Infants can Communicate!

A project to develop communication skills, between Infants in Argyll Schools, utilising a variety of tools, ranging from telephone, digital photography and video, to Kidspiration, travelling bears and latterly Blog. 
Email? …Some can’t write yet independently!  What can be done to motivate?  Travelling bears! An idea with a new slant! Then it grew like Topsy.
“There’s no D on my computer and I need one!”
“You’ll need to show me now!”
“I need to make a capital letter!” Motivation is what it’s all about!”

All primary schools were given Kidspiration, by Learning and Teaching Scotland, and this was yet another way to use it. They photographed and filmed, talked and wrote. The project put the C into ICT at many levels and covered a huge number of 5-14 strands, whilst to an extent, allowing the children to be in charge of their own learning outcomes.  AND IT WAS FUN!  The presentation will demonstrate that learning and teaching with ICT doesn’t need to be painful for teachers either!

Also on Wednesday at 17:00 ( D2E).

Marlyn Moffat, Castlehill Primary School

Morag MacDonald, Tighnabruaich Primary School, Argyll and Bute

Marlyn is a Primary 3 teacher in Castlehill Primary School in Campbeltown. A member of Masterclass, since its inception, she has been supporting colleagues in their use of ICT in the classroom for many years, in CPD sessions and at Authority level. Previous to that, a member of Argyll’s original Macnett group, she continues to find ways of integrating and embedding ICT into the curriculum.

Morag is a teacher at Tighnabruaich Primary School in Argyll and has been working with infants for most of her 22 years at the school. A member of Masterclass since 2002 Morag has always enthusiastically made use of new technologies in the classroom. As part of the Masterclass team in Argyll and Bute, she has been involved in the creation and delivery of central in-service courses for the authority and has delivered CPD in the local area.