Student Blogging Inservice

Today helping student teachers create their own blogs. This is also the first time I have used my new blogging screencasts, which should be fun. Took a very long time to get into work today as the wet and windy weather doubled my commute time.

International Education and Building Links with Global Schools!

We now have three schools in three different continents which we have set up blogs and email communication for future curricular development!

We have Pierre Elliot Trudeau in Ontario, Canada...
Southern River College in Gosnells, Western Australia
Donkorkrom Agricultural School in Ghana.

I will be visiting Donkorkrom in the summer, but fingers crossed in the future I may get to go to Canada and Australia!

I have set up the blogs with the schools and hope to help the educators from across the world to get blogging.

Once they are up to speed with events then we can get our students sharing experiences and perhaps even working on projects together.

My S3 Admin class are in the process of starting correspondence with a Year 11 English class in Western Australia, and hopefully from this small start we can then tailor off to relevant subject areas. But I guess we have to walk before we can run as the time difference is crazy!

I'm going to create a welcome podcast with my pupils and post it to the blogs to see if we can create more discussion and dialogue with our International Partners.

Citizenship is such a worthwhile cause... I was always very interested in global affairs and other nations, peoples etc ever since I was in Primary school. To get to speak and communicate with educators and students across the world is mind blowing!

Anyway, I'll keep posting updates on here as we go.

Vozme - From Text to Speech

While taking a look around Douglas Semple's ICT Maverick blog I found his post on another blogger's page, Jane Knight.

It centred around what is called Vozme and can be found here

It turns text into speech, so I think we will give that a try for revision!

Perhaps even all my long winded notes can be uploaded and then turned into speech for download to your iPod or mp3 player.

Worth a go anyway!

Audacity and Blogger guides

In response to a recent request,

my guides for Blogger and Audacity can be downloaded here:


Blogger
here

Audacity
here

Happy blogging and happy podcasting!