Masterclass New Technology

We didn’t really get time to explore RSS. But there are lots of RSS things that are very handt.
If you want to keep up with all the masterclass blogs created this week it would take a lot of clicking in a browser. We could follow all the RSS feeds in blogline.com or another aggregator, but [...]

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This Biannual event takes place in May this year. Details at http://www.aberdeen-education.org.uk/sett2006/ where a list of the seminars can be found on the left hand menu. Includes whiteboards, voting systems, blogging, etc.

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eLive

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After watching the final presentation we can now think of our next steps, comments please.

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Mags Group.
Pedagogical Merits, Areas of Concern, Classroom examples.
Mags talked about the digital divide. Hamish talks about practical difficulty in managing resources when we have them available. Mags describes a project where children will contribute to a school calendar voting with digital devices.
The group produced a wiki and have invited us to tear it apart.

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A numptys guide to create a podcast with garageBand.
Podcasting a Beginner’s Guide – Using GarageBand.
includes a mindmap to plan podcast and a hilarious and instructional movie.

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Second up PC Pod already attracting attention on the blogosphere.
Blog as a teachers guide to blogging and podcasting.
Amazing amount covered in a short time. Paper version available.

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The first group to present what they have created:
Masterclass Virtual Classroom
Is examples of using a blog as a learning environment in several categories.
Including podcasts as

Download.

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Podcasting – A Beginner’s Guide
[For our movie on creating a podcast click here]
Podcasting is all about the four P’s.
• Plan
• Produce
• Publish
• Promote
Plan
Fight the urge to dive straight in, planning IS important!
The first step in planning your podcast is to choose a topic. In choosing a topic for your podcast select something that interests [...]

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For those PC users feeling frustrated about all the things that Garage Band can do for MAC users, here’s a piece of free software which lets you create your own music. It’s easy to use and produces a variety of different styles of music. You may not produce a masterpiece (or even something you might [...]

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