Catherine MacMillan my fellow Islay mentor, works in Bowmore Pre5 Unit, which is housed within Bowmore Primary School. Catherine has done some fantastic work using her Promethean board in the unit and I have been keen to get her over to do training in Port Ellen. In light of our success with the Kidspiration training [...]
Entries from November 2006
Learning Together
November 26th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Tags: Managing ICT
Searching and Researching – P1/2
November 19th, 2006 · 2 Comments
This week I have been working with P3/4 and we have been exploring how to search and research more effectively. I believe that it is vital to make sure children become proficient in searching and researching, as this is one of the keys to effective learning. Therefore, we have spent the last couple of weeks [...]
Tags: Search and Research
Room for the Future?
November 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Last year I noticed that the ICT room with its suite of imac desktops was being used less and less by the children. This played on my mind- this was a knock-on effect of bringing ICT back into the classrooms, with wireless networking and a suite of PC tablets mainly allowing it to happen. I [...]
Tags: ICT / ACE Room
ICT for Term 2
November 2nd, 2006 · 2 Comments
A new term at Port Ellen and lots of ideas for teaching ICT, after meeting up with the other teachers this week. I met with Hazel first at P1/2 and we have decided to focus on searching and researching. The children are covering a topic called ‘Things We Eat’ and we have planned a series [...]
Tags: Managing ICT
