Category: CfE
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End of course surveys
Well this year I decided to take the paper exercise, online. I have used survey monkey and even Glow in the past but this year I though I would give Google forms a try. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/IzgaUOW6GIs” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] I will post some graphs of the results when they are all in
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Shut down or restart?
The Royal Society have published their report into the state of Computer Science in school in both England and Scotland. Here are their main findings. Main findings 1. The current delivery of Computing education in many UK schools is highly unsatisfactory. Although existing curricula for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are broad and allow scope…
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XP Login Screen saver
It seemed like such an easy task when I started doing it. Take a powerpoint slideshow and display it before the user logins in, on our workstations. I wanted to display revision notes on our XP workstations in the Business ICT suites, when they were sitting unused. I settled on exporting the slides as JPGs…
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Muvizu
I was looking for some easy to use 3d animation software, Alice is nice but not exactly easy to get into. I found a review on the register and it took me to Muvizu, what a cracking little piece of Windows software. I confess to not having used it for hours (yet) but first impressions are magic.…
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How to make 3D images
I had to share this article from NASA on how to make your own 3D images with a 2D camera. You will need a copy of Photoshop but if you check the Internet you should find article or two based on GIMPshop. Check out these samples.
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Game to Learn?
A note for my pupils. I spent all Saturday at game to learn. Where we listened to a lot of educators talking about using video games to learn new skills. If you want to check out the #gametolearn hash tag on twitter you will get a better sense of what was going on. Abertay is a…
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Powerpoint Overload
I see a lot of powerpoints in use and I have made use of quite a few over the years, a lot of them are weak at best. I found this article while looking for a way to improve what I was offering. It makes good clear sense and although I may not agree with…
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TV on Demand
There are a lot of TV services out there to let us catch up on missed programming, handy if a part of a show had an area you wish t discuss with a class. BBC ITV STV Channel 4 Channel 5 Sky There are a lot more services out there, however, a lot of them…
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CfE Inset
A brief run down of the day. Whole staff meeting on AfL followed by group actives. Workshops on Glow School Web Pages National Assessment Resource This afternoon is departmental time.
