4 events

Here are 4 events that inspired me to record my learning journey as a blog:
1. In November 2005 I attended Professional Development courses run by Jacqui Sharp – "Digital Cameras for real Beginners and 101 Ways to use your Digital Camera."

2. I was next inspired by Dorothy Burt who spoke about classroom blogging at a Teachers Conference in Palmerston North in January 2010.

3. My wonderful techie and future focussed husband, Julien, continues to inspire and challenge me to try out new "technology." Hence my iPhone is now my favourite device that I am addicted to and would be lost without. Together with my iPad it has made it so easy for me to keep in touch with current changes in technology.

4. The last event that catapulted me in the deep end and showed me what could be happening in my school, was attending the ISTE conference in San Diego in July 2012. This conference opened my eyes, inspired and motivated me to share my learning. This blog, hopefully, will have ideas to inspire you to get e-learning happening in your classroom.


AudioBoo


Sep 2012

I hadn’t bothered to use this as I thought it did much the same job as fotobabble and I like visuals. So following earthquake “ShakeDown” – Drop, Cover, Hold we read Jan Grainger’s “Earthquake.” As always I’m trying to create opportunities to trial a new web tool. I could see that the children could make up lots of sound effects to add while they read the story. We had fun finding objects to use. This wasn’t a play but had several different speaking parts. The children decided who would take the parts. We had one practice to see if the cups and chairs made the right noises and other chn perfected their barking. I had started working with just one reading group but the whole class ended up joining in helping with the sound effects.

I used my laptop and then emailed the Boo to me which was then posted on the blog for everyone to hear. The children were excited and thrilled to hear the result. I can think of lots of other applications for this simple tool. Listen to the finished recording.


We then used the app to record our stories about Superstorm Sandy and embedded them on the class blog -  click the link here - Audioboos on the Bachelors blog - or listen to Josh's one here.

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