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During Placement
During our Autmn Term Placement, I was fortunate enough to have a mentor that was the schools ICT Co-ordinator. Her role included overseeing the schools technological resources, software packages,...
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Purplemash and Commincate in Print
I just thought I would share these two particular pieces of software I saw and used during placement. Purplemash is an internet program, that you do need a subscription for. Unofrtunately it is not...
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Over the period of two sessions we looked at Games and the impact they can have on the curriculum and learning. It was fun to play with a variety of different games and also consoles such as Xbox,...
View ArticleTelegraph Article on GBL
Have quick read of this article if you get a chance: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/9745664/Mario-Kart-in-the-classroom-the-rise-of-games-based-learning.html
View ArticleComputer Programming
I missed the last session we had on computer programming and resources. Unfortunately I had booked my literacy QTS Skills test for that morning……. and luckily for I passed it! (major relief) I...
View ArticleScratch lesson plans
Scratch programming Lesson 1 scratch programming lesson 2 scratch programming lesson 3 I have to admit i would be pretty pleased to say I created these, but i didn’t…. they were discovered whilst...
View ArticleInternet Safety
I really enjoyed this lesson, although I was quite shocked!! I knew it was important to privatise a lot of your information on social networking sites, but didn’t fully understand the more important...
View ArticleAurasma
In this lecture I was completely overwhelmed by Aurasma, a certain app for smartphones android users. I still don’t fully understand how it works, but it would be really good, to use in school, as like...
View ArticleSpring Term Placement
I was very unfortunate that at my spring term placement school ICT was really under- priviledged. They had turned their former ICT suite into another classroom and invested in just 30 laptops for the...
View ArticleFinal Blog
Well, I guess this is the final blog I do (unless I find out anything worthwhile on final placement). I have enjoyed blogging (although not frequently) and feel that during my NQT year I am going to...
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