BlogDale

From Steve Beard’s blog, he’s been looking at ways of making quizzes on the iPod.

My concern is that these quizzes only work on an iPod, not on any old handheld video player. I like freedom of choice; I’m averse to vendor or platform lock-in, and therefore worried about inclusion of those who followed a different technological route for whatever reason and are therefore iPod have-nots. ‘twould be terrible to create a further subdivision even within the “Digital Divide”.

However, without innovation there’s no progress so more power to their elbow, I say. We might see an explosive growth in handheld quizzes, and as long as they add value to the educational process (I suspect the one on their site called “Beer” might not) then everything’s good.

The next thing, of course, is to get non-e teachers engaged in producing quizzes so that the medium becomes widespread enough to become worthwhile. My pragmatic side wonders what reactions might be in school if a teacher tells the class that their parents need to buy them an iPod to be able to access the funky online quiz that was vital to their success at GCSE.

Back to marking coursework…

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.