Friday, 10 September 2010
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
New Timetable Widget
This is an overview of the timetable widget developed at Cramlington Learning Village. What a really like about this is that we have designed it to link back to the department home page so staff and students have instant access to the days learning resources.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
FROG Widgets at Cramlington Learning Village
Here are a few of the FROG VLE widgets that have been made by the team here at Cramlington Learning Village.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Hi-tech invention helps learning take a leap forward
Our FROG Awareness Day attracted some media interest!
Friday, 25 September 2009
Google Wave Embed API
Hi Folks here is my first attempt at embedding a google wave into our school FROG platform. Unfortunately I could not use the embed API in a FROG HTML brick but managed to embed it on a page on our intranet that I then embedded into a scroll frame brick in FROG. This ScreenFlow (screencast) shows the realtime updates from the embed to the wave web page.
I am really looking forward to playing more with this and testing on schools Edu Apps.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Classroom Management for the 21st Century
I find it interesting to hear staff blame technology for the fact that students are off task, yes it is easy to access a flash game or a social network despite the various blocks around sites but I do feel that we need to have a change in attitude towards the way we manage classrooms that are ever increasingly littered with technology.
I have two different strands to consider;
Educating our students to make the right choice.
Sending an instant message is the same as passing a note under the table or whispering to the person sitting next to you. Let us not forget that we are supposed to be preparing these young people for the big wild world. What happens when they go to work and as soon as the boss has turned his back they log on to facebook to check what their mates are doing? In a world where industry are using social networks to generate revenue, receive customer feedback, advertising etc… we need to empower our students with the tools necessary to effectively use these platforms. We try to teach responsibility but block sites that students might choose to use for an educational purpose.
Changing the way teachers manage their classrooms.
I regularly ask students to turn their monitors out in to the classroom rather than hide behind them. All too often I find colleagues frustrated with students who they allow to hide behind their ‘work’.
Are we making good use of monitoring technology?
I use RM tutor or NetSupport to monitor children’s onscreen activities whilst freezing the project image for my IWB thus enabling the display of learning outcomes or activity instructions and making the teacher PC an at a glance overview of all student computers.
All too often young people assume that because it is online no one will know or will be watching. Fortunately for us we have access to monitoring systems that pick up all “naughty” languages and phrases and can be on the case before students log off. Though I don’t want our students not to post because of the trouble they will get in but because of the understanding that it is the wrong thing to do.
How we get there I am not sure yet, but I think we will have to start by making examples of those who choose to abuse the system and train them that Online behaviours have offline consequences.
I have two different strands to consider;
Educating our students to make the right choice.
Sending an instant message is the same as passing a note under the table or whispering to the person sitting next to you. Let us not forget that we are supposed to be preparing these young people for the big wild world. What happens when they go to work and as soon as the boss has turned his back they log on to facebook to check what their mates are doing? In a world where industry are using social networks to generate revenue, receive customer feedback, advertising etc… we need to empower our students with the tools necessary to effectively use these platforms. We try to teach responsibility but block sites that students might choose to use for an educational purpose.
Changing the way teachers manage their classrooms.
I regularly ask students to turn their monitors out in to the classroom rather than hide behind them. All too often I find colleagues frustrated with students who they allow to hide behind their ‘work’.
Are we making good use of monitoring technology?
I use RM tutor or NetSupport to monitor children’s onscreen activities whilst freezing the project image for my IWB thus enabling the display of learning outcomes or activity instructions and making the teacher PC an at a glance overview of all student computers.
All too often young people assume that because it is online no one will know or will be watching. Fortunately for us we have access to monitoring systems that pick up all “naughty” languages and phrases and can be on the case before students log off. Though I don’t want our students not to post because of the trouble they will get in but because of the understanding that it is the wrong thing to do.
How we get there I am not sure yet, but I think we will have to start by making examples of those who choose to abuse the system and train them that Online behaviours have offline consequences.
Monday, 8 June 2009
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