Module 4

I am really looking forward to this module as podcasts and vodcasts . I am very familar with photostory PowerPoint and movie maker .  My daughter recently gave me her old mac combined with the school giving teachers ipads  I am becoming familar with keynote and imovie but not GarageBand.

I have had no experience with Gloster so this and Module 5 will provide lots of ideas that can use.

At present I have my year 2's create a movie  at the end of the year using photostory. We have spent the year drawing different pictures in Paint and use Wordpad to write about them. These activities have all centered around the child and we create a little booklet called My Life. The pictures we uploaded in to Photostory and have recorded the text to go with the pictures.  With the change over to Windows 7 photostory is no longer available on our system so I am looking for an alternative so will be keeping these lessons in mibnd for that

Having said the above the links that the Web 2 course gave I was not impressed with and really did not help me in my appreciation and learning of this unit.
Podcasts in the Classroom no longer existed
Podcasts in Education while giving me some examples of podcasts were not really ones that I would use or did they prove any help to me. I especially found it hard to concentrate on what was on offer with the constant pop ups for if I was single and after a date
Education Podcasts also no longer existed
Nearly giving up I was delighted to find that Storynory linked worked. If I was classroom teaching rather than computer lab teaching I would definetly use these

I couldn't really think of a topic to create a video using Animoto ( running out of time to complete course, end of term  )  so I used some photos from my recent holiday to China . The whole process as I am working thru it seems easy.  Select a style find some music upload pictures and when they have finished hopefully preview it .

After changing song and background here is my video  at least I hope link works
The many faces of china 

However can also create a similar thing without style in moviemaker


Utube

Up until recently u tube was blocked for students use at our school.  The biggest problem I have in my use of Utube is the amount of stuff available. There is so much out there that at times you can spend ages sifting thru it all. Teachers need more hours in their day to see all the things available.

Unfortunately again links to sites that are suggested in the module did not work
Teachers seemed to have a list of videos that I really did not have the time to look at.
School tube Teacher Tube both  looked great for sharing videos that students had made

I looked at Ustream TV but are put off by concerns with broadcasting students on the net especially primary students.

While many of the sites listed are all great value I think teaching younger students and being aware of our schools policy on using such sites could be a major problem