Exam Results (and the Data Protection Act) August 19, 2009
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Students receiving exam results this summer can find out more about their grades by using their rights under the Data Protection Act.
Check out the Youth section of the Information Commissioners Office
WOW June 27, 2009
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Fantastic panaroma views of 7 wonderful places in the world:
- Colosseum
- Great Wall
- Petra
- Taj Mahal
- Machu Picchu
- Rio De Janeiro
- Chichen Itza
Not really ICT related but lovely none the less.
If you like these then have a look here and see some other brilliant resources including:
- Interactive Human Body
- Smithsonian Dinosaur tour
- Swim with a blue whale
- Read rare books (Shakespeare, Galileo etc)
Quick IT design project June 22, 2009
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Simply – design a shelter in Google sketchup and make it available on Google Earth.
The video tells you how to do it – great fun.
Controversial child database goes live May 31, 2009
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Contact Point is the database that featuring details of every child under 18 in local 17 councils in the North West.
Up to 800 frontline practitioners including social workers, health professionals and head teachers based can now access the system. It will cost an estimated £224m to set up, followed by annual running costing of around £44m a year.
A good idea?
A Bit Of Fun May 18, 2009
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If you are a fan of slightly irreverential humour then you may like the latest offering from Viz magazine contributor and Standup comedienne Christina Martin.
Christina has used Amazons reviewing system as somewhere to have a bit of fun. You can read her spoof reviews here:
Google search options May 13, 2009
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New tools announced today allow quick and easy refinement of searches within Google.
We have always had the advanced search page though I suspect that not many people actually use this. Search options is a way to apply ‘advance search’ features at the click of a mouse.
This is an important development in my opinion, the timeline and wonderwheel tools wil be particularly useful
Computer Science for Fun May 1, 2009
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Love ‘computers’ – hate all the boring bits ….
I’ve not delved deeply yet but the ‘first brush’ is very encouraging. This sites offers a magazine but also many routes through the content – a feature I particularly welcome.
I stumbled on this page where you could design your own noughts and crosses AI using a logo like language “Go Top Centre”. A great ‘filler’
Windows 7 release April 19, 2009
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It seems that the latest version of Windows (Windows 7) will have it’s first release client on May the 5th.
A Microsoft partner page is offering the first release client to users of Technet and the Microsoft Development Network (MSDN).
Release clients are still ‘pre-release’ but Windows 7 is highly anticipated and looks set to become the OS of choice for many, I would expect many school to bypass Vista all together and move straight to Windows 7.
Article (courtesy of “The Download Squad”)
Graphs that show nothing April 14, 2009
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Have you ever come across pupils who use excel to draw graphs that show nothing – like a scattergraph to show ‘age’ against ‘tutor group’.
Well here is a lovely picture that you could use when to come to discuss the issue.
Youtube mash up April 9, 2009
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Pupils get a load of youtube clips and splice them together to make their own film and soundtrack. Interesting …
