Category Archives: Learning Tech

Photoshop Courses

Learning Tech, Primary schools, Secondary schools, Training

3DMadeEasy are offering a wide range of Photoshop courses between now and the Christmas break.  3DMadeEasy are keen to make these courses accessible to teachers across Scotland, should your school/area have sufficient numbers 3DMadeEasy would be happy to come to you.  To take up this fantastic offer email your location and the course you are interested in to mailto:kim@3DMadeEasy.com  Continue reading Photoshop Courses →

Film G

Learning Tech, Secondary schools

At the beginning of November, FilmG came to Tobermory High School to work with Gaelic/Gàidhlig students in S2, S4 and S6.  The students had written two different scripts during class time on the theme of ‘Hunger/Desire.’  The FilmG crew spent a week working with the students on filming and editing.  The films will be entered in the FilmG Gaelic Short Films Competition.  A fantastic time was had by all and everyone is looking forward to taking part again next year. Continue reading Film G →

Kilninver Time Machine

History, Learning Tech, Primary schools

Our second visitor stepped out of the time Machine this afternoon.  From the clues he gave us we worked out that He was Dr David Livingston.  The story of his visit is on our school website if you click on the link you will be able to read the whole story. http://www.kilninverprimary.com/news_detail.asp?Section=8&Ref=860 

Which famous Scottish character is going to drop in on us next?

SAL DEVELOPMENT

Debate, Learning Tech

Now that SAL has settled in to our schools and has been widely embraced as a platform for sharing, we would like to develop the site to accommodate any additional uses that you might find practical. Please click on the ‘SAL DEVELOPMENT’ post title above to access the full post and then use the ‘comment’ facility to express your development ideas. (Suggestions welcomed from all pupils and staff).

Kilmartin Early Level Class Blog

Early Years, Learning Tech, Primary schools

Kilmartin P.S. has been part of the Argyll & Bute Early Level Class pilot for just over a year now and the experience challenge has been one of the best that the school has ever undertaken. To help share the wonderful learning that takes place in the Early Level Class everyday, we have made a blog to help parents and any other interested people understand what the children experience and gain from this method of teaching. Our Early Level Class is made u of three year old children to P.1, with P.2 and P.3 also joining in at Level !. We would be delighted if you left some comments or asked questions!
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/KilmartinPrimary-EarlyLevelClass/

Promethean Storeroom Glow Group and ActivInspire

Learning Tech, Primary schools, Secondary schools, ,

There is now a Promethean Storeroom on Glow.   This has been set up to help Scottish teachers find resources on Promethean Planet relevant to Scotland and A Curriculum for Excellence. 

 It can be found here: https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/inverclydecouncil/Promethean%20Storeroom/default.aspx or by doing a search for Promethean Storeroom on the National Glow pages.

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Scottish Education Awards – Port Ellen Primary

Events, Learning Tech, Primary schools

On Tuesday 12th June Staff and pupils from Port Ellen Primary attended a glittering ceremony at the Hilton hotel in Glasgow as finalists for the Scottish Education Awards in the learning through technology category. There were schools and representatives from all over the country present and the winners from three finalists in each category were announced by Jackie Bird.  The finalists had been chosen from over 650 nominations, so it was a great honour to have made it this far.

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Glow Announcement

Learning Tech

At long last Scottish Government have announced the way forward for Glow in schools. As you probably know, the current Glow system was due to be turned off in September of this year, but no clear replacement had been identified. The current Glow contract with RM has been extended by 15 months to allow us all a breathing space while the new Glow 2 apps and services are made available. The contract to provide these free apps and tools has been awarded to Microsoft and will be based largely on the free tools that they have provided through their “Microsoft Live apps” service. The more surprising news is that they will only provide this service until 2014. Simultaneously, Scottish Government will be developing our own sign in and authentication service, which will let us include a more flexible set of tools possibly including those from Google, WordPress and others after 2014.

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Rosneath Primary P5/6 class blog

Learning Tech, Literacy, Primary schools

Primary 5/6 at Rosneath Primary are delighted that their hard work this session has been recognised. Their blog (http://rosneathprimary56.primaryblogger.co.uk/) has been nominated for Class Blog of the Year in the Education Blog Awards 2012!

The initial aim of the blog was to share our learning with parents and help strengthen home-school partnerships, but it quickly developed into much more than that. Outstanding examples of our work are showcased on the blog and we take great pride in this. We have connected with other schools around the world through Quadblogging (http://quadblogging.net/)  and contributed to the World’s Biggest Blogging Project on 29th February 2012 (http://feb29th.net/). We enjoy taking part in the 100 Word Challenge and like to read other children’s work before giving them feedback on their writing (http://100wc.net/). Blogging has improved our ICT and literacy skills but most importantly, it is fun!

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Port Charlotte Primary ‘My Study Bar’

Learning Tech, Literacy, Primary schools

A group of keen learners at Port Charlotte Primary School have been trialling the ict tool ‘My Study Bar’ which is a great help with reading, writing and spelling.  This is what they think of the tool so far…

“My Study Bar is really helping us with our writing.

Balabolka reads what we have written and we know if we spelled it wrong and if it makes sense.

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