Management of the project: Transcript
Female teacher: I take it home and I played it I think every night [laughs] for about a week until I got down to 20 [laughs]. And just, just put into it to see all the different things, the options that were available. But if you just play, if you just play it yourself and it’s so good, just play it yourself, you get into it and that’s how you learn. No, it’s not been difficult at all, I wouldn’t say it’s been difficult at all. The Nintendos, they were put in packets, they were labelled, headphones were put in with them. They go in the filing cabinet, they get locked, I’ve have a set of keys and I attached them to a whistle, I wear them round my neck. And I was hopeless at putting them down and things so I nominate a class monitor each day to wear the keys. It went great, no problems. They go in, and you saw them going in this morning, they go in, they take the Nintendos out, they hand them out and sit down. They know what to do, they switch them on. I mean, I don’t really need to do anything. I just say, "Right, four people go and take them out."
We were going to charge them but the children have been fantastic, and Dan in my class he has been a huge help at charging them. I mean, the children actually just go through, if they need charging one night they go through, I think it was every two weeks we charged them, they went through and they plugged it all in and they set them all to charge. And they put all the packets there and the next day they would come in, unplug them, put the chargers away, and hand out the packets and hand out the Nintendos. Simple.
Any teacher, any teacher. I actually gave … my dad’s a secondary teacher and he’s in his fifties and he came round and he was, "Oh, I’ll have a look it," and he managed it, no problem.
Male: Well I think initially an NQT teacher was in the class. We were a wee bit worried that somebody out in their first year would maybe struggle with the management of putting something together like this, even though it was going to only involve maybe twenty-five minutes to half an hour the first morning, on a daily basis. But I think because group leaders were set up, then NQT teacher involved, Gillian, involved in it, was very positive about it. Groups were set up, group leaders were set up, they changed on a weekly basis, so everybody had the responsibility of taking care of the Nintendo units and the games that were there, and it worked really without any thought process behind it.