Voices Of The World

What shall we do in February?

Do you have a suggestion for a task? I would love to have enough time to prepare my teachers/pupils for the next tasks "shooting".

I've just tested a new publishing tool; Joggle (in Beta) - and so far it looks like the greatest slideshow tools, ever;o)

It seems very easy to use, nice and structured menues/windows. You can upload pictures, sound, music, videos or even documents from your computer - or you can import pictures from Flickr or Picasa.

The tool let you make slideshows (picking from your uploaded stuff), widgets and albums. In the slideshow you're able to set the time for the slides (from 1-10 sec/picture). It produces the embed code, or URL for emails. I really think this can fit our consept.

So, I do have a suggestion for tool, but what about the thema this month - any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by Anna Karidi Pirounaki on February 7, 2009 at 7:44am: Hi Eva..

If Joggle starts automatically...I guess doesn't fit to be hosted at the wikispace... can you imagine to open the page and 6-8 slideshow starting running together ?? !

Another idea ... is DOTSUB.COM .. there we may add subtitles (as many as we want) at our videos

The suggestion:

---Each partner may create a short video with kids singing a local favorite song..(no faces if you can't)

--They add subtitles in their own language +english

--We exchange Urls of it

--Pupils see the videos and add their subtitles where they like -- at least to 3 or 4

In this way we have a direct Interaction manong our pupils work... a GOOD point on my opinion...and not just a collection from pupils work we have so far..

Even we will not agree on this suggestion...I would like to think all of us how pupils and teachers can interact on the others work.. what is your opinion about this??

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Permalink Reply by Karin Ulvelid on February 7, 2009 at 9:32am: I reply to this even if I have nothing to say :-) so that I can follow the discussion. Well, about the song, We all, I think, celebrate birthdays and apart from "Happy birthday" I think we all have birthday songs that are unique for our languages and countries. It would be nice if we could add the lyrics and maybe later in VOTW we all can choose another country´s song and sing in another language than our own.
Now, Eva, I´m leaving for Telemark. För og gå på tur!!!! Happy Holiday.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eva Rekkedal on February 7, 2009 at 10:05am: Dear Anna and Karin!
Thanks a lot for your input;o)
Anna, you're definately right; all the slideshows will start at the same time (like a big messy choire), and this will not work well. I haven't found a function in Joggle to turn off automatically start.
Your idea of interaction on the work is great.

Karin; birthday songs would be a nice task, especially for Annas and your idea of interacting on the work we all put up to wikispace (my pupils loved the Goodbye-task) - and with this idea we would also know the next task, and get plenty of time to practise;o)

Ha en riktig god tur til Telemark - Happy holiday to you, too!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vicky Sedgwick on February 8, 2009 at 2:58am: I love the idea of direct interaction. We have a Collaborations Map up in the computer lab with connections to all of the schools around the world we have "connected" with. I only put up the connection if we have commented on their work or they have commented on ours or if there has been some other direct connection. Each grade has a different color yarn.

My class went and commented on all the videos from December. I actually linked them to the videos on SlideBoom or MyPlick and logged in to my account so they could comment. After we did our commenting, we added the connections to the map. I know my class would love to have others comment on their work and I plan to have them comment on future projects too if we can.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Karin Ulvelid on February 9, 2009 at 7:05pm: Hi! How do you comment. In class? Is there a possibility to comment on each work in the wiki that I have missed?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vicky Sedgwick on February 10, 2009 at 6:30am: If you click on the SlideBoom logo (or MyPlick link) of each video, it will open in SlideBoom (or MyPlick) and the videos have the ability for comments. For example, your December contribution is at: http://www.myplick.com/view/3guROKU7ROi/votwdec and if you go to the link, you'll see a comment made by one of my students. The discussions tab of a wiki work well for comments too but since we don't have access to these, we went to the source.

For easy access, I just created text links of all of these on the class page on my wiki and my students clicked on the link, watched and listened to the video and commented from there. I also provided links to translators from English to other languages so they could translate some or all of their response if they wished. Some of these we did as a whole class together but most were assigned to various students and they posted a comment. Since I have 4th Graders they can handle the posting themselves after they learn the guidelines about what they should and shouldn't post.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Vicky Sedgwick on February 8, 2009 at 2:59am: Just wondering since most people didn't get to the January task, should we call that a January/February task and plan for March instead? This would give people a chance to do January if they haven't and then maybe to go and comment on some of the previous videos too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anna Karidi Pirounaki on February 8, 2009 at 8:34am: Dear Sharon..

you have used us to a regular monthly task on time.. so far

I know your new rensponsibilities and priorities.. but I miss your 'Presence' here in any case ...in any issue this community had...

It's so nice the idea of partner's contribution for each month task...but it's necessary you to lead this..

January task is gone .. for the most partners

February 8 ...and still discussing about the task!

we all run classes and as Eva said pupils and teachers like to know on time... to plan activities and enjoy the whole procedure ..

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Permalink Reply by Cathy Francis on February 9, 2009 at 5:00pm: Hi Everyone,
Have been quiet recently and am resigned to the fact I've missed January's task. Agree that we need to plan further ahead as mentioned by some. Maybe follow the suggestion of amalgamating Jan-Feb and call this planning now for March.
Got to go and fight my way through the snow to a piano lesson
byeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Permalink Reply by Kairi Laane on February 18, 2009 at 12:12pm: My thoughts exactly.

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Permalink Reply by Jan on February 11, 2009 at 2:35pm: Since it is February and the month for love and valentines, maybe the kids could say some things they love about their country??; ▶ Reply to This