This morning I was out at Campie Primary School visiting Alicia MacFarlane and her P6-7 class. This morning I was there to help the pupils use the application CrazyTalk. As discussed earlier this year the pupils would use CrazyTalk to tell a story that they had written in Chapters. They are working in groups for [...]
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One of the projects that Elizabeth and I are currently working on is the refresh of the PC desktops in Primary schools. As part of the process we are visiting the Headteachers and ICT Coordinators in each Primary School to discuss what their preferred choice would be between a ‘like for like’ machine [...]
Stenton Primary School have been podcasting some interesting descriptions of monsters that they have created. The pupils at Athelstaneford Primary School will draw the monsters from these descriptions. The team here at John Muir house have been so impressed with these podcasts, we have decided to join in. Here is my drawing of Lewis’s monster.
I might [...]
This week I attended an eLearning Alliance meeting in Perth. The meeting was lead by Bill Esdale from Techknowledgey.
During this meeting we looked at some new software.
Crazy talk is an application that allows the user to take an image (or portrait) and digitally bring it to life. In East Lothian we have five ’stand alone’ licences that [...]
I had forgotten to mention this in my last post- but it is such a classic example of the ‘Digital Immigrant/Native’ Society in which we live, it merits its own.
The pupils at Camie Primary School were using iMovie to edit their video footage (timing and title slides to enhance etc). Following a brief lesson on [...]
This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the Sony PSP. They are exploring the potential of this hand-held device as a learning tool. Today we were also joined by Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland. Derek has written a summary of his visit on the Consolarium Weblog here.
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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) [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
