As part of the ongoing McCrone work I was doing I got the children to choose their favourite song for music & in drama the Primary 1 to 4 worked with the a couple of Robert Munsch stories and Primary 5 to 6 worked with the Agnes Owen story, ‘Being Sent For.’
How ICT supported learning and teaching
The Flip camcorders were used by the children to record their choice of favourite children’s performance of a song linked to the music work and for drama either a freeze frame or a role-play. These were then uploaded onto Glow where the children were able to view them.
Impact / conclusion
I found the whole thing went very successfully. I feel the children found using the Flip camcorders were not only a very useful thing but they found it highly fun and enjoyable. The children being able to view the videos on Glow gave them a great opportunity to view every classes work and pass comment on something they would other wise not see. It was a great way for the whole school to get an overall view of what was going on in music and drama.
Started with free play, allowing Bee Bots to travel under the bridges and visit different places in town
Mathematics – linked to money and programming
Pupils had been learning about money to 10p so pupils then were asked to write a simple programme to make a total of 10p
How ICT supported learning and teaching
Extended mathematics for more able pupils. Challenging group to write the programme to allow the Bee Bot to Make 10p
Impact / conclusion
Pupils were extremely motivated and engaged and used good mathematical language to solve the problems.
Fantastic resource to use in many different curricular areas next steps would be to link to novel study – visit the characters and places in the book. Then set pupils a challenge to design own grid map and give to another group with a problem to solve.
We have bought some with Tesco vouchers for schools and hoping to purchase a few more and timetable for classes to use.
Children were learning about energy – sound and light. The children created a book and a movie about the things they had learned.
How ICT supported learning and teaching
The children all typed all pages of their energy books and this included using wordart as well as basic word processing skills. The children all then took parts in the filming, editing and creating of the class movie on energy.
Impact / conclusion
Children were all highly enthusiastic and very proud of what they had achieved. The parents were invited into school to view their books and to watch the movie and all commented on how much the children had enjoyed the topic and how much work they had done at home to ensure it was a success.
Intention – I had seen the voting system before but not within a class setting and I was curious to know how the children would react to it and various ways it could be used.
Evaluation – The cards that the children used were great. They were sturdy and of a great size (easy to pack away). The children were able to do everything that was asked and were very motivated when using them.
Impact / conclusion
I did not like the turning point software. I thought it was difficult to set up and I am still unable to generate reports which means it takes me a long time to figure out who answered correctly. My school is intending on purchasing a voting system but not turningpoint.
I borrowed the Easi-Speak mics to record music & drama work related to the Scotland topic we were doing. I then got the children to upload their poems (P4-7 only) and used discussion boards on Glow (P1-7) to first listen to then respond to what children thought of the work they had done.
How ICT supported learning and teaching
It supported it by allowing the children to have the means to record and hear their voices in larger numbers. It also gave them a chance to improve their computer & internet skills by allowing them to upload & immediately let them hear the results of their work.
Impact / conclusion
It made it easy to work with the whole school to record quite a number of poems & songs. The children thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience & will be seriously considering recommending these mics as a good resource in our school.
Alison Burrows
Here is an mp3 recorded by the pupils: The Puddock
Raising awareness of healthy living and promoting the recent Winter Olympics. We also wanted to highlight the importance of working as a team and sportsmanship as well as sharing and taking turns.
How ICT supported learning and teaching
The Smartboard was linked up to the Wii system and which allowed 4 children to play the Wii on the big screen. Children brought in a variety of games and had the choice of what game they wished to play. Included was Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics, which introduced the children to new events and words such as the luge, skiing, skating and curling. This could be discussed back in class and developed into the rules of the game etc.
We set out clear instructions when playing on safety and looking after the equipment and made the children responsible for tidying away controllers and games at the end of the day.
Impact / conclusion
Most of the children had experienced the Wii before and had lots of knowledge on how to navigate to games and how to safely play the game. It was interesting, however, to notice that the children were not used to clearing after themselves and making sure each game was placed back in the appropriate place. We moved this discussion into the classroom on looking after possessions and belongings. The children loved to show off their skills though and were very competent at using the system.
