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Reasons to be Scottish…

June 19, 2009 - Comment, Whole School Issues - By: Chris

Pic: SaltireAs part of the Scottish Diaspora I usually look back at the country of my birth with my head in my hands. But it seems that they’re doing a lot right when it comes to learning with technology. Am I being seduced by good PR?

Cute wee jigsaw puzzle site

June 15, 2009 - Site of the Week, Web Tools, resources - By: Chris

Pic: 3120977127_fe44d151d1 - online jigsaw puzzle - 24 piecesHere’s a nice wee jigsaw puzzle creator which would be nice for whiteboard activities. Jigsaws are saved as a URL so can be put on blogs, VLE’s etc.
Have a go at my nice but pointless…

Don’t film your school play!

May 19, 2009 - Web Tools, Whole School Issues - By: Chris

Pic: Image - DavidQuick on Flickr
I feel the need to be mean and uncharitable. It’s been that sort of week.
With a few exceptions, all the videos of school productions I’ve seen have been unwatchable tosh. It’s a shame because you know that…

Fliggo – Make your own YouTube

March 2, 2009 - Site of the Week, Web Tools, resources - By: Chris

Pic: fliggo_logoFliggo allows you to set up your own video sharing site for free. You can then control who has access, who can upload and comment etc.

Prezi – at last, cool presentations!

January 21, 2009 - Site of the Week, Web Tools, resources - By: Chris

Pic: click the imageHats off to the chaps at Prezi for coming up with a completely novel way of presenting ideas in one brilliant web 2.0 tool.

How not to use a learning platform…

December 12, 2008 - Comment, Whole School Issues, learning platforms - By: Chris

I was a little taken aback this week after talking to my sister-in-law who is a primary school teacher in the north of England.
The LEA she works with has provided an LP which is great but she was saying…

Audacity – the update

December 10, 2008 - learning platforms, software - By: Chris

Well, top marks for a speedy answer from the previous post. Here’s what they said…
“We have some disabled (because buggy and limited) development code that permitted upload of already exported files to a…

Using Audacity with Sharepoint

December 9, 2008 - learning platforms - By: Chris

I’m shattered! 
We’re working with one of our partnerships schools on a project with some 11-year olds where they record a desert-island diary entry in Audacity and create an mp3 out of it.
We want to…

Student Teacher’s VLE project

December 2, 2008 - Professional Development, learning platforms - By: Chris

We’ve just finished supporting a student English teacher, Amy Knott, in a learning platform based project around the text her Y9 class are reading, Robert Swindells’ Stone Cold.
The main focus was producing a short

Mini Laptops and Learning Platforms

October 31, 2008 - Equipment, learning platforms - By: Chris

Pic: Advent Netbook (pingpong ball for scale)One of our main strategic goals this year at our CLC is embedding learning platforms in the curriculum. So far, so good. A few departments are really running with them as tools for managing resources and running activities in the…