ICT assignment

There maybe trouble ahead......

It was reported there were tensions in the Dimmery household on Monday evening as mother of the house Laura Dimmery needed her daughters help, as she had lost one of her files saved on the Macbook. However the daughter who can't be named for legal purposes reminded her mother that she was currently revising for a Biology exam the next morning! There was a lot of pleading from the mother, then finally the daughter gave in and sorted out the problem. The mother Laura Dimmery had this to say "thank you so much you have saved my life". The daughter at first declined to comment but the released this statement...."WHATEVER".

2animate hailed as a great success!

During my lesson plan for ICT I made a decision to add the 2animate package as a additional accessible   resource. I have to say the children thoroughly enjoyed the process of developing a character and watching the clip develop on screen. It is now set up as a enhanced activity on our interactive board with the challenges changing weekly. This weeks challenge was to develop  'Wendy the Gardener' a character from our role-play garden centre. The children did really well even adding some flowers to Wendy's hat.

Interactive boards at my setting.

There are two types of interactive boards at my setting, we have two smart boards that are located in the nursery and year one classrooms. We also have two basic interactive boards that are allocated in the discovery room (an area that is used by multiple year groups) and the year two classroom. These boards are fixed and cannot be moved, however they are both at a child friendly height. Although the reception  class have access to the interactive board in the discovery room the internet access is usually an issue. It can often cut out and start refreshing the page on which you are viewing. This happened during my lesson for the ICT assignment.

Testing testing 123!

I love the idea of using technology as part of my lessons as I really think it engages the children in their learning. Today I got some of the pupils to record their subtraction sums on a talking tin. I then asked the pupils to make up some subtraction sums for their friends using the talking tins. It was great to see the children using their own initiative and I was able to assess that learning outcomes had been met through the use of mathematical language.