Learning, Teaching and ICT

Moderating comments and writing the first post:

Just when I had the CPD presentation all worked out I received an email from edublogs!

It turns out they’re making lots of changes. Their sign up page is changing from this …

to this …..

…. and apparently there’s lots more changes on the horizon.

As well as having a fancy powerpoint presentation for my first attempt at providing CPD (along with a printed handout), I also managed to produce something on google docs. I was really chuffed at keeping up with the new technologies – but it seems that what I’ve produced is already out of date :)

In a previous post I mentioned that I was to be involved in some local CPD courses about ‘blogging with classes’. It turns out that some of the teachers in my own school are coming along.

Mrs N is one of those teachers and she is also going to be my stage partner next session. She gave me me this advice:

    “Can you keep it simple … because if I’m going to be expected to blog with the P 7′s, I need ‘step by step’ advice. I’m    glad it’s someone I know organising the cpd session because it means that I can ask lots of questions if I get lost.”

I’ve been on ICT courses like that …… minutes into it I wanted to say “No – Rewind!”

Well, this one is for Mrs N …. I hope it’s OK for John too

He invited me to join the Open Source CPD wiki. I’m providing 3 two hour after school CPD courses. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.

Let me know what you think

On Thursday of this week Primary 7V represented Carronshore P.S. at the annual Ict Fair in Carronvale House, Larbert. Twelve children volunteered to attend the after school event. There were 5 girl volunteers and 7 boys. They all had a super time. The boys took great pleasure in describing how we use web 2.0 tools in all our learning. They may not have contributed as much to their individual blogs as the girls did during the 3 month study, but it was apparent that afternoon just how much they valued the type of learning taking place. They spoke confidently about:

• our involvement with the Voices of the World etwinning project
• our camera club
• the fun to be had creating avatars
• the use of our mp3 recorders to create podcasts to involve parents and grandparents
• the interviews with people from the World of Work and the recording of these using our digital video camera
• our use of photostory3, photobucket, animoto

……. and loads more

They were keen to be the cameramen for the event, too, as can be seen below!