KidSMART website: click here E-safety is a crucial part of the computing curriculum due to the issues and security threats that are imposed on children from such a young age.  With so many children engaging with online gaming and social media it is important that they are educate on how to stay safe online. This […]

Today is our last computing lecture hosted by Darren Savage who works for Publics London with the aim to help huge developing companies such as Sony to adapt to the new technological era. To read more click here. The purpose of today’s lecture was to draw our attention to ever changing world around us and […]

For this weeks’ lecture, I have created a presentation on the importance of e-safety for children. The presentation is aimed at older children to understand why it is important that they stay safe online and how they can report issues that they may find disturbing.  It is important that we as adults understand that issues […]

For today’s lecture, we used a form of video conferencing rather than a normal face-to-face lecture. The reason for this was to show the benefits that these could have in a classroom and how you could easily share content and ideas with others on an online environment. While I saw the benefits of using video conferencing such […]

As part of our project for this year’s model, it is compulsory that in groups we create a google classroom learning environment on a given subject for sacred heart school. I and Ashok Philips are creating an E-learning resource that allows teachers and students to communicate, participate and learn in a safe online environment. Although there is no school council currently […]

“For online learning to be successful and happy, participants need to be supported through a structured development process.” (salmon,2002) Salmons reading on the 5 stages of e-Activities focuses on the development of children’s technological skills whining a socially constructed ad interactive way of learning.  There is a heavy focus on child learning and the teacher’s […]

Reviewing Buckingham’s chapter on the marketing of educational technology it focuses highly on the influence of educational technological trade market that is Bett fair. He states that he feels that while the show provides an insight into the growing importance of technology in the education setting; but education has become a free market that has […]

First I wanted to write about some of the effective ways that I have seen that children can gain feedback for their work in a variety of different ways which some teachers and myself until today would have been unaware off. Quad blogging: Quad blogging is an online community that once you are signed up […]

Before assessing what makes a good school website it came to my attention that I was unsure about the qualities that define this, after reading blogs written by the CSI media group ‘Schools Cool’ and ‘school website’ by Alta Justus it came to my attention that the same key elements were underlined… Easy navigation: parents […]