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Gaelic Masterclass 22nd - 24th November 2006
Fiona 28 November
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Last week there was a Gaelic Masterclass in the Stirling Management Centre. 50 secondary teachers attended and recieved workshops on interactive whiteboards, powerpoint, podcasting and digital video. After being bombarded with information they then Read More
Music Technology in Larbert High School
Stuart C 07 November
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Welcome to the first (of perhaps many) posts about the ICT we use in the Music Department. We make extensive use of data projectors & whiteboards at school, and today with a group of S1 pupils we were working on music theory (you know... all the Read More
OSXPlanet
olliebray 25 October
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Ewan Macintosh put me onto this link a couple of weeks ago – but I forgot to post it here. I think it has some great potential for Geography. The disadvantage of the program is that it only runs on MAC OSX and is not yet available for the PC.   Read More
PowerPoint to a large group
olliebray 25 October
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It’s all very well presenting a PowerPoint presentation to a class. But today I have been in Aberdeen presenting to over 150 Geography students at a SAGT student conference.   I did three presentations. One on Population, one on Development and Read More
Interactive Marking (part 1 - with a class)
olliebray 11 October
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I have been doing some exam revision with my Higher class today before their end of unit Lithosphere assessment on Thursday. The class had completed to past paper questions for homework. I had typed up some good and bad examples in PowerPoint to show Read More
Images in Geography
olliebray 10 October
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Colin Borthwick at Dunbar Grammar School has spent great deal of Sunday preparing a PowerPoint resource on the South Asian Earthquake. This is part of our new departmental philosophy to be more responsive to Geography in the news and respond to real global Read More
A New Idea - Map Symbols continued…
olliebray 07 October
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I had a couple of ‘keen beans’ in my S1 class today who quickly demolished the exercise that I had set for them on grid references. Rather than getting them to do an extension exercise from the text book I asked the group of three to fire up Google Earth Read More
Map Symbols
olliebray 06 October
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Ran two quick fire map work sessions using the interactive whiteboard and a copy of Anquet Mapping for my S1 classes today. For any Geography or Outdoor Education departments out there Anquet Mapping is a must for any school. The exercise lasts about Read More
Annotation of Photographs and Field Sketches
olliebray 05 October
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It can be helpful for students to annotate field sketches or photographs on the interactive whiteboard as a re-cap, re-enforcement exercise or fun activity. Some times I except answers from the class and write on the board myself and sometimes I get students Read More
Heimaey Iceland
olliebray 04 October
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Although the 1973 eruption is now getting quite dated, I have decided to use it with my classes this year.  It is a classic example of the struggle between humans and volcanoes. With a heroic effort the people of Iceland saved the town of Vestmannaeyjar Read More
ICT in Geography
olliebray 03 October
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Over the next month I will be using the ICT in Education web site to comment on and share some of the ideas that I have for the use of ICT in teaching secondary Geography. I hope that this blog will achieve three objectives: That I have an opportunity Read More