During Macworld 2009, with the generous support of the Apple University Consortium (AUC) in Australia and Computer-Using Educators Inc. (CUE) in the US, we will be bringing you a series of podcast, and occasionally vodcast, episodes seeking to distill the educational wisdom arising from this massive expo.
Our team, led by Allan Carrington and Ian Green, will be cruising the conference, audio and video recorders in hand, interviewing presenters and participants involved in Macworld’s educators strands, and sometimes venturing into the wider exhibition areas to search out items of educational interest.
Our aim here is to do more than just go gaga over the latest piece of technology or some fancy new software. We want our conversationalists to think critically, to see things in their broader contexts, to tease out the educational implications, and to reflect on their own pedagogical practices.
AUC, being a university based consortium, has a primary interest in higher education, while CUE has a primary focus on the K-12 sector. So we are looking to cover a wide educational spectrum, and many of the episodes published here will also be available on the CUE Live site.
We hope you enjoy these episodes. But please don’t just play them passively. Make sure you also add your ideas and comments, which in an important new step for conference podcasting, you can now do either as audio or by good old fashioned text. This is easy to do – simply follow the links provided throughout these pages to find out how.
Listen. Contribute. Connect. Be part of the wisdom.
Apple University Consortium (AUC) Australia
Computer Using Educators (CUE) Inc. USA
Allan Carrington is a Learning Designer with the Centre of Learning and Professional Development at the University of Adelaide. 
Dr Ian Green teaches and researches in areas of researcher education, elearning and linguistics at the University of Adelaide. 
