Literacy Year 5 Unit 5 narrative

I am indepted to my friend James Watson for pointing out to me that this video could well be used to support the intended outcomes of the English Primary Framework for Literacy Year 5 Unit 5 Film Narrative.
This is from YouTube where I suspect that there are many more.For details of how the activities can be accomplished using Textease Presenter click here

Please let me know if you find suitable materials.

Keeping up

It is really difficult to keep up with all of the things that are happening in the world that are related to ICT and education. RSS lets me know when my feeds have been updated but I am finding that I could spend hours just reading the updates ... and all around the world great people are saying similar things ... lets get out there and do it , if we don't the changes that we are worrying about will have happened and moved on ...

Have a look at this presentation from Karl Fisch, a teacher in the USA ... it is called 'Did You Know ... ' at the end of it you will ... 'know' !

It has just been pointed out to me that you can get the 'Karl Fisch Trilogy' ... the three presentations and the movie ... well worth the visit

An explanation of Podcasting

On the Softease/Podium website we have tried to make the concepts underpinning podcasting really clear ... if you are still confused try this from the Ninja !

Materials for the IBO Convention in Singapore March 2007

Unfortunately I will not be able to be at the Convention but you will find here the link to a short series of podcasts of some of the ideas that I hoped would come out of the sessions. These podcasts were produced by new software from Softease called Podium, a powerful and very straight forward to use application. A presentation on the nature of podcasting and the use of Podium to prepare and publish podcasts is available here.

Also here is an extended presentation of ideas and links which, I hope, will support ideas on multi modality across the IB range with particular reference to the PYP and the MYP. This presentation would be best viewed on a machine onto which Textease Studio CT has been downloaded so that the examples and activities become interactive in a truely multi modal sense.

Linked here are a number of flash files which tell the full story of multimodality with Textease.

(For best effect remember to press the 'F11' key on your computer keyboard and hide the 'IE' toolbar ... this will reveal the full Textease screen.)

Sound and Music

Video

Turtle Graphic Animation

Basic Animation

Further Animation

Multimodality Complete

All comments will be gratefully received.

Just what is wrong with me ?

As most of you who read this will know, my great passion in life is orienteering and just at the moment I don't seem to have the energy to do any !

Raced on the South Downs nearly a month ago now and had a great time ( follow my route here ... find course M60 S down the side where it says 'choose class or course'and click my name now click at the bottom on 'view routes' and 'view animation' ... start the animation... enjoy). Got home and was so tired had to go to bed immediately and that is it really ... just have not recovered. Doctor has done all the usual blood tests and says that they are fine. Some days are okay but others are spent just trying to get moving ... no energy at all.

Any suggestions ( that can be posted)?

Cumbria ICT Conference 14th March 2007

A really good day at the Rheged Discovery Centre near Penrith with the sun shining and over 100 ICT coordinators coming together to 'up' their knowledge base on current issues.
The Keynote by Kevin Thompson was an excellent opener on the world of Web2.0 and set the mind going about what can we use in school that our children/students are already using at home. The went from del.icio.us to flickr and onwards.... podcasting, wikiing and blogging. The real challenge now is to make use of this technology in a learning/teaching context.
Check the podcast if you want to here some of the bits ... it was made using the Podium software which I introduced to about 60+ people during the course of the day.

Leeds Trinity 6th March 2007

Three excellent sessions on podcasting today. Trust that those attending left with more information than they started with. If there are any questions please use the comments section.

IMPALA Project meeting University of Leicester 5th March 2007

Informal Mobile Podcasting And Learning Adaptation

An stimulating meeting with a good discussion on the definition of podcasting and the variety of ways to do it.

Podium Software was demonstrated and a copy was given to Matthew for instalation in the IMPALA zoo. I would be most please to see discussions on the morning in the comments on this thread...thanks

If there are any questions please get in touch

The presentation used is in wikimuse

A big picture of the curriculum

At the Naace Strategic Conference in Torquay last week Gareth Mills spoke about 'A big picture of the curriculum' and outlined new QCA developments in the area. The linked document is really worth a read !

Assessment of ICT

I noticed that QCA have produced a set of booklets to support subject assessment. There are materials there about ICT and there is a link embeded in the KS1 example that is worth a look about sorting and labeling toys

One view of a brief history of Podcasting

Podcasting ….a brief History

The concept of Podcasting, rather than its usage, was suggested as early as 2000 and its technical components, the bits that made it possible, were available by 2001 to the technically minded.

By 2003 regular podcasts started showing up on well-known Web sites and software support for this developing medium began to spread around the electronic world
Now you can hardly turn round or look at a blog, wiki or web page without seeing that there is a podcast of some sort attached to it.

First came the sound only podcasts (to be followed very quickly by video podcasts … but that is for another day) , a concept of on-line ‘radio’ but able to be delivered by subscription straight to your sound ‘in box’ and then downloaded, if you wished, to a portable player.

Now there are all sorts of definitive words associated to confuse and illuminate the growing art:
you can :
Autocast (the automatic generation of podcasts from text-only sources)
Blogcast (the blogging Podcast)
Mediacast (any distribution of audio/video media files utilizing RSS)
Mobilecast (podcasting to mobile phones)
Vodcast (video podcasting)
Peercast (peercasting allows live streams to be redistributed by the viewers/listener, greatly reducing bandwidth needs for the originating broadcaster)
Apple were the main players to begin with and the whole movement became synonymouse with ipods and using Apple computers
… a good marketing ploy and it worked well but it doesn’t matter what machine you work on podcasts can be developed on Mac or PC and downloaded to and listen on either platform machine.

The whole concept is really not about just making audio files available over the Internet but is about subscription so that once you have subscribed to a podcast feed you automatically get every update to that feed which is produced. A one stop audio shop !!
Early on it took a number of pieces of software to prepare a podcast. First the podcast itself had to be recorded and saved as an MP3 file…. Then this file had to be used to generate an XML file which had the RSS feed attached to it …. This was then used to generate a url which sat in a web space somewhere so people could get at it and listen to it ……….. now this can all be done in one go ……… and the software to use on a PC is most certainly PODIUM

Wikipedia says on this subject …..
The publish/subscribe model of podcasting is a version of push technology in that the information provider chooses which files to offer in a feed and the subscriber chooses among available feed channels. While the user is not "pulling" individual files from the Web, there is a strong "pull" aspect in that the receiver is free to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) a vast array of channels.

Podcasting is now used in Public Services to inform and update staff and visitor to a variety of institutions;

In education a rapidly growing group is using it to inform and stimulate students and to give them the power to learn on the move as well as to encourage them to make their own podcasts …. This coupled with the power and responsibility that ownership brings

In entertainment podcasts are being used to captivate and amuse …. Most podcasts are free to subscribe to but it is in this area that fee paying has come in. Rickie Gervaise charges for his latest work ( after a taster start which was free) …. £3.95 for The Complete Third Season or each episode at 95p

News is a big podcast puller in the USA and our own BBC produce a video podcast at 6.45 each day ready to download to your MP3 player to view or listen to as you travel to work or school.

Obviously music was always going to be big here and the medium of podcasting allows just anyone to perform for an audience of their own choice or to syndicate their brand of music to their friends

On the way up is the advertising implications of podcasts and as this is a ‘push’ technology companies are working really hard to give things to persuade listeners to listen…. The problem, they have is that if you don’t want to be advertised to you can always ditch the feed

The next shot, so I understand is into health care with podcasts about healthy eating and exercise ….


What next I wonder ...?

Podcasting

Just recently I have been exploring how people produce and deliver podcasts. Please add your story of how you or others do it to the comments.
Thanks