Transformation Teachers Programme

Tracking our progress through the programme

Entries from March 2008

Take a look at what this Maths teacher is doing…

April 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A Maths teacher in the US is screen capturing his IWB every three mins and linking this to his blog so that people can watch what is happening on his White Board.  Have a  look.  He has also got some great examples of maths work.  Let me know what you think about it.

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Tags: Assessment

Spresent

April 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

https://www.spresent.com/presenter/simPView.php

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Visit from Apple

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

We spent some time today at the CLC with Lara McDonald from the Apple Education team and Steve Bonnick of Toucan Computers look at the Tranformation Teacher Programme and the use of the Mac Books. It was a profitable meeting and one I hope is going to enable us to provide a few more [...]

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Tags: Apple · Assessment · Education · Macs

Contribute to other Blogs

April 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I am interested in compiling your experiences using OpenMind, your Apple Mac computer and the use of blogging for Assessment for learning. The links for these blogs are in the right handside panel under the title Blogroll. Please add your comments. If you would like to be a contributor to the blog [...]

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Make it interesting.

April 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Another excellent blog well worth a visit http://makeitinteresting.blogspot.com/.
A new web based application is called spresent (http://www.spresent.com/v2/) and there are tutorials to help you produce projects on you tube.  Follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXct3YnySH0 .
I think that this might release some very creative projects for students to produce with ease.  Anyone want to include it in a [...]

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Web 2.0 in Education

April 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I am currently producing an OpenMind map sowing just a sample of what is out there and called Web 2.0.  I hope that it will be interactive and help you to explore further a field than the possibilities that we have already asked you to use.  Whilst searching I came across this blog  which certainly [...]

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Tags: Education · OpenMind

Getting your Mac to work on the Internet

April 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Tutorial to help you switch off the setting that you only need when you are at the CLC
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Tags: Education · Haringey CLC · Learning · Macs · Teaching · tutorials

Some Interesting Links

April 11th, 2007 · No Comments

The Educational forum for Comic Life: take a look there are some good ideas.
http://plasq.com/forum/edu/
 Examples of what students have done with Comic Life
http://www.elchemi.net/comiclife2006/
Licence Free Music at
http://freeplaymusic.com
read this link to explain the licence free bit
http://freeplaymusic.com/licensing/termsofuse.php
MindMapping.   think this blog is useful
http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/

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Tags: Comic Life · Education · FreePlayMusic · Haringey CLC · Learning · Macs · OpenMind · Teaching

Convert to MP3 before uploading to Podbean

April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I know the quality isn’t good.  I will redo this next week when I have time.  I hope this shows how to convert the m4a file to mp3.
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Tags: Haringey CLC · Macs · tutorials

ROTATING VIDEO FOOTAGE

April 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Quick Time Pro is just Quicktime Player with a registration code installed so if you open QuickTime, you should find that your copy is upgraded to PRO, then open your iMovie file from inside Quicktime you should have access to the command. I have attached a short movie to show you what to do. I [...]

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Tags: Haringey CLC · Macs · tutorials · video