Hands On Support in Shropshire

Another Friday morning at Meole and the Year 7 group were getting ready to start using their blogs as a book review platform. After getting settled in and logged on, they went through the guidelines for writing book reviews and made sure their first paragraph had all the details to identify the book. This was because we were going to use trackbacks from their individual blogs to the main blog. They all had the trackback URI copied and were ready to go…some had started writing excellent book review posts to their blogs…and the fire bell went off. So it was out onto the yard to stand in the sunshine while the school was checked for safety. Everything was OK but the time was gone and no more blogging was done.

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Sam took a deep breath and looked nervously over her shoulder. The reassuring line of light under the bedroom door that usually showed that Mum was still reading had been turned off long ago. The midnight darkness was complete, enveloping, clinging like a cloak around her, raising her other senses to a level where everything was twice as large. Someone needed to investigate what was making that noise - and only Sam was awake. There was the sound again - Sam tried to identify it in her imagination but failed. The darkness let her thoughts run riot, exaggerating the possible source; what was it? Could it be a troll that had slipped from another dimesion into the kitchen, and was now foraging for food? A slavering beast that had got in through the catflap and was now waiting, just waiting for somebody to come down stairs so that it could leap out and scare them? “This is no good” thought Sam “I need to deal with it myself”, and hesitantly stepped onto the first stair. Thankfully Dad had fixed the creak that it often made so that the ogre in the kitchen didn’t hear her, and Sam slowly continued down the stairs, holding tight to the banister as if it was a lucky talisman, protecting her from the horde of dwarves, their sharp teeth clattering together as they prepared to devour her flesh.

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Meole Brace English Department had a twilight this evening with the brief of looking at effective interactive technology use in the English classroom. After a hard day’s work, the delegates continued working hard into the evening through varied exercises and discussion on the ways that whiteboard and presentation technology can be used in the English classroom.

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I got quite excited when I got to Rhyn Park this evening for a twilight session with the English Department.  The department are looking to raise achievement through the use of electronic resources and I was looking forward to introducing some of my favourite tips and tricks as well as take a look at the resources they have bought in.  For ages they have been waiting to use their tablet PC with the projector - the plan has been to use it as a collaborative tool that can be passed around the class. 

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