http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk adventures in classroom technology Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:28:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm going to start reblogging here: http://www.geekyteach.co.uk/ see you shortly! http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2010/02/16/moved-hoose-2/ Finally getting round to thinking about using slideshare and did an idle search for "standard grade" and "computing" - only to find FIVE of my presentations already uploaded by someone else! While I really don't mind, it's funny to think someone I don't know has got hold of my stuff! Hopefully ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2008/05/21/slideshare/ Well, it's been a while. If I was a cynic I'd use a line like "I've been too busy teaching" - which is a half truth, but it's more down to not remembering about Google Reader and thus not reading blogs enough. I have, however, been very busy teaching. Computing ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2008/04/20/back-on-the-wagon/ Oops, this blog has been offline for a few weeks - I can't even say how many as I only checked today! I've been v. busy as am doing some extra stuff in school at the moment. The games design class is going swimmingly and I'll write about that soon. This ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/11/18/death-by-complacency/ Finding that I am a bit too busy to blog just now.. Ironically, I have a copy of "How to Get Things Done" Have I found time to read it yet? No I have not. http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/10/01/the-grind/ Line-rider is a wee game that lets you make your own tracks for a wee guy to sled down. Sounds simple, but it's very fun and very addictive. Going to try a bit of design through line-rider. Get pupils to try out levels and then talk about what works, what doesn't, ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/21/game-design-using-linerider/ Common Futures, Different Pasts- Global solutions to curriculum challenge Curriculum is changing everywhere. Everyone is working on developing curriculum, but no one is getting it completely correct. Curriculum for Excellence - a good approach, but is it enough? Common futures, different pasts. Countries come from different places, with different political, ideological pasts. We are all ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/20/pasi-sahlberg-scottish-learning-festival/ Scran is an online resource storing collections of images, videos, text etc, copyright-approved for schools in Scotland. Scribble is the social networking part of Scran. Background- tap into the social networking vibe Used edublogs model - for licensed scran users. All users log in and can store "my stuff". Pupils, staff and home users ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/20/social-networking-with-scran/ At the glow seminar with Stephen Heppell, and will try my hand at keeping up with him.. A few hundred glow mentors here! Why is online learning so imporant? Historical look at online communities - prestel A basic system like prestel was popular. Technology was very seductive to pupils and staff. 94 to 97: Schools ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/20/stephen-heppell/ My presentation is tomorrow at 13:40! At the Learning Teaching Scotland stand! Please come. Saw another game maker's presentation today and it was great. Hopefully mine will be ok! So far I have spent a lovely four hours at the scottish learning festival. I'm home again now as I decided to come ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/19/wrong-day-oh-dear-oh-dear-and-scottish-learning-festival/ Me talk about Neverwinter Nights tomorrow at the Scottish Learning Festival 13:40 at the LTS stand. Hurrah! http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/18/come-and-see/ I've been worrying that I've not got enough notes/materials behind the work I'm doing on Neverwinter Nights. The pupils are not getting notes or getting long tutorials on the application. I started pupils off with Neverwinter Nights today by asking them what makes a good game. We talked about what was ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/03/curriculum-for-fun/ Sorry, it's been ages since last update. I've been back at school two weeks now and it's been great so far. I've started using Neverwinter Nights with the S1 aCfE class. So far so good. The kids are loving it. More on this and other things later. http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/09/03/woops/ I've been thinking of how to use Web 2.0 to encourage personalised study. Here's some of my ideas... Start with for learning Blogging as a revision and progress monitoring tool should be encouraged. Pupils could be given challenges that they respond to on their blog, as well as being encouraged to ask questions ... http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/06/18/web-20-study-structure/ There's a good article on using open source tools in class on Linux News. http://geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk/2007/06/13/open-source-tools/