Monthly Archives: January 2006
Web 2.0 is HERE
Oh dear. Did I miss something? Have I fallen asleep at the wheel again? What’s this Web 2.0 that seems to all the buzz, and why wasn’t I aware of Web 1.0? What can have changed so radically that we … Continue reading
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testcast This isn’t a podcast yet, for some reason the rss enclosures aren’t working. I’m working on it. DJ
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Enquiring Minds
Nesta Futurelabs are at it again, this time they are setting up a three-year research and development project investigating how children can shape their own learning, by changing the emphasis from what they learn to how they learn. If you … Continue reading
Conference Update
A new letter giving more details about our conference on the 5th April can be found here, you will need to have a Shropshire digitalbrain account to view it.
Talking photo albums
Talking photograph albums are an interesting way to present information. They allow children to store anything such as photographs, pictures, postcards, text etc on each of its 24 pages, and to record 10 seconds of speech to go with each … Continue reading
Primary ICT Leaders Update
At the recent Primary Strategy ICT subject leaders meeting, we were reminded that the Primary Strategy still very much sees ICT as a separate subject as well as a tool to be used to support learning across the curriculum. The … Continue reading
Helping You Implement DiDA in 2006
Taken from the Edexcel DiDA microsite: Helping You Implement DiDA in 2006: Free Regional Events designed to help you succeed.
Conference: Learning in the 21st Century
I am pleased to announce that we are holding a conference on learning in the 21st Century. We are fortunate that Marc Prensky will be the keynote speaker, you can view Marcs keynote from SETT 2005 here (moving the player … Continue reading
Questioning
I have just read this article about teaching by only using questions. This is known as the Socratic Method, I came across this via the Scottish Education Blog – an interesting read. So having read the article, I wonder how … Continue reading
HOW TO USE A SPREADSHEET TO “TRAFFIC LIGHT” PUPIL OR OTHER DATA
Have you ever considered how to make assessment data more usable in an everyday and practical way. A popular method is to colour code data for example in pupil assessments using the “traffic light” approach – so how do we … Continue reading