This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the hand held device the Sony PSP.
The purpose of this trial is to investigate the potential of the Sony PSP in the context of learning. In December Derek Robertson (from Learning and Teaching Scotland), Karen Robertson Alicia MacFarlane and Steven Wood (Campie) [...]
As I mentioned I attended a number of Seminars at the BETT show. Here is my summary of the best ones (I apologise if they are not entirely accurate, but I am reading my scribbled shorthand)
Day 1.
Derek Robertson was there spreading the word about the hand held learning trials that he is currently leading throughout [...]
This week and weekend I, along with a number of other colleagues from Scotland, attended the BETT Show at London’s Olympia. BETT is one of the world’s largest educational technology events. It had been my intention to write one or two posts during my time there, however time simply did not allow.
One train journey, three [...]
I have got a lot of reading to do on Games based learning, but here is quick insight into what I think of the Nintendo DS so far.
Santa Claus was very generous to me this year. Following a brief play around with Derek Robertson’s Nintendo DS, I was convinced that I wanted one for Christmas. [...]
This morning I popped out to North Berwick High School. Robert Jones is a Maths Teacher and Glow mentor there. Over the weekend Robert had been questioning how Pupil writing would compare when using a ‘text‘ device to that of a keyboard. The use of ‘text’ communication is ever increasing and this ‘End-Of-Term’ experiment could be [...]
On Tuesday we held a second meeting to discuss the Sony PSP trials that are due to start at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland is leading the pilot. He has written a review of the initiative here on the Learning and Teaching Scotland’s Consolarium Web-log.
In addition to Derek’s summary, here [...]
Today I spent the day at Campie Primary School in Musselburgh. The school will be trialling a set of thirty-five handheld Sony PSPs with a class of P6/7 pupils. The purpose of today was to allow staff to learn more about PSPs and look at the potential use of them to enhance teaching and learning. Tomorrow we [...]
