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Thankyou to Highwood Infant School

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5 years ago
by tombarrett in , , , , ,

I spent most of today attending an INSET day at Highwood Player Infants School talking to them about using their IWBs which they have just had installed.

Many thanks to everyone at the school for inviting me and making me feel so welcome I hope that some of my ideas provide a springboard for your school’s IWB development.

Apart from the resources I planned to discuss we spoke about and used a range of other material. Below I have tried to record most of those thoughts from the morning:

  • Artrage 2 – a fantastic art package ideal for the use on the interactive whiteboard. Look out for more on this soon, here on my blog as I will be introducing the use at my school and planning some training.
  • Microsoft Local Live – we looked at the school and Highwood Player had really clear imagery from the “bird’s eye view” setting. Would be useful to look at before short walks or local area studies.
  • Quikmaps – Another mapping site that allows you to scribble and add placemarks. Again would be to look at before short walks or local area studies.
  • BBC Little Animal Activity Centre – we had a read of the animated books and phonic activities.
  • Google Earth – just mentioned this briefly but a wonderful tool that I am huge fan of. Read the rest of my blog for more information.
  • Topmarks Educational Website Search Engine – very handy when looking for something specifically aimed at schools.

Please follow the links above to the relevant sites.

Further down my blog, you will have to scroll a bit, there is the notes from the session with the links from the images. Please feel free to print these and use in school.

Notes from session (handout)
Ferry Halim Guidance
Powerpoint of Year 2 Instructional writing work (ordering digital images)

I would really appreciate it you could take some time to leave me some feedback about the training session – scroll to the bottom of this post (or the one further down) and find the word “Comments” click on it and leave me your thoughts.

I really value your feedback and remarks so that in the future and can take them into account for other similar training sessions. Thanks again.

This idea popped into my head in the middle of the night…

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5 years ago
by tombarrett in ,

They seem to do that a lot. I can’t help but think over a few ideas as I drift off to sleep and I was mulling over the use of old and new photographs that we have been doing in our local history. I wanted to explore the use of GPS and geotagging to help us locate some of the old pictures. Well basically what I have come up with is a conceivable set of Geography/History/ICT based activities that would be great to do.

You would need.

  • GPS Receivers – hand held X 5 (one per group)
  • Network copy of Robogeo (geotagging software)
  • Digital cameras – X 5 (one per group)
  • Copies of old photos laminated to be taken out with you
  • Optional: portable mp3 recording equipment; iPod, iRiver

Prior to taking the children out you would need to locate whereabouts the old photographs have been taken and add these as placemarks into all 5 GPS devices – or you could just record the placemarks and ask the children to enter the lat and long as part of the task. (This task is assuming there has been some prior work using GPS devices within the school grounds for example)
So what would the task involve? I will break it into different steps. Essentially the main learning objective are

  • To understand and recognise the changes that have occured over time to different locations in your local area.
  • Use GPS and geotagging software to accurately locate the old photographs onto a modern day map.

The activities would be in this order:

  1. Locate each GPS placemark and match it to one of the old photographs the children have with them.
  2. At the exact location take an identical phtotgraph using the cameras – take time to frame the photograph exactly as the older one was taken.
  3. (After completing all of the photographs) Return to an ICT suite connect both GPS device and camera to computer and load Robogeo software. Match up each placemark (lat and long) from GPS to the photographs. [This can be done for the new set of photographs as well as the older set.]
  4. Export the finished work into many different formats: Google Earth, Google Maps, to flickr. Embed the map into a class wikispace.
  5. An added feature of RoboGEO is the ability to associate an audio file with the image. The audio files could be recorded using an iPod or other mp3 device and loaded onto the PC as well.

The activities might need a bit of support but they are certainly not out of reach for upper KS2 children.I am not sure how many primary schools own there own GPS devices though!

Classroom blogging

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5 years ago
by tombarrett in

So we have really started our bloggin’ great adventure as we have had posts and had them commented on by people who don’t know us! Exciting! The children have also added comments – well just one so far and I haven’t even sent out the address yet! We added some photos yesterday which is very easy – but the quality of them is very poor. So I have created a class Flickr account so that we can access better quality pictures.

We did some work in science today using the digital microscope and so I am going to post about what we did and ask the children to comment. Updated Wiki with this too. There are also photographs of some of the children’s box of achievement items that have been brought in for RE.

Testing embedding vid from SMARTBoard

5 years ago
by tombarrett in

As with BLOGGER I thought I would just see if I can embed YouTube video footage in a post. But after I pasted the code to the post frame it just sort of vanished. Not sure if WordPress likes embedding things. I will try to upload the file as an alternative. The upload feature is for images only, which I will test anyway.

Weymouth Harbour

Well it is clear from the quality of the image below that uploading files through WordPress is like passing it through a crude filter as this was a pretty detailed photo. I think it will be best for me to sign up for a Flickr account for the class and link to them

Geotagging: extended…

5 years ago
by tombarrett in

RoboGeo is now part of my software list, I purchased the simple program to help me tag my photographs I take. During our trip to the Norfolk coast I took many photos and recorded the locations using my GPS as before. I then loaded the photos into RoboGeo and edited the Lat/Lon manually; this is pretty time consuming and I think I will be getting a upgrade on my GPS soon so that I can connect to my PC and take advantage of down/uploading files.

Once the information about the photographs location is completed you can export to Flickr / Google Maps / Google Earth. The latter creates KML or KMZ (if including the photos with the file) files and automatically opens in GE. There is even an option to plot a photo path or route; this adds a pathway in GE connecting your photo locations.

(The photo above shows the stamped data at the bottom)

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