ICT in literacy
Literacy and PowerPoint
This section provides tutorials, resources and practical examples of using Microsoft's PowerPoint in the classroom.
A grammar lesson with word processing software
In the first part of the lesson, pupils are asked to identify verbs, adjectives, nouns and proper nouns using a passage from a 'big book' version of The Wind in the Willows. In the second part of the lesson, the language exercise is extended using word processing software.
P4/P5/P6 pupils use Textease to produce healthy eating posters
Pupils at Johnstonebridge Primary use Textease to produce posters about healthy eating in an environmental studies lesson.
S1 pupils make a video of a poem
Isobel Taggart, ICT Co-ordinator at Notre Dame High School in Glasgow, is introducing her S1 class to digital video and asking them to make a short film of a poem they have chosen.
S4 pupils write book reviews for school intranet
Ian King of Kelso High School is very keen to promote use of the school's intranet by staff and pupils and has set up a system for including book reviews written by pupils during Readathon week.
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S2 pupils use online scenario to study a novel
Grove Academy's principal teacher of computing, Kenny Stewart, has created an online scenario based on the novel Buddy by Nigel Hinton.
Primary/secondary poetry project using Think.com
Ian Hoffman, ICT Co-ordinator at Boroughmuir High School, was inspired to set up a pilot online learning project involving primary and secondary pupils. The aim is to develop the younger pupils' creative writing skills.