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ICT & A Curriculum for Excellence Session 4

Kathleen Johnston — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:22:36 +0000

Catherine and I had our final training session on Monday night. We had a turnout of 15 of our colleagues.
this week we went over a few of the skills we covered last week and went into a bit more depth about editing digital video and adding sound. At the end of the session we used Promethean Activote to evaluate the course with the staff. This proved to be very successful – both an effective evaluation for Catherine and I and a fairly enjoyable experience for those doing the evaluation! We did ask quite a lot of questions, and I am sure people were starting get fidgety by the end of the evaluation, but we felt each question was important to give us feedback for future training sessions. The anonymous vote was effective as people were comfortable expressing their true opinions.
Before everyone went home, we asked people to put their skills into practice as soon as possible, before people forgot – this is a busy term and time is precious. We also asked for people to send us feedback about what they are doing with digital photography and digital video. I hope we hear how some of our colleagues use this training experience. Catherine and I are still working on the evaluation – we will post it up soon. Today Catherine and I are working on producing certificates fro everyone who attended over the past 4 weeks.
Session 4 notes
digital video skills list
Target sheet

The hope is that we will cover similar courses on Islay over the next session, covering different parts of ICT. Certainly everyone remarked on the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues as being an effective part of the training. Hopefully as we progress over the next session we will see even more collaboration between our schools.

ICT & A Curriculum for Excellence Session 3

Kathleen Johnston — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:18:09 +0000

This week we had a turnout of 13 members of staff from Pre5 and Primary. Catherine worked with one group to- consolidate digital photography skills and iphoto skills that were introduced last week, explore how to put photos into other documents, import music into itunes, introduce how to take footage using a digital video camera, look at how to playback through a projector.

Kathleen worked with another group to- review the use of imovie from last week, how to import movies from camera using a firewire, import film footage into i-movie, edit film clips in i-movie, view Sat Bance video of using digital video within a meaningful context. Discuss.

Staff are already showing an increase in levels of confidence in using digital photo and movie skills and from discussions with them are applying these skills to their teaching.
Many thanks to our fellow Glow mentor Sat Bance for allowing us to use a video of his presentation on ‘Digital Video’. Sat, we have also adapted your ‘how to’ imovie – thank you!
Training session 3
Feedback session 2
‘How to’ – imovie
We also handed out the Argyll & Bute helpsheets for imovie – link to A&B ICT resources here

Training Session 2

Kathleen Johnston — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:43:20 +0000

This week we had 17 colleagues from the Pre5 and Primary sectors join us to explore digital photography. After an intial skills audit, the group split into two, with Catherine working with colleagues on: transferring photographs from camera to computer, albums, editing, slideshows and printing.
Kathleen worked with colleagues to explore: iphoto – editing, storybooks, presentations, and imovie- making a movie using photos.
Feedback was positive with everyone commenting on the benefits of working with colleagues to explore the technology and discuss how it can be used. You can access more information and associated resources by clicking on the links-
Digital Camera Skills Sheet
ICT Target Sheet
Training Session 2 Notes
Feedback Session 2