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Entries from June 2007

Planning for Implementation

June 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Glow Messenger – Success,
originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.
We spent a busy afternoon this week with staff from RM putting in place the plans that will allow us to implement Glow as early in the new session as possible. This was a very productive afternoon and I feel that we have now got all [...]

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Tags: ACfE · Curriculum for Excellence · EasyMail · GLOW · ICT · IT · education · email · glowscotland

Is there anybody out there?

June 19th, 2007 · No Comments

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Day 170 – Is there anybody out there?, originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.

I have now managed to get round to trying out some more aspects of the Glow phase 3 pilot. I was keen to try [...]

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Games Design and Learning with Gamemaker

June 8th, 2007 · No Comments

 Renfrewshire Council is currently participating in the LT scotland computer games design pilot programme organised by Derek Robertson and the Consolarium based in Dundee.  I was given the opportunitry, along with colleagues from both Primary and Secondary schools, to explore Gamemaker.  Gamemaker allows you to begin creating games almost immediately, using a simple drag-and-drop system [...]

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Tags: "Derek Robertson" · ACfE · Curriculum for Excellence · LTS · Renfrewshire · computing · education · games · learning