discrete ICT

technology in the classroom

42/365 My students get their own space in school moodle

February 11, 2010
By daibarnes
42/365 My students get their own space in school moodle

Today I decided to give my Lower Sixth students their own page on the school moodle and set them as teachers. They seem quite enthused by the idea. A place they can customise, get other students to enrol in. Subscribe to their forums so they behave like blogs and they can be moderators. Store...
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39/365 I got played…

February 8, 2010
By daibarnes
39/365 I got played…

My class did this today whilst we were disussing something and I had left the remote control software on the board. Clearly the three culprits were off task a little while (my bad) but I loved their ingenuity to use the tools to talk to me. An interesting concept in a lesson – each...
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35/365 Binary on University Challenge

February 4, 2010
By daibarnes
35/365 Binary on University Challenge

All but one of these questions were answered incorrectly on this famous quiz show. I will use these in my A Level class. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from daibarnes’s posterous
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18/365 Assessment for Learning

January 18, 2010
By daibarnes
18/365 Assessment for Learning

One of my year 8 classes working on ePortfolio in Google Apps. Here they are showing one, two or three fingers to indicate to me how confident they are in the current learning activity. An idea I have learnt from our Maths department who deploy a similar AfL approach throughout the department. Posted via...
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TeachMeet Take Over at BETT2010

January 13, 2010
By daibarnes

On Friday 15/1/10, I will be taking over the NetIntelligence stand (N31) and presenting for 30 minutes on the free software I use in my school. Below are follow up videos I have prepared. One in detail about iTalc classroom management software, the other an overview of free or open source software applications we...
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