On the Road again…. Day Four
Today was the day for two training sessions.
Firstly, I ran ‘Digital Storytelling" workshop, sharing the online platforms of Voicethread, Teachertube, and Slideshare.
I always enjoy running these session because I find teachers bring just as much to a session as I do. We began a voicethread… My first really proper one and it is oh so basic but I am hoping that others whole attended the session will be adding there thoughts about it. The cough at the beginning of my talk is not me but an attendee who shall remain nameless.
Cliotech was good enough to allow me to share some of the input from her slideshare .
Second up was Stop motion animation. Some folk from this morning stayed into the afternoon. We played around with webcams for a while and discussed the usefulness of animation creation to support not only the literacy programme but also it solidfy learning in other areas, for example creating an animation to illustrate life-cycles in science. We even had one uploaded to www.teachertube.com by the end of the session. It’s entitled "Mr Mouse" Enjoy!
ps. It was also great to know about a couple of sound wikispaces today. One of the attendees has been struggling with establishing her class wiki on wikispaces. I would have loved to sit down with her and assist in creating her class wiki, but that would be another 3 hour session so I pointed her in the direction on Wonderfulworldof.wikispaces.com and encouraged her to look through the material there before she gave up. Often I find its better to have the pointers than to be able to ‘Fix it’ then and there. Thanks Chrissy 
pps. Thanks Derek for sharing this . What a powerful illustration of Storytelling in the 21st Century
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Hey Simon,
Well moving on from Mr Mouse to the kids creating their own SMA movies for their base groups - search gisint on teachertube… I decided to purchase a bunch more webcams to run two 2 day sessions for a bunch of kids during our action week. Turns out the SMA programme we used doesn’t like the microsoft webcams >_< so we updated to the next version which likes them even less. Our techi sourced MonkeyJam from http://giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/about.html. It is way harder to use but works ok still. Will post to the web when we are finished. But be warned - boys being boys and 17 of my 20 directors are boys - the movies are somewhat - NON educational - or a lil gruesome in their content. Mildly so but boy movies all the same.
We are having fun and learning about something all at the same time.
Thanks for getting me started… Just got to keep the darlings off “Pivot” till they are finished…
Cheers
Andy