Category Archives: ICTinSubjects

Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference in March

  January 20, 2013 - 13:06 |
1 Comment

There are so many things to do as a teacher – things beyond your core workflow. Well, maybe this conference should be one of them? The Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference hosted by Berkhamsted School in March promises to be a valuable day for any teacher for £40.00. It’s on a Saturday so no cover is required. It’s just off the M25 so convenient for many to travel a fair distance to. Despite being hosted by an independent school, the line-up of teachers presenting is an excellent mix from state and independent schools. It is not for profit. The line-up of practitioners is really very impressive. I read nearly all of their blogs as they share their work and ideas. … Continue reading →

Marking work electronically in Frog

  January 13, 2013 - 15:14 | ,
2 Comments

As part of ICT in Subjects, my department is working with the Music department to create scratch games and/or animations with music and sound effects composed in CuBase. First lesson is to recreate the famous pong game in scratch. So, I set a Frog assignment (Quick Issue Work) to all five classes so 125 pupils could hand in their file to be scored out of 3 [0 = no file; 1 = struggled; 2 = complete with errors; 3 = complete] plus a comment. Below is a video of the marking process of one file. Frog is not very good at this yet. I wonder if Frog4OS will be any better at this. Frog4 runs on any device because it … Continue reading →

It’s alright MA, I’m only trying..

  December 28, 2012 - 15:15 | , ,
1 Comment

Over two years ago I made the choice to suspend my MA for family reasons. I don’t like to discuss my family online so only minimal detail is shared here. However, now the postponement deadline has passed and I face a decision of whether or not to complete my Masters in Education: Leading Innovation and Change. Sitting in Ealing library (incredibly busy BTW - hard to get a seat at a computer or non-computer desk – the world is changing) in an attempt to plan the next two weeks work leading to 6000 words of academic prose, this post is to warm up my brain. I restarted the MA in September, convinced that SOLO taxonomy was the most fruitful research I … Continue reading →

Website Sources and References

  December 2, 2012 - 15:05 | ,
5 Comments

Following my attempt to create a website evaluation stamp, I have revised the idea to make a Google spreadsheet that pupils can copy and embed into their project website to record what sites they have used and why. The spreadsheet has notes that appear when you hover over each title to tell what you what is required in each column. Should the column not be appropriate, leave it blank. SImple. Or so I thought. I tried this out in class and it was still not good enough. I printed out a table with these headings (and the notes) so each pupil could familiarise themselves with the process before one person from each group copied the site and embedded it for … Continue reading →

Website Evaluation Stamp

  November 16, 2012 - 22:54 | ,
3 Comments

I’m working on collaborative group research projects with Y7 at the moment. I want to create a simple and yet sophisticated system for evaluating sources used in the research. I’m thinking a little table for each reference used, acting a bit like a stamp to show sources have been considered for reliability and bias. However, I’m not sure where to limit the categories. Here are the ones I have so far: Identify author? Y/N Identify date created or last edited? Y/N Identify target audience? Y/N Copyright mark? Y/N Contact Info? Y/N Advertising? Y/N Can you tell if it is biased? Y/N Does it have reference links to other sites? Y/N Can you see evidence to prove statements? Y/N Does it … Continue reading →