Using BBC Clips

 

 

Recently I haven't found it easy to find the BBC SEN clips . I did have the ones I needed saved on Delicious and bookmarked but all  websites seem to reorganize  and break the links

I have now made my own list :

 

Know who your friends are clip 6722

Online safety (pt 1/2)  clip 6710

Online safety (pt 2/2) clip 6711

Bullying: Henry's story clip 6712

If the time's right: peer pressure  clip 6713

Leave me alone: inappropriate attention clip 6708

He got told: how NOT to get a girlfriend clip 6707

Dealing with feelings clip 6706

Movie mayhem: bad behaviour at the cinema clip 6705

 We want a party: working together clip 6704

Wordle and REM

The holidays are truly over . I've had 4 weeks off this summer . In my college we have to book our holiday and spread the 37 days wisely through the year...So now its back to work on Tuesday and time to get on with some serious preparation for the start of the new academic year. I'll start with a resolution that I will have a life outside college and to show I mean business the whole family are off to see REM on Wednesday. I have the possible set list with orders from the children to have a good listen first! In preparation for this I've created a Wordle video using Movie maker. Have a watch !

I shall be using Wordle as one of my induction activities - everyone will add their name and we will display it on the whiteboard see an example below:

Have a good year, pace yourself, enjoy the company of your colleagues and most of all have fun with the students.

A tip for using Animoto

In my blog Using your photos I mentioned that resizing photos for Animoto was time consuming. I have tried out the image resizing software recommended by Animoto. It takes about a minute to download and about 10 seconds to re size 20 photos,so well worth downloading and its free!

Using your photos.

In my work with students with learning difficulties I take a lot of photos. Students have enjoyed seeing themselves on the interactive whiteboard . Its been good for developing language and talking about activities and skills learnt.
At the beginning of the year I used PowerPoint .
I then used Windows Movie maker to make videos. I taught myself quite quickly by watching a tutorial on You Tube .
I have recently finished my first full length video using Animoto . I recommend this as you can produce a different, high quality video in a relatively short time. Animoto are offering free full access passes if you work in education. Just email them. They are very quick to respond.The blog Free resources from the net gives you a good summary . My experience is

Work on it at home .Most college networks can't cope with the uploading.When its finished dowload it and use it at college (it uses Quick time)
You will need 40/50 photos to make a 3 minute video.
The photos have to be at the image size 1024 x 768 pixels (it takes a while to change the image size of each photo) You have to choose a piece of appropriate music .

I chose Bill Withers Lovely Day . You'll need the music in MP3 form .
You can use Zamzar ,an online file converter (for free) to convert a format if you need to.