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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Janice our P3/4 teacher is just back from an inservice course. She was learning all about ‘Kidspiration’ software – the company describes it as  ‘the visual way to think, write and comprehend’. This software has been on our macs for about 18 months now and I am ashamed to admit that apart from the odd [...]

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This week saw about three years of hard work and planning eventually slot into place. All the ICT equipment we have scrimped and saved for, begged and borrowed is eventually up and running in the classroom -hurray! Each class now has an interactive whiteboard, digital projector, PC laptop for the whiteboard and digital stills camera. [...]

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On Tuesday I had my first stab at team teaching ICT with colleagues and it was great! We started off in the morning with P1/2 working on our PC tablets. We put the children into groups of three and each group was supported by a P6/7 ‘buddy’. The buddy supported their wee group to start [...]

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As I am mentoring a probationer this year I do not have a class full time. With this in mind our staff thought about how we could make best use of my time. Last year I covered McCrone hours and during that time I taught ICT. However, this meant that class teachers were leaving new [...]

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