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  1. Links for 2010-02-08 [del.icio.us]
    → Experimental Blog | Tue Feb 09 08:00:00 +0000 2010

    • The Auteurs
      The Auteurs is your online cinema, anytime, anywhere. Watch, discover and discuss independent, foreign and classic films.

  2. Well done Campie’s Swim Team!
    → Campie Primary School | Tue Feb 09 06:52:25 +0000 2010

    On the 5th February (Friday) Campies P5, 6 & 7’s went to the swimming gala finals at Prestonpans. Campie’s done especially well this year coming 8 points away from Law coming second. We won a shield for second place and also the boys P6 relay team and Seth Allan won their events. It was really [...]

  3. Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
    → Mr W's Blogging Great Thing | Mon Feb 08 23:05:10 +0000 2010

    This was our first day of getting ready for the imminent arrival of the HMIe and we had our first ‘war cabinet’ meeting. And that’s exactly the wrong terminology to use as it suggests confrontation and fighting… we expect neither from the visit! I’m actually looking forward to meeting the HMIe team and getting the opportunity [...]

  4. Frightened, clueless or uninformed?
    → Assistive Technology Support Service | Mon Feb 08 22:43:52 +0000 2010

    I just liked this from Seth Godin’s blog and thought I’d share it: Comfort the frightened, coach the clueless and teach the uninformed. Thanks to Jim Burke (ECNing) for tweeting the link. Filed under: Personal, Teaching & Learning

  5. Game of two halves...
    → Odblog | Mon Feb 08 22:29:47 +0000 2010



    Categories: s1 and s2, Population, Environmental Hazards, Other
    Funny day tomorrow, out for the afternoon, which means I'll need to exit stage left half way through my s1 ICT class, while at the same time covering the morning for Miss Armstrong who is out at a subject group meeting. This means I'll have the s2 class. We have been working on Hot Deserts, and I think myself and Miss E both think it's almost time to move on. Last year, I finished off this part of the topic with a competition, so we're going to run the same again, with prizes (probably HMV vouchers). We partly used the GA Dubai resources, the work of Noel Jenkins, and tried looking at Dubai as a desert anomaly- a hugely populous place in the desert- and what lay in store for it in the future. In particular, we look at tourism and designing a sustainable hotel. I posted about this last year, and the designs that resulted from it were very impressive. This also links into a Google Earth activity where the students have to site the hotel. Miss Armstrongs other class requires a wee bit less in resourcing as they are looking at plate tectonics and have a mapping from memory activity to undertake.
    For my own classes, I'll miss s3, who had some good inputs today to discussions around yesterday's video. I have left a little textbook work, but hopefully, technology being well behaved, most of the class should be able to use the 6 million human beings site along with this worksheet as a little extension activity of some of the themes you have been looking at over the last three periods.
    For s1, I feel very bad as this class seems to have been disrupted the most by my absences, through illness or other commitments. We had an excellent period today, where many of the class submitted questions to a group of pupils hundreds of miles away at the very start of the period, talked about our own Haiti work, did the Hurricane Experiment, introduced a collaborative mapping activity and ended the lesson singing! Depending on whether it's a geography teacher taking the lesson tomorrow, it's either pop-up hurricanes or moving on to Tony's emotion graph, something I'd rather have held back on, as it doesn't quite fit with where we are, but is probably easiest for another teacher to handle in terms of content.
    That's the geography covered. ICT sounded like an interesting lesson on Friday. The class were asked to design a mobile phone of the future. I don't know how much direction they were given in terms of this, but I had a chat with Ian Stuart tonight, who made a few suggestions which I can bring into the lesson tomorrow, including starting by rating their own phone. This links in quite well, I suppose, with some of the work the class did about computer hardware and add ons.

  6. National Schools Quiz – Register Now!
    → RHPS: Curriculum for Excellence | Mon Feb 08 22:21:04 +0000 2010

    The Next Generation Learning National Schools Quiz is coming! Register your interest here now! REGISTER HERE Download Press Release Aimed at primary school children, the quiz will cover curriculum areas from history, science, citizenship, numeracy and literacy. Your pupils will love this fun and interactive way of learning. You can choose whether your pupils participate on their [...]

  7. Godzilla!!
    → Dingwall Videos | Mon Feb 08 22:14:10 +0000 2010

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    Isaac has created this fantastic Godzilla movie with tons of special effects ! - and it is our Computer Club's first paper based animation. Congratulations Isaac !

  8. A bit of ego stroking
    → adamsutcliffe.net | Mon Feb 08 22:03:58 +0000 2010

    I got this from The Generator Blog. It does your ego no end of good.

  9. Holiday
    → mrp6a | Mon Feb 08 21:50:12 +0000 2010

    Our mid-term break is coming up. Look out for posts on our return next Tuesday 16th! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fmrp6a.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F02%2F08%2Fholiday%2F'; addthis_title = 'Holiday'; addthis_pub = '';

  10. The Sun, Moon and Earth Show
    → Campie Primary School | Mon Feb 08 21:42:51 +0000 2010

    P2 and P1/2 joined Benny and Jack on a journey of discovery while they learned what children in different places around the world are doing at exactly the same time. Why is one child getting up just as another goes to bed? We all thoroughly enjoyed the show and it made us think carefully about what [...]