I am so excited to finally have the much awaited guest blog post by my brilliant collegue Ben Rowe @itsmerowey. Ben is an amazing teacher who normally teaches French, Learning to Learn and Integrated Learning at Saltash.net on rare occasions he even teaches Science but only when he lets me teach French, we have it all on video maybe one day we will share it. You can read what Ben gets up to on his blog:
“I have been teaching Year 7 Integrating Learning all year. It is fantastic. We deliver the subject 6 times a week and it is largely skill based, drawing on subject matter from across the whole curriculum.
For their current project the students are designing a Business Enterprise idea with an ethically sound element to it.
As part of their project I asked them to make a video using Talking Tom & Ben News for iPad By Out Fit 7 Ltd. You can find it here http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/talking-tom-ben-news-for-ipad/id444947784?mt=8
If you click on the video you can see a dialogue between two cartoon characters talking about their project. They chose to do it as a news report. What I really liked about this particular app was the ability to record sound and video separately. The pupils were limited with recording time because I only have the free version but there was a pleasing side-effect. The students had to edit what they were going to say so that it was succinct.
All in all the students had a great deal of fun producing a short presentation on their project. I can thoroughly recommend giving it a go!!!! You can see the kids video below: