just to see if I could do !it - I have added a couple of photos

just posted new photos on flickr

that's the good news! - I have posted them on my own 'clay and stitch' site (not intentionally) and would like to move them over to the group pool of photos, but I can't figure out how to do it. I thought it would be good to show you all how the autumn community textile is coming together. We are beginning to assemble it, so will be able to show completed work soon.

library service links with Ad Ed learners

Just thought I would share a great afternoon I had with learners yesterday. Following an Ad Ed textiles course, learners have got together on Thursday afternoons in GL14 Meeting Place and share 'textile talk'. They are working together to complete their first community textile which was started on the Ad Ed course. The Cinderford library service is developing a project 'past, present and future' and is working in partnership with GL14 Community Project to encourage local involvement. Catherine Escott Allen from Cinderford Library came along to meet the group and we gathered around the computer to see how easy it was to use the library web site in conjunctioin with Amazon web site to reasearch books and then check information about them on the Amazon web site and then check if they are available to borrow from the County library service. Catherine also explained that the library service in Gloucestersire also networked further afield in the South West area to access books. Catherine also encouraged us to request books to be purchased - no promises but they like to get this feedback from borrowers to know which books would be welcomed on the shelves. We were all truly spoilt by Catherine who brought a great selection of books along and enabled us to borrow them on the spot. Discussions followed and we came up with some great ideas on how we could develop this partnership between Ad Ed learners and the library service further using IT. We all agreed we had learnt a lot and were all inspired by the books to try out more new ideas.

WAS I DREAMING?

Hi Marie here.
Was I dreaming?
I posted some comments, around being excited to be part of the new dream team, still feeling a novice - although I have recorded learners and event activities on digital cameras before, and was looking forward to further expanding my skills and experience for the benefit of learners. I clicked "Publish Post" forgot to give it a title, viewed it and then double clicked on my name in another window and the posting disapeared - never to be found again!

I am going to feel foolish if the first one floats back in and there are two postings!

However, having received the "Dream Team" camera and printer in the morning I digitally captured our "WHAT NEXT" IAG event that evening that we had for our ACL learners here at the National Star College. The plan is to post them very soon (Oh well, try anyway!)

Hot Potatoes

At the FLLN/LLN Dream Team meeting I mentioned the Hot Potatoes suite of software for preparing matching activities, quizzes and crosswords which self mark. When loaded to a VLE it's also possible to record the scores of individual learners. A link to download the software and guides on how to use it can be found at http://www.sdelc.org.uk/MOD-07-Content-SourceAndCreate/Sub1/HotPotatoes.aspx.

Test Movie

Rob and Julie created their story in Powerpoint which can't be loaded directly into the blog. At the end of the session we talked briefly about using Movie Maker. Have made a very short and simple movie using 4 still images of my daughter, adding some titles and credits and downloading some royalty free music from Derek R Audette. The first site I used for music did not allow free downloading for blogs so it's important to read the terms and conditions first. Also have no idea what the music sound like as no speakers on this pc - but the title seemed appropriate for a girl who never has any shoes to wear!