Using WildernTV to showcase your Digital Media

On July 1st 2008, Longton CLC worked with Staffordshire Partnership to deliver an exciting course called school TV. The course sows teachers how to to get their digital media, such as movies, music and image galleries online in a safe environment.

The course went well with 20 teachers in attendance. Phil explained how the City Learning Centre has created an account for them to use on the day.

After a brief overview of "iMovie" and "I can animate" the teachers all set about making their own short films.

After Lunch, the films were uploaded to the LongtonTV interface. The films were then approved for viewing by the moderator. This all took just a few minutes to complete.

Brilliant animations online, free of charge, in minutes and no danger of unsuitable material being viewed by the students.

Teachers are constantly faced with the problem of where to display the great examples of students work to a wider audience, and how to do it safely.

Developed as a "YouTube" workaround. Tim Dalton, ICT Development Manager at Wildern School Southampton used "TrilbyTV to begin a pilot scheme last year.

The Wildern TV interface uses a special filter that allows teachers to become moderators. This gives them the ability to decide who should be able to view their work.

Materials created by yr 10 students may not be suitable for students in KS1-2. This ability to filter is very useful for teachers.

If you are interested in learning how to create your own School TV channel, contact the Longton High City Learning Centre.

Find out more aboout WildernTV

Exciting Science Days blast off!

October Saw Secondary Science advisor Nick Hackett bring his Exciting Science days back to the CLC's.

Sandon High came in on 2 days to take part in a number of experiments.

Magic Planet
Visualiser
Quizdom Vote Pads
Photostory
Blogging

Pupils evidently enjoy interactive teaching approaches and the quiz was an outright favorite in this respect. Interacting with PCs and carrying out experiments also feature highly.

After adjusting the delivery of the Magic Planet session following the evaluation of the first session it’s popularity improved measurably.

The blogging session, where the students recorded the activities they took part in did encounter some problems again however the students did manage to record their experiments successfully.


Exciting Science Day -blog
ExcITingScience.pdf

Exciting 3D resources for your lessons

Longton High City Learning Centre have produced some 3D resources for use in the Classroom. Images can be tailor made to suit your project.

Whether you need historical or contemporary images, we can create characters and scenes to suit your needs and enhance your learning resources.

Examples of content are:
Romans
Ancient Greeks
Vikings
Bullying
Shakespear
Dickens
Fantasy/Mythological
Sci/Fi
Sports
PSHE


Using 3d Software we can create either still images or short animations to enhance your resources.

You could use the images to make posters, comics, slideshows, or simply as standalone images in documents or on websites.

If you are interested in using 3D content.

Contact Phil Gregory on
01782 591041 to discuss your needs.

Getting Started with Edublogs - A Teachers Guide

If you have been reading recent posts you will know that we have been looking for a suitable blogging platform so that classes can keep a blog that is moderated by teachers.

Although we liked blogger for its style and features we recognised that not all teachers have the technical know how to set up a blog on their own server. If you dont host your blog on your own server then blogger blogs link to other blogs on the network, some of those may contain material unsuitable for minors.

So we found Edublogs a much safer option. Edublogs however, proved rather tricky to get started with. I have created this tutorial to guide you through the set up process. Although it is a little tricky to get started, once the job is done you will have a brilliant and flourishing blog that provided a safe environment for teacher and students to interact.

Tutorial
You will need Flash Player 9 or higher installed to view this tutorial

Video Tutorial - How to Get started with Edublogs
Video Tutorial - Getting Started with Edublogs

Longton High City Learning Centre - Exciting Science Day

Here is the agenda for Todays Exciting Science Day.

Word
Stoke_CLCs_exciting_Science_day.doc

PDF
Stoke_CLCs_exciting_Science_day.pdf
You will need Adobe Acrobat to read this document.

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• You will be able to access all the images you need from the My documents folder.
• Log into your SGFL email. You will have received an invite to join the CLC blog. Accept it.
• You may have to sign up for a google account. If so follow the instructions.
• Once you have accepted the invitation you will be able to log on to the blog and create posts.