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Plagiarism advice

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Andrea Dunn

Plagiarismadvice.org – This is a national body founded by JISC to provide advice on plagiarism. It includes tip sheets on avoiding plagiarism, discussion as to why pupils do plagiarise and how to avoid it. The website can be found at … Continue reading →

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Clunbury Primary wins prestigious award

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Andrea Dunn

Congratulations to all at Clunbury Primary School! They have won the enormously prestigous ‘Best Whole School (Primary)’ award at the BECTA Excellence in ICT awards 2007, after a rigorous judging process. Well done to all. Tweet This Post

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Useful primary science weblinks

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Andrea Dunn

In todays ICT and primary science course, we used the teachernet list of weblinks which proved to be extremely popular. Especially useful for KS1 seemed to be the Infant Explorer site, which includes a number of riddle-style books which could … Continue reading →

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WMNet E-safety conference – key messages

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Andrea Dunn

Last week I attended a very thought-provoking e-safety conference organised by WMNet. All four speakers reinforced the same messages, which I have summarised here: Most importantly – this is not just an ICT issue – technology is part of the … Continue reading →

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Internet safety advice for parents

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Andrea Dunn

Very good advice to pass on to parents at http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/09/11-steps-to-online-parental.html – very sensible – and its also worth looking at the rest of the blog ! Tweet This Post

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Google Spreadsheets

Posted on July 20, 2006 by admin

We’ve already pointed to a number of Google developments and acquisitions including the recent assimilation of Writely which has great potential in any collaborative writing. Well here’s the perfect complement in terms of collaborative spreadsheet work. I know some of … Continue reading →

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Newsletter from Digitalbrain

Posted on July 19, 2006 by admin

Following my recent letter to schools please see this further update: new newsletter from Digitalbrain which opens with the paragraphs: “These are exciting times at Digitalbrain and we thought a quarterly update in the form of a newsletter would help … Continue reading →

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Digital Signposts

Posted on July 4, 2006 by Steve Beard

Via a comment left here I visited the ‘Digital Signposts‘ blog and was pleasantly suprised to see a post about this blog: We need more of this I came across the Shropshire ICT blog early this morning and it kept … Continue reading →

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Useful – and interesting-blog

Posted on June 12, 2006 by Andrea Dunn

If you are just beginning to explore the world of blogs (perhaps due to the primary co-ordinators update?), you may be searching for useful and interesting blogs to add to your bloglines (or similar) account. May I recommend Lifehacker (www.lifehacker.com). … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts about “content”

Posted on May 26, 2006 by admin

The use of the word content in education has risen rapidly over the last few years not least with the introduction of “curriculum online” and also learning platforms – I feel there are a number of issues about this. What … Continue reading →

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