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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

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

Do you agree ?

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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