ICT
USE - HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND PERIPHERALS
During 2005 the school purchased a digital camera for each family
/ site. In 2006 the school extended this use of technology to digital
voice recorders - to be used by families and teachers. These tools
are great ways to overcome both distance and time. We continued to add to our ICT tools in 2007 by purchasing 3 digital microscopes, and updating all our computer equipment both at the school site and out with the students. We also purchased some thumb-drives so tutors could save and send in work without constantly buying disks.
Here are some of the uses of the tools:
- Photos
can be taken of students' 3D work, then emailed in, so that the
work does not have to be posted in, especially if it is big or
fragile.
- Students
can read aloud onto the voice recorder and email in their reading
- instead of taping and mailing in the cassette.
- The
voice recorder files can be loaded onto the computer and played
- and then recorded in the studio by the teacher, providing immediate
feedback.
- Students
and tutors can video tape a skill on the camera and either email
in or burn to a disk.
- Students
can do counting exercises (or number checks) on voice recorder
(and camera) and email in.
- Students can create presentations with
photos and video they have taken with the camera, and insert their
own narration from voice recorders.
- Students and tutors can create dynamic
sound poems, reading samples and retells with sound and voice
effects, using the voice recorder. It is easy to erase and record,
even to record several trials, and then send work in.
Here is a photo of a digital microscope:
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