Todays twilight session

The session this evening went well as much as it helped me to decide on my activity for the lesson we have to give using ICT. After making a power point and adding sounds etc I decided to ditch that(can use it again) and do a photo story with the kids re Romans using photos they have taken there is a twist but cant say what it is??? Had fun tonight adding sounds and narration although I hate the way my voice sounds. Photo story looks cool haven't used it before than I can recall so perhaps I'm being foolish using something I'm unfamiliar with but I am soooo sick of power point!

Frustrated!!

Spam again arrrgh!! this is like the Trueman show is everybody laughing at me?? ICT in work at the moment is soooo annoying. Having been told that now we are on the county's network and can access all of their ICT goodies I have annoyingly tried and tried again to access clicker and 2 diy, 2 simple and textease with no luck it seems I will have to hi-light programmes I want to use and inform ICT who will then install them when they have the time. So no goodies as yet but I am ever the optimist and will keep nagging as I am bored with microsoft and want to use these things before I forget how.

Textease - please

Well it's a miracle! 1st time ever that when logging into my blog I wasn't greeted by a spam warning!

College session on Wed was great hadn't used textease before and was impressed by how user friendly it is. Went into school the following day and was told "oh yes we do have textease 2000 and I have the upgrade, but don't let the children use it " why? I asked, well apparently as we use microsoft, introducing a new package will confuse the pupils !!!!!

Given that it is children we are talking about and as we all know children these days use numerous games consoles,mobile phones,lap tops without confusing one with the other . Surely we should make the jacket to fit the kids not the other way round !!

Good website with nice resources :http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk there are some good links off also and the link below for literacy is great check out fairytale land.

http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacyresources/index.php?category_id=2

I'M NOT SPAM!!!!

Well surprise surprise I'm spam again, have requested a review again, lost count of how many times this has happened, bored now.!!!! Well my teacher has been off ill since last Thursday so have been helping to cover the class, so have used the interactive white board for literacy, and geography having the pupils sequence stories and write on the names of the oceans on a world map. Used Percy Parker as a warm up for teaching times tables the pupils love it especially when I SING!
Also mixed up group reading with bottom group who I usually play word games or use flash cards, they have been enjoying using starfall which is excellent; bright, colourful with a variety of activities at different levels great for the bottom group as a change.

Lots of goodies to share

Hooray Im back on, someone at Blogger is determined to bin me as spam, cheeky buggers suspened me for a while but hey Im back!!

Our school has recently joined the county schools network for ICT so we can now access software that other schools have like; clicker, 2 diy and 2 animate. We can also access lots of resources that are used successfully in other schools and they us which is excellent cant wait to have a nose around. Sharing is good!!!