A place to share experiences from our joint project
OK, so the end of this stage at least and as such it was time to pull together feedback from lots of different sources ... this blog being one. We also polled the students about their experiences...
GlowArtI have been trying out all the new apps when I came across this one. I thought it sounded interesting so I had a go and made this amazing picture.TempvusI also found this app which looks a lot like a vortex. You don't do much on it but still it's pretty cool.Tiny wingsThis is a great game about a bird who's wings are to small for it to fly! You have to help it over the hills and help him reach different islands. It is by far my favourite new app.ZapdThis is an app where you can make your own website! It only...
Many thanks to Louise who was kind (and brave!) enough to provide a guest post outlining some of her observations on the project:"During the year I have tried to use the ipods where possible in lessons. The function that I have probably used the most is safari. This has been excellent for research and means that pupils can complete short tasks of a couple of minutes. The task can be done in the amount of time that it takes a class to go and get laptops. This has worked particularly well with the group when I...
Thanks to Colin Hill, I was able to join a fascinating and engaging webinar on Monday evening (UK time), led by Kevin Washburn. (If you want to check it out, then the session details and recording are here and the session handout with more details is here) The sequence of cognitive activity and the four core processes in learning seemed to make sense, based on what I have experienced during my teaching, though I never had an awareness at the time, nor controlled my teaching strategy to focus on them. So I thought...
Well after a few weeks of battling with various aspects of using this app, we finally got there. iResponse is an app which mimics the functionality of the response/voting system ‘clicker’-style technology. You can create, deploy and follow up a simple test fairly quickly and with the minimum of fuss ... though it took us a while to get to that point. There are two parts to the overall package: the app which sits on the iPod Touch (Pro version which we used is £2.99) and the controller software (free) which needs...
A timely blog post hove into view as we approach the halfway point in our iPod project. I constantly have in mind the ways in which we ought to measure the impact of our project and as I posted earlier have no desire to tread old ground. This is new technology and provides fresh opportunites and as such merits a view on impact on its own terms. Johnny Kissko on the K-12 Mobile Learning blog suggests we ask ourselves six questionns: Has this really been adding value? What problems have you been solving? What...
This weeks appetition was to introduce one of the new apps installed at our pre-Christmas update - Type Drawing. This app allows you to type in some text, then when you drag your finger across the drawing screen, a trail is left which is composed of the words you entered. The task in the appetition was to draw an image using text/words which were related to the image. Now this appetition was clearly more appealing for some reason, attracting the highest number of entries so far. As you can see, our...
I'd like to thank @ebd35 on Twitter for pointing us to this simple, practical and effective tip for dealing with earphones:
So there can be no confusion, these abbreviations are for ‘pro et contra ‘ or arguments for and against ... which is where T-Charts comes in. The clue is in the name and a T-chart is a two-column table with the ‘Pro’ arguments in one column and the ‘Con’ arguments in the second. This helps students judge the strength of cases in favour of or against certain issues. In fact the app goes a stage further and allows you to ascribe a ‘strength’ to each pro and con by assigning a number. So if a point made is particularly...
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