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How easy is it to create music on the iPad using GarageBand? Pretty darn easy I reckon! This took me 30 mins. Ok, it’s not the finished article, but certainly, there’s enough there to pad out to form a complete song. I’m impressed!! axel_f.m4a Listen on Posterous Publish
Short screencast made using a screenshot from GarageBand, a ScreenChomp screencast a song I made in GarageBand and iMovie. Tidy 🙂 Here’s the original version of the screencast sans music before I put it through the rinse to add the music in iMovie for quality comparison. http://www.screenchomp.com/t/aaWDhpbKkQ
via bbc.co.uk Cracking article related to ICT & Computing from BBC Tech Reporter Iain Mackenzie – nice one!
via interactioneducation.com Nice collection of iPad related resources. Well worth checking!!
So you want to hold a TeachMeet event? I’ve organised two events and whilst I’m not old hat at this, I certainly learnt from chatting with, observing and discussing how to run events with other organisers from around the UK and beyond. Recently a number of people have asked…
[Via: Colorado Technical University online learning] Thanks to Julian Woods @ideas_factory for the original heads up but also Colorado Tech University for the original works. Click the poster for more info.
A number of my colleagues have recently signed up to Twitter. Some are making fantastic use of it and are taking to it like ducks to water. Others, not so much. In the screencast below are a few hints and tips that I thought people might find useful. One important…
This post is inspired by Julia Skinner at “The Head’s Office” and her 100 word challenge – this is a challenge that Julia sets each week to inspire young writers to write a 100 word piece of creative writing to a given theme. Her work in this area has…
Guest blog post by @gavinsmart Tim Rylands seminar at the SWGFL conference was a truly invigorating, inspiring and engaging journey through a range of ideas to use ICT in the classroom to inspire the learners and to make the learning journey more engaging, enjoyable and most importantly inspiring. The seminar…
via facebook-inc.box.net Superb resource. Get on it!
Following on from the idea of @ICTSomersetSec who created a Wordle based on the Twitter feed from the hashtag #swgfl11 and some Java plugin problems which meant I couldn’t see it, I decided to make my own, but via Tagxedo. http://bit.ly/swgfl11 http://www.tagxedo.com/art/51e4948d62964dff
Russell’s powerful seminar at the SWGFL conference took us through lots of persuasive arguments that pervade our consciousness and conscience as we continue to work with students and ICT. He talked, as per the theme of the conference about ICT being in our (their) hands about empowering students by putting…
LET GO OF THE REINS! Ewan’s keynote kicked us off in the morning and he talked with us emphatically about education needing a real boot up the backside, if you’ll excuse the expression. His passion and enthusiasm reminded me greatly of David Keeling and some of his sentiments in…
Today was the 13th conference held at UWE, Bristol. The event was attended by what seemed like well over 500 people and there was inspiration abound. In my following posts I’m going to break down some of the seminars, keynotes and experiences I had today at the conference. It was,…
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From Evernote: Introductory keynote | ANTHONY SELDON Starter Chapel Gilbert Scott architecture What is the purpose of education? Govt need to address the issue 6 ways to change educational model. Move it forward. What’s wrong? Forget mission statements. Reality is schools are just about exam success. 1. Change to genuine…
From Evernote: Peter Hyman – unleashing potential Education simply not fitting what they need. Being taught ppl value x, y and z based on exams etc. Then when leave education, then u find out what skills and qualities employers really want.  Bridge gap between what academics want and what employment…
From Evernote: Dan Roberts – change through student voice Saltash.net school (community) Vision. ICT underpinning everything they do. Good with some outstanding features. Like where I work. SSAT recognition for improvement. Student voice… We want to be free to use more technology. Also said, we want to learn how to learn….
From Evernote: Ollie Bray – Games based learning Consolarium. Set up to look at ICT in classroom. Contact @olliebray to get slides and notes from session. http://YouTube.com/consolarium Cultural relevance. Packaging. Business relevance. Esafety. Responsibility. Responsible use agenda ——-> PEGI Blurred boundaries. See the full gallery on Posterous
Please feel free to have a butchers at my presentation from TeachMeet. 30 iPad apps to engage and inspire Open publication – Free publishing – More ipads http://bit.ly/30ipadapps
Here’s how it all went down username date status ICTEvangelist 24/06/2011 RT @AmyG2191: @ICTEvangelist loved the 100 word challenge 4 classes and tutor group! #tmclevedon ICTEvangelist 23/06/2011 #teamclevedon – some photos from tonight now on Facebook – due some more from Zoe so will add those too. Thank u @teresatickoo…
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