Renfrewshire ICT Blog

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.

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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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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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We had a Masterclass training today in Abbey House.  Oscar Stringer was here and took everyone through a series of tasks and activities learning how to create enhanced podcasts using GarageBand on the Macintosh.
I was at the workshop for some of the day and have blogged what I was at on my blogger account.  I [...]

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I thought it would be a good idea if I were to round up the session with a short report of where we have got to with ICT in Renfrewshire.  I have no doubt I shall miss things out but most of the main things that we have done should be here.  Please let me [...]

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Roukenglen Gala Day,
originally uploaded by Gordon McKinlay.
This blog is slightly different from usual as this has been posted from Flickr. I used Flickr to upload and organise a series of photos that I took today at the Roukenglen Gala day. Having tagged the photos I then used the “blog this” to create the [...]

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