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A wide range of Primary classroom activities, reviews and resources has been developed and published over the years originally by MAPE and, more recently since the merger in 2004, by Naace.
Read more...Direct2U email service and lesson plansThe Direct2U service was a weekly email service produced by Becta in partnership with Naace. The service was for primary teachers and offered lesson plans featuring ICT in activities based on six subject strands. The service is discontinued but you can view the lesson plans in this archive.
Read more...Greenbank School: Using their VLE across the curriculumPaul Williamson has spent a great deal of time empowering teachers in different subjects to use their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) effectively. The successes have become increasingly apparent with every area of the school moving forward rapidly.
Read more...New Media Assessment and the New LiteraciesIn 1988, while teaching a professional development course for teachers concerning the use of telecommunications in education, I had an experience that changed me irrevocably. I had just finished describing the expectations for the final project, when a student raised her hand and asked if she could produce a video instead of writing a paper. The question caught me totally off guard. As I paused, mouth agape, I could feel old thinking and new paradigms chafing against each other like psychic tectonic plates. Watching a video was easy enough - but evaluating it as a school assignment? In the end, I told her that I would be happy to accept a video. In reality I was troubled by the fact that my print-based education had not prepared me for that moment or for the many moments like it that were sure to come.
Read more...Preparing images for publication
This article attempts to provide you with all you need to know about preparing digital images for print and web publication.
Read more...Complete the Picture
An interpretation of QCA Art Unit 2A ‘Picture This’
Read more...This follows on nicely from work done in QCA Art Unit 1A ‘Self –portrait’ The following ‘step-through’ example uses Textease Studio CT but could be appropriately done with any other paint package. Using ICT in Art and design and Design and Technology to develop creativity and imagination.In this article Caroline Atherton describes how she integrated art and design and design technology into a History unit studying the Aztecs, and the particular role ICT played in this work.
Read more...Stimulation through simulationIn this article Chris Hackett describes how children became engrossed in learning as they were presented with a range of scenarios.
Read more...Direct2U Activities from BectaBecta produced ideas and activities using ICT across the curriculum. These can be found at http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/direct2u
Read more...This article reproduces three of the Direct2U activities. The first is a D&T task for Year 1. This is followed by two Art & Design activities, one for Year 1 and the other for Year 2. |
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