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.
Equally as quickly they soon had them inserted into P/Story and were beginning the transitions, (that is for the ones who remembered to scan all the pages and get them in the correct order). As always most of us started in the same screen but soon we were all over the program. Once again however the students in the know came to the fore and were soon assisting and teaching and learning from each other.
For me this was once again a valuable lesson applicable to any area of the curriculum that if the students are really interested and want to do something, (e.g. learn P/Story because they can see something in it), they will problem solve their way around things. I really enjoy the learning community that working with the ICT has actively promoted. As a result, in a little over an hour, (we stole a little more lab time later in the day), well more than 2/3rds of the class were up to being ready to narrate their presentations. I can’t wait for next week, now all I have to do is to figure out how to get the feeds onto iTunes and the like.
