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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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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The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that the Resources in Focus tab on the National Site in Glow has recently had some additions. LTScotland, along with JISC, has negotiated access to a wide range of reference materials which will enhance any school resources.
Oxford University Press (OUP) on line includes Grove Art online, Grove Music online, [...]

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Yesterday, a few of the ICT Support Team attended an event hosted by Crick Software. Write online is a word processing tool which has many useful features. For a start it “talks” in British English. The pupils can hear what they have written and also listen to the words in the wordbar [...]

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Photostory is a fabulous resource provided by Microsoft. It can be downloaded free of charge from the Microsoft website. The staff tutors have been out to many schools doing training on the programme and there have also been courses on CPD online. Photostory is a very easy to use programme that enables us [...]

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