Renfrewshire ICT Blog

You will be aware of the work of Professor Tim Brighouse through the two books issued to all head teachers over the last couple of years. The more recent book “How Successful Head Teachers Survive and Thrive” was issued to all schools at the start of this term. Professor Brighouse is a non executive director [...]

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Last night saw the GLOW launch in Renfrewshire at Gleniffer High School. About 250 people with representation from most schools in Renfrewshire attended the event. We heard from Alan Wait from Learning Curve about the importance of digital literacy in the 21st century. Paul Smyth gave a first live glimpse of some of what GLOW [...]

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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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 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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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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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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