Technology, teaching and teachnology
With exams data being prepared for tomorrow, I thought it was a good time to set out the new targets for 09-10. We still need to mature existing projects but most also look forward to future innovations and opportunities. We have a new …
Just what will potential will be realised with a new ‘hands free’ controller within the games industry is unknown, but my immediate thoughts turned to education, PE in particularly. With the infrared cameras and motion sensers detecting the movement of …
Yesterday we took 2 collaborative IT proposals to Edict. This first was a small collaborative IT Network Group open to all schools with contributions primarily from Network Managers, lead technicians but also other interested IT staff (VLE and Sims Managers). …
Unit 1, Assessment Outcome 2 covers both internet and email. I am often surprised that ‘young people’ who are supposed to be digitally connected, don’t know how to find the information they need, more efficiently and accurately. Almost all the …
Working with a wide range of students, I have always been impressed by those students who find solutions to the own learning barriers. I have recently been signposted to www.eduapps,org. JISC provide a range of small application solutions to support …
If you have not seen Windows 7 its worth asking one of the technicians to find an old (yes old) PC and testing it. We have a test PC in our annex / side office. Its running on a Pentinum 4 with a 1GB of RAM …
I don’t think Russell Prue ICT Evanglists needs an introduction. He spoke recently at the EdICT Harnessing New Technologies Day and here are my takeaway messages. First it was nice to see Russell deal with a small technology fault with …
A gentle reminder during a Russel Prue presentation and I was again curious about QR codes. Whilst Russell enthused about tags or Zxing ( pronounce zebra crossing) I was reminded of the Microsoft Tag technology I had not got around …
