ICT Staff Tutors

Some of our team attended the ICT and Inclusion event organised by CALL Scotland this week. Held in Dundee, the event showcased ICT software available for children with additional support needs, as well as offering short seminars on people’s experience of making the currciulum more accessible to all, with the aid of ICT.
Alan Yeoman from [...]

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P5/6 at Charleston Primary, Dundee have embarked on a fabulous cross curricular project using Nintendo Wii game Mario Kart as a learning context.
On visiting the class last week, the children were fully engaged in their learning, with a duel taking place on the Wii whilst I was there – under the watchful eye of the [...]

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At a very well attended in-service yesterday here in EDS we achieved the Learning Outcomes for the Google Earth Introduction, in spite of some technical difficulties at the start.
Google Earth is an immense program involving many different components and tools.  At its simplest it can provide a very exciting way of exploring our planet, Mars [...]

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June Jelly
18th February saw primary and secondary teachers come along to EDS to a CPD session on ICT for delivering the Sciences’ experiences & outcomes. Tracey Stewart, our QIO who looks after Sciences in Dundee, Helen Jack, our Curriculum for Excellence Staff Tutor, and I, helped set the participants on an exploration of ICT that can help [...]

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Web 2.0 CPD went very well last week. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Social Networking are very familiar to some people but now also seem to intrigue those people not in the know.
Blogs are like diaries.  Whereas diaries tend to be private, blogs are usually public and are intended to be read.  Pupils using blogs are often [...]

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For decades, modern language departments have found penpals for their pupils, and linked to European schools to help develop language and an appreciation of the culture in the country where that language is spoken. It’s not only in language learning, however, that these links can benefit. Every subject (or topic area) can benefit from [...]

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From June Jelly:
I was lucky enough to go to the annual conference of SSERC (Scottish Schools Equipment Research Centre) in Dunfermline’s Carnegie Conference Centre today, with Tracey Stewart, our QIO in Dundee with responsibility for Science. It was a day that married my two loves of ICT for teaching and learning and Science and we [...]

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James Robertson has translated Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox and A. A. Milne’s classic Winnie The Pooh into Scots. This Thursday, 5th November, S2 pupils at Menzieshill High School will have the chance to learn from James about the challenges that writing in the Scots language raises.  Pupils across Scotland will also have this opportunity, [...]

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Last year I had an exciting time on secondment as a national Glow Development Officer – but now the Glow Team T-shirt is hung up for good! Now I am back full-time in my role as Education Support Officer for ICT in Dundee secondary schools – and loving it just as much! We have [...]

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Aaaaarrrgh! So much to get my head around! My new post as ICT Staff Tutor (Primary) opens up a whole new world of challenges, but it’s one that I am really looking forward to. Having started just last week, everything is still new. I am no longer in the comfort of Clepington Primary School, surrounded [...]

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