Renfrewshire ICT Blog

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.
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It’s Monday morning and I have checked the final figures for the ICT Showcase on Tuesday evening.  We have 180 teachers booked with another 20 or so guests including parents and some folks from outwith Renfrewshire.  All the final details should be in place.  The evening will be videoed so we can create a DVD [...]

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Spurred on by Andrews Brown, He is right.  There hasn’t been much around the blogosphere.  The most I have seen has been by Tess Watson which has been really encouraging and useful.
I am going to try to do a few posts over the next week or so on my reflections on the phase 1 pilot [...]

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Susan Ronnie at Kirklandneuk Primary has set up a French blog.  You can see what they are up to here. She is going to put bubbleshare photos (with question bubbles in french) on her blog and then the children will answer the questions in French.  She is going to work along side Inchinnan Primary who have also set [...]

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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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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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