I returned to work today after two days off (lack of a voice and a fiery throat), and was glad I chose today. It was a good day in the world of the ICT coordinator.
I knew it was the Harvest Festival today at the local church, and was allowed to stay behind (I knew that the moment I would have walked into the church knowing I couldn't cough, my throat would have started to tickle. Afterall, when you know you can't cough, you want to do nothing else other than cough). One of the children stayed back too, and began to record a bit of audio for the first podcast of this school year. Some other pupils had already recorded their audio before heading off to the church. I was able to merge all the audio in audacity and easily publish it through jellycast to iTunes before the school came back.
Later, one of the lower school staff asked how they could put a homework sheet onto the school website to allow pupils to see their work. I showed her the .pdf facility on the network printer that scans a sheet, and then drops an electronic copy of it into the staff members computer. She was so impressed, that before the end of the day their was a digital homework sheet on the school website.
A child in my class brought in a presentation that they had been working on at home - related to the Titanic work we had been doing. I converted this from a powerpoint .pptm to a flash file using the handy iSpring facility and put it onto the website. I was really impressed with the amount of work she had put into the presentation.
In upper school a member of staff created a post for the website with the presentations that the entire class had made as part of their eco-ed work. With the handy embedit.in sitewide facility, these presentations were instantly available for viewing in a lovely pop-up box on screen.
Finally, in my class, as we ended our science topic of "light and shadows" the pupils created their own shadow puppets and produce some shadow puppet theatre using the IWB projector and a white powerpoint screen. We even managed to record a story, drop it into moviemaker with titles and credits, add some music, upload it to Vimeo and then embed the finished result on the website.
What a great, busy, day for the website today :0)
