Archive for February 2009
Reflections on 25 Things
Posted on: February 26, 2009
So long, farewell, Auf Widersehen etc. I’ve really enjoyed doing 25 Things and am feeling a bit sad that it’s finished now! Although I sometimes found it hard to set aside the time to do it, I always felt quite excited when I knew I was going to have some time to spend, wondering what I was going to learn about. Most of the things we covered were quite new to me. Some were just a bit of fun, from my point of view (Mashups and Image Generators) but some turned out to be tools which I have kept going back to and intend to keep using long term, in particular Flickr and LibraryThing, both of which I love to bits. One thing I haven’t done yet is to think much about how I can use these tools in my work, beyond the obvious of using Flickr to find images to include in Powerpoints etc. Maybe I will set myself the task of going back over all the things I have discovered and thinking a bit more about practical applications for them in this respect. I can use all that staff development time that will now be sloshing around in my week (not!) Anyway, a big thank you to the 25 Things team (if any of you read this!) for organising it, it’s been fab.
Podcasts
Posted on: February 12, 2009
- In: Podcasts | The Archers
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Due to lack of time and (well, let’s be honest) inclination, I’ve never really got into podcasts – the few I had listened to had seemed a bit unworthwhile. But I am now a convert having had a good look at the BBC site and seen all the fabby things I could get by podcast. I have to admit to being a bit of a closet Archers fan, but often miss it as it’s on at getting the kids into bed time, so I was really pleased to see that I can catch up on it by podcast, a bit like the BBC i-player for radio really. Here is a link to the RSS feed if you are interested – watch out for that cow!
I love You Tube – there are some truly fab clips, such as this one of pregnant women breakdancing, made by Oxfam. I was slightly appalled at first, but soon realised that though many of the women in the film are truly pregnant, the ones doing the really scary moves had cushions shoved up their T-shirts. I think we can assume that no unborn children were harmed in the making of this film anyway. The film is to make a serious point about the ridiculously high number of women worldwide who still die in pregnancy or childbirth because of lack of access to basic medical services. I’ve pasted the link here – hope it works!
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