Ros’ ramblings

Here is our picure and sound file

water recording

Student PowerPoint

This great package is available free for download from this website:
WavePad

Here is a  brief recording made and edited in WavePad:

WavePad info

Here are some blogs that are being used effectively for educational purposes.

The Kinder Kids Classroom

07 All Stars

Excellence and imagination- Mr Fisher’s Grade 7-8 Canada

  and here is a ‘live’ web cam overlooking Hobart so you can see for yourself

Let’s see if they will cook on our blog.

Sports 1

Sports 2

Read Japanese

Audacity is a free piece of software, downloadable from the web.

Here is a brief introduction to using it to make audio recordings.

Introduction to Audacity

… and the link below takes you to a much more detailed tutorial, online:

Audacity tutorial

I would be interested to know whether or not you think the activities outlined in this document would be useful for your students. Let me know in your feedback comments.

Using Audacity for language learning

Below are two documents that provide direct access to some learning objects that support mathematics/Numeracy learning.

Choose one and explore the learning objects. Then discuss the questions with your partner.

ShapeMaker

Exploring shape fractions

Here is an article about some ways that podcasting might be used to support students’ language learning.

Podcasting for learning languages

Let me know what your thoughts are by posting a comment about it.

Here is a little recording done by yours truly that uses an analogy to explain the concept of a podcast, as opposed to an audio file on a website.

podcasts.mp3

This Word document provides a summary of the hardware and software you will need to listen to podcasts made by other people, or to make you own!

Podcasting software and hardware

Perhaps this PowerPoint will appeal to the visual learners among you and it might help understand how the subscription works.

What is RSS?

… and here is a useful example of how primary students are creating their own podcasts:

Podkids Australia

First there is Halls Falls, near St. Helens