This morning I was out at Campie Primary School visiting Alicia MacFarlane and her P6-7 class. This morning I was there to help the pupils use the application CrazyTalk. As discussed earlier this year the pupils would use CrazyTalk to tell a story that they had written in Chapters. They are working in groups for […]
Stenton Primary School have been podcasting some interesting descriptions of monsters that they have created. The pupils at Athelstaneford Primary School will draw the monsters from these descriptions. The team here at John Muir house have been so impressed with these podcasts, we have decided to join in. Here is my drawing of Lewis’s monster.
I might […]
This week I attended an eLearning Alliance meeting in Perth. The meeting was lead by Bill Esdale from Techknowledgey.
During this meeting we looked at some new software.
Crazy talk is an application that allows the user to take an image (or portrait) and digitally bring it to life. In East Lothian we have five ’stand alone’ licences that […]
If you are a reader of our EduBuzz sites, and you use an aggregator, please can you pop over to David Gilmour’s site.
Netvibes is my preferred choice, but I would welcome your thoughts on alternative aggregators.
I have got a lot of reading to do on Games based learning, but here is quick insight into what I think of the Nintendo DS so far.
Santa Claus was very generous to me this year. Following a brief play around with Derek Robertson’s Nintendo DS, I was convinced that I wanted one for Christmas. […]
This morning I popped out to North Berwick High School. Robert Jones is a Maths Teacher and Glow mentor there. Over the weekend Robert had been questioning how Pupil writing would compare when using a ‘text‘ device to that of a keyboard. The use of ‘text’ communication is ever increasing and this ‘End-Of-Term’ experiment could be […]
