Dear Colleagues,
The term is nearly over and the goose –or vegetarian equivalent- is getting fat etc...
The last few weeks have been very busy and a few things have built up so rather than send out in a number of emails I’ve compacted them into one big bumper one....
First the Blogging Course run by Jack at Ferry Lane is taking place at the PDC on 18th January. Please do book yourself in. Blogging is inspiring children to write and Jack’s course is ideal for getting you up and running. If you’d like to book go to www.cpdharingey.com
Don’t forget BETT -11th -14th January 2012! I’ll be going down on 11th Send me an email or text me on 07870122959 if you’re heading down there.
I’m attending the Learning Without Frontiers conference in London on 25th and 26th January (I’m getting an LGfL discounted ticket that sadly doesn’t come with an Ipad before you ask). If you can persuade your HT to allow you out then it should be spectacular, the line up of speakers includes some fantastically innovative thinkers around learning and the blurb on the site includes the following text that I rather like...
If you’re a leader, policy maker, innovator or inspired practitioner working in education or in an organisation seeking to positively disrupt entrenched thinking then LWF is THE conference and meeting place for YOU.
The tickets are expensive, but if you can get the green light on attending from your Headteacher then I will see what I can do to secure a much more economical ticket -albeit without an Ipad.
Ipevo –I bought one of these as the webcam on my home computers isn’t all that great. It offers most of the facilities of a visualiser for a fraction of the cost of a fully size one (£60). It does have a few little shortcomings: it won’t send directly into SmartNotebook, doesn’t have a microscope mode and on the supplied stand really only covers an A4 area. However for everyday use for sharing a child’s work with the class or showing little things or photographs on the screen it is brilliant.
Klutz –I bought the video and animation books by Klutz recently and they are full of wonderful ideas for creating video and animation tricks –scroll down the page for each to watch examples. I love the way the ideas are all low tech –there are absolutely no computer special effects involved. It seems that the fun and quirkiness of creating the films really helps to deepen understanding of the nature of moving images and telling stories through film.
I really like this recent summary of writing tips by Michael Morpurgo....Michael Morpurgo’s top tips for writing
And finally here are Wired magazine’s top 5 toys of all time:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/01/the-5-best-toys-of-all-time/all/1
Enjoy your winter break!
Dan Warner
ICT Adviser
London Borough of Haringey
Haringey PDC
Tel 02084895058
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