Assessment, Badges and Feedback

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 […]

What makes a good school website?

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 […]

Tim Berners-Lee: Answers for young people

Summary: “The Web is a tool for communication. Let’s use the web to create neat new exciting things. Let’s use the Web to help people understand each other.” For the Link Click HERE This article which Tim-Berners-Lee has written to assist young children in their projects suggests that the main use of the internet is […]

Supporting community cohesion through ICT: the ‘epartners’ programme in Northern Ireland Review

Summery  The importance of computers in supporting community cohesion allowing children to develop their own personal social skills, communication and technological skills as well as identify the areas of which teachers struggle and how this can affect the teaching of computing. Link: Click HERE   ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Computing or ICT skills that are developed in a […]