Mr P’s iPod blog

I am no longer posting to this blog as the project with which it was associated is finished. You may however be interested in checking out my current blog over at My Other Blog.

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One of my colleagues is using a unit to make a record of the oral reading of her students. To do this she has enlisted that help of a couple of parents to actually make the recording. On talking with one of these parents I remarked as to the need to wait a couple of [...]

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Having in a previous posting bemoaned the fact that not too many other teachers seemed interested in the iPods, today walking into school with one of the prep teachers I was asked if the iPods could be borrowed. Not a problem I said and the fellow teacher accompanied me to the room. Picking up the [...]

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In order to get the children to become even more critical of their own efforts, (and to get the three non-iTalk iPods into action, one other is not functioning at all), I have downloaded some podcasts from a couple of other sources including the SG Show, Room 208, The Downs School and Podkids Australia. To [...]

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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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