Tag Archives: Learning
Video Conferencing with the Imperial War Museum
Yesterday I was at The Marches School in Oswestry. A group of year 9 students were participating in a highly interactive video conference with the Imperial War Museum. The students were split into 4 groups, media, spies, weapons and deployment. … Continue reading
Planning
At the students ICT Conference on Monday, Russell Prue led three workshops (Live School Radio; Promote student voice, enhance your speaking & listening, create and broadcasting a live radio show). It was great to see students from a variety of … Continue reading
Students & phones
At the start of the Students ICT Conference on Monday, Russell Prue (http://www.andertontiger.com/russell/default.htm) asked the students to solve this problem: Tweet This Post
Shropshire ICT Student Conference
Today at the Prostar Stadium in Shrewsbury the Shropshire Student ICT Conference is starting to fill up. Students from all over the county are meeting today to share their experiences and learn new things about how they might use ICT … Continue reading
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Tagged Conference, enhancing the curriculum, Learning, Shropshire
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Work in ICT – Game Designer
In this Guardian interview with Stephen Hood, the chief designer of Codemasters’ forthcoming Formula One 2010 title, some of the attractions and the detractions of a video game designer’s working life are introduced. It’s not about playing games all day, … Continue reading
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Tagged Career, Enhancing the curriculum, Key Stage 4, Learning
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Brain Pop UK (@BrainPOP_UK)
I have been a fan of Brain Pop since I first saw them at BETT 2009, this year we were fortunate enough to have Eylan (@eylanezekiel) with us. BrainPop provided a free subscription as a prize on the day, this … Continue reading
Text to mindmap
Mind manager programs are all over the web ( eg here, here, here and here although the latter is dubbed a ‘concept mapper’) and are a great tool for getting one’s thoughts in order when drafting a piece of work. For those … Continue reading
Tagged Learning, thinking, Web 2.0, web2.0
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Nice Starter Activity for Geography/History lessons
At the Handheld Learning Festival I attended a session by Ollie Bray from Learning and Teaching Scotland, he went through a variety of websites that could be used to support teaching and learning. One of his suggestions was Bing, Microsofts new … Continue reading
Tim and Moby explain Swine Flu
While at BETT earlier in the year, one of the companies that impressed me was BrainPop, you can now find a variety of videos on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/user/BrainPOPUK). Here is their latest release, where Tim and Moby tell you about … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Enhancing the curriculum, Learning, video
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Proposed Changes to Level Descriptors
QCA are going out to consultation about proposed changes to the level descriptors for ICT (amongst other subjects) along with a variety of other changes (http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_22256.aspx). ‘Proposed revisions to information and communication technology reflect the raised expectations of pupil achievement … Continue reading
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Tagged ICT Subject Leader/Co-ordinator, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Learning, QCA
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