Creative ICT News

Chorlton Park Achieves ICT Mark

Some two and a half years ago, when I started Creative ICT, my very first customer was Chorlton Park Primary School. This week they achieved the Becta accredited ICT Mark! Many of my customers and readers will have been to Chorlton Park through attending the courses and conferences I have held there. The award is a reflection of the immense amount of work that the staff, particularly Lizzie Wray, the ICT co-ordinator have put in: they are the first primary school in Manchester LEA to receive the award. Congratulations due all round.

Smartboard Training at Haveley Hey

A screen recorder is a very useful tool. You can use it to make instructional videos of key skills, which could then be displayed on your school's blogsite or uploaded to a Virtual Learning Environment so that children or adults can view them whenever they need to. They can also be used to demonstrate learning, for example, make sure that you class has mastered the skill of totalling a column of numbers on a spreadsheet by making a quick video to demonstrate how to do it. As a higher order skill, get them to discuss critically the layout of a web page or presentation that they have made using the mouse to highlight points while they narrate.

Here's a link to a movie made using Smart Screen Recorder

The story of whiteboard safety is not a new one, but was flagged up again lat week on the BBC technology website.