Mr P’s iPod blog

As it was the hols I decided to actually trial something before inflicting it on my poor long suffering students. I took the scans from Pete’s book on pigeons and loaded them into Photo Story 3. No problems there. Next it was on to the vocal track.
Hmmm seems you can actually record straight into P/Story!! [...]

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As part of their written work, my students have used Microsoft Publisher to turn some of their writing into what we call little books. (You can find a tutorial and Publisher 2003 masters for doing this on Simply Science if you are interested.) Once finished the children can print off multiple copies of their books [...]

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Via an email list I was alerted to a presentation being made by the good folks from Apple around the theme of podcasting. Of course I had to get along to check out what was on offer. The event as it turns out was oversubscribed, a message there about the place of podcasting these days [...]

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Once again the tyranny of time has beaten us and even though we had all of the segments ready, almost, we were unable once again to get the time to compile all of the components into another complete podcast. All of the students were so busy working at some fabulous space projects including webpages, quizzes [...]

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This is the last week of term, (and what a term??) and we haven’t finished so many things. We have only completed one podcast this term even though we have twice recorded the segments necessary to make up a program. Both times we have had interruptions that have meant that the final program compilation hasn’t [...]

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This Friday I am conducting some PD sessions on using blogs, wikis and mp3 files. To help participants I have updated my Blogs and Furls section of Simply Science. Along the way I have also written some Tutorial notes for setting up and using Audacity. There are also notes on setting up a free edublog [...]

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Now that we have the voice memos off of the iPod I went to set up iTunes however the folder system associated with iTunes doesn’t reside on the computer but travels with the profile. This means that it is almost impossible to network so that everyone can access the same iTunes files. It also means [...]

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Since my problems of the other day I needed to set up the iPods on my colleague’s desktops. Given the previous experience I knew to install the latest iPod software first, (I had downloaded it from the web and had the install on the school server which I could then run on each individual computer). [...]

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Just when you get on top of some more complex problems then a simple one comes along that is even trickier to solve. Up until now the students have been using a small conference room to record their voice memos. This room has recently become required by others on a much more regular basis. Additionally [...]

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