ICT Staff Tutors

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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Five LTS PS3 Eyepets have been housed in nursery and primary schools across Dundee. Used in the Early Years, the Eyepet is a fantastic resource, being used across the establishments as part of nurture groups, to enhance transition programmes and to motivate unenthusiastic writers.
The staff picked up their new eyepets last week, and even hatched [...]

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On Friday I was visiting  Hillside Primary School in Dundee to find out how they have piloted the PS3 with Little Big Planet. Lynne Donachie, the primary 6 class teacher, was chosen to be part of the pilot along with St Fergus. She has done a marvellous job of building her topic work round the [...]

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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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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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