4. “ If school is to be a truly rewarding experience for today’s students, it must be relevant to them.” Connected magazine, Learning and teaching Scotland
22. Music video - great cultural input - an interesting homework to find body parts/ weather types / places in town - Year 8 pupils were mostly humming the song round school for next few days Blogging
28. Podcasting What is a podcast? - effectively an audio file which is then put onto the Internet
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33. Podcasting Grammar series created to help reinforce grammar learning OUTSIDE of the classroom - responding to a request by a pupil - FANTASTIC for audio learners
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36. Podcasting Pupil recordings - selected recordings again put onto iTunes (EdgehillCast / year 10 work) - huge motivator- notable impact on quality - great revision tool - pupils listen to their recordings repeatedly whilst editing
37. Podcasting Pupil grammar explanations - benefit of explaining to others - need for script - peer assessment on podcasts - minimal teacher input, maximum output - pupils then have an immediate revision tool
48. For example, directions: - in pairs, pupils decide which room they will give directions to - write script - walk around the building and record the directions - swap phones / bluetooth to each other and follow the instructions - find out whether they followed instructions appropriately FOR EXAMPLE Using mobile phones
49. House and home - pupils build up to estate-agent style description of their house - free choice of recording manners - mobile phone - voice recording - video on camera Using mobile phones
50. Using mobile phones Moblogging - the ability to update a blog from distance e.g. During a trip - no need to wait a week to get back to the classroom www.shozu.com – allows you to send materials to the blog from mobiles www.gabcast.com – an answerphone with a national number, avoiding expensive phone calls.