Creating a 'talking book'

Friokenheim Primary nursery class are using Microsoft PowerPoint as part of their talking book project. The outcome of the project will be a presentation on the interactive whiteboard and a book with an accompanying CD. To create the book pupils take home the class ‘friend’ Eeyore. The school provides them with a digital camera and in turns they can take pictures of Eeyore’s adventures. Back in the class they are assisted by the teacher, Karen Kennedy, and P6 pupils from the school, who regularly work with the children in the nursery class, to add captions to the photographs and record their voices in PowerPoint.

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Karen studied at the University and has been teaching for seven years. Karen is the school’s ICT co-ordinator and uses ICT extensively in her teaching. She attended Masterclass and has had training in the use of the interactive whiteboard; otherwise, her ICT skills are self-taught.

Karen is just starting a year’s secondment as an ICT tutor with Angus Council.

Friockheim Primary School, just north of Arbroath, has 168 pupils from a largely rural catchment area. 10 pupils have free school lunches; no pupils are recorded as having special educational needs and there are no pupils speaking English as a second language. 

The nursery class has 20 pupils in the morning and seven in the afternoon. In terms of ICT, they can use two computers, programmable toys, a digital microscope, a digital video camera and an interactive whiteboard.

Karen is the school’s ICT co-ordinator. Staff are able to do New Opportunities Fund (NOF) training. Local authority (Angus) training is available in the use of digital imaging and the interactive whiteboard. 

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