Monthly Archives: October 2005

An introduction to Game Maker

CPD event January 25th 2006. Venue: STDC Cost: Free to all Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin secondary schools Course code: 52365C Objectives: Delegates will become familiar with the basic functionality of GameMaker Delegates will understand the benefits of registering the … Continue reading

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New NESTA Futurelab handbook – Games and learning

An interesting new handbook from NESTA Futurelab entitled Games and learning by Richard Sandford and Ben Williamson. The book is available to read online or download as a pdf. The handbook makes good points about the potential for learning and … Continue reading

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Online Chat for Schools with Ray Kurzweil about Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

From the Becta ICT Research Network: On Monday 7 November 2005 at 15:00 CET, Xplora (www.xplora.org), the gateway to science education in Europe, is holding an online chat for schools with the inventor, Ray Kurzweil. All teachers are invited to … Continue reading

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Importing User Information

As the new term begins, it is likely that you will want to import new users into your schools Digitalbrain account. The new set of instructions are now available to help you to export the relevant data from SIMS.net, make … Continue reading

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BETT BUS TRIP

I have now organised the bus to BETT 2006 on Thursday January 12th 2006. The bus is open to Secondary, Special and Primary schools. CPD are going to handling booking and have assigned course code 52366C for the event. There … Continue reading

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New DiDA section

I have created a new DiDA section within the ICT Community. I have uploaded the various documents I have which cover DiDA, there is a link to DiDA related websites and you can find details of the schools in Shropshire … Continue reading

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AutoStitch

Autostitch is a great free application that allows the creation of panoramic views from multiple photos. You simply tell it which photos you want to include and it automagically does the rest. I’ve tried it with small numbers of photos, … Continue reading

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Becta Support for KS3 ICT onscreen test pilot

This article was in the latest NAACE newsletter: From Becta colleague Chris Faulkner (Project Manager – KS3 Onscreen Testing Support) is the following item on Becta Support for KS3 ICT onscreen test pilot

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Games in education

The following is taken from a blog written by Mr Mackenty, I have been reading his blog for several months now and a lot of what he says hits home with me, and the use of Games in Education.

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PiNet Library — The Landmark Project

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