School Blog
October 4th, 2006 by Pam McDowallI had a meeting today with Susan Ronnie from Kirlandneuk PS about setting up our French blog between the two schools. It is great to be involved in this kind of collaboration and we both feel it will really benefit the children. Susan had found a great French podcast which she had encouraged her P5 French class to download and listen to on their mp3 players. The children loved this idea and were highly motivated to complete their homework!! Those who didn’t have an mp3 player were able to listen to it online.
So here we are, two enthusiastic Primary teachers with no real ICT training, apart from (me) a PostGrad in Educational Computing 8 years ago, really excited about setting up this new technology but the stumbling block for us is the understanding of how this new technology works and about html language, RSS feeds, tags, etc. It is a steep learning curve but one we feel really worth while. At least both of us can follow instructions from the help menus - just don’t ask us to repeat it on our own! We have set ourselves the task of linking our blog to Bubbleshare with pictures and audio this week and are meeting again next week to compare notes. Hey, we are nothing if not ambitious!! So please bear with us as we muddle our way through and thanks to all who have been leaving us comments.
Posted in Bubbleshare, Education, French, ICT, Inchinnan Primary, MLPS French, Primary, Renfrewshire, Teachers, Teaching |
October 5th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
This sounds like a really exciting idea. I will be keeping a close eye on how it goes. More power to your elbow
October 5th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Thanks Gordon. One problem has arisen already. When I uploaded the photos to Bubbleshare the audio caption would not load in school. It works fine at home. Any suggestions - other than recording it on to my mp3 player and uploading it at home!!