ICT Staff Tutors

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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Here is the latest offering for the PS3 console – Little Big Planet.
http://www.mediamolecule.com/games.html
It has “sandbox” potential similar to Endless Ocean, but with a more creative slant. The idea is to create areas and levels for games, using a toolset and realworld physics, that can then be shared and played by others. Although it can be played [...]

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