Mar 25 2007
Bright idea
Last night, I had a great idea. My husband is an artist, and started talking about a film he wanted to make. It would consist of talking heads answering questions. I had been thinking about my AS podcasting plan. Suddenly realised that we could put videos into powerpoint … so we decided to try it out. We took a few short videos of me answering questions, then had a slide with the question, then on the next slide inputted me talking … set up the slide transition to move on automatically within a few seconds, and result! A loop presentation which has the question, then me answering it, another question, me answering again, and so on! The possibilities are endless!
I could use images of me explaining things to the class so that they might hear and listen more carefully … probably I could add subtitles … I could even team teach with myself! I could support pupils in the classroom as I go through the instructions on the screen!
Just being given the camera has already opened up so many avenues, and even without the training I am trying things out for myself. Can’t wait until I can do more!
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Sue you have really got into this blogging thing and it’s so good to hear all the ideas that you are coming up with. I have some ideas that could extend some of your class activities and possibly link to a visit with a class to the CLC, we haven’t done any work with RE departments yet. I would be interested in seeing the Powerpoint, please bring it along with you to Friday’s session at the CLC and once you have become more familiar with Fronter then it would be useful to include ideas/sample like this so that other teachers can share in your enthusiam.