ICT Staff Tutors

At a very well attended in-service yesterday here in EDS we achieved the Learning Outcomes for the Google Earth Introduction, in spite of some technical difficulties at the start.
Google Earth is an immense program involving many different components and tools.  At its simplest it can provide a very exciting way of exploring our planet, Mars [...]

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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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Animoto is an excellent resource that can be used in school to create videos using your digital photographs. You can now add text and sound effects, either your own, or music supplied by Animoto which covers a range of genres. Other features include cinematic artificial intelligence which enables the video to be customised according [...]

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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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We have recently purchased Easi Speak Microphones at the ICT Support Section. These dinky little devices and very easy to use and connect to your PC using a USB connection. I’ve used them to record a voice and then add the recording to a Voki and uploaded it to my GLOW page. Great fun!

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Tom Barrett, who has been exploring the use of Google Docs to encourage collaboration and sharing with his primary pupils, has been posting recently about introducing this way of working with his new Year 5 pupils. In Finding their voice he explains how he used questioning, hot seating and Voicethreads in literacy work. The class [...]

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I have been working on the Web 2.0 Glow group and have been investigating Flickr.
Flickr is an online managment and sharing application. It enables us to organise photographs and send them to friends and relatives. You can join Flickr for free and share images immediately. Professional accounts are also available for those [...]

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Most of the ICT Staff Tutors have school holidays so I’m in our office at EDS today alone. It’s my first day back after a nice break and it feels good to have the time to read some of the articles that it’s difficult to find time for once everyone is back and our work [...]

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Sharon McQuillan from Barnhill Primary is piloting one of the Modern Foreign Languages outcomes from Curriculum for Excellence. I am sure you will be interested to read the blurb she sent me……
“At Barnhill we are trialling the following outcome :
Organising and Using Information
I have worked with others using ICT where appropriate and can contribute [...]

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MySpace, Bebo and other social networking tools are widely used by young people – but can they also have a place in the classroom? This Teachers’ TV programme Online social networks – friend or foe looks at some of the issues, including cyberbullying, self-esteem and motivation. There are interviews with young people and experts and there [...]

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