mp3 guide

Hi all,

just to mention that I'll be finished this by the middle of next week and will post it as soon as finished (started it, was waylaid by playing with the cyber shot camera :-))

Fi

Camera sound-recording

This sounds great!

But can it sound-record for an hour using your method, Gill, or is there another method that lasts longer and has better sound quality?

Fi

Sharing good practice

...or is it pinching someone else's good idea?

This morning I spent time chatting to Julie Smith, one of Alison's colleagues, who is doing some research into tutor training. She asked if she may record our interview and pulled a small digital camera from her bag.

Now, why haven't we thought of using our digital cameras as simple voice recorders? Brilliant idea - and with Julie's permission, I share it here!

Our interview lasted for an hour or so and the camera was unobtrusive. The file will record the date and time of our interview (as long as the camera date/time setting is correct of course!) and is easily saved to disk or hard drive.

It occurred to me that it would be very easy to record a learner's comments alongside a photograph of their work and I intend to give it a try shortly. Watch this space to see what happens....unless you get there first, in which case please share!

I can't find any details in the camera handbook about recording sound, but have experimented using the video mode with the display turned off. The sound quality isn't top-notch but it's good enough for evidence. Your suggestions and ideas would be appreciated.

Good, clear tutorial

I am always on the lookout for high quality online tutorials and save to my del.icio.us list (tagged AdEd and tutorial) when I come across one. This morning, I found this Rotary Cutting Tutorial which I think is an excellent example. Not only does it assume any prior knowledge or experience, neither does it patronise. It's authorative in tone and takes in all those little H & S points we all struggle to communicate effectively with our students.

Please share any similarly good online tutorials with us. Who knows, we might even have a go at putting something together for ourselves?

Better than chocolate

So many good, calorie-free things on the Flickr album already. There are lots of colourful images there, I feel very inspired to get on with some work myself. - thanks for sharing .

The pictures of the community art project are especially interesting - I'm looking forward to seeing how the blackberry leaves turn out.

If you haven't been to have a look at the AdEd Interest gallery already, I suggest you follow the link in the sidebar and brighten your day with some glorious colour!

E Guide Plus event

I went to an E Guides Plus event in Taunton on Thursday 7th Feb
The make up of the day was demos and play time. Here are some of the most interesting points for me.
These are free downloads
XElearning - a bit like Hot Potato
Snippy - a really useful little screen capture tool
www.turning technologies.com
- details of an updated voting system called Turning Point, which sits easily in Powerpoint and has free downloadable software (why wasn't this around 3 + years ago when we bought our CPS systems)

For VI users
www.screenreader.net - some brilliant free screen reading and magnifying software called Thunder and Lightening

More e-learning enthusiasts!

Just posting to let you know that the Dream Team will be joined shortly by at least 3 new groups - Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy (FLNN), Literacy, Language and Numeracy Direct Delivery (LNN) and Information Technology (IT). It's great to see all the links to useful resources already on the site and I am sure this will inspire the new teams.