Video podcast

An online friend shared this link to a terrific video podcast today - sadly, the little mp3 player doesn't have a big enough screen ;-)

But you can watch it on your laptop!

Now, where did all that free time of ours go?

Online resources for our kit

Just mooching around the internet to find online resources for when we leave the manual behind. I'll save these links to my del.icio.us page and suggest you might like to save them to your memory stick, your own list of bookmarks - or wherever you'll be able to find them again.

The Sony camera, w55 - a review, tips and hints and a link to the online manual here

The Epson Photo Printer - lots of links and information here

Haven't been able to find any online support for the mp3 player/recorder. I think we will simply have to rely on Fi!

I'm still working on the laptop, projector, Gyration mouse and keyboard. If you come across anything in the meantime, please share.

Profiles & random questions

I've just written up my profile - blimey oh, the random questions are fun!

Fi

Greetings

Good morning,

just enjoying my first wander around the site!

Nice in here, innit?!

For those who don't know me I'm Gill's other half :-) on the Curriculum Support Team, for performing arts & media.

There may be a photograph uploaded soon ...

The blog is a great idea, looking forward to taking part and reading everyone's contributions.

Fi (Benson)

Me again - podcasts this time

I mentioned podcasts yesterday - they are online "radio programmes" which are free to download and which can be copied to the mp3 player (black box) for you to listen to whenever and wherever you like. You could also connect the mp3 player to your laptop or the speakers and play snips of them to your class if you wanted.

As always, (almost) anything is possible!

Some podcasts are audio-only, others have videos too.

Explore, investigate and if you come across something you're not sure about, then ask - one of us might have the answer.

Here's a few to start you off:

Craft magazine has a podcast with some fun ideas

Then, there's Quiltcast

and Cast On which has a helpful page

on how to subscribe to a podcast.

Much help is available on this...don't panic if you don't get it all at once! Just have a go with things and enjoy the journey.

Oh, and don't forget to share what you find with us, will you?

(Find more podcasts by googling "podcast" and see what you come up with)

Interesting links

I just came across a couple of interesting YouTube videos which might be helpful in our discussions

The first is a demonstration of how to make Nuno felt

The second is how to tie a Chinese knot:



What do you think?

Jane at the Christmas party - I always thought she was an angel but now it seems she's a saint!!! (She must be to put with all of us in AdEd!!)

and finally...

I've opened an AdEd Interest Flickr group and invited you all. I've uploaded some photographs from our meeting yesterday, but nothing embarrassing, I promise.

That's it for today. I promise to get back in my box, hibernate for the next few days and allow you to play and explore as you like. Don't forget to leave a comment here and there just to prove where you've been, will you ;-)

AdEdInterest hits YouTube!

I've just started an AdEdInterest YouTube group, to which you are all invited. First video to upload was the silly one playing with the camera yesterday, but I should say how impressed I am with the quality of both sound and picture from such a straightforward camera. Those of you who were there will know how quickly and easily we did it and how hopeless I was at finding it again

Here it is for those of you who haven't found their way to YouTube yet:

hello

Just to sign in - and say hello - Jane Rothery.

Fun photo site

I mentioned a fun photo site earlier today where I'd found a message about creating a slide-puzzle from a digital photograph.

It's called Photojojo and the slide puzzle can be found here in the archive amongst some other good ideas.

Have fun.

Introducing myself - Gill

Well, Maggie beat me to it really. I'm Gill, AdEd Curriculum Support person for Art and Craft and a bit of a gadget freak, to be honest. I'm frustrated that, even though we've been promoting all this kit for years, we've trained as eguides, held workshops, lent out equipment and done our best to tempt tutors, I have never, ever observed a tutor using any of it in a normal, everyday class.

I'm determined to change that!

(yes, those are rubber gloves, because I'm a practical sort, you see!)

Just to say Hello

Have just signed into the blog.. Hello everyone...... I'm the one on the left... ! Best wishes

Maggie

Welcome to our Blog!

Was it only this morning that the Curriculum Support team sat around a table filled with exciting goodies (and chocolate biscuits) and declared that the time had come to share our enthusiasm for using our favourite technology in our teaching? Since then, we've got together a gang of new best friends and hope that they too will have fun with digital cameras, laptops, photo printers, mp3 recorders and so on. Not only that, but we hope to share all our ideas and expertise here so that everyone can benefit.

Of course, not everything will be successful. I've already faced the challenge of setting up a new Blogger Account so that you don't all have to read my personal profile every time you visit this "professional" blog. But, in opening a new email account and working my way through, I've learned one or two things - mostly that it's really easy to get things working!

(well, possibly with the exception of an mp3 player...without instructions )

Perhaps the challenge is for each of us to begin by introducing ourselves by posting a little profile, including photograph? Dare I set a SMART objective, or shall I leave that to Alison?