Category: Computing
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ePortfolios from xbox
The title say’s it all really, pupils can update their ePortfolio from the Xbox Internet explorer app.
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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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In-service Training
Today we made sure that all of our Glow resources are up to date. This is in preparation for the snow that might effect us this winter. Blog for all courses and make sure every pupil can log in.
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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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Computer Jargon
Computer jargon is hard to get your head round at times. WARNING Youtube videos, comments and posts often contain unsuitable language and material that may be age sensitive. They are out with the school’s control and should be viewed with caution. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/kAG39jKi0lI” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /]
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Free Microsoft programs
I thought I would share this article with you. It covers a range of free Microsoft products (or add ons) that you should find useful at all levels of education.
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1st Generation iPad
I borrowed an iPad over the Christmas holidays to see what kind of benefits it could bring to me. My aim was to look at it from multiple angles teacher, student, administrator and casual user. Here is a quick review of my finding, there are more to come as I have only managed to get it into…
