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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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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A follow-on from my last post
I finally have the Wii Remote working as an improvised interactive whiteboard! I was concerned that it might not live up to my expectations…….but I was wrong. The interface is very responsive and accurate and the calibration of the light pen was as easy as calibrating a Promethean or [...]

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I recently recieved an email from Bob Hill with links to blogs and youtube videos showing how a digital projector and Wii Remote can be used in the classroom to create a simple, cost reducing, interactive whiteboard. The video clip shows a teacher from Australia setting up and using the Wii Remote in his class. [...]

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This blog about Interactive Whiteboards and interactive technology is written by Danny Nicholson, a freelance educational consultant. Although called the Whiteboard blog, it also contains information about other interacrive technology. The latest post, Biology on the IWB : ten quick ideas gives a range of suggestions from ‘drag and drop’  and labelling activities to using digital [...]

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