Phew - we just finished ops training here in Aberdeen City. Two days of information absorption has left us all a bit drained. Training has answered many of the questions we were pondering and has raised a few more besides. All 6 of our Focus schools were represented along with the Development officers and MIS team. Roll on Mentor training !
Archive for March, 2008
Glow Ops Training
Thinking Worlds
Caspian Learning’s “Thinking Worlds” is now available free of charge. This is not just one simple program, but a suite of programs. There is a Player program which can run a host of free downloadable programs from The Solar System to The Middle Ages and an Authoring program which lets you adapt any of the existing programs to meet your own needs. This is accompanied by a range of manuals and guides.This is an exciting suite of programs which can produce professional looking educational games. But like any good system, the quality of the end result depends on the quality of the planning.
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Thinking Worlds
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Bogoff
Until the 31st March RM have a special offer available for Primary schools in Scotland only - buy one get one free Easiteach Content. Aberdeen Primary Schools have been given Easiteach Science Content and may wish to add some of the other titles. See the products at http://www.rm.com/Primary/Products/story.asp?cref=PS79667 The cost is £299 and the software can be loaded on to all teacher laptops/PCs.
Glow in the Independent
The Independent newspaper printed an interesting article
about Glow last week.
(Thanks to Tess Watson’s blog). Follow this link to the online version.
We are looking forward to Operatioal training in Aberdeen next week. We have the approval sites and have been getting to grips with the new terms and the new meanings for old ones!