Tag Archives: Shropshire
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
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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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
John Davitt @ Handheld Learning 2009
Hopefully you are all aware that John Davitt is the morning keynote for the Shropshire ICT Conference in 2010 (March 16th). The video below is his presentation at Handheld Learning 2009, October. If you wish to attend the conference or require … Continue reading
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Ninja/Wizard Text
Would text like that above engage your students, you can type in up to 22 characters and either have a wizard or a ninja draw them. The website generates html code that you could then drop in to a content … Continue reading
SMART Notebook 10 – LA Licence
Many schools in Shropshire have a variety of interactive solutions in their classrooms including Promethean, SMART, Hitachi, tablet pcs, wireless keyboard and mice etc. This can make it difficult for teachers to move from classroom to classroom and be able … Continue reading
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Tagged CPD, Enhancing the curriculum, IWBs, Shropshire
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Shropshire school locations
A few weeks ago Steljes asked for the locations of all our schools so that they can plan the roll out of SMART Notebook 10 training (see details in post coming soon). Rather than just giving them the post codes … Continue reading
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Tagged Geography, google, Shropshire, Shropshire Learning Gateway
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Shropshire LA Software
Just a quick reminder that over the last year or so Shropshire LA have purchased the following software for all schools in Shropshire: Comic Life Podium SMART Notebook 10 If you are a Shropshire School you can download all these … Continue reading
Blogging on the Gateway
Sharepoint allows schools to create and moderate their own blogs and it’s good to see some schools already doing so on the Shropshire Learning Gateway. To support teachers in setting up blogs in Sharepoint I have written a brief guide. … Continue reading
Shropshire’s Virtual Secondary School
Many Learning Gateway users in Shropshire have asked to see a working model of a school’s site that they can use for guidance or inspiration. I have played around with the Virtual Secondary School and made it visible to all … Continue reading
Posted in SharePoint, Shropshire
Tagged SharePoint, Shropshire, Shropshire Learning Gateway
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