Category: primary

Earth day – a call to photoshoppers for help!

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UPDATE: This has now been done by Stuart Ridout – My thanks goes to him and Shelly Black-Plock for helping.

Hey all, because I’m stuck in Morocco I need help making a new background to go onto Safe Search tomorrow. Usually I use photoshop and design a new background.

Here is a link to some example backgrounds I use at current and in the past:
Winter 800×600
Spring 1140×713
Spring 950×713

The idea for the backgound is to encourage teachers to go paperless for the day for Earth day.

If you have photoshop and can help please create one image at 1140×713 and one at 800×600, the image should not have any content behind the search “buttons” as seen on Safe Search.

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Tim Rylands presentation at Games Based Learning

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Tim is a great presenter, sit back end enjoy.

Usually when we talk about Games based learning we expect that children will be the consumers of the game, not the creators. With more creativity coming into the new primary curriculum it will be interesting to see how classrooms:

  1. Become creative
  2. Decide on a target audience for their creations
  3. Publish their creativity
  4. Get assessed on their creative outpu

I hope that within the next 5 years pupils will be making their own games of a high enough quality and engagement for us to share on Primary Games Arena

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Aggregated RSS feed of Primary School ICT leaders

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Want to follow a load of great ICT leaders with the click of a few buttons?

Add this Primary School ICT Leaders feed as an to outlook/google RSS reader etc. and enjoy..

Extended instructions:

Copy the following URL to your clipboard (Highlight the text, right click, copy):

http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F02417534047188907333%2Fbundle%2FPrimary%20School%20ICT%20Leaders%20and%20Co-Ordinators

Open outlook, Click RSS Feeds, Click Add a new RSS feed: Right click, paste the above code

Want to be on this RSS feed?

Get in touch via my contact form

I’m taking a stand

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As you may know I’m reviewing 13 digital cameras with local Primary Schools, I’m about 1/2 way through capturing all the software procedures and decent shots of the cameras but the last 2 cameras have made me lose the will to live.

Stupidly I played with the Kodak, Creative and Flip cameras first and had a reasonably good software experience.

Then I got out the two Veho Kuzo cameras and it’s like going back 10 years in camera technology.  The software is on a CD instead of on the SD card in the camera, the software sucks and requires a restart also these cameras DO NOT actually record HD or if it is HD then it is probably the worst HD footage ever shot.  With that in mind I’m dropping the Veho cameras from the set and excluding them from further tests.  They receive a score of F for #fail.  I wouldn’t recommend either of the Veho cameras to schools.

Turns out the Toshiba Camileo P30 is in exactly the same boat. What a conundrum, at this rate I will only have 9 cameras left to give out to schools!