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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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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It really was a case of 21st century democracy at  St Ninians Primary yesterday when they held a Glow Meet session to elect their new Head Boy and Head Girl. The potential candidates for the much sought after posts read their manifestos to the whole school via Glow Meet. P1-7 watched the select few, as they outlined their [...]

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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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Let me introduce myself to anyone who does not know me.  My name is Heather Hopes.  I am on secondment from the Computer Department at the new St. Paul’s R.C. Academy.  Last week was my first in my new role as ICT staff tutor.  As you can imagine I am still finding my feet.  Lots of exciting things to [...]

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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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 Yesterday Dundee College carried out their first Glow Meet with pupils in a local school. This is part of a Glow pilot to evaluate the usefulness of Glow to colleges of further education. Dundee College has been created as as a Glow establishment within Dundee City. Some lecturers have been given Glow accounts and a [...]

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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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http://www.awesomestories.com/
Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story.
The Awesome Stories website provides access to a wide range of archive materials, and schools and libraries can link to them freely. There are [...]

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The Scottish Seabird Centre hosted a Glow Meet for Biology classes on Wednesday and I was in Morgan Academy to provide ICT support to Sheila Herd and her Higher class.
Dr Jan Andries Franeker demonstrated the investigation they carry out on fulmars found dead around UK shores.  It was absolutely fascinating and the pupils were really [...]

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