ICT Staff Tutors

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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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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Well, all the ICT Staff Tutors are back in the office fresh from the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC in Glasgow. The annual event really is a showcase of excellent practice, as well as innovative new resources to enhance learning and teaching. I have to say that hearing some enthusiastic practitioners, has really inspired [...]

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P7b have been using Windows based Minibooks at St Andrew’s PS. They began a project around the book Dark Isle by DA Nelson which triumphed in the 8-11 category of the Royal Mail awards for Scottish children’s books. Mr Laing, class teacher, created a Glow Group for the class to use during the project and as [...]

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Here at Dundee we have acquired a number of games-based learning resources to be used in the authority. These include Wiis, DSs, Playstation 2s and Playstation 3s.
Following the success of making the Active Learning resources available to bid in Glow, we decided to follow a similar strategy for the gaming resources. An inventory was created [...]

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A follow-on from my last post
I finally have the Wii Remote working as an improvised interactive whiteboard! I was concerned that it might not live up to my expectations…….but I was wrong. The interface is very responsive and accurate and the calibration of the light pen was as easy as calibrating a Promethean or [...]

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I recently recieved an email from Bob Hill with links to blogs and youtube videos showing how a digital projector and Wii Remote can be used in the classroom to create a simple, cost reducing, interactive whiteboard. The video clip shows a teacher from Australia setting up and using the Wii Remote in his class. [...]

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I’ve just downloaded and have been playing around with the new Spore Creature Creator demo tool. The tool has about 25% of all the body parts that will be available in the full product. It can be downloaded from the Spore website http://eu.spore.com/whatisspore/creaturecreator.cfm.
In five minutes I managed to create the Bazzaloffogus. [...]

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I have just spent some time researching information about ANIMOTO. Animoto is a web based application that produces MTV-style videos using the images and music you choose. (10-15 images make about 30 seconds of video).
Animoto is very easy to use. All you need to do is upload the images and sound you [...]

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