Mr P’s iPod blog

We went off to camp for the first three days of this week. This time it was to a farm based camp with my grade and the other five grades in the unit, (120 students in all). As usual the children were very excited. To ensure the children had a chance to interact with as [...]

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I can breathe easy again as podcast 4 is now up and available, albeit a few days after Pete’s deadline

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Given the post by Peter on Prattlings advertising that our next podcast 4 would be up on the 18th of August I knew that I had to get my act together. Seeing as how the files were all on the Mac I decided to use Audacity on the Mac to assemble the program. (I am [...]

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I just checked in on our classroom blog, Middle P Prattlings to find that one of my students has put the pressure on by advertising to the world that our next podcast, podcast 4 will be uploaded by the 18th of August. Now that is something rather different, the students giving teachers a deadline. How [...]

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Just when I bemoan the fact that I seem to be the only one working with the iPods at school when I get two calls in the one day from my colleagues requesting use of three or four. Hey there, as in the words of the Moving Pictures song, WHAT ABOUT ME??? Actually it is [...]

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Today we went on an excursion out and about Geelong. Our purpose was to look at some of the changes that have taken place in Geelong since white settlement. I had prepared a focus sheet that highlighted a number of significant buildings that we were to walk past or to. As usual now we took [...]

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Now that the AIM test is over it is time to get back to the real business of education J and so it was that we started podcast number 4. After divvying up the segments to the students we had groups scripting their segments as other classmates went about writing for our new wiki. It [...]

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As if to rebutt my previous entry, as I walked into school this morning with one of my teacher colleagues, (she teaches juniors), I was asked if she could borrow an iPod to record her students’ oral reading as a means of comparing their expression and fluency. What a neat idea and one I should [...]

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Despite having encouraged a number of other staff members to take the iPods I have to observe that save for a couple of notable exceptions it has been rather hard for these teachers to utilise them other than incidentally. There are probably a number of reasons for this including not having direct access to the [...]

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One of my students proudly came in this morning to proclaim that on his memory stick he had a new Photo Story production that he had made at home whilst instructing his pre-schooler sister on how to go about using Photo Story. Now where will this all end ?

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