learned about legal aspects, different types of interviews and made our first radio play with sound effects

this is our first radio show

energy resources
Would you support the constuction of new atomic plants in scotland or the use of renewable energy

	atomic plants
	renewable energy
Results artep, 17:19h.

radio course - 1st day

got a minidisc recorder and a mic.
Monika and I were out and about interviewing people. We asked them about their opinion on nuclear power or renewable engery sources, which was a major issue in the news today. Some of them were even willing to stop for an interview.
Had fun.
Returned to Marco's in Groove Street and listened to our recordings. listening to your own voice is horrible.
We're going to edit our recordings tomorrow.

On our last day of this course we learned about wikis, legal aspects and made scenarios of how we would use weblogs in our own courses.
I already made a first draft of a weblog for my ahs2 course.

We also did some podcasting and had an interview with ross about how to use weblogs in the classroom.

I enjoyed this course very much and I am sure I'll use the things we've learned not only in the classroom.
Thanks a lot, Patrick

in the classroom you can use weblogs to reflect or comment on previous lessons
you can exchange information on a more informal level (either students - students or students - teacher)

It is also easy for students to access material / required reading --> you don't need to handout copies of articles but you can post a link to the article on your weblog and give the students some tasks.

The students are also steadily informed about new material if they subscribe to a blog via rss. (e,g, the latest BBC news, ....)

You can also post links to grammar exercises, which the students then can do online.


A weblog is also a good way to practise writing
--> doing homework --> SS write their essays and send them to their teacher's weblog
teacher and other students can comment on the other students' essays

You can also use it for discussions on certain topics we talked about

I also need to do English literature with my students:
- Teacher and students can collect links to information about the author, background information,... and post them on the weblog
-SS can also write reviews on the books they've read

and you can also make polls like "Who was your favourite character? "or
Which of the books we read together did you like best?

have a look at my first draft for an ahs course

link to ahs2 course polycollege

whisky tasting

We couldn't do anything in the web today, as we had no internet connnection at all.
discussed how to use weblogs (for teachers, students, in the classroom, ...) and developed own scenarios - on paper.

also heard something about podcasts, which seems to be a good means for doing listenings either at home or in the classroom (but therefore we would need computers in the classes, which are not yet available at the Polycollege)

had time to visit Holyrood Palace and walk up the Royal Mile --> very beautiful, took some photos.

started using flickr, whcih I think is great. Here you can store your photos, link the flickr page to my weblog, or post individual photos from flickr in my weblog. I can also tag the various photos, which means I asign them one or more keywords under which I will find the photos again.
It is also great that I can make add notes on my photos and write something into the photos (Good for beginners --> vocabulary learning like a picture dictionary, or creative writing --> T provides some pictures, SS write picture stories).

Tagging
With the technorati generator I can tag my weblog posts --> I asign certain keywords to my weblog posts and in this way organize and group them. I can also find other other weblog posts which have the same topic

I can also tag links I want to find again easily with del.icio.us
This is done by copying the link and then click "post to del.icio.us.

pub edinburgh

here is my flickr photopage.

feedsweep is used for displaying content from other sides in your weblog
on feedsweep I have to go to advanced to enter the list of URLs of the RSS feeds I want to aggregate
It might be that I have to change the width (150 pixels)
and I have to copy the java code of the feedsweep and paste it into my free text where I want to have it displayed.
Then I see the latest updates of all websites I have subscribed to.
rss feedsweep

congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I managed to make a link to bloglines.com in the text I wrote yesterday. Great!!!!

today we did something about trackbacks, rss,links,
registered at bloglines.com, and tagging. Maybe I forgot something but that's what I remember. Had some troubles with the del.icio.us site, but in the end we solved the problems. Internet also disconnects at least at hourly intervals -at times every 15 minutes.

I seem to be able to do most of the things we learned with the help of my notes ( writing down everything in my notebook - how oldfashioned)
The greatest problem for me is when to use what (I can do a trackback, and I can also put in an rss feed into my weblog - but when do I use a trackback and what do I use an rss for???)
Patrick was so kind to expain it to me again.

I still need lots of practice.

good exercises, articles, games,...

today we've learned about rss. i think there are several ways to use it in education>.

i like bloglines too, it is a good service for aggregating feeds.

good handouts,
newspaper articles,..... exercises

trying to trackback you

hope it works

hope I will be comfortable with that by the end of the day

with some help it works

with some help it works

I try to do a trackback but I'm not sure I understand how that works

first day started a bit chaotic, but in the end everything is working out fine. Good to see that not only I have problems with technology. However, the others know how to solve these problems, I don't.
Had a lot of information today and hope to remember everthing. But I guess I need to practise a lot to remember all the steps.
lots of different names to remember (macros, permalink, hyperlink,...) - things which are completely new to me
I hope I will have improved my technical skills by the end of this week.

Gallery: -

I've just created my own weblog with the help of Patrick. Hope I can also do that myself