Mr P’s iPod blog

So as to differentiate the Photo Stories from the general blog, I decided to set up a dedicated blog just for them. As the children have now begun to complete their narration, (thanks to the librarian’s office) I wanted to make sure that the files were not too large. Fortunately Photo Story allows you to [...]

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Having gotten all of the preparation for the AIM testing out of the way it was time to get back to grass roots and making another podcast. As we had “lost” the “Personality of the Week” recording between podcasts we had to go back to the personality to ask permission to re-record the segment. This [...]

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Our problems with the mikes and other noise during iPod recordings have pointed up another big problem with traditional school and classroom setups. To best record you need a small room that will not be intruded upon but which is observable from a classroom for supervision purposes. Apart for the librarian’s office our school only [...]

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It was lab time once again and I was all ready to get the students to add the narration to their P/Stories. I gathered all of the headphone mikes I could find in the school, (5 in total) and fortunately I had some time to go into the lab before the class. Attempting to connect [...]

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After showcasing some of a couple of student’s iPod homework there was renewed interest in taking the iPods to get the data. One of the students came up with a really neat idea to use a ziplock bag as a take home storage for the iPod. This encouraged me to remind the students of the [...]

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Another weekend and another chance to spread the good word about Web 2.0 and some of the things associated with it. This time it was at the STAV Primary Science Conference. Unfortunately I was only able to attend on the Sunday of this 2 day program however I had offered the usual session on Blogs, [...]

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Messing around on the weekend I remembered in the dark recesses, seeing something about converting movies to Flash. There are some good reasons for trying to do this including to minimise file size and to make the file more accessible. Photo Story also exports in Windows Movie Maker files and require the latest version of [...]

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Friday is the computer lab day when we can do the whole class instruction time. This week I thought I should get the students started at least on the Photo Story 3 stories. Hitting the keyboards, the children were soon cropping and rotating the pics from their publisher made storybook pages using Irfanview.
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This term we are doing work on life in the past compared to life today with a particular focus on transport, communication and land use. As part of the work our students are being asked to interview their parents and grandparents about their childhood. The students can record this information in any way they wish. [...]

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As part of our arrangement with the Channel 31 TV segment, (see below), a couple of students from the class were deputised to interview the crew from the station. Having finished our part of the segment, the girls went off to use part of their recess to quiz Graeme and his partner. The interview went [...]

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