Another great hands on practical session today,
looking at the great speaking and listening opportunities ICT lets us
experience in the classroom.
I’ve put some pictures below of some of the pieces of
equipment we used – most of which I’ll be recommending the school I eventually
end up working in to buy!
Talking
Tins were originally created for blind people as a way of them working out what
was in a tin. Having recorded a word, all they would have to do is press the
button on top of the tin and the talking tin would say the word outl-oud for
them. In a classroom these would be great for a child would was struggling with
a certain word so they could hear as many times as they liked the word. They
could also be used in phonics. A teacher might also see potential for using
them in assessment.
The Easi speak microphone in a similar way to the talking tins
allows children to record their voices, but offers extended recording time, giving even more possibilities for what it can
be used for. For example children could record their own stories or songs in
music which could be kept and played back as evidence of work completed.
We also looked at some of video recording software which would be good for children creating video’s. It is worth looking at the health and safety aspects of this – for example if the video’s were going to be put on the general internet rather than the schools intranet, it would very important children didn’t give out any information that some could identify them from.
Digi Movie Camera Flip Camera
The children could use the videos in every subject to create presentations to
show the rest of the class.
The last piece of software we looked at was audacity – which
could be used in the same way as the video’s but for audio podcasts.
We also looked at a great website that tells stories http://storynory.com/
That’s all for this week! On with the assignments!
