Ewan does it again !

My Feedbliz email this morning popped up another posting from Ewan McIntosh wearing his MFL hat and talking about podcasting ... this time in French.

There is some terrific stuff here ... I direct you to his bit about getting royalty free sounds from 'Incompetech' and ( if you can translate it ... 'come on Ewan ... you can do it for me') a breakdown of the parental permissions on podcasting in schools which apply in France. Also the link to PortableApps.com which will be useful to Audacity users.

There is also a link to the Learning and Teaching Scotland MFL page on Podcasting which is really useful.

Check out the link on the right to Ewan's Blog and quickly put it in your feeds to keep up.

6th formers want to be primary teachers !!

You heard it first here!!

Friday 22nd June saw 42 6th Form students from Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I 6th form College visit the School of Education at Leicester University to engage in a day of 'ICT and Primary Practice'.

These students had opted to come along and work with myself and Tricia Neal for the day to engege in the sort of ICT activities that go on in primary classrooms ... they brought three of their tutors with them as well !!

The day was split into two parts... Tricia did lots of work with robots and explained the ideas behind control and how that fitted into the primary curriculum: I did a session using Textease CT and we worked on 'kinetic calligrams', completing a painting, what spreadsheets can do and even made the earth rotate with a 'turtle' program.

All of the students seemed to enjoy themselves greatly and they were a real credit to their College both in their knowledge and their manner. With people lkie this wanting to enter teaching then I think the future is fairly secure.I felt that it was an innovative idea on the part of the College to set up this day and to begin to focus their students on potential pathhways for their future.

You can read what they have to say about their day here.

Innovation

In the never ending quest for innovative technology I came across this 'useful' addition to my ... 'I have spilled my coffee on the keyboard again' syndrome.