Quiet Weekout

Hello, I'm having a dull ICT week this week, no new or exciting technology to use!!

We had PE lecture this week, which was really good, but something I had previously thought rather limited for using ICT. Not anymore... in the lecture we talked about playing a video of a match, or the Olympics, for example to show children what they are working towards. I have also thought about using a camcorder to film children, so they can eatch themselves back to self evaluate and see how they can improve stance and technique, I also thought about using some sort of IT programme to show them how their body is moving when they, for example are throwing a javelin. I'm not sure that schools have this sort of technology mind... it's probably rather expensive... would be good if they did though!!! We also talked about the adventure side of sports, usually covered by going to an adventure centre for a week. I thought they could learn to use GPS as part of their orienteering training. I'm sure there are more possibilities out there along this line of thought, but I'm not sure I know them... ooh, I've thought of another, they could use photography to record other pupils playing sports, or use it to record their adventures.

We used photography in Geography too. Looking at images to learn about another culture. Children could take photographs of their local area/community activities and then email them to schools in a very different settlement, such as a village in Nepal, or a school in a mountain village in the Alps. The children in the other locality could email photos of their own settlement. The classes could see what they think they learnt about the other school and it's surroundings and then email their thoughts back to see how accurate they are. This gives them an opportunity to practice so many skills, but is fun and motivating too! They could do blogs, email, word-processing, Powerpoint, newsletters, photography, visual interpretation....

ICT has so many endless opportunities as a cross curricular subject!!!

See you next week! :-)