SETT Review
I spent a day and a half at SETT this year. I went to the Edward de Bono keynote, a demo of Glow, the website for all Scottish schools and a talk on using a plasma screen. The rest of the time I toured the displays.
The plasma screen linked to a computer with a touchscreen overlay worked in a similar way to a whiteboard/dataprojector set up but without all the wires and no shadows. The lady talking about it worked in a nursery with it. It was set up in the entrance and could be used for displaying notices, photos and children's work for parents as well as being used by the pupils. It was on a height adjustable stand. It is more expensive than a whiteboard/data projector combination but price seems to be coming down.
Review of material for Modern Languages
Resource Education
Frameworks French and Frameworks German
Windows Software for writing. Suitable for all
Examples exist which can be added to or edited by teacher. Can be used on whiteboard. Picture or verbal prompts.
www.resourcekt.co.uk tel 0870 777 0247 30 days’ approval £42.50 for single user
Tout le Monde primary French online course from P4, can be used on whiteboard, cute cartoons, stories, nice and varied. Heinemann/Harcourt
www.tout-le-monde.co.uk
Espresso 0800 0345 200
Espresso’s French service is a vast library of digital resources for use in the classroom at Key Stage 3. Espresso is an intuitive, easy to use resource whatever your level of ICT use. With hundreds of resources contained within 21 resource banks all clearly indexed and searchable, Espresso’s French resources will save you time planning, creating exciting lessons for you and your students. Our French service is updated monthly with new content which means you will always have access to the freshest and most stimulating resources available. £3 per pupil based on roll.
www.espresso.co.uk
EdPax
Primary French, German or Spanish for the whiteboard. Attractive. Based in Irvine. Tel 01294 316535 for mac or pc
www.edpax.com
BBC Jam online French (and Gaelic coming soon) FREE
Within BBC jam, games, stories, cartoons, audio experiences and other activities combine to inspire the learner to acquire understanding of each subject. This rich and varied content will be available whenever and from wherever learners choose to access it: at home, or as a continuation of their learning at school.
BBC jam leaves learners free to express themselves. The learner is given a range of tools and space where they can take what they’ve learnt and use it to create their own activities and pieces of content. They also have their own place where they can save it all privately or share with others whenever they choose.
https://jam.bbc.co.uk/
new Hodder Larousse Dictionaries - excellent school dictionaries with illustrations
Introductory price of £4 even for an order of 1
Tel 0141 848 1609
LogoLab
a software product, which offers teachers the ability to put all of their text worksheets, photographs, video clips, maps, power point presentations, audio files etc into one managed library facility. These items can then be distributed down to individual pupils, groups of pupils or whole classes for self study across the school network. Saved work is available for assessment through a content and class management system and an inbuilt messaging service allows student mentoring and support. New audio files such as pupils reading poetry or Mother tongue resources for EAL students can be created and added through the virtual recording facility. School videos can also be easily added.
It is fairly unique but becomes more so when you realise that it also has video captioning, segmenting and subtitling facilities built in and a full set of language laboratory voice recording and video control tools.
This ability to offer schools language laboratory facilities whilst bringing easy to operate multimedia facilities into any subject from RE to Physics makes LogoLAB more than worth a view.
Text by Peter Provins, UK Sales Manager, 07808 787348
Have to say it looked complicated!
Photostory 3 from Microsoft FREE PC
Puts your digital photos onto a video with voiceover, text, music etc
www.learnscotland.co.uk new website for the Scottish curriculum with resources, lessons from the Guardian. Found it hard to navigate
www.scran.ac.uk SCRAN for royalty free images
Folens “French on display” book with ideas for the classroom wall, includes vocab, dialogues suitable fpr Primary, Early Secondary. £14.99 Also Primary French and Spanish photocopiable worksheets. £17.99
www.folens.com
Apple software
Comic Life now ships free with the new macs. Otherwise you can buy a licence for £14 from www.plasq.com
This is a brilliant piece of software which allows you to convert at a click your digital photos into a comic strip or other document to which you can add captions and speech bubbles. Lots of uses across the curriculum but a nice tool for writing. You can print out the results or save them for the web.
I have demo discs of espresso, edpax,
The plasma screen linked to a computer with a touchscreen overlay worked in a similar way to a whiteboard/dataprojector set up but without all the wires and no shadows. The lady talking about it worked in a nursery with it. It was set up in the entrance and could be used for displaying notices, photos and children's work for parents as well as being used by the pupils. It was on a height adjustable stand. It is more expensive than a whiteboard/data projector combination but price seems to be coming down.
Review of material for Modern Languages
Resource Education
Frameworks French and Frameworks German
Windows Software for writing. Suitable for all
Examples exist which can be added to or edited by teacher. Can be used on whiteboard. Picture or verbal prompts.
www.resourcekt.co.uk tel 0870 777 0247 30 days’ approval £42.50 for single user
Tout le Monde primary French online course from P4, can be used on whiteboard, cute cartoons, stories, nice and varied. Heinemann/Harcourt
www.tout-le-monde.co.uk
Espresso 0800 0345 200
Espresso’s French service is a vast library of digital resources for use in the classroom at Key Stage 3. Espresso is an intuitive, easy to use resource whatever your level of ICT use. With hundreds of resources contained within 21 resource banks all clearly indexed and searchable, Espresso’s French resources will save you time planning, creating exciting lessons for you and your students. Our French service is updated monthly with new content which means you will always have access to the freshest and most stimulating resources available. £3 per pupil based on roll.
www.espresso.co.uk
EdPax
Primary French, German or Spanish for the whiteboard. Attractive. Based in Irvine. Tel 01294 316535 for mac or pc
www.edpax.com
BBC Jam online French (and Gaelic coming soon) FREE
Within BBC jam, games, stories, cartoons, audio experiences and other activities combine to inspire the learner to acquire understanding of each subject. This rich and varied content will be available whenever and from wherever learners choose to access it: at home, or as a continuation of their learning at school.
BBC jam leaves learners free to express themselves. The learner is given a range of tools and space where they can take what they’ve learnt and use it to create their own activities and pieces of content. They also have their own place where they can save it all privately or share with others whenever they choose.
https://jam.bbc.co.uk/
new Hodder Larousse Dictionaries - excellent school dictionaries with illustrations
Introductory price of £4 even for an order of 1
Tel 0141 848 1609
LogoLab
a software product, which offers teachers the ability to put all of their text worksheets, photographs, video clips, maps, power point presentations, audio files etc into one managed library facility. These items can then be distributed down to individual pupils, groups of pupils or whole classes for self study across the school network. Saved work is available for assessment through a content and class management system and an inbuilt messaging service allows student mentoring and support. New audio files such as pupils reading poetry or Mother tongue resources for EAL students can be created and added through the virtual recording facility. School videos can also be easily added.
It is fairly unique but becomes more so when you realise that it also has video captioning, segmenting and subtitling facilities built in and a full set of language laboratory voice recording and video control tools.
This ability to offer schools language laboratory facilities whilst bringing easy to operate multimedia facilities into any subject from RE to Physics makes LogoLAB more than worth a view.
Text by Peter Provins, UK Sales Manager, 07808 787348
Have to say it looked complicated!
Photostory 3 from Microsoft FREE PC
Puts your digital photos onto a video with voiceover, text, music etc
www.learnscotland.co.uk new website for the Scottish curriculum with resources, lessons from the Guardian. Found it hard to navigate
www.scran.ac.uk SCRAN for royalty free images
Folens “French on display” book with ideas for the classroom wall, includes vocab, dialogues suitable fpr Primary, Early Secondary. £14.99 Also Primary French and Spanish photocopiable worksheets. £17.99
www.folens.com
Apple software
Comic Life now ships free with the new macs. Otherwise you can buy a licence for £14 from www.plasq.com
This is a brilliant piece of software which allows you to convert at a click your digital photos into a comic strip or other document to which you can add captions and speech bubbles. Lots of uses across the curriculum but a nice tool for writing. You can print out the results or save them for the web.
I have demo discs of espresso, edpax,
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