Posts by Mark Taylor
Trivial Warfare with Jonathan Oakes. LF008
Jonathan Oakes joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.
Our guest – Jonathan Oakes
Jonathan’s passion for trivia led him to create Trivial Warfare one the worlds leading podcasts in that niche.
So far Jonathan has combined this passion with a successful career as an IT manager. But as the show goes from strength to strength you can find out how by following his dream Jonathan now has the opportunity to do the thing he loves the most full time. However the real story is that by doing this, he is creating a community of likeminded people which is a world apart from his experience as a youngster.
Jonathan has a B.S. in Communication and a recently earned MBA. On Trivial Warfare he specializes in History, Sports, Mythology, and Presidents.
In this interview Jonathan discusses how the things that are painful in the early part of your life can become the things that give you the most growth and understanding as you mature. This awareness can become a gift to show you who you truly are.
“Even if it is the end of something it doesn’t necessarily mean it is the end of everything”
Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources Mentioned
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
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073: The PE Specialist with Ben Landers
Ben Landers – The PE Specialist
Ben started this website ThePEspecialist.com in 2014 in an effort to provide an amazing resource for teachers. He has a passion for kids and teaching quality physical education lessons that will empower students to be the best they can be. Being a PE teacher is such a great opportunity to have a positive impact on the kids that you teach, but his hope is to also impact more students through providing resources and ideas to teachers.
The reason he started The PE Specialist is to share knowledge, inspire teachers, add value to the Phys Ed community and help solve some of the problems that teachers are struggling with in schools today.
Ben Landers is a K-12 certified Physical Education teacher and has been teaching K-5th PE since 2007. He has completed National Board Certification in PE and also has a Masters in Education from Southern Wesleyan University and a Masters in Educational Leadership from University of South Carolina. Ben also serves as a Clinical Model Teacher for the University of South Carolina, helping to mentor future Physical Education teachers as part of their graduation requirement.
Resource mentions:
twitter hashtags
#physed
#pegeeks
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education
Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live.
Softwarepreneur with Hani Mourra. LF007
Hani Mourra joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.
Our guest – Hani Mourra
Hani’s passion is creating automation software for content creators.
These include –
Repurpose which automatically publishes audio and video content to multiple platforms to help grow your audience faster.
Simple Social Press automatically publishes your Facebook Live to your WordPress site.
Simple Video Press automatically publishes your YouTube to your WordPress site.
Simple Podcast Press automatically publishes your podcasts to your WordPress site.
Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources Mentioned
Startups For The Rest Of Us – Podcast
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072: The PE Umbrella with Ryan Ellis
Todays guest is Ryan Ellis from The PE Umbrella Podcast
Ryan is a primary school teacher and provides P.E teacher training in the UK. His experience also includes football coaching in the USA and he is the founder of The PE Umbrella Podcast.
The 4 Umbrellas make up the backbone of what The PE Umbrella represents and stands for.
The Green Umbrella – Cognitive (thinking) Domain
The Red Umbrella – Social Domain
The Purple Umbrella – Affective (emotional) Domain
“…It was in one of my early interviews with Bob Knipe that we hit on the topic of WHY I chose the name ‘The PE Umbrella’ for my podcast. My response was simply that PE covers so many aspects of life and skills, it was an Umbrella term for many things. Bob went one better than me. He suggested that he had imagined the term as a metaphor.
An Umbrella that children, and later adults would carry with them through their lives, containing skills and knowledge that protect them from the world around them and situations they may find themselves in, as a real umbrella shelters an individual from the rain.
Later, while mulling over this concept, I took it one step further, and instead of an umbrella that simply protects them, it is one they always add skills to, and can choose when to use these skills to tackle the world around them head on!
And so the 4 umbrellas was born. Each Umbrella representing one of the four domains of learning.
I see Physical Education as being at the forefront of the education & development of all children. The Physical has never been/nor should ever be in my eyes the sole focus of a great Physical Education program. Lessons can and should use purposeful questioning that enables the children to reflect on WHAT they are doing, WHY they are doing it and HOW they will know they have achieved it. Almost every activity has the potential to explore all 4 of these Umbrellas, and the resources at the PE Umbrella explain just how the same activity can lend itself to learning in any of the four domains, whether you choose to focus solely on one or touch upon a number of them, well, thats entirely up to you. After-all, YOU are the teacher and YOU know your students the best!”
Contact Details
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education
Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live.
Launch Show – NAPE 000
Hello and welcome to the first National Association for Primary Education podcast.
Who are NAPE?
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them.
Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live.
THE WAY WE WORK FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION
The National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) brings together everyone who has a concern for the learning of children from birth to 13 years. Members and affiliated schools work to improve education through the Early, Primary and Middle Years.
- All are welcome as members; Heads, Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Parents, School Governors. Inspectors, Administrators and entire School Communities.
- Members have an important voice exercised democratically. We influence public opinion and are consulted by government. The association is totally neutral politically.
- There are meetings of members both locally and nationally. Local associations can be formed.
- Conferences and workshops are arranged both locally and nationally.
- The association is administered by an elected National Council meeting termly to review progress and discuss national issues. Detailed administration is delegated to an Executive Committee which reports to the Council.
- NAPE is an active member of the Primary Umbrella Group (PUG) which comprises some 30 of the voluntary associations and unions working in the primary field. NAPE, alongside the professional associations, is actively engaged in co-ordinating future meetings of PUG.
- All aspects of education are experienced by children in their primary schools and we have strong links with subject associations.We often engage in cooperative ventures with them.
- NAPE are part of the More Than a Score alliance.
NAPE are the sole sponsor of the Education on Fire podcast network and now have the opportunity to tell the world how the association can help you and your children through their own podcast.
Find out more at https://www.educationonfire.com/national-association-for-primary-education/