ICT Staff Tutors

What a lucky bunch at Hillside Primary! Having won a set of Activexpressions, I was out during the inset day giving training on using the learner response devices in class.
Using pre-made resources from Promethean Planet or building flipcharts using the Flipchart Builder in ActiveInspire are really quick ways of providing motivating resources for children.
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Space Pivot    Climbing    Winners   
Ardler Primary and Nursery held their very own animation assembly to showcase fantastic Pivot animations which had been made by pupils throughout the school from Nursery all the way to P7. The staff and pupils were amazed at the fabulous work achieved by everyone. It really was great to see how CPD for [...]

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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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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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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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We have recently purchased Easi Speak Microphones at the ICT Support Section. These dinky little devices and very easy to use and connect to your PC using a USB connection. I’ve used them to record a voice and then add the recording to a Voki and uploaded it to my GLOW page. Great fun!

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Tom Barrett, who has been exploring the use of Google Docs to encourage collaboration and sharing with his primary pupils, has been posting recently about introducing this way of working with his new Year 5 pupils. In Finding their voice he explains how he used questioning, hot seating and Voicethreads in literacy work. The class [...]

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Dr. Mel Gibsonheld an inspiring and thought provoking session on graphic novels at this years NILE conference in Edinburgh last Thursday. She has worked as a public librarian, and became interested in using graphic novels to get non-readers and troubled kids interested in reading. She has written an excellent resources for Learning Teaching Scotland on graphic novels in [...]

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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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