Curriculum Efficiencies
Step 1 Take a teacher with a passion for ICT add it to a teacher with a passion for English. Leave them to discuss the curriculum for 30 minutes to identify common areas and then ask them to be ‘creative.’ …
ICT
Reflections from within the ICT classroom
Moodle Assignments and Online Marking
For the record, I am an online teaching and learning advocate. I don’t wish to mislead you. So, this Friday afternoon, as I left for home, I witnessed a colleague leaving school struggling with a large, plastic box, overflowing with …
Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning
Just another reason why the skill of learning, unlearning, and relearning is so important in this fast pace digital world. Jeff Utecht We need to rethink how we teach search skills to kids We need to reteach search skills to …
School ICT lessons a ‘turn-off’
We are now watching the enthusiasm of the next generation waste away through poorly conceived courses and syllabuses. Professor Steve Furber Royal Society The article highlighted Steve Furbers quote and as a former ICT teacher, I am not going to disagree …
iPhone Icon
I am sure that the students enthusiasm for all thinks ‘i’ extend to the use of iPhone icons. Given the chance, I am sure students would love to use Apple icons in their Unit 4, Multimedia Products. Now they can. Over …
Lipdub Completed
It took us just over an hour to video 3 full length ‘takes’ and then a further hour or so to convert the files, edit the titles, add the soundtrack before uploading to Youtube. The students were amazingly patient as we waited …
Bait
E-Learning Proverb – The bait must suit the fish, not the angler. It was a RT (re-tweet) that passed through my Twitter feed over the weekend that struck a cord. Thinking over the Moodle teachmeet presenations and looking through my …
Search Stories Video Creator
Google recently launched a new feature called the Search Stories Video Creator. This new feature prompts you to input up to seven search queries from acroos Google’s search features (including Images, Maps, and of cause web search), throw on a song …