So Much to Learn...So Little Time

Mandela and his statue

Mandela and his statue
Originally uploaded by Elsie Emm.

A great day for the most noble man on this earth. There are many world leaders who even if they lived a 1000 years could not achieve a modicum of his dignity.
He maybe frail of body but his voice and words still ring out strong and true.
A truly great human being.
Amandla Ngawethu!

School Tube

SchoolTube now online.

Thanks to Jane Knight bringing to my (and everone who reads her) attention the existence of SchoolTube. It puports to be a safe environment for students and educators to upload videos. On initial inspection there are more appropriate categories for your videos than on TeacherTube. I am quite looking forward to using it.

Gyminee Invites

I have 5 invites to a new fitness tracking website called Gyminee.

Don't know yet how fun or useful it is yet but I'm hoping to give it a try. First 5 comments get one...if I even have that many readers. (You'll have to leave your email address for the invite)

German Slidecast 2

Here's a German vocab slidecast with a lovely piano ballad in the background. Does it work for you?

German slidecast

Download Sportarten.mp3

Embeddable Flickr Slideshows

Ever wondered what to do with your Flickr slideshows.
With SlideFlickr you can embed them or even post them onto your Facebook profile.

It looks great and is so easy to do.

My Animoto Vid

Re first slidecast

Told my S2 French class about the slidecast to help them with their revision and played it in class and had them drill the words....they loved it.
Every single pupil in the class listened and repeated the words in unison. WHY?

Any answers?

A Big (belated) Boast

Looking on SCILT today I came across the evaluations for Communicate.07 and I have to say it has really made my weekend. Check out   who got 100% positive comments for his seminar. Yup! ,Yours truly. First time ever getting full marks.

First slidecast

Slidecast as a learning resource.

Since reading Joe's post on slidecasts by slideshare I have been interested to see how it works. As I'm a learning by doing kind of chap I did and I have learned. It's just a mix of doing a slide presentation and a podcast...although I think I could also do this on garageband as well.

I thought it might make a 2 in one tool where I can use the slides I made up on as a vocab drilling stimulus, but with the audio added pupils can use it to revise pronunciation (and spelling) at home. What do you think?
NB no prizes for spotting the deliberate spelling mistake on the first slide...despite checking and checking.