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I have been in Bucharest this last weekend to the Annual European eTwinning Conference. (www.eTwinning.net) I was running workshops on using ‘Flashmeeting’ (http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net)  the webcam video conferencing tool, promoting its use for European school collaboration. This session also included a presentation on a collaborative on line magazine production tool (magazine factory) Thomas Maier from European Schoolsnet demontrated the use of Blogs, wikis and podcasting. Lots of interesting sessions over the weekend and time to meet and network with colleagues. It was great to meet colleagues with such exciting ideas for using ICT tools in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning. Particular reference to Joe Dale, whom it was great to meet up with him again. He’s an inspirational blogger and podcaster with lots of ideas for using ICT in MFL teaching. I can recommend his blog. http://http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_// Well worth a look.

Busy tonight preparing a presentation for a secondary school INSET session for Friday.   The title is ‘R U brave enough to allow students to use technologies they use in everday life…… in the classroom ?’  Ive found a good video on Teachertube that Id like to edit.  Ive downloaded it and used Zamzar to convert the flv file into a AVI file but dont know how to edit it ?  Thought I could drop it into movie maker but no.  Can anyone help ?

John

Create Your Own

Have a look at the article. Here Well worth the read. It is about the European Commission eTwinning initiative which is targetted at getting schools across Europe linking together for activities using ICT !   Our school is mentioned as we were runners up in the competition awarded at the etwinning Conference in Nottingham 2007.  Our entry was based on our eTwinning link with a school in Norway using video conferencing technology.  A free tool called Flashmeeting using webcam conferencing desighned by the Open University in the UK and hosted by my regional broadband network (E2bn) and set up for Free school use

I now have a role as an eTwinning Ambassador for the British Council to promote eTwinning and Comenius Projects in schools. I also coordinate the use of this flashmeeting tool for schools across Europe. If you are interested in knowing more about this tool or the projects mentioned above get in touch. I can provide support or INSET for schools, groups and teacher conference workshops.

I like the message………….. changing teaching style to more of a facilitator of learning !!

Do you agree ?

Yesterday I met with Neil Macrae from Suffolk Consultants to discuss our school’s involvement in a short project with pupils using mobile phones (with windows mobile) in the classroom.  The project will run for a couple of months.  A company called ‘Tribal / CTAD’ based in Cambridge are also involved and are providing some of their basic skills software and educational games.  Im hoping to link this with a blogging project.   Any ideas / support ?????  Please get in touch.

Yes I can say that its been great fun investigating the potential of blogging.  My anxiety is how to keep a blog interesting.  I’ve followed Ewan Mcintosh’s blog but NO WAY could I aspire to that !!!  My interest is how I can inspire kids in my school to Blog.  They hate writing but seem to love texting and msn each other.  The CHALLENGE ! Can we use these skills to inspire them to blog to the WWW ???  I’m in a special school for kids who find traditional methods of writing difficult and BORING !!!   What does Blogging OFFER ?  I will keep you informed !!!!   I am new to this so any sugesstions greatly appreciated!!!

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