Renfrewshire ICT Blog

Today was a joint venture between Renfrewshire and Inverclyde related to a Curriculum for Excellence. The Literacy forum focussed on literacy in the 21st century. Eve Bearne from Cambridge gave a very interesting presentation on teaching literacy.  You can find an interesting article about technology and literacy here.  Andrew Gallacher gave a highly [...]

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The aduio file from David Muir’s presentation at our ACfE seminar on Friday the 23rd of February has been uploaded to the EDS website. If you missed the session then download it and listen again. The quality is not that great but you should get the idea! There are also a few [...]

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Today Computing and Business Studies teachers from Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire met together at the Erskine Bridge Hotel to learn about developments in a curriculum for excellence. 
There were three sessions in the day.  Bernard McLeary, the chief executive of LTS gave the keynote address highlighting the major developments and timelines for the programme. 

Joyce Henderson [...]

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Tomorrow is one of our joint curriculum for excellence seminars with Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire.  The seminar is aimed at Computing and Business Studies teachers from across the three authorities and will take place at the Erskine Bridge Hotel.  In the morning, Bernard McLeary of LTS will give the keynote address followed by a curricular [...]

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Phase 2 of Glow piloting is about to start.  The four schools (Barsail and St Fillan’s Primaries and Johnstone and Park Mains High) will be involved in trying out more of the services which will be the final part of Glow.  This time round the schools will be trying out web hosting, web conferencing, chat, [...]

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The next round of ICT coordinators meetings are about to take place.  Unfortunately the secondary meeting planned for the 5th of March has been postponed until the summer term.  The main focus for the primary meeting on the 14th of March will be Games and Learning.  Derek Rebertson of LTS will give a presentation on [...]

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Many thanks go to everyone involved in setting up and running last night’s ICT showcase.  We had 200 teachers plus a number of other in attendance.  David Muir and Ewan McIntosh gave a brilliant and stimulating presentation on some possible uses of web 2.0 in learning.    The previous posts give some of the detail.
Over the [...]

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The final section of the evening focussed on the importance and ease of publishing online.  This relates to the use of blogs and wikis in learning and teaching.  As an introduction the Sandaig Primary blog was demonstrated.  They are able to update the site day and daily.
It was noted that the use of ICT in [...]

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Ewan introduced the idea of podcasting through searching for typical audio and video using iTunes.  Examples particularly included some brilliant examples of modern languages such as spanish, Dutch and Chinese.  There are often links to a website with the possibility for comments and feedback looking for help.  Each of the Dutch podcasts in “Laura Speaks [...]

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The idea of a teddy moving from one place to another is not a new one.  The interactive chatting teddies project was a blogging project in Argyll and Bute where creative writing was used to talk about what the teddies did as they went on their journeys.
They received comments from across the world.  There were [...]

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