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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

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Well done Campie’s Swim Team!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:52:25 GMT

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 [...]

Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:05:10 GMT

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 [...]

Frightened, clueless or uninformed?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:43:52 GMT

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

Game of two halves...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:29:47 GMT

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.

National Schools Quiz – Register Now!

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:21:04 GMT

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 [...]

Godzilla!!

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:14:10 GMT

A bit of ego stroking

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:03:58 GMT

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

Holiday

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:50:12 GMT

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The Sun, Moon and Earth Show

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:42:51 GMT

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 [...]

TESS Article: “Them” + “Us” = “We”

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:40:06 GMT

This is a draft of my next article for the Times Educational Supplement Scotland. It’s based on a previous post with a good dollop of ideas borrowed from my good friend John Connell. I reckon one of the greatest challenges facing Scottish education is the way in which people use the third person plural in a negative sense. Listen to [...]

Coursework

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:19:35 GMT

In information systems we did coursework about databases. We had to make our own database and design our own field types and design our own layouts. We had to print evidence out to pass the coursework. After we did a similar task where we related a keeper database to an animal database. We printed out what [...]

Glow – first impressions

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:06:34 GMT

I’ve been interested in online learning tools for some time; I initially wanted to set up a Moodle (although I didn’t really know how – but that’s what Google’s for) but for one reason and another decided waiting for Glow was a better option (although in the meantime I have set up – and recently [...]

Gravity Challenge Southern Tour : Best Team

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:10:31 GMT

gravity challenge : Southern tour best team First Place team Galileo 30 Jan 2009 location Magna / CENT / Rawmarsh CLC school Brinsworth Comprehensive

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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:45 GMT

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Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms - Ars Technica

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:23:21 GMT

Sugar Labs has announced the first official release of Sugar on a Stick, a Linux-based learning environment that can boot from a USB memory stick. The Sugar platform, which originally emerged from the One Laptop Per Child project, could soon arrive in classrooms.

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Latest Newsletter

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:50:23 GMT

Here is a copy of the latest newsletter. newsletter-jan-2010-pg-1

Gravity Challenge : Workbook

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:29:08 GMT

The workbook for last years Gravity Challenge can be found below. We are trying to raise funds to move this onto the iPod Touch / iPhone / iPad with full web database for contextual support, additional info, marking, voting and evaluation. However, the workbook gives a good idea of what was covered in each day. [...]

Gravity Challenge : Leeds CLC

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:15:52 GMT

We received funding from STFC that allowed us to offer 6 weeks of the Gravity Challenge in England and Wales. The first week was in Leeds at Leeds West CLC, and below are some photos. You will find more info here : http://www.digitallearningfoundation.org/schools/gravity_st Additional photos here : http://www.digitallearningfoundation.org/image/tid/92 See and download [...]

S4 Work Experience

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:37:00 GMT

S2 – Morning Routine

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:35:30 GMT

In groups of 2/3, write the longest, most detailed description of your morning routine! Here’s an example: “Tous les matins, je me reveille a 7 heures et je me leve a 7 heures 10. Puis, je me douche et je me lave les dents; ensuite je m’habille….” Try to cover all the following points: get up/ wake up/ [...]