ICT Staff Tutors

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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 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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Ollie Bray has posted in his blog about two BBC television programmes he has been involved with http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2009/02/interesting-industry-bbc-new-lives-new-landscapes.html

Programme 1 is called New Lives New Landscapes: Dundee and Cottage Industries
The case study of Dundee sets the historical context of Dundee’s Jute Industry (including the role of whaling and the use of whale oil) and finishes up [...]

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Welcome to the new session for 2008-2009. This year Glow will be available in all Dundee schools and nurseries and the ICT Staff Tutors are eager to support you in implementing it for teaching and learning. Glow is intended as the tool for driving forward Curriculum for Excellence and Learning and Teaching Scotland have sent [...]

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YouTube, although also full of rubbish, has many resources which can be useful in schools. This excellent article, Breaking the You Tube blockade, by Jamie McKenzie in from now on: the educational technology journal of March 2008 discusses how you might use these in schools, and also raises some very valuable points about copyright.
Other sources of useful video [...]

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Teachmeet is an informal group of Scottish teachers interested in meeting together to learn about new departures in using ICT in the classroom.  The meeting which took place on 19th February in Perth followed several successful meetings in Glasgow (at SETT), Edinburgh and this year’s BETT in London.  June, Louise and myself went along as [...]

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Dundee is intending to pilot the use of Pupil Pioneers in Glow; these are pupils who we hope will become Glow experts and promote Glow to their peers. The first group of pupils to participate will be one of the classes at Menzieshill High School who took part in two of the pilot phases last [...]

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Yesterday the secondary Staff Tutors were out at Menzieshill High School to give selected staff an introduction to Glow and help them set up their establishment site. The staff were enthusiastic and have set up a Staff Pioneers Glow group within the school to familiarise themselves with Glow and decide how they will take it [...]

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A number of secondary schools are beginning to use blogs with pupils. Harris Academy have just started a blog for their XL classes, where the pupils will record what they have been doing in class and post photographs of their activities. We had a very lively session showing them how to use the blog and [...]

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Welcome to the new ICT Staff Tutors Blog. There are currently 5 Primary Schools that have a Dc2 Blog and the KickItKickOff Project and Dundee Primary Select Football have recently been added. If you would like to view these blogs you can access them from the Dc2 Useful Links Section. If you [...]

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