ICT Staff Tutors

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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Recently I  delivered a CPD session at Clepington PS on Photostory 3. This was very well received by staff and they were really enthusiastic about the possibilities of using the software to enhance learning and teaching that already takes place in the school.
I was impressed by an email received from a P1 teacher only a [...]

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On Friday I was visiting  Hillside Primary School in Dundee to find out how they have piloted the PS3 with Little Big Planet. Lynne Donachie, the primary 6 class teacher, was chosen to be part of the pilot along with St Fergus. She has done a marvellous job of building her topic work round the [...]

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Here at Dundee we have acquired a number of games-based learning resources to be used in the authority. These include Wiis, DSs, Playstation 2s and Playstation 3s.
Following the success of making the Active Learning resources available to bid in Glow, we decided to follow a similar strategy for the gaming resources. An inventory was created [...]

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As I cruised into work on this fine dew-drop of morning, the wind blowing in what’s left of my hair, I had time to reflect on the MIE input at the DCA last night. The night was designed for teachers across our authority borders (inclusive of Dundee) to get together and experience a preview of the coming Discovery [...]

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