Primary Bits and Bytes

(Posted by Fiona)

You are invited to visit the ICT Showcase on June 4th where pupils from Kirklees Schools, ranging from KS1 to KS3, are presenting an exhibition of innovative ICT activity .

The pupils will be demonstrating and talking about some of the exciting and innovative work they have been undertaking using a range of ICT tools. These are just some of the uses of ICT that will be demonstrated :

We hope you will be surprised and delighted by the level of skills and creativity which even our youngest pupils can now achieve with ICT. Two of the Primary schools demonstrating recently won national awards for the quality of the digital video which they produced.

We would ask you to book a slot by emailing Inset- inset@kirklees.gov.uk (or by ringing Hilary Stubbings) so that we have an idea of numbers attending during the day, booking information is on the flyer below.

ICT Showcase flier

(Posted by Fiona)

Would you like a set of Flip video cameras for your school? If so, why not enter YHGfL’s Cyberbullying competition? All you have to do is create a digital resource on an anti-cyberbullying theme – this could be an animation, story, poster, poem, song, podcast, film or anything else you can think of. The closing date is 3rd April 2009, so there is still time to enter.

For full details see the YHGfL website at:

http://www.yhgfl.net/eSafety/Safer-Internet-Day-2009/Competition

(Posted by Fiona)

A new scheme of work for eSafety and online research skills has been produced by the London Boroughs of Islington, Barnet and Kensington & Chelsea in conjunction with Northampton and Hackney. The scheme of work covers online research skills from EYFS to Year 6, and references useful resources and websites. It is a very useful document to support planning. The scheme of work is currently in first draft, due to be updated in Summer. I think it’s very useful as it is!

Download the scheme of work from:

http://cms.lgfl.net/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=217174&name=DLFE-6904.doc

 Free Trial of Learning Curve eSafety Resources

YHGfL have agreed a free trial of eSafety materials by Learning Curve. The resource is made up of short animated films designed for use on an interactive whiteboard to stimulate discussion with pupils. Primary and Secondary videos are available. To register for the free trial see the YHGfL website at:

http://www.yhgfl.net/Focus-on

(Posted by Fiona)

I have had problems recently with receiving a large number of spam comments on the blog. They haven’t appeared on the blog itself as all comments need to be approved by a moderator (I’m now very glad the blog was set up like this as the messages were peddling illegal drugs!).

The settings on the blog have now been changed so that users need to be registered and logged in to comment on posts. I hope this won’t put people off commenting – all you need to do is register with a user name and email address. You will be prompted to register the first time you click on ‘comment’. Please let me know if you have any problems.

(Posted by Dughall)

I like this activity brought to us by the New York Zoos and Aquarium site. It is called ‘Build Your Wild Self’ .

It is a character creation tool that allows you to choose features and options in order to create strange hybrid creatures based on yourself (should you wish). Once you have created your ‘Wild Self’ the image can be saved (‘Save Picture As…’) and then used in any number of ways – such as a pupil avatar in Digitalbrain Primary for instance.

Just one reservation – I don’t like the way the text is a mixture of upper and lower case and this would need pointing out to kids, I think.

Have a go! Here’s mine: