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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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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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.
I think [...]

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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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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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