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ICT in Subjects at #TLAB13

  March 18, 2013 - 20:01 |
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My notes for #TLAB13 presentation followed by the slides; all images from Google’s Stock Collection in Drive. NB: I have not edited the notes for this post. Setting the scene: SMT made decision to teach ICT through other subjects. No more discrete timetabled ICT lessons. Moving to a two-week timetable and 30*50 minute lessons instead of 40*40 minutes per week. ICT teacher would manage which departments and when. Units of work would be decided upon collaboratively. A lot of work. Hard to choose a department. English were restricted by having two class sets of set texts. Maths by streamlining and classes following different POS. Science taught two units at the same time to half a year group each. ADT operate a … Continue reading →

Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference in March

  January 20, 2013 - 13:06 |
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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 | ,
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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 | , ,
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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 Evaluation Stamp

  November 16, 2012 - 22:54 | ,
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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 →