Curriculum design and deployment
‘I think poetry should be controversial. It should be challenging, and make you see the world differently.’ (Carol Anne Duffy) Two things struck me about the media coverage of Carol Anne Duffy appointment as the new Poet Laureate. First was …
For all of those schools looking at 1-2-1 solutions then this Teacher TV video is essential viewing. With our IT Manager and Governor, I went to visit Arnewood School this earlier year and must say I believe the video further …
Wow, Google Timetlime. Timeline presents information already available in Google News but organised and displayed chronologically.No more fancy spreadsheets or timeline tools necessary, although the later may still have their uses for non news items. What is more I mayhave …
Since stumbling upon the FLOSS / FOSS Open Source community we now actively seek open source opportunities when looking to innovate. For example, with the exception of our Schools Licensing Agreement (Operating system / OFFICE suite) our main ICT products …
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables …
We were investigating a two year roll out for netbooks to students in September, targeting Years 7 and 10. We are now proceeding with caution as we are not confident that the reliability / technology ratio is robust enough, that …
Now we termed the phrase edugame when trying to decided which ‘games’ were appropriate for the DMGC students. First person shooters (FPS), tend to mean guns, blood and gore are for good reason, sensitive subjects within education. However, discount the …
We are very busy indeed. On Friday we cleared away old ICT equipment from a networked English room. Is this a space for iMedia in College? Do we have sufficient time to introduce this class or should we consolidate? Everything …
