WrightICT eNews
Issue 5
Welcome
Welcome to the latest issue of WrightICT eNews.
Articles and further snippets via my website, Twitter and Pearltrees.
Forthcomong Events
App Writing Course. March 26th.
Hull and East Riding ICT Conference. April 3rd
Naace Strategic Conference. March 27th-28th
Write Your Own App Course using AppFurnace
During this afternoon session you will be introduced to app building, and how it can be used to stimulate and engage pupils.
This hands on course will allow you to see how easy it can be to build an app, and the progression that is there for pupils.
Whilst it ticks many a box for the computing curriculum, there are numerous cross-curricular opportunities for writing your own app.
Date: Wednesday 26th March
Time: 1.00-4.30pm
Venue: St Nicholas Primary School, Cottingham Road, Hull
Cost: £49
Programming and Coding
As well as being device agnostic, it has at least one other attractive element to it. It's free.
Courses supporting the coding and programming, IT and Computer Science aspect of the new PoS have been emailed to schools and will be advertised again soon. The email came from Tim Scratcherd of Liberating Learning, should you struggle to find it in your inbox.
Animated Videos
Moovly is a similar product that is web-based, thus providing a wider range of access. It also offers users a free account. Videoscribe provides a 7 day free trial.
Powtoon is another similar product.
Both Moovly and Powtoon allow various ways to share the completed animations, including the ever popular embedding. This means they can be published on your website, blog, learning platform, or into online software such as J2E, where it becomes part of a wider body of work/portfolio and not just the finished product.
Other products are certainly available, but.. too much choice?
Inspecting eSafety in Schools
Click here for his presentation.
Updated Guidance from Ofsted on Lesson Observations
Web Searching Privacy
Apps available for Android and iOS.
To see how your results are usually stored, follow this link. Now you know why those adverts keep appearing.
Class Dojo
Dyslexia Font
GeoLocation Tagging of Photographs and Child Protection
Digital cameras not only take photos, but store data 'inside' the pictures which, if uploaded to a website or social media site, can inadvertently, give away location information. The London Grid for Learning have produced an information sheet on this subject, including simple steps to show you how to turn off geo-location on your device.
For further information from LGfL, click here.
Handy Snippets
Recite. Just type in a quote, instructions or words of wisdom and quickly turn this into a poster for your classroom. Link to it, or download it.
Lino. A free web service that allows you to quickly share sticky notes and photographs online. Quickly post pictures of your school trip, or use it as a literacy tool, as in this example.
Apps are available for iOS and Android. See also Padlet,
No Red Ink. Help your pupils improve their grammar and writing techniques. A US site, so spellings will differ, but hopefully they use the same grammar as we do.
Fixmystreet. Not an education site, but one I stumbled across that shows how the web enables us to do things we couldn't easily do before, especially now we're all armed with smartphones. Simply take a picture of something you need to report to the council, litter, broken paving slabs, potholes...., send the details to fixmystreet and they report it to the council for you. Once reported you can keep an eye on progress as well as see what else needs fixing in your area. One of those oddly addictive sites,
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