Transformation Teachers Programme

Tracking our progress through the programme

Entries Tagged as 'Macs'

Mac Beautiful

May 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

I thought that after Steve’s Video I should include an Apple song so here goes,

and just to show you that people have fun with the strangest of songs

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Tags: Apple · Macs · video

Visit from Apple

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

We spent some time today at the CLC with Lara McDonald from the Apple Education team and Steve Bonnick of Toucan Computers look at the Tranformation Teacher Programme and the use of the Mac Books. It was a profitable meeting and one I hope is going to enable us to provide a few more [...]

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Tags: Apple · Assessment · Education · Macs

Getting your Mac to work on the Internet

April 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Tutorial to help you switch off the setting that you only need when you are at the CLC
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Tags: Education · Haringey CLC · Learning · Macs · Teaching · tutorials

Some Interesting Links

April 11th, 2007 · No Comments

The Educational forum for Comic Life: take a look there are some good ideas.
http://plasq.com/forum/edu/
 Examples of what students have done with Comic Life
http://www.elchemi.net/comiclife2006/
Licence Free Music at
http://freeplaymusic.com
read this link to explain the licence free bit
http://freeplaymusic.com/licensing/termsofuse.php
MindMapping.   think this blog is useful
http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/

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Tags: Comic Life · Education · FreePlayMusic · Haringey CLC · Learning · Macs · OpenMind · Teaching

Convert to MP3 before uploading to Podbean

April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I know the quality isn’t good.  I will redo this next week when I have time.  I hope this shows how to convert the m4a file to mp3.
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Tags: Haringey CLC · Macs · tutorials

ROTATING VIDEO FOOTAGE

April 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Quick Time Pro is just Quicktime Player with a registration code installed so if you open QuickTime, you should find that your copy is upgraded to PRO, then open your iMovie file from inside Quicktime you should have access to the command. I have attached a short movie to show you what to do. I [...]

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Tags: Haringey CLC · Macs · tutorials · video