Renfrewshire ICT Blog

Thanks to everyone in Renfrewshire involved in ICT for all their hard work over the past term.  The break is well deserved.  Rest well.
I hope that we shall have the Glow Chat firewall issues all cleared up by the time schools come back.  I shall update more on this as information becomes available.
Happy Easter!

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I was at Glasgow University this morning following up on some work on moving image education with Philip Donnolly. This reinforces what we have been doing with the digital video days at Lapwing Lodge.
The outcome is that schools can use moving image education very effectively as a way of engaging children in some really interesting [...]

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I have spent a bit of time this morning trying to get a bit of a handle on understanding how the Glow portal works. To do this I created a group and then added a variety of parts. In order to use tools such as web conferencing and chat you have to add those parts [...]

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We have just had two days of schools digital video festivals @ Lapwing Lodge. Pupils from 12 schools have come together to create, from scratch, there own film. The aim is that they use the skills they have learned back in their own school. The days were led by Oscar Stringer and supported by Ann [...]

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Well the phase 2 piloting of Glow has started. We have four schools involved again and ten other staff having a look under the guise of “Mentors”. The mentors have only just got their user names and passwords this week so they have not got very far to date.

It would be fair to [...]

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The DVD for the ICT showcase event which David and Ewan did in February landed on my desk this afternoon. The DVD will be duplicated and issued to all schools in Renfrewshire shortly after the Easter holidays.

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In order to try to alleviate some of the problem with the removal of BBC JAM on the 20th of March I am going to try to get as many of the BBC Jam Pots downloaded as possible. I will then work out a way for schools to be able to get [...]

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As part of the ICT coordinators meeting yesterday I gave an update on developments in Glow.  The powerpoint file is here: glow-update-ict-coord-14-03-07.ppt

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Derek Robertson from LTS gave a presentation on games and learning at the ICT coordinators meeting yesterday.  You will find attached the presentation he used. 
 games-and-learning.ppt
All the links are included here:
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/handbooks/03_10.htm
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=consolarium&w=all 

http://www.capcom.com/phoenixwright/
http://www.hoteldusk.com/
http://www.timrylands.com/index.html
http://www.timrylands.com/html/they-say.html
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/ictineducation/connected/articles/12/specialfeature/gamesfortraineeteachers/flashanimations.asp
http://www.gamemaker.nl/
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/showcase/adventure_author/index.htm
http://scratch.mit.edu/
http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theirspace
http://sitc.education.ed.ac.uk/case_studies/whitfield/pages/pr.htm
http://hotmilkydrink.typepad.com/
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/teachingwithgames/findings.htm
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:2oqatvGsKr4J:www.elspa.com/assets/files/u/unlimitedlearningtheroleofcomputerandvideogamesint_344.pdf+unlimited+learning&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a
http://www.marcprensky.com/
http://www.eyetoy.com/index.asp?pageID=11
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4222000/4222089.stm
http://uk.wii.com/http://www.buzzthegame.com/en_GB/index.html?lanSoundOn=true
http://www.newsgaming.com/press031304.htm
http://www.newsgaming.com/press092903.htm 
http://www.darfurisdying.com/ 
http://www.80soft.com/pmforever/info/uk/index.htm 
http://davidmcdivitt.wordpress.com/tag/using-making-history-in-class/
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html

Sorry about the lack of formatting.  I thought it was more important to get the links up here so that you can follow up on the [...]

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If you have not been checking your email then you won’t have noticed that there has been a problem with EasyMail this week!  Click here for more information.  Easymail is RM’s email system that we use in Renfrewshire for all our pupil and staff email accounts.
They have apologised personally.  Let’s just hope it gets sorted [...]

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