Here's to Creativity

I spent the whole of the day today taking photos, helping with animation, and listening to audio as the first 14 Year 7's underwent their creative day. Despite spending the weekend preparing cover work for my normal classes for the 2 days of the project, I feel suddenly energised!

Not one raised voice, normally hyperactive attention seeking learners painstakingly moving tiny bits of paper or discussing the merits of 1 second of audio. Some very mischievous photos of both staff and students.

Sometimes it is all worth it. Right, same again tomorrow!

Pod/Vodcast Challenge

Tis summer, the birds are singing, year 11-13 gone (except for me!), life is sweet!

My challenge - get a pupil recorded pod/vodcast in any subject area by the end of Term. All you need to do is provide details of how (maybe a lesson plan to use an old fashioned OFSTED loved phrase) and pupil work. The more unusual the better, and getting outsiders involved a plus. Results to be voted on here, deadline my return from Cretan funny farm (In-laws) I go to each summer - so end of first week August?

You up for the challenge?

My First Podcast

I bit the bullet and created my first podcast. Am I happy with the result? 50-50...

The actual process was simple - I booted up my old G5 iMac, loaded garageband and just recorded the bits of dialogue. The problem is the inbuilt iMac mic picks up all the background noise of the computer... time to invest in a microphone or perhaps use my iphone to record. Even better, I could save some pennies and by a brand new iMac:)

Uploading wasn't as obvious as a mac should be... I found it best to save the podcast to my itunes library as an mp3 then upload it.

I'll feed back if my learners find it useful.,