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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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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ast 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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Aaaaarrrgh! So much to get my head around! My new post as ICT Staff Tutor (Primary) opens up a whole new world of challenges, but it’s one that I am really looking forward to. Having started just last week, everything is still new. I am no longer in the comfort of Clepington Primary School, surrounded [...]

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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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