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Spreadsheets and GIS

An introduction to spreadsheets An interactive resource based on a simple school shop accounts that introduces the basic concepts of a spreadsheet including simple formulae. The resource demonstrates through animation the main parts of the spreadsheet and five basic types of formula including addition...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-16-2010
National Schools Quiz: 12th March

Schools entering the Next Generation Learning National Schools Quiz , which will take place on Friday 12 th March, could win up to £3,000 worth of ICT equipment or training for their school, plus there are fantastic spot prizes for successful individuals and teams who take part. The quiz will run exclusively...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-10-2010
21st Century Teacher - Are you ready to meet the challenge?

Your students are already using technology as part of their daily life and increasingly expect to use it for learning in school. But what does this mean for you as a teacher? As a 21st century teacher you are a learner yourself – adapting your previous technology skills and knowledge as new technologies...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-09-2010
Chinese New Year 14th Feb 2010

Chinese New Year is fast approaching, 14th February, (the first weekend of the holiday). The Kent ICT Chinese New Year pages have been updated for 2010. The Hong Bow is now available in a low ink use version . The old red background version is still available. :) James

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-26-2010
A Computer Per Student Leads to Higher Performance

Students equipped with their own laptop demonstrate higher achievement and increased engagement, according to the findings of studies published in the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. All of the studies found that students in the 1:1 settings outperformed their traditional classroom peers...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-22-2010
Visualisers

Visualisers have been around for quite sometime now, but with the recent drop in price, many schools and Partnerships are now buying them to compliment the use of interactive whiteboards. A visualiser, at its simplest, is a video camera mounted on a stand that connects to a data projector. Objects can...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-20-2010
10 easy & creative ways to achieve meaningful parental engagement

Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Head of Educational Development, UniServity has the following suggestions for using your learning platform effectively and making parental engagement meaningful which go beyond the sharing of pupil attainment and attendance data: • Provide continuity of resources, support and guidance...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 12-18-2009
Ready Register 2010

The old Ready Register did not work with all school networks. There were schools who wanted to try the register but could not get it to work. With this in mind I've been working on a simpler version. This revised version works on networked computers, but only if separate copies of the resource are...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 12-01-2009
Search engine for teachers

Mark Warner , teacher at The Downs School has put together a fantastic search tool for teachers looking for lesson plans, resources and ideas. http://www.teachrsearch.co.uk/ Mark also runs several over very useful sites for teachers: Teaching Ideas – An extremely popular site, with thousands of free...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 12-01-2009
Kent NGfL is moving!

As a part of the restructuring of KCC web resources the KentNGfL web site will be moving. The majority of the content will stay the same. The web site address will be different. If you have links to any of the resources on your web site or have the KentNGfL as your homepage then these links will be redirected...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 10-07-2009

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