Mr P’s iPod blog

Now that the student reports are out of the way and in the hands of the Principal, it is time to get back to the iPods. We have lost heaps of momentum. A bigger problem has occurred however when I went to download the voice memos from the first iPod. Plugging it in via the [...]

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It is great to see that the other two teachers who are using the iPods are having plenty of success however the next problem is actually hearing the voice memos. Fortunately I had a pair of speakers that we could plug into the iPod so that the whole class could hear. Once again, (as was [...]

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It has been a very busy week this week getting ready for the student’s mid year reports. As a result we have not had the time to revisit our Scienceworks recordings as a class. This is a pity and the currency of the recordings is fast being lost. Sadly it seems that too often the [...]

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Now that we are back from our visit to Scienceworks it is time to check out the recordings. An immediate problem is that it is tricky, albeit impossible to identify which voice memo is which. With multiple memos on each unit the only identifier is the date and time. The only way around this seems [...]

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Today it was off to Scienceworks and a great day we had too. As there were six grades in the group my children had been mixed up with others and I had direct control over only a couple of them. The designated iPod children were very chuffed and felt quite special. It was interesting to [...]

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Tomorrow we are going to take our our iPods to Scienceworks, an interactive science museum up in Melbourne. Because of the need to get the more traditional “schoolwork” completed we didn’t get a lot of time to do any preparatory work before the visit. We managed to have a brief discussion about how the iPods [...]

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I went to the ICTEV conference the other day to present a couple of session about blogs, wikis, etc, (most of which can be seen online). It was interesting to catch up with heaps of like minded teachers.
It was great to catch up with a couple in particular. I had been speaking with Anne from [...]

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Having told my colleagues in the unit that I had the iPods I suggested that a couple of them might like to have a play with them too. I had two in particular in mind who are both in their 1st year of teaching. It was interesting to hear from a couple of others that [...]

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Having mp3 files is okay however they are not true podcasts until they have the necessary RSS enclosure that a blog provides. We have a server with Manila installed on it at school however I am not all that enamoured with Manila as a blogging platform and I can’t seem to get it to set [...]

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Once we had begun to record on the iPods and then attempt to listen to each recording we immediately realised that we had little idea which iPod contained which recording as most of the skins are the same colour. To overcome this we hit on an idea, inserting a piece of paper between the iPod [...]

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