All this new software.....

It has been great using all this new software and doing a number of varied activities. It's been great learning about blogs, creating my own and reading/commenting others. I've loved some of the new software I've been introduced to that I would not otherwise have used or known about in any detail. The latest two I've had a look at and used are Audacity and CamStudio. I used Audacity to record Where the Wild Things Are for the FLE assignemnt I'm doing with Liang Soon. I was really pleased how it sounded prior to passing it onto Liang Soon. This was nothing compared to improvements Liang Soon made still using the Audacity program (try it @ http://fletls.podomatic.com/). I showed it to teachers at school and they were impressed with the possibilities for literarcy. As an ICT teacher of primary children CamStudio is great(thanx Ted). Quite often after demonstrating something to students they need to be shown again once they get down to work. By using CamStudio prior to the lesson the demo can be pre-recorded and after a 'live demo' this can be played (looping) on the large instructional screen (plasma, i/active white board, data projector)for reinforcement/assistance. The recorded demo can also be placed on in the on-line learning environment (myclasses in my case) for children to go back to later and/or to share with their parents so they too can see what we are doing in class. If you want to try CamStudio try this link for version 2.0 (later versions require a licence code that is difficult to obtain)ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/windows/multimedia/video/camstudio20.exe .