So Much to Learn...So Little Time

S1 Voki's

Been messing about with Voki's assessing their use for encouraging speaking. Those that recorded seemed to enjoy it.
Here's my Dubya voki. Spot the untruth. I have it on good authority that this is the first time the esteemed leader of the free world (dripping with sarcasm here) has actually spoken a foreign language.

Get a Voki now!

The Countdown Commences

The clock is ticking...

Disappointed as I am not to be at SLF ("Suspect Device" great song) I am actually quite glad that I haven't been able to attend. I've been catching up on some stuff via the ace Connected Live Blog BUT I have so many things to do here.

Our visitors from Namibia and Ethiopia arrive on Sunday so there is some serious organisation going on.

In preparation for this event, and in celebration of the Ethiopian Millenium last week I have lead the assemblies all this week, just simply talking about Ethiopia. And I made a slidecast of the presentation. (Its a really simple but effective way of sharing presentations)

Here it is:

Ethiopia

Download ethiopia_assembly.mp3

Mucking around

Sein-rap.

Going over sein and haben with my S2's and was wondering if I could make the chant a bit more interesting. So I mucked about with Garageband.

What do you think?

Seinrap

You know that famous quote about statistics...

STACS...

It's that time of year when our statistical chickens come home to roost. Each department is issued with a STACS analysis of their results.

Maybe someone can explain the statistical validity of the statement indicating that one gender in AH French have under-performed (our one candidate of this gender got an A). Maybe I am ill qualified to judge but statistically to me this means 100% success.

There was also the line about SG German achievement being below par when compared to predictions in other subject areas...MFL is not an elective in S3 & S4 unlike most other subjects (apart from core of course).

When are we going stop paying number crunchers huge amounts of money which generate meaningless figures which mean that teachers get to fill in more and more paperwork just to make sure that statistics add up.

As a frontline grunt can somebody tell me whether the much anticipated Curriculum for Excellence is going to put a halt all this, or if not halt it make these analyses make more sense to those of us who deliver education day after day?