Workshop notes

Thanks for hanging around the whole afternoon. I thought there was a good chance you might either walk out or thrash me like an angry mob (it being report time and all).




It may all seem overwhelming right now. You will surely run into a few bumps and grinds along the way, but both you and your students will get tremendous satisfaction from the process.



Just to recap:

• the Multi media cart will be kept in P1 - Marc's



• to reserve - send message to `trailer park teachers` (to add it to you directory, right click the address in the beam I sent you and select 'add to directory')



• the RCA Small Wonder cameras can be signed out from P8 - Roger`
  

I will try to purchase:

• headset mic`s for all portables - at least


• more radios and appropriate cables


• another media cart

We will have to verify if:

• your student computers are running Windows XP


• if they can be on the network
  
  

Consider:

• fiddling with audacity to create a simple message for trailerparkkids and attatching the MP3 to an email to all of us


• teaming up with a Primary class to use their Wooe__ login


• offering to have your students record texts for the primary teachers/kids


• downloading audacity to your home computer and having fun with your family

Resources at Your Fingertips

How to use audacity - a simple sound recording tool on your computer.

Post your recordings on Netcaster - a channel (website) created by the board.

Teachers at A. Lorne Cassidy have been doing this for a while. See their extensive HELP site at Portable PD and their PUBLISHING site at Portable Radio.

You might also consider using video. We have a Mini DV video camera at school now as well as 5 very simple video cameras called Small Wonder. Here is a sample made afer a visit from Scientists in School.

This movie and other goodies can be seen on our class BLOG.

In case you forgot to bookmark it, here is the Discovery Education Streaming site.