New Early Years Scheme of Work for ICT

Newham's ITASS service have been kind enough to put a new ICT EYFS scheme of work online. I have taken a quick look and it seems to be built around the use of computers, peripherals and ICT in the real world/role-play.

Also check out David's post below on E-missions. Isn't blogging great we're up to 3 authors at the moment. I'd love to involve more of you in this process of sharing, collaborating,celebrating and communicating about Primary ICT. Please email me if you'd like to author a post and you lack the skills or permissions.

2Paint a PIcture

Andrew Steer, ICT Coordinator @ Christchurch has tried out this new and exciting art package with Year 1 and Foundation stage pupils. These are his thoughts

Have had lots of fun playing around with the program today. Children thoroughly enjoyed using it. The photos are of reception and year1 children. Including some who would often find art fairly difficult and not much fun - they all loved it and produced some really nice stuff.

It Rocks!!!

Mixmen

Wanstead Church school, have been using the mixmen digital mixers from Digital Blue. They have been using them with their computer club and found that the children found them particularly engaging.

Here's Zak's comments on the Mixmen . Zak is in Y5 and used the Mixmen in Computer Club.

MY REPORT ON THE DIGITAL MUSIC MIXER

I thought the digital music mixer was an excellent machine because it is like a DJ and you can switch faders and also scratch sounds. I also think it is good because you can use a warp effect on the music, you can choose the style of the music whether you want House, Techno, Hip hop and a few more. You can choose sounds and record your own music. I like it because it has different settings and I loved the style of the music.

By Zak