Comic Life & Maths Day March 9, 2008
Posted by Dave Cain in : Uncategorized , trackbackUsed an excellent bit of software in the class to allow children to create their own photo-strips. Comic Life http://plasq.com/comiclife/) is easy enough for children to use and gives a nice professional finish giving a positive boost to their self-esteem. It certainly encouraged my group to write their own script, organise their props and costumes and actually choreograph their own photographic efforts. World maths day has now been and gone. In the run up to the actual day when connections were fast, this was a brilliant way to tap into children’s xbox live mentality and they absolutely loved playing against children from around the world. One of my girls said this was absolutely the best thing she had ever done in school! Certainly a glowing recommendation. Sadly, the day itself proved frustrating - high user levels coupled with slow school connection speeds combining to make accessing the site and navigating through to the playing section an excruciatingly slow experience for all concerned.
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Wouldn’t it be great if East Lothian as a council invested in an authority licence or even offered so many users per school as a subsidy.
With software moving towards online purchase per pupil. I think this maybe the first of many great pieces of software most schools will be unable to afford due to the costs - I feel a blog post coming…
This would be an ideal way to encourage schools / pupils to purchase educationally sound software to use for children’s education. As we discussed at Edubuzz meeting making teachers responsible for their own laptops but freeing them from the authority “build” might also help in accessing newer and more innovative software.