Archive for January 31, 2007

A Tale of 2 Phones

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5 years ago
by tombarrett in

After being passed on some information about the new LG Shine mobile phone blog from Doug Belshaw, I dropped them an email as they were looking for bloggers to use and review this new phone. Well low and behold they decided to send me one!

Earlier this week I took delivery of the LG Shine – and to put it plainly it is quite simply the most exquisitely beautiful phone I have ever had the pleasure of using. Brushed and polished metal are superb bed fellows in this sleek slimline piece of technology.

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I am looking forward to using it much more and perhaps organising a sort of tech review with some of my children in my class who know more about mobile phone technology than you can shake a proverbial stick at.

My contract with Vodaphone was soon running out so I have recently organised a new contract with T-Mobile and took delivery yesterday of the Sony Ericsson K800i, the new Bond phone seen in Casino Royale, has a 3.2 megapixel camera to boot – I was particularly interested in the direct links to Blogger, so perhaps I will setup a moblog for myself.

SLICT Host Day

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5 years ago
by tombarrett in

Today was another opportunity for us to welcome headteachers from around the UK to our school and to talk strategically about our use and implementation of ICT, via the NCSL SLICT programme. We had five colleagues from Birmingham, North and South Leicestershire, Milton Keynes and London.

It was exciting to be able to talk about blogging and the use of wikis which was brought up in the previous day’s workshops. I was pleased to be able to realistically demonstrate how these new read/write tools may impact on the classroom. (By the way “wiki” is taken from the Hawaiian word “wikiwiki” meaning quick, hence you can quickly add your own contribution to this sort of web 2.o media)

It was another successful day and both Dave and I would like to thank our visitors for the positive feedback that they gave us before they left. We hope we can support and help in the future with your own school’s ICT challenges.

3 Conversations: #3 Skype

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5 years ago
by tombarrett in

Sorry that I have only just got round to writing the last of the three great conversations I had with colleagues last week. Unfortunately I have been very unwell over last weekend and very busy at school.

Nonetheless the conversation holds its resonance and comes under the “Exchanging and sharing information” strand of the National Curriculum which Claire and Rick have been exploring for there year 3 class. We ended up speaking about linking up with other schools using Skype, (a simple freely downloadable piece of software that allows you to make voice calls over an internet connection) to communicate verbally and then to use a class blog to provide written feedback and an exchange of ideas.

We worked together and came up with the central idea of poetry which would remain the refrain throughout a variety of work in geography, history and literacy. The ICT part will be contextualised and be an application of many new skills.

Rick and Claire have already begun and taken the first steps by talking to their children about communication and how that currently manifests itself – but also they have setup their class blogs.

If there are any schools out there who are willing and able to link up using Skype, to produce perhaps some writing that would great. Please let us know.

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