam university. He asks them what ideas spring to mind when presented with some of the titles he has given to his ideas for educational podcasting. The hope is that before the end we find idea 100! Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton speaks to Susannah Diamond who is leading the e-Portfolios initiative from Sheffield Hallam University's Learning and Teaching Institute. She offered a definition for e-Portfolios: they are digital presentations of meaningful and contextualised collections of assorted content. She proposes five major uses for portfolios: assessment; learning; presentation; personal development; and as a working environment. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton attends a mooting session. He joins Leslie Lomax and her undergraduate law students from the Mooting One module in a two hour mooting session to find out how this form of professional role play works and to consider its application to non-law disciplines. The Faculty of Development and Society's 'Mooting One' is an exciting module designed to develop research, legal argument, advocacy, team work, self-management and reflection skills. He references a session by Kirsten Hardie from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth presented at the HE Academy Conference 2006 entitled 'On trial: teaching without talking'. Hardie had used mooting with art students. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton and Mark Pettigrew discuss an article by Jakob Nielsen in his Alertbox column from October 9, 2006 entitled 'Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute' (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html). Can the ideas he presents in this piece be mapped to education, specifically participation in online asynchronous discussion? Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Richard Mather reflects upon the Handheld Learning Conference 2006 held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, October 12-13th. See: http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/hl2006/). Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

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Susannah Diamond reflects upon the Eifel Conference on e-Portfolios 2006 held in Oxford, UK. See http://www.eife-l.org. More detail is available on the SHU Innovations blog at http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=305#comments. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton speaks to Richard Lynch, a lecturer from Criminology, about his recent experience of using audio in his Blackboard course. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton reviews the Castblaster podcasting software. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com

Andrew Middleton talks to Liz Aspden about the new Integrated e-Learning course for Sheffield Hallam staff. Liz can be contacted on 4744 at SHU or by email at [email protected]. Check the Show Notes at http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com