NQT - the smiley and drunk way

Well, what a bizarre day at the NQT conference! Well, actually only a bizarre afternoon. The morning was pretty good. Sue Cowley led it and there were some fairly standard yet good tips about teaching. And we also got to play with plasticine. Can't take the credit for the one on the left, but the simple snail is mine, on top of the free highlighters we acquired. Oh and there was a crime scene.

But the afternoon... was it meant to be a joke, was he drunk??? Was there a punch line. Who knows what it was really on about. The only potentially positive things I really took from it were: www.commoncraft.com and wordle.net

The best bit of the afternoon was definitely our tables representation of making a sponge cake as an audio clip. Pure entertainment and genius. My iphone came into it's own - how brave of me to suggest it!

Well that's been 24 hours of investigating how to get an audio file onto a blog!  So I have finally gone with drop.io having seen it on another blog I follow.   Here's some information I read about drop.io.  It wasn't mentioned in the blogger information on how to post audio files, so I was a little hesitant, but I searched for reviews and nothing bad came up initially.  Hope I shouldn't have looked further.  Am still wondering how to actually embed it in my post, rather than just being a link.  Will carry on investigating.

Has this worked? 

   

  Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io 

 

Well, would you believe that??????????????????  It did work! So that was courtesy of this friendly video on the drop.io website, where I discovered it's pronounced 'eo' kinda radio rather than 'I oh' that I was going for.  I had to 'embed' which took me a little while to find and then I had to copy and paste a whole load of stuff - is that called html stuff?  Anyway, feeling dead chuffed now!

6/11/10 drop.io on it's way out :-(  hopefully this will last a little longer.
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Feeling a little guilty for being so harsh on the guy of the afternoon.  He was generous enough to give us each an electronic copy of his book and his software.  He also had hard copies of his book for sale for £10 with half proceeds going to Haiti.  Hike up my guilt feeling at having no intention of buying it.  I hate feeling bad for people when I think they've tried and have been generous and are passionate about something.  I remember Mrs Yates who ran middle school arts club on a Friday lunchtime.  Just the thought of it would bring me to tears.