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.


Fotobabble


So easy to use in the classroom if you have an iPhone or iPad. Just take a photo, open the fotobabble app, record the voice and post on Twitter or embed on the class blog. Use the website if you haven’t got an iPad.

You'll need to create an account - it's free - (just remember to record your username and password1)

Disadvantage – you can only record voice for 1 minute (AudiBoo will let you record for longer)

I have used fotobabble for holiday highlights, book week character descriptions, the class singing a song, reading a poem, chn explaining a maths skill. (Whole group recordings are a little hard to hear clearly when played back.)

I even sent daily fotobabbles of me with a spoken message for the chn when I was in San Diego at the ISTE conference in July 2012. Treena would show them the message each day.


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