Georgina's Composiion
Georgina composed this music by herself using the Apple application Garageband. I never taught her how to do this- she taught herself. 612KB 36 seconds
Sep 27, 2007•31 sec
Allanah's Appleby Showcase
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Embedding your podcast into Blogger
I made this podcast to accompany my Bling4yrblog blog post trying to explain how to embed your Podomatic podcasts into your Blogger blog directly rather than using a link to it. People at my workshop on podcasting were finding it difficult to understand so I thought a podcast that you can watch a couple of times after you have subscribed in iTunes would be useful as a reference if they get stuck again. To subscribe to this podcast in iTunes just click on the iTunes logo on the right hand side of...
Sep 15, 2007•3 min
2007 Appleby School Band
Each year we bring together a group of keen, talented students to be in our school band. They practice one afternoon a week at school and go on tour around some local schools to show what they have been learning. This year's group is called Blue Moon and we filmed this at Moturoa (Rabbit Island) which is about a five minute drive from our school. Aren't they very cool! 5MB 3 minutes 50 seconds
Sep 15, 2007•4 min
Hurricane Katrina
It has been two years to the day that we made this video- I publish it for the first time in memorium to those lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina. We spent one school day preparing and filming the video. We based the day around Bloom's Taxonomy with the class gathering content through the discussion of photographs I had found on the internet the night before. We then divided into teams and each prepared a section, tying it all together by making a news report. We started to run out of time as...
Aug 30, 2007•5 min
Keeping Ourselves Safe Animation
Every second year the whole school learns more about Keeping Ourselves Safe. The programme is supported by parents, police and a variety of videos as children are helped to understand more about being safe and getting help. The Year Five and Six class prepared this animation using the Apple application I Can Animate. The animation script follows closely one of the support videos 'Home Alone'- what to do if you find yourself arriving home and your parents aren't home yet. Everyone in class had so...
Aug 23, 2007•3 min
Rugby Champion
New Zealand is heading for a win at the Rugby World Cup. To celebrate that fact I thought I would publish this video that we made a few years back. The Daniel that we refer to is of course our hero, Daniel Carter. The video was played on nationwide TV in the afternoon kids' programmes. It was the first time we had been published. I had written the movie to DVD and long ago deleted the source files. Thanks to our podcasting buddies at Cefn Fforest School, Wales we were able to use the cross platf...
Aug 18, 2007•56 sec
Jordan's Baby Brother
Towards the end of last term I gave children free reign to create podcasts of their choice and create music with Garageband. Jordan chose to make this podcast using the memorised template that we often use to scaffold our podcasts. She had previously taken home my camera to take photos of her family's newest arrival, baby Luke. Luke is really a child of the 21st century- his first podcast! The photo was composed using Scrapblog and captured using the wonderful new tool, Skitch 404 KB 34 seconds...
Aug 11, 2007•34 sec
Emergency - Dial 111
In New Zealand if you need to call the police, ambulance or fire-brigade you call 111 on the phone. Zach made this animation to help people know what to do in an emergency- he made it using Quicktime Pro. To make it you take all your photos and then go FILE- Open Image Sequence- find the first photo of your animation, choose how many frames per second you want and Quicktime will do the rest. How cool is that! We used Audacity to record Zach’s narration. Then I put them both together in iMovie. 1...
Jul 21, 2007•46 sec
Appleby School Band
Last year I posted a video podcast of our school band and thought I should do so again with this year's band as last year's bad got really good reviews. From Moturoa classroom you will see Tegen singing, Tyler on drums, Elliott on keyboard and Kieran on guitar. Our band is very good and we like to listen to them play at assembly. 6MB 1 minute
Jul 17, 2007•1 min
Allanah shares our learning with Aussie Teachers
In the last week of our school holidays Jason Hando from Macarthur Anglican School in north Sydney put out a call for educators from around the globe to discuss their experiences with Web2.0 tools. The call was taken up by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Jen Wagner and my good self. I was aware I was boxing above my weight but am always up for new learning with others around the globe. These opportunities always present opportunities for me to learn as well as share. Jason made a wiki to co-ordinate the ...
Jul 14, 2007•18 min
Safe Swimming Animation
I am starting to feel a bit better after the dreadful cold I had the other week and we are keen to share a couple of new podcasts with you. Thank you to those kind people who emailed, blogged or left me comments about my attempt at podcasting from home last week. Today was a first for us, Elliott, Nicole and Zach were chosen to go to a Lead Children's Day with our ICT cluster at which they were able to use Quicktime Pro to make short animations on our safety theme. They will be able to show us h...
Jun 20, 2007•20 sec
Homework
I have been at home this week with a nasty cough and cold and tomorrow I need to set a new homework task so to help get my message across I thought I would send my class a podcast explaining what I want. Each week we have a homework Bubble Map that we have brainstormed of activities we can do to support that week's target. Over the year the grid has built up over time so much of the grid just ticks along and children record what they have done in each of the grid boxes as they complete it. This ...
Jun 07, 2007•1 min
Rob Waddell- an interview
Rob Waddell won an Olympic Gold Medal for rowing the single scull at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Now he is grinder for the Team Emirates New Zealand yacht to help us to win back the America's Cup in Valencia, Spain. Following from our contact with Zoe's parents in Valencia we were able to talk to Rob and ask him questions about his work. This was our most ambitious podcasting project yet as TVNZ, our national television network, got wind of the story and sent one camera crew around to film us a...
Jun 05, 2007•10 min
Making Coconut Cream
Today we had a sharing day showing other classes at Appleby School some of our learning about our 'Destination' studies. You may have seen our sharing video about our Destination- New York, in last week's podcast. The New Entrant classroom, Waimea, learnt about life in Tonga. We had a shared ">umu lunch for the whole school. Waimea also made this video about how to get coconut cream from a coconut. 5.1MB 1 minute 26 seconds
May 31, 2007•1 min
Skype Chats Around the Globe
What an awesome week we had with linking across the globe! On Wednesday Lauren spoke to some students in Outram School, Dunedin who have been learning Spanish. Lauren spent last year in Chile so is a fluent Spanish speaker. On Thursday Moutere classroom spoke to Zoe, whose family is in Valencia, Spain, as part of the New Zealand contingent to help us win back the America's Cup. Watch this space for a further podcast with crew from Team Emirates New Zealand. Listen to our first podcast in this se...
May 18, 2007•5 min
Go-karting Interview
Ryan impressed us with his go-karting trophies that he brought to school to how us for news time. Appleby School is lucky to have a go-kart track really close to it. Dino and Ryan travel all over New Zealand to go to go-kart meetings. Ryan, Elliott and Kieran recorded this podcast. 1.5MB 2.47 seconds
May 18, 2007•3 min
Music from Around the Globe
We are learning about living in America and our friends in Binghamton, New York, are helping us answer some of our questions. They sung us some songs and said the Pledge of Allegiance for us. We tried to say it with an American accent but are not too sure how it will sound to American ears. We also learnt God Bless America which we sing with much enthusiasm. Then we thought we would sing New Zealand's National Anthem in Maori and English. Lastly it was my birthday last weekend and our friends in...
May 12, 2007•7 min
Words to Whisper, Words to Shout
This week Nicole, Tegen and Shania chose, prepared, photographed, recorded and edited this podcast all on their own. Other children helped them with the bee drawings. It is great how children are getting more and more confident at using the technology and speaking clearly for an audience. A few children are even making podcasts just for fun before school! 1MB 1 minute 36 seconds
May 03, 2007•2 min
ANZAC Day
ANZAC Poem They shall not grow old As we who are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun And in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Shania, Tyler and Elliott put together this podcast about their attendance at New Zealand's ANZAC day dawn parade. ANZAC stands for Australia & New Zealand Army Corps- a grouping of our soldiers who fought and died on the battlifields of Gallipoli in the Great War. It was on 25 April 1915 that some say New Zeal...
Apr 26, 2007•3 min
Valencia- here we come!
One of the families from Appleby School has recently left to go to Valencia, Spain for a few months to be involved in the America's Cup. Zoe's Dad, Rod, is helping install animation software designed by New Zealanders that will help people all over the world get more enjoyment of the America's Cup because they will be able to see in 3D where the yachts are up to. Rod came to school and spoke to our senior classes about what he is going to do and then we each took a photo and spoke about it so yo...
Apr 04, 2007•6 min
At School We Like...
The New Entrant class at Appleby School have prepared a co-operative digital story constructed with iPhoto describing the things they like best about being at school. 13 MB 2 minutes 42 seconds
Mar 31, 2007•3 min
The Waimea River
Ko Waimea te awa. Waimea is our river. We care about it and want to be healthy. This week we had the opprtunity to go to the river and test it for clarity, conductivity, acidity, flow, temperature and to see how many animals were present in the water. It was exciting because the water level kept on rising because of the extra big high tides that we have been having were pushing the fresh water back up the river! After all those tests we decided that our river was healthy and we pleased about tha...
Mar 22, 2007•4 min
Binghamton School, New York, USA
Today before school I had the privelege of chatting with new on-line friends, Mrs Sullivan and her class of Year Five students from ,Horace Mann Elementary School Binghamton School District in New York, USA. We have been chatting through Skype for a week or two and a preparing a collaboration between out two classes that will foster links between our schools and help us to learn more about each other. It was close to their school home time and things were totally unprepared but the young voices ...
Mar 16, 2007•4 min
Monarch Butterflies
We were lucky enough to be able to talk with Dr Barrie Frost from Ottawa, Canada, who is a very clever neuro-scientist. One of his research projects is to study the migratory paths of monarch butterflies. He showed us some incredible photographs that took our breath away. We learnt some really interesting facts about these incredible butterflies. Here Dr Frost tells us some of the wonderful things that the monarch butterfly can do. 3.7MB 6 minutes 15 seconds
Mar 14, 2007•6 min
Swimming Sports Reflections
This is our first truly mobile podcast recorded on location at our Wakefield School Swimming Carnival with the iTalk attached to my iPod. It was lovely to be able to capture the candid reflections on the day's events as they happened. It was a great morning, very well supported by the parent community. I was able to speak with children, parents, organisers and friends of Appleby School. 1.8 MB 2 mintutes 44 seconds
Mar 10, 2007•3 min
Jessica Ahlberg comes for a visit
Jessica Ahlberg came to visit us in our classroom today. She is an excellent artist who has illustrated three children's books. We enjoyed asking her questions about what she does. She liked being with us as well and came to watch us swim. Jessica is just visiting New Zealand and is going to fly out to Los Angeles on Wednesday. We wish her all the best with her work. We really enjoyed having her with us and we learnt a lot from her. The skish, skish noise in the background is the sound of the ci...
Feb 19, 2007•9 min
2007 Introduction
We started our new school year this week in the sweltering New Zealand sunshine. We used my new 80GB video iPod and iTalk attachment to record our holiday introductions. I was really pleased with the ease of use of the iTalk so you can look forward to further podcasts out in the field rather than being tied to the computer or traditional microphone. A very cool first attempt. We got some encouraging feedback on our podcast from another school I taught at many summers ago, Coley Street, in Foxton...
Feb 09, 2007•5 min
Lifeboat
This is the last of our poems for the summer. School starts again at Appleby on 7 February and we will start podcasting again as a fresh group of students learn the art of podcasting. This poem is written by Dianna Noonan, a well known NZ poet. The poem mentions a pukeko feather. Pukeko are a beautiful native bird of New Zealand with feathers the colour of paua. Pukeko Web Site The poem was cleverly presented by Gloria, Emily, Georgia, Ruby. 500 KB 51 seconds
Feb 04, 2007•51 sec
What a day!
The school holidays are nearly over. Our northern hemisphere listeners may think it strange to have our long summer holidays over Christmas but we go back to school for the new school year on 7 February. The photos were gathered from Flickr. I recently got into using Flickr because I have added an uploader from iPhoto directly. You may like to look at our Flickr photos of Tiny Ted, our geocache bear's, travels. I have added a link from our podcast's main page. This poem was read by Jessica, Jord...
Jan 29, 2007•1 min
Grandpa
This poem is a poem dedicated to all the grandfathers in the world who love and care for their grandchildren. It was ably read by Susa, Maddison and Jillian. The photographs were gathered from the internet. 1.5MB 1 minute 30 seconds
Jan 23, 2007•2 min
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