Type Type Revolution
It started off as a fun way to introduce touch typing skills to our students but on Friday Typingweb got personal! My Year 10 ICT class concluded their lesson with their usual 5 minutes of touch typing skill development, but …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Lightbot
Another storm has swept through the ICT department. Control and sequencing has never been exactly ‘exciting’ but Lightbot has caught their imagination, and that of one of our Assistant Head Teachers (mathsmatician). Bascially you control a robot by giving it …
The Butterfly Effect
‘The effect of a very small change in the initial conditions of a system which makes a significant difference to the outcome.’ Our touch typing experiment? This term we are introducing every ICT class (year 7, 8, 9 and 10) …
AB Tutor Version 6
Here at Hamble College we use ABTutor as our classroom management software. We have found the software first class, very reasonably priced (considering with have 4 bespoke ICT rooms) and the IT the support excellent. We are now eargely awaiting the launch …
#7 5 Minute Meals for ICT
Topic or Tool: Online Polling. This overview looks at when and how polls can be used. Polls are embedded in our College webpage but there are also web options. We use polls to monitor opinions from students and parents but …
YouTube as an Educational Resource
Look, there are only ever two key questions from teachers when talking about Youtube. The first is ‘why is it blocked in school?’ Good question, but then again some many educational tools are blocked by the educational establishment; Google Image …
#6 5 Minute Meals for ICT
‘Finding the right way to view your data is as much an art as a science.’ Topic or Tool: Many Eyes. A project and website set up to enable anyone to share data and data analysis. More importantly it allows …
Communicating through Windows Live
In November, Microsoft released a major update to its Windows Live online services. The Windows Live suite included updates for mail, messenger, photo gallery and more, I was particular interested in how Movie Maker would work. I blogged about the …