Glencairn iPod

We have been using our ipods to help with maths, language, research and much more. It has helped us a lot and has been fun. Please listen to our podcast and tell us what you think of it.

I use Google Earth to help develop my navigating and geography skills. I like to look around the world and see the hotels and countries I have stayed at. Google Earth allows you to zoom in to landmarks,hotels,sea's and much more. It also gives you information about specific places in the world. Its great fun to use.

Yesterday, Mr Johnston showed us a new app called Comic Twist. We made comic strips of famous explorers such as Christopher Columbus, David Livingstone, Marco Polo and Hernando Cortez. We saved pictures from our photo library and added speech bubbles and captions to explain our pictures. This was a fun way to present what we had learned about our famous explorer. We uploaded these onto First Class to allow other people to see our comics strips.

By Primary 6

In class, we all chose a Significant Scots to research.We used Safari on our ipods to get information on our chosen Scot.Some people took a snapshot of information and images.Other people copied and pasted key information into their notes.We used this information to create a personal project.It was very helpful having our own personal ipod to collect and store information.We were able to access our notes easily, instead of having to wait for a class computer.





By Michael, Caitlin and Fraser

We are using the calculator to help us solve difficult mathematical problems. It has helped us improve our mental arithmatic and is very helpful if we get stuck in our maths tasks. We have also used a wide range of maths apps on our i pods such as Times Tables,Pop Maths,Basic Maths,FreeFling,MiTables Lite and Matho. These have helped us to calculate sums mentally and they are a great finishing task.We really enjoy using the ipods to help with our maths.

By Caity

This afternoon I took the set of iPod touches out to Glencairn Primary. In a very quick hour and a quarter the children worked out how to use the dictionary, calculator, create martians and pass their creations to each other using Bump.