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Showcasing your Myst work with Tim Rylands

Tim Rylands will be speaking at this years EIS conference on 2 July. Part of his session will be schools showcasing their Myst work. If your school is in interested in sending a member of staff (and maybe three pupils) to present their work, please contact Tim tim@timrylands.com 07798890475 before 5...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-02-2009
Year 6 pupils create website on Myst

Year 6 at Benenden Primary school have been looking at non-chronological texts, and have used the website for Sark ( www.sark.info ) to inspire them to design a website for J'nanin, one of the worlds in Myst 3. The children always look forward to each visit back to the world of Myst with great enthusiasm...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-06-2009
Kent Myst Writing Project update

Tim Rylands is gradually working his way around Kent showing teachers how visual literacy using gaming software such as Myst can inspire children to write. Last week he spent two days in the Ashford Partnership working along side over 100 teachers. ( Day 1 demo lessons and Day 2 Teacher Day ) There are...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-12-2009
Need more copies of Myst?

Kent schools can order more copies of Myst 3 and Myst 4 via Tim Rylands, who will be coming down to Ashford next week. Please contact Myst Follow up Sessions These sessions have now started taking place in a number of Partnerships from 1:30-4pm. They give teachers the opportunity to get together to share...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-23-2009
Myst Demo Lessons

A few comments from teachers and support staff who have already attended a demo lessons: "I particularly enjoyed Mr Rylands' use of a great personality to enthuse a mixed group of writers. Lovely to see how ICT can be used unobtrusively to support writing!" Caroline " Great to see...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-20-2009
Kent ICT Writing Project

Today was the launch event of the two week long Kent ICT/ writing project: “Emerging from the Myst” http://www.kented.org.uk/myst/ Visit Tim's blog to see photos from the day and for a reminder of all the wonderful and exciting things we discovered together. http://www.timrylands.com/blog/2009/01...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-19-2009
Last call to see Tim Rylands in action

Tim Rylands starts his two week visit to Kent next week 19th January. Two hundred teachers will be attending the workshop launch on Monday. Many more teachers will be attending the demo lessons and twilights being held in West Kent. Here are some of the comments who have taken part in demo lessons with...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-16-2009
Tim Rylands

Tim has sneakily started working in Kent, because the Swale Partnership just couldn't wait for him to come to Paddock Wood later this month. Catch some of the action recorded on Tim's blog at http://www.timrylands.com/blog/

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-08-2009

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