BlogDale

The day was scorching hot and the rooms stifling, but the Music conference went down a storm. I did two sessions on the use of Audacity for podcasting, which I’ve blogged on the Shropshire HOS blog here, so ’nuff said. A number of people signed up for eThink blogs on the day, which is great - seeing the ways the use of this technology develops in schools is inspiring.

Worthy of comment is the Cool Timer which I used for the first time. It’s just an on-screen timer but projected up on the wall/screen/IWB it lets people know how long they have left for a task and adds to the mix in a lesson. It was great fun to change the alarm soundfiles around but the gentle harp one really didn’t hit the mark as an alarum. Mrs Brown uses it I hear, and I grinned as I thought of her getting pupils to choose their own soundfile for the alarm. I bet she does - just her style, getting the pupils to take a part in the running of the lesson.