Lot’s added to the site this week, so here’s an quick update of what’s new:
In Business Education you’ll find some information about the Micro-Tyco business challenge. It’s a little like the Fiver Challenge, but they provide each child with a pound to grow through enterprising activities. The profits then go back to WildHearts to support their work in tackling world poverty. There’s a monthly challenge and local school Cargenbridge came second in the November 2016 challenge – well done!
Another useful resource I’ve added to Business Education at First level, are the Clever Tykes story books which introduce positive role models to help children to be more resourceful and enterprising.
In Cyber Resilience & Safety I’ve added some useful links about creating (and remembering) secure passwords. Definitely try out How Secure Is My Password – the results might give you a shock!
The draft Technologies benchmarks now included reference to pupils understanding the concept of copyright from Early level. You also leave yourself open to legal action if you download and use media that infringes copyright laws. To help you source high quality images and audio, we’ve added links within Image Editing and Audio to websites which allow you to download media which is free to use.
Recently I’ve been exploring some of the features and applications available within Outlook 365 and have discovered Sway. It looks like a great way to make really powerful presentations and I can’t wait to learn more about it myself. If you want to give it a go you’ll find some useful links in Presenting.
I’ve also been working on video demonstrations which can be used either as your own CPD or as a classroom resource. To share them I’ve created a video channel within Glow where I am now posting a series of ‘How to …’ video demonstrations. You can find them here; or, click on the Video app within Office 365, then click on Channels at the top of the page and search through the list for the Teaching Technologies channel, or use the search function. So far I have demos on how to set up a Glow site, as well as how to manage the app tiles in your launch pad.
Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a parent helper in school. She was saying how much her son had enjoyed a lesson on coding I had done with his class, and mentioned that he loved using an animation studio package, called HUE Animation, at home. I checked it out and discovered it’s an award winning camera and software package which is very reasonably priced (currently the HD camera is £29.99 and a single licence is £11.99 with discounts if you buy more than one [prices ex VAT]). You’ll find links to their site on the Animation page.
