Jul 14 2008
Trying to use ICT in the classroom
It’s Activities Week. (Not sure about the use or not of an apostrophe there … I’ve been wondering about it all week. Feel free to let me know!) My “activity” is using ICT in the classroom, in particular using Voki and Animoto. We also wanted to use CrazyTalk.
I’m sure you know what’s coming next. Despite arranging before the weekend for these sites to be unblocked, and despite the best efforts of our ICT network manager to unblock them today, for the best part of the day no one could access either of these sites. Of course, the pupils are all able to access games which involve shooting or racing. We eventually managed to get a couple of pupils onto voki, and a handful onto animoto, but even then, in all but one case, animoto seemed to crash before they had their final video. At least the one pupil who managed to produce a video seemed pleased with the result!
Right. I’m off to upload the photos a couple of pupils took round the school and see if I can make a nice animoto from home instead, to wow them all with tomorrow!
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It sounds like you are doing some really innovative stuff there. f you are taking risks then sometimes things will go wrong. Don’t be demotivated (I’m sure you’re not!). Schools need innovators!
There should be no technical reason that the Network Administrator would be unable to unblock sites for you.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks! It’s fun that we have an opportunity like this to try things out. Apparently there was some problem with Equinox somewhere in London so not our fault! We will get there. My next task though is to see if Voki could produce some sort of educational patch that would mean we could download our Vokis and use them in powerpoints, so if the internet was down, we could still respond to our resources.