Renfrewshire ICT Blog

At the ICT coordinators meeting on the 27th of September we had the opportunity to discuss the use of quality inidicators from How Good is our School? in order to evaluate the impact of ICT on learning and teaching.  The document produced by HMIe is very useful for schools to work out where they are [...]

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At the meeting of ICT coordinators on September the 27th, Paul Smyth of RM gave an introduction to Glow.  He made the point that Glow is the new name for the Scottish Schools Digital Network.  There will be 800,000 users across teachers and pupils in Scotland.  It is browser based and will work on any [...]

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The first ICT coordinators meeting in Renfrewshire for this session takes place on Wednesday the 27th of September at 1:30pm or 4pm in the Sir James Clark Building, Paisley.  At the meeting we shall be discussing technical issues with Phil Feeney from ICT, looking at how we can evaluate the impact of ICT in learning [...]

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A number of folk who attended SETT last week were inspired to start thinking about using web 2.0 tools in the classroom as well as for professional development.  I am very keen to encourage teachers to think about using these tools for their own professional reflection and for enhancing the learning in the classroom.  One [...]

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This was my first time at SETT. I will definitely try to go back in future, even if it is just for the twilight sessions. I went to seminars on eTwinning, Blogging and Motivation within a Curriculum for Excellence. I heard keynote speeches made by Lady Marie Stubbs and Peter Peacock. I caught [...]

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One of the presentations at TeachMeet06 last Wednesday related to digital video editing on-line.  This is a slant on digital video that I have never thought of.  What do you do if you don’t have a Mac with iMovie running?  The answer may be editing vido on-line.  This wiki has been set up to explore [...]

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The first seminar I visited at SETT was with Ewan Mackintosh - Web 2.0 (or 5 things in the live web which will engage your learners and why blogging isn’t one of them). The five things were: 1. The web gives your students an audience for their work beyond just the teacher, their peers or [...]

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Started off at Ewan and David’s seminar on Creating Communities where Bebo was discussed. It is meant to be for over 13s but many children of 8 use it. The least used feature seems to be blogs with children preferring to make comments on other blogs, post pictures of their favourite bands [...]

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I didn’t manage to get live on Wednesday but today that is different.  Thanks most go to Promethian and LTS for funding the wireless access codes that allow me to blog from SETT. 
The major amount of my time over the past two days has been related to Glow.  Yesterday we were treated to a presentation [...]

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I gave a presentation to our Educational Development Service today about the impact Glow will have on learning and teaching in the next few years.  It was good to be able to discuss issues of learning and teaching rather than getting all hung up on the techy stuff.
I have attached a copy of the presentation [...]

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