Tag Archive for 'blog'

Vocaroo

Vocaroo is a great little web app. It has a beautifully simple interface. After recording a sound file it give the option to listen to it, post it on the internet (via an embed code) or send it via email. You can even download it.
I can see an application here with the work we have [...]

Blogging Project 2

I’ve posted previously about the blogging project that I am undertaking as part of the TTP at the Haringey CLC. I am piloting the project with a single child – known as ‘D’. His blog is now up and running - although I have encountered several challenges.
D’s literacy is low. Although he is verbally able, he [...]

Blogging project

I am currently carrying out a class-based action research project on using blogging with SEN students as part of the Tansformation Teachers Programme run by the Haringey CLC.
I’ve focused on a single learner, D, who suffers from Smith Magenis Syndrome. He is a relatively bright KS3 boy with some autistic tendencies. He has many obsessions - and often has [...]

Blog bling

Note the new URL!
Spurned on by edublogs advertising and Ewan McIntosh’s post I decided to take the plunge. I bought the domain annett.me.uk a few years ago. It’s very cheap – I pay less than £3pa with 123-reg.
After a few technical hitches causing me to lose both my blog and my email over the weekend [...]

Using a blog on a residential trip

I’m just back from a residential trip with 20 of our KS3 GLD learners. Hard work, but fun.
I experimented with using a blog to compliment the usual diary work. Our children have limited literacy and the use of images and movies is invaluable. I chose to create a blog on blogger.com. It was essential to [...]