Ideas for Computer Clubs

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:22 AM by kent-teachers

Plea from a Kent teacher:

"I'm setting up a computer club for my school but was looking for ideas to include. If you have any projects or sessions that have been really successful in your school please can you leave a comment. Thank you."

Ideas submitted on a previous post about Computer clubs

Free Computer Clubs for schools
http://www.cc4g.net/

Practise Touch Typing using the BBC site or other software.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

The Teaching Ideas website has an article from a school who has created computer games during their ICT club.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/creatingcomputergames.htm 

Visit the homepage of the   Kent ICT Blog

Our website is  www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/

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# re: Ideas for Computer Clubs

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:10 PM by James

'Magic Forest' (made by Logitec)is a simulations/games maker package that was wrongly aimed at EY. I would not necessarily recommend buying it, but I'd love to help someone whoalready had it to try it with a Y2-4 club.

Also I came across this site on the iLearn blog that Mandy included as a website of the week some months back:

www.fantasticcontraption.com

An amazing D&T / Physics activity that I think would be perfect for a club. I'd recommend skipping through the instructions though and having a go at the puzzles.

# re: Ideas for Computer Clubs

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:00 PM by Alison Wagstaff

We have four lunchtime and four after school computer clubs which I have been running for the last 5 years.  I tend to do it by year group and pick a theme e.g. animation, podcasting or making web pages to go on the school's intranet. Other ideas would be Robolab, school magazines, drawing etc.

# re: Ideas for Computer Clubs

Sunday, November 02, 2008 6:35 PM by Mark Warner

You're welcome to use any of the ideas on our ICT club wiki:

thedowns.wikispaces.com

There are instructions for children to follow, using a wide range of sites / tools. Hope they're useful.