Mondays 20/03/17 class.

In today’s class, I created the Padlet instruction video, for session 2.

This was the first time I have used the software CamStudio.

During class, we were informed about the software and its flexibility with recording video, and video with audio.

This time I decided not to include audio.  This was because it was still during class time and it was quite noisy.

After recording the Padlet access and upload process, the recording came out really well on my first attempt.  I then decided to upload the video to YouTube, as this was recommended by my lecturer, as it was flexible to edit the video to my liking.

It was also my first time using YouTube in this way.  It was a day of several firsts! 🙂

I opened up YouTube and it seemed quite straight forward to upload the video recording, however, it took me a little while to figure out how I could add annotations (the text boxes) to the video.  After a little play around with all the tabs, my lecturer and I worked it out together.

Again, I feel that the video and addition of annotations, came out really well for my first attempt…even if I do say so myself.  As this was a day of firsts, I feel quite chuffed and proud of myself for giving something different a try.  As mentioned before, I consider myself to be quite tech-literate, but I am aware (even more so now) that there are many software systems that I was not aware about prior to starting this module.

Being honest, I was a little worried giving it a go, as all time spent on this project has been valuable, as I didn’t want to risk making a mistake and use more time making adjustments; also time during class, as I wanted to make the most out of the class learning and having a great lecturer there to help and advise when required.

19/03/17

Today I created the Padlet blackboard for Session 2, click here

This was my second time creating a blackboard in Padlet.

I remember my first time was a little daunting but this time, I felt confident in knowing but also remembering how I used it before.

I chose the pencil background, as it was classroom related and it was a bright and bold colour.  The background seems visually appealing…for myself but also for the parents and pupils that will be interacting with it; for their initial picture upload (in this session 2 activity) and for future reference to help as a guide for options of how to count (perhaps for use in session 3 and session 4).

I double clicked the left mouse button anywhere on the screen, which brought up an upload box (as shown below).

Then the following information would need to be added into this box

Then clicking on the (+) icon at the bottom of the box, would allow an attachment to be uploaded.

As shown in the top picture in this blog, I have added 3 examples, to give the parents and pupils and idea but to also show them that it can be anything that involves counting.  To think outside of the box.  Sometimes simple ideas are not associated with something like counting, which can provide a little quick solution or a bit of a cheat sheet to help.  For example, I remember when I was in school learning to count coins and get through any numeracy related question.  I worked out (unsure what made me think of this solution) that I could count in 1’s, there would be points on every number that i could use as a counting referencing point (as the picture below hopefully identifies this clearly).

There are 5 points on the number 5, and 4 points on the number 4.

The idea behind this Padlet is for pupils to think creatively, so if they need counting ideas in the future, they will be able to access this Padlet blackboard at home and school (on the computer or view the poster that will be pinned on the classroom wall).