Voicethread

Thanks to Di's Blog for this link http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/ I have worked with several colleagues this Term interested in voicethread and looking for purposeful ways to use this web 2.0 tool in their classrooms.

Thanks to voicethread for this presentation on web 2.0 tools which has some good ideas:




Thanks also to The Fischbowl blog for building on my thinking further about how to best support my colleagues with this helpful link about which tools could be used for what which is sometimes all teachers need to get their creatives ideas flowing! http://sites.google.com/site/ahslearningecology/tools

Kid Pix Problems

I have figured out, with a little help from my friend Belinda, how to address the problem I've been having with recording audio onto slides in Kid Pix. What you can do is to draw your picture then copy it several times calling it e.g leaf, leaf1, leaf2, leaf3 etc then record one sentence on each slide. Pay attention to the audio indicator as you are recording to keep track of how much time you have left before reaching the maximum size allowed per slide. Then import the slides one after the other without transitions and it will look like one slide but with longer audio. I am going to try this out with the Digikidz next week when I am working in classes. I still haven't solved my problem exporting slideshows to Quicktime but am hoping that if I send the file to Belinda and it works that will mean it's a SPS network error and Quicktime needs to be re-installed to fix the problem. I would really like to get some of the children's fabulous work onto the Digikidz blog and into my wikispace as evidence for my Action Research project.

Kid Pix Problems

I am having problems adding audio to Kid Pix slides. There seems to be a limit to how much you can say on each slide (approx 1 sentence). Can anyone help with where I'm going wrong?!

Action Research Wiki

I have put together a wiki to hold all the data and examples of children's work I am rapidly gathering together at the moment! It can be viewed at: http://fairvresearch.wikispaces.com/ and I would welcome any feedback you might have as this is my first experience with action research. I am currently struggling with a couple of things: the first is how to export Kid Pix slideshows, photostories etc into Quicktime or YouTube to allow me to embed them in my wiki. Photostory is really simple to add to a blog but I have not found Kid Pix slideshows as easy. Hopefully I will solve this problem soon so I can add some of the super work the children have been doing and this will show the progression as they have opportunities to explore the software. The second problem I have encountered is that I can't record long sentences on Kid Pix slides. The Pod 2 Digkidz I am working with did a great job of finding out information about a chosen native tree. They drew a leaf from their tree in Kid Pix then we recorded the audio but I noticed that the program stopped before they had finished speaking and when I played the file it only had recorded part of what they said. BJ said this might be a memory problem. I have looked in the Teacher's Notes and the Help and Settings and can't figure it out. I am now going to Google so watch this space and I'll report back if I have success. Otherwise any Elm Park teachers who are Kid Pix experts I'd appreciate your advice!

100 Top Tools for Learning 2009

I have copied this slideshow from The Bashful Blogger's blog as it was so neat having all these awesome tools collated into one place!

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

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