I found the lecture yesterday quite frightening the very idea that it is possible to track your exact location and your movements is quite intimidating, it stirs thoughts of conspiracy theories lol. anyway as far as its application goes I love the idea of being able to put photos and information on a map and think it would be a great activity in geography but also in science observations looking at habitates etc. anyway we will see if I am actually able to do it in the seminar.

And the Oscar goes too.

I hated doing that pod cast. Every time I tried to speak into the microphone I just completely forget what I wanted to say lol. I can really see the benefit of this for children though, especially boys who struggle with their writing. Radio shows or any other form of pod casting is an excellent way to let children who struggle with their writing access the learning.

As I said I really enjoyed the animation task earlier in the module here is a link to what we have done so far. The clip was kindly uploaded by Chris.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1XzJz8IOYZs

I am an amateur musician myself and often play around with my piano and guitar composing simple melodies. I must admit I was a little sceptical with this activity I truly believe that good music should be taught with real instruments allowing children to experience how they can use different instruments in different ways to create different sounds, how can this be done using ICT I can see the value of using ICT to record music but not in creating music. I found the technology extremely limiting but never the less after experimenting with it I can see its value in teaching children about different instruments and in giving children access to instruments they would not usually have I never the less believe the only way to teach real and effective music is using real instruments.

I don't know about anyone else but I found making the animation, or what little of it we were able to finish in the time allocated, extremely useful. To my surprise it was actually quite simple in the past I have always viewed animation as something that is difficult to do and would never even attempt to teach a lesson using it however having seen how such simple software can be used to create animations I would now feel confident teaching it in school.

One comment I will make though is that it is probably one of the most tedious things I have ever done, I can see children being excited by the concept of making their animation and initially being interested in using the software however I cannot see young children having the attention span to do some of the animations that we have decided to do. In school I think they would have to be shorter and much more simple.