ICT for Teaching and Learning

General Update!

March 19, 2006 on 10:17 am | In The League |

OK, it’s been a hectic few weeks, but we’re getting there, so here’s a general update on the things that have been going on!

Work on NTLP has increased rapidly with the league of teachers putting a lot of effort into their areas! Mr Tetteh has developed and area covering an entire Scheme of work for Year 7 reproduction, and is setting up an area with relevant homework for this section. I provided an Inset session with the science department, and they now all have their own area to offer interactive homeworks on the portal. Mawuli is now setting up an overall homework area so the rest of the department will simply need to copy and paste the pages in. It looks like Science are taking the portal on whole heartedly and Mr Tetteh is becoming a man of legend!

In Math, a similar project has begun for the entire Year 7 scheme of work, the project is being worked on by Heather and Ron, and the framework is now in place for this piece. Again, homeworks and SOW are going to be made available to all staff and students, which will make life a lot easier!

DPA’s area of the portal is expanding with relevant lesson links for many areas, and the next plan is to move onto homeworks.

We’re planning something a little different with English, to give staff a big WOW, which will hopefully grab their attention and get them all on board. I’m working closedly with Kate for 1 lesson a week to get this up and running, and this should be ready very soon!

Other progress around college is picking up. Art are regularly using the data projector unit they have been provided with, and are regularly now borrowing a second projector so they can run 2 simultaneously! Music are now using interactive CD Roms in lessons with their new speakers, but the problems with cubase still persist! AND Finally…….MFL are using Podcasting for GCSE Oral exam practice recordings. These should go on the portal later this week!!!!!!

Personal use at the moment is centred around a piece of kit called “Revelation Sight and Sound”. It’s a great piece of kit, which allows pupils to create audio visual presentations using any form of digital media available to them. You can check out a couple of examples of the work produced on the portal, with Year 12, and Year 9. The quality of work is excellent, the pupils love it, and it can be accessed from the Portal to showcase work! EXCELLENT!