ICT Staff Tutors

James Robertson has translated Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox and A. A. Milne’s classic Winnie The Pooh into Scots. This Thursday, 5th November, S2 pupils at Menzieshill High School will have the chance to learn from James about the challenges that writing in the Scots language raises.  Pupils across Scotland will also have this opportunity, [...]

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P7b have been using Windows based Minibooks at St Andrew’s PS. They began a project around the book Dark Isle by DA Nelson which triumphed in the 8-11 category of the Royal Mail awards for Scottish children’s books. Mr Laing, class teacher, created a Glow Group for the class to use during the project and as [...]

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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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The Scottish Seabird Centre hosted a Glow Meet for Biology classes on Wednesday and I was in Morgan Academy to provide ICT support to Sheila Herd and her Higher class.
Dr Jan Andries Franeker demonstrated the investigation they carry out on fulmars found dead around UK shores.  It was absolutely fascinating and the pupils were really [...]

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