At the start of 2008, Orange Grove Primary School commenced a one-to-one laptop program for all students in Years 4 - 7. This podcast contains videos that the students produced reflecting on how their school lives have changed since receiving their very own laptop computers. The videos were shown to the school community at the official launch of the laptop program in March of this year. Enjoy!

(For educators who are interested in how the laptop program operates, Mr Fuller has posted details on his blog. You can also listen to Mr Fuller speak about the program on a Digital Chalkie webcast)

The Podkids have been learning all about carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect and climate change. This episode is a recording of an assembly item that we presented to our school community in June 2008.

The music comes from Lanny Smith's Earthman project. Be sure to check it out at www.earthman.tv

Hope you enjoy the show!

As part of National Reading Day the Podkids have interviewed Western Australian author Elaine Forrestal. Elaine is the author of the novel Someone Like Me, which will be read by students all over Australia as part of National Reading Day. You can watch the interview by watching this month's special video podcast.

The Podkids have also set up an awesome website called 'A Place for Someone Like Me'. It includes chapter summaries, illustrations, a glossary and a place for people to discuss the book. Be sure to have a look at web.mac.com/nationalreadingday

Wednesday 5 September is National Reading Day, and our class is getting involved in a very special way!

The Podkids will be working with Elaine Forrestal, author of the award-winning book ‘Someone Like Me’ to produce book reports that will be read by students all around Australia.

Elaine’s novel has been selected as one of five books that will be read by students all over the country. Our class will be reading the book early and producing on-line chapter summaries that will be available for other students to read and comment on. Elaine herself will be viewing the site and responding to the children’s posts. On 31 August, Elaine will visit the classroom and be interviewed for a podcast that will be released as part of National Reading Day.

(Cover art used with permission)

The Podkids have scored their biggest media coup to date: An interview with the Hon Alan Carpenter MLA, Premier of Western Australia. Listen to Mr Carpenter answer the Podkids' tough questions and share his advice to the youth of today.

In this episode, you will also hear about our class trip to Jungle Gym, new teachers at Orange Grove Primary, white tigers and lots about outer space. Enjoy!

Welcome to Podkids News, our first ever video podcast. In this episode, our team of reporters will talk about 'connected learning'. We will show you some of the ways that students at OGPS connect with the global community.

Hope you enjoy it!

(Because this is a video podcast, you will need to either watch it on your computer or on a video iPod).

The Podkids are back for 2007, bigger and better than ever!

In this episode, the Podkids interview the Honourable Senator Helen Coonan, Federal Minister for Communications and Information Technology. We also report on a fire near our school, a delegation of Japanese teachers and our new project: Albert the Blogging Bear.

We also have a new group of Year 4s this years, so in this episode you will have a chance to meet the new Podkids.

Enjoy!

For the first time, Episode 11 is an enhanced podcast. This means that it includes pictures, chapter markers and links. This should make the podcast more enjoyable for most listeners.

However, if you have difficulties listening to this episode, drop us a line at podkids@gmail.com and we will arrange a good old-fashioned MP3 version for you.

As usual, some of the music from this month's show came from the Podsafe Music Network.

This is the final podcast from the Podkids for 2006. But don't worry, the show will continue in 2007 with lots of new students and great new segments.

This episode includes an interview with our local member of Parliament, Mr Stuart Henry. He sums up our school really well: "a community based school that is doing things on a global stage".

The Podkids also discuss grandparents day at OGPS, our class sleepover, cubbies, our museum excursion, Christmas, Egyptian gods and much much more! Enjoy!

In this episode, the Podkids talked about the Western Australian Museum, Stuart Henry MP and our class wiki (hosted by wikispaces).

Some of the music in this show came from the Podsafe Music Network. Many thanks to Rob Costlow, Jakit Patrick, Vincent Van Go Go and Dreamline who permitted us to use their music for this episode.