John Johnston

Author: John Johnston

  • GarageBand Again

    This evening I am using GarageBand.  The second RTC course this week is looking at making simple music and podcasts with Garageband.

    jj episode 2

  • RTC GarageBand

    This evening we are mostly podcasting:

    jj episode 1

  • Posting Audio at Golfhill

    Today I am visiting Golfhill to see how they are getting on with their blog. We have looked at how to make headers and post audio,

  • Glow Projects in NLC Tier 2 Training

    I am spending the day watching  Karen-Ann McSwiggan and Sarah Burton of the Glow National Team enthuse a group of NLC secondary teachers about using glow.  They have set a cracking pace covering lots of ideas for using old and new features of glow mixed with time for practical tasks on glow. This is just one of two days of  the second tier of targeted support NLC secondaries are receiving. The Third tier will involed support from the National glow team in the schools involved.

    the official blog post for the day is 2nd Day 1 Session of Tier 2 Training – Thurs 17th Feb

  • GarageBand – Glenmanor p5

    This afternoon I was working with Primary 5 in Glenmanor promary school with GarageBand. The Children worked in pairs to create music using the Loops editor. They sounded as if they were having great fun. The learn to add loops to several tracks and remove loops to shape their music.

    you can listen to some of the creations below. We did not have time at the end of the day to post them to glow where there is a GarageBand group of North Lanarkshire schools.
    emma and fraser:emma and fraser

    mp gw loops mp gw loops

    ly sb song ly sb song

    AS HP loops AS HP loops

    LE LOOPS LE LOOPS

    mcloops mcloops

    My Song My Song

    fc hw loops fc hw loops

    coloopsgps coloopsgps

    lmloops12 lmloops12

  • This Morning I was mostly Blogging

    This morning I was in Sikeside Primary introducing the Primary sixes and sevens to blogging.

    We created a couple of blogs: Sikeside Sixes and Sikeside Sevens I then worked with the classes in turn covering resizing images and posting text and images to the blogs. The children were well prepared with photos and notes about   recent events in school.

    There are now quite a number of glow blogs in North Lanarkshire and it is interesting to see the variety of ways pupils and teachers are blogging.

    NL teachers can get in touch if they want a wee hand starting to blog.

  • Sonic Pics at Thornlie

    Thornlie test

    After a morning of Glow Busting I am showing P 7-6 how to use SonicPics to make slides shows for their blog.

  • St Pats Kilsyth – Glow Busters

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    On Friday last week I helped Mr Nisbet deliver Glow Buster training at St Patrick’s primary in  Kilsyth.

    Glow Busters are groups of 10 primary 6 pupils who get 2 half days of fairly  in depth training in glow. The plan being that these children can help get other pupils logged onto glow and act as experts in the school. The pupils worked really hard but seem to enjoy the morning. We covered, navigation round glow and some of the external resources, using the Text Editor and picture libraries. The children are taught one of the latter two and then teach and are taught by a partner. The next visit will cover Internet Safety, IPR, some image editing and glow blogging on the Glow buster’s Blog. Clicking on the image above will play a 30 second movie created on my iPhone with ReelDirector.

  • Glow at St Dominic’s

    On Thursday afternoon I was at St Dominic’s Primary working with the p7s and St Dominic’s Glow mentor Ms. Sweeney . They have a great space in the open area of the school with a suite of iMacs. The afternoon was made more interesting by some robust Road Safety singing from the infants in the hall next door. The children have spaces as their topic this term so we used the Space page in the NLC classroom glow group. This links out to several Purple Mass activities, for a bit of fun we used the Alien Profile Creator. The children were able to create amusing profiles for their aliens, save them as PNG files and upload them to the glow group.

    One wee glitch was one pupil attempts to save their work failed. They could name the file, but the standard file dialog box did not open. I’ve seen this on several occasions with PurpleMass activities. A quick screenshot saved the work.

  • This is an Example

    Today I am talking about Blog. Ian (Pictured) has just finished talking about Glow Mail.

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