27/7/10

www.flickr.com This program is another yahoo mail account association. This is a time consuming activity, best set for a project or home work. This program is a type of photo organiser that you can share with the world or have personalise products made from like calenders, cards, collages etc from but these all cost you money. It would be a useful tool for an arts class maybe, or projects that the student had to share with others. Personally, I don't like this program and I would not use it for any classwork activities. Next

Pod casting: I found this to be a teaching tool with an endless array of student involvement. From a simple instruction giving program, to a complete on site how to guide for what ever you wanted. I tried a pod cast for myself at my podcast but it is a program that you need supportive equipment for, like video cameras and or voice recorders, if you can get them for your class you can have alot of interactive fun with them. As for web sites for pod casting I tried
www.podomatic.com . It is good for creating your own voice podcast and publishing it on line, but I don't like the search engine for other podcast topics, it is either hard to find what you want or it is over crowded with European rubbish.

I like the look of www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/podcasting.html
for finding useful podcast topics that the students can use for projects or just useful information that a teacher can use for class.


Digital photos: this would have to be one of the greatest teaching tools available to teachers everywhere, yes it requires the use of a digital camera which almost every student has in their mobil phones these days anyway. So much can be expanded on or expressed or discovered when using a digital image in your lesson plan. Being able to show students what you are talking about. You may not have taken the photo yourself, but you can bet that on he internet, somebody else already has. And depending on the copy write laws attached to that image you can generally use it for your class.

Students can use these digital pictures to add extra depth to their assignments or how-to projects, art work, etc. These images can be uploaded to almost every other program or tool used on the internet. So for a teaching tool and for a student project tool, this should be used and expanded on and taught to students that have never used a digital camera before.

Day 2+

Morning to all my mystical friends, while this week has been thrown around a little, it has still been interesting to say the lest. I learnt how cool power point can be when used as a quiz, which I will be using in my weebly in the next few days by the way. But for now, please enjoy a short intro to a power point that I developed about my favorite TV show. (if only I could work out how to input a power point into this blog, I would have shown you)

I am currently working on my own short film too using windows media player, i am just waiting to organize a recording time with a band i have booked for my sound track, as i did not want to breach any copy right laws with this task.

As well as those to wonderful pieces of information, i am going to start an interactive short story book using my wiki site. This will allow readers to add onto the story I will start, and we can see how it will trail out with different imaginations working on it. I do hope to you and your friends will get involved.

My trip to school this week was a very good learning event for me, firstly I was involved with my first full class, yr 9 Graphics, and i tell you, by the end of that session i was feeling agitated. I give praise to the teacher running the class though, about half of the students, both boys and girls, didn't want to be there and were messing around in one form or another but the teacher remained calm and consistent throughout the lesson. He did demonstrate a couple of different methods of controlling the class and disciplining the naughty students, to which the effects could be both good and bad.

So now I would like to start putting useful information onto these web sites for the benefits of my fellow student teachers by starting on my weebly site a Pros and cons page of classroom discipline methods and again i welcome all input for additions to this. I will email all class mates next week once i have this up and running for your input, again thanks and happy hunting......oops sorry, I mean Happy Learning

Good bye Pen and Paper, hello E-learning

Day 1,

Already a week behind the rest of the class, so many new tools at my disposal. i found this course is already very interesting and confusing at the same time. I have started a wikispaces page, i still need to start a bubble.com a text2mindmap.com and a delicous.com please a yahoo account.

My first question is, "is there a web site that can manage all my other web sites, account names and passwords???"

I have started a weebly.com account as well, today. Have a look. and please leave me a comment on this post. That is until i work out to really use weebly.

Well, all this is still smoke and mirrors to me at the momment and my head hurts so i will add more later. I look forward to your comments.
Cheers