Transformation Teachers Programme

Just an update really. I feel that I turned some kind of corner last week, not in my skills necessarily but in my confidence about using some of this new stuff. I’ve managed to make a couple of things in comic life for philosophy AS- one on Cartesian doubt and one on Berkeley’s idealism. I probably wouldn’t really use these for tecahing (’presenting’) on a regular basis but they’d be great things for students to produce to show they’ve understood the theories and conflicts between different philosophers.

 I’m  also working on an audio project based on attitudes towards feminism (an A2 module for politics). So I’ve recorded 4 different people talking about what feminism means to them and am adding some pictures (in garageband). I wanted to do it in imovie but can’t get the soundtrack to appear. It’s been a bit of a frustrating few days trying to edit without losing recordings that I actually want to keep etc etc. I feel I now have empathy with media studies students! The final product in no way reflects the hours of work I’ve put in, so that feels a little depressing. On the other hand, I’m sure the students would be able to do it more quickly than me, and with most of this technology I see them as using it to create their own stuff rather than me creating lots of stuff to present to them (apart from a bit of modelling of course).

 I’ve finally managed to get onto a wireless network at work although I still can’t get the mac side connected so can’t upload yet. Watch this space.

 And I’m still not quite into blogging regularly as you can see. I’m not sure who or what it’s for and a slow internet connection at home is a disincentive. I’m not sure if blogging helps me or not. I’d probably rather spend the time it takes to write this just reading someone else’s, but then if everyone said that……..