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Research project confusion….

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

For the first time I saw how videoing students could backfire. I started recording one of my year 7 groups doing a listening project and had to spend a large amount of the time trying to stop them dancing around like maniacs. Having watched the video back after school it’s actually really funny. [...]

So little time… so much to do!

Monday, May 21st, 2007

So we’re all back at the CLC and it’s made me realise how little I’ve managed to do over the last couple of weeks.  Of course there’s the excuse… GCSE and A Level revision, coursework deadlines, SATs etc.  There never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done.
Still, hopefully things should [...]

This is just a test…..

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Bit silly testing things at the moment…. but I’ve never uploaded anything onto the blog so that’s what this is. I’m gonna try and upload a picture. Whoo hoo! Easter holidays are a wonderful thing…..

I made a movie…..

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Actually I made two. Having videoed my Year 8 groups performing their Raps I turned two of them into MTV style videos. It was actually really interesting trying to balance the audio recordings I had of the performances with the audio from the video. (Unfortunately using a microphone properly isn’t in their [...]

I think my brain is trickling out of my ears

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Right, I’ve managed to get my blog up and running. Finally.
I had loads of fun last week with the camera, especially videoing the students performing their RAP projects, and I was really surprised at the effect a camera would have on them. Some of the particularly confident (and over-exhuberant) members of the class [...]

Hello world!

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

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