This afternoon I deliver my second CPD session with the ICT Department. Two quick observations. We followed the Headteachers presentation and a Mentor presentation, following a full days teaching and 25 minutes of essential College I was very pleased with …
In a few weeks time our Learning Platform is installed and integrated with our MIS. A new member of staff joins us, focusing 3 days a week on Moodle and 2 days a week in the office working on integrating …
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 …
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 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) …
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 …
This was a phrase I had never come across… our friends visiting from the States exchanged the Elephant for a gorilla, the idiom was the same. It got me thinking…. in our College, what was the elephant? Did we have …
This afternoon I delivered my first whole college ICT inset. I was anxious, I was cutely aware that a ‘technology failure’ would have a significant negative impact on my integrity and on staff confidence. To lead 60 of my colleagues …
