August 10th, 2011
Year 2 ICT Medium Term Plans
This is most of my Year 2 Medium Term plan. It is lacking the final unit about searching the internet. On reflection it proved really quite challenging to deliver during the year, because I find this age like a bit of repetition but it gave the children with a wide range of skills. I guess I’ll find out this year as the intake enters Year 3 how successful this set of plans were for the longer term. It’s easy to assess children’s learning after a lesson or after a term, an interesting test is if they have retained the skill after a year.
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August 9th, 2011
On wednesday I’ve got two Contractors coming into school with some new hardware and a mission: BUILD ME A NEW NETWORK!
Being an ICT Teacher, I’m on the front line in the war against ICT Problems. I hear about them first, experiance them first and am effectively the “first line” IT Technician.
I’ve inherited a mess of a network, an oddly spec’ced poorly performing Windows 2003 Server (lots of Hard disk, lots of processor, less RAM then my desktop machine) acting as the Exchange, File and DC. A member server running 2008 doing the printing with a disk fault, and a database server that wasn’t properly licence with more disk faults….. Oh and 170 new Computers, a mixed bag of Wireless points and a set of Network switches that last saw action on ARPANET. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 9th, 2011
Here is my “Long Term Plan” for ICT
It is a single sheet showing the distribution of “Units” across the year, for Years 2 to 8. It does not cover Reception and the Year 1 Classes because their ICT is taught by their class teachers and it needs to fit into their Thematic approach. Each class get two 40 minute lessons per week. Year 7 & 8 have lessons that alternate each term with Music, so they get one half term of 80 minute lessons per term. I used the Warringhton ICT SoW as a framework to provide a “spread” of skill areas, some of the ideas from here and here.
Up next time will be the Medium Term plans.
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August 8th, 2011
I’ve got four projects going on which will need whole Staff input in September. I thought I’d share them and how I’ll tackle them in different ways.
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August 6th, 2011
Microsoft Licensing can be flipping confusing. I’ll break down our decisions here because it took an long time to work out what to do. Firstly if you’ve got a computer running Windows, it needs an OEM Licence – the manufactorer needs to licence the machine when they sell it to you. I’m not going to go into using Linux, it gets complicated. If you use it on a network and it connects to a Server, then you need a CAL (Client Access Licence). You can get CALS for Windows Server, Exchange (Email), Sharepoint (Weby thingy) and probably SQL but I really dont want to think about that.
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August 6th, 2011
I’ve been spending money on Think Geek for my ICT Classrooms in the new term. We’ve got three; my own magnificent palatial shrine to ICT which is the size of two normal classrooms, our Media Center which is the same size and is also our library. Our final ICT Room is in the science department and is a snug and very traditionally laid out IT Room.
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August 5th, 2011
For Programming enthusiasts it’s considered the most important possible thing you could learn in the field of ICT. The earliest users of Steam Engines were of necessary Engineers. The earliest users of the motor car were Mechanics, mostly because the earliest vehicles with an internal combustion engine were incredibly unreliable. The PC was pretty much invented by hobbists, the first personal computers were sold as kits or schematics to be assembled by the super keen. The first programs on these machines was shared as raw print-outs of computer code so all of the early users of personal computers had to be programmers, and thus understand concepts like Registers, Assembler and all that good stuff. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 1st, 2011
Welcome to my website. I’ve made some changes to how it looks and have decided to return to a spot of blogging. Not sure how long this theme will last but I’ve got high hopes for it.
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