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 the iPods with us though with no real preparation as to what we might record this time. It was again interesting to see a couple of the iPodders holding their iPod up to take in the 1960’s film that we viewed, (I am not sure what they hoped to capture but we will talk about this tomorrow).
One other student obviously had decided that recording was preferable to hand writing notes and she regularly took herself to one side to take oral notes in response to the focus sheet. This was entirely off her own bat. I will be interested to hear what she has recorded and see what she will do with the material.
At the very end of our walk around Geelong I decided to take in a board walk that runs around a swimming area at Eastern Beach. About 50m from the end of the walk there was a gasp from behind before another child breathlessly told us all that one of the students in charge of an iPod had somehow managed to pop the iTalk off of the top which had then quite neatly fallen in between the cracks of the boards and into the briny…….. Alas there was little anyone could do and the iTalk is now chatting with the fishes. This does point out yet again the problems that having the sleeve on the iPod causes for recording. Maybe we need a large rubber band around the whole iPod/iTalk unit to hold it together?
