My Stuff

This week my son’s nursery - Langside Nursery - sent home Ted and asked us to record his adventures. We were given a book to record it and a camera with strict instructions to limit ourselves to 5 photos. That’s where my problems began - has anyone every tried telling a 4 year-old who knows all about digital camera you can only take 5?! And this is where Bubbleshare became my solution!

We took a grand total of 25 photos but only 23 made the final cut! Bradley told me the story and I ‘wrote’ it for him. Ted wasn’t allowed a voice as he doesn’t speak so he had to have think bubbles instead. Check out Travelling Ted’s adventures with Bradley here. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed creating it. It really made me consider again the fantastic possibilities for creative writing with my classes, particularly the infants. More investigation of this next term, I think.

I 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.