News Reels

An excellent site for old news reels that have been digitised  -  http://www.britishpathe.com/

Blogs, writing and learning

I have been reading some very interesting blogs from schools in New Zealand – http://meadowbankroom18.blogspot.com/

In this blog the children are retelling traditional stories and recording the results – http://meadowbankreporters.blogspot.com/

iMovie

Ideas for the classroom, the Apple learning Interchange – http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/

Tutorials for iMovie – http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/

http://www.design.iastate.edu/LABS/tutorials/imovie/basic.html

Movies in teaching and learning

A wonderful resource from an inspiring educator Marco Torres, Flickschool is a “sharing community, a creative learning space’ for podcasts, movies, multimedia – http://web.mac.com/cinedelagente/iWeb/Site/%5B%20FLICKSCHOOL%20%5D.html

Marco, with his students, has run a film festival for a number of years in San Fernando – http://www.sfett.com/

Marco the Teacher – http://homepage.mac.com/torresu/

Digital stories, ePortfolios

Thoughts from Helen Barrett

Digital stories  -  http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/purposes.html

Authentic assessment using ePortfolios and Web 2.0  -  http://electronicportfolios.org/web20.html 

Podcasts from Broome

 This site, thanks Terri,  has podcasts made by students in Broome. Scroll down the page to download and listen.

http://missterri.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=podcasts