Time to consolidate that revision you’re doing for the ICT GCSEs. Now everybody can listen to revision podcasts on their mp3 player. To get the ball rolling here’s a podcast about email. Many thanks to the guys at ICTGCSE.com for some excellent resources. You’ll recognise their posters in our main ICT room.
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.
