Well, using the iPods with two excited little boys last week was obviously a clear winner !
Their faces lit up when we took them out of the boxes for them to use. Both boys sat at the table with their reader and listened intently, then they were straight back to me as the instructions on the iPod required them to "now read to the Teacher."
No real surprise the next day at Reading groups when the iPods were not in use that one of the boys was spied in the readers circle book closed !! not engaging in the group, bring back that iPod we said !!
We are obviously going to continue with the use of this technology in our groups this term, thanks Fran for your help and support !
Coleen

iPods arrive in KB

Back on the air !!
Last week Fran helped me to use the iPods with the Audacity program, it was very easy to use. I read a couple of levelled texts on to them to use with two boys in my class. One of the boys isn't very motivated when it comes to the reading process, and the for the other, reading hasn't quite "clicked" yet, so I wanted to motivate them and record any changes that may occur to attitude, confidence,skills etc.
I will try them out in Reading groups over the next few weeks.
I also dialogued with the boys last week about reading in general and scribed their responses. With Kinder it is sometimes tricky to get a true indication of how they really feel or think about things as they are so young, nevertheless, I wrote their resposes to use at a later date.
Col