Renfrewshire ICT Blog

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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Since I took over my new post as acting senior adviser I have not had much time to do anything with the ICT blog.  I am now taking matters in hand.  Our new staff tutor, Steven Wilson, is about to take it over so that schools in Renfrewshire can stay up to date with what [...]

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Today Computing and Business Studies teachers from Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire met together at the Erskine Bridge Hotel to learn about developments in a curriculum for excellence. 
There were three sessions in the day.  Bernard McLeary, the chief executive of LTS gave the keynote address highlighting the major developments and timelines for the programme. 

Joyce Henderson [...]

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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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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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An article on the BBC website highlights a report about a study of the use of interactive whiteboards inLondon schools.  The report highlights concerns that investment in the boards has not resulted in any measureable improvement in learning and teaching.
If you are spending money on new boards to be installed before the end of this [...]

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I spent the day yesterday in Dunkeld finding out about the new SmartBoard models from Steljes. The presentations also included a look at new EDAs (educational digital assitants – a PDA that doesn’t break as easily) and interactive voting systems.
The new boards don’t look a whole lot different to what is typically going in to [...]

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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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Things are moving on apace.  I had the chance to see a demo of the SSDN portal yesterday (although it’s not going to be called SSDN).  The interface is nice a nd clean and has a lot of good customisation features.  The tools which are going to be in the first version look a lot [...]

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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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