FlashICT.net

Firstly - ICT is the term educators in the UK, but now in many other places to, use to describe the use of computers within education. ICT stands for Information Communication Technology. On another of my websites I’ve created a Flash activity that asks people to consider what ‘effective ICT’ really is.

I actually created this because every year I’m asked to deliver a session about ICT to new trainee teachers. I try my best to make this hands on, exploring interactive learning materials to spark an interest. However, I really felt that people who attended the session weren’t being stretched and consequently they weren’t being asked to think for themselves ….

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I was delighted to take a group of students (and some fellow teaching colleagues) to the BETT show on Friday. I’ve been to the BETT show for the past five years, normally going on the Saturday due to the hassle of organising days away from school. This year the show was equally as technical, packed with new shiny and tiny gadgets but I felt something was missing.

Perhaps it is because I’ve been for a few years now, but I didn’t really discover anything there that I felt could change the way we teach using ICT….

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Appropriately, I’m typing this on our Mac Mini, or is it our Mini Mac? Anyway, don’t miss Steve Job’s keynote speech at MacWorld. Despite never quite being completely taken in by all things Mac, this yearly speech is nevertheless one not to miss.

The content of this year’s speech isn’t quite as outstandingly brilliant and amazing as previous years, but it is still great to see the way Apple make such effective use of style - the Apple brand is incredible. What they never seem to mention is the actual Apple market share of computing, which I’m sure I recently read is around 3%….

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To cut a longer story short - go to FlashGen.com.

As for the longer story: I’ve been working on my Multi-choice quiz generator today and while finishing off a few aspects of the interface I came across another annoying problem. I’m using the standard Flash component buttons (as in Flash 7 and later). In the interface, I want to provide the user with some information about the type of quiz they can make. Simple, I thought….

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I’m going to upgrade FlashICT.net to Wordpress 2 this afternoon - hopefully this will work well, but if normal service isn’t available for a while you’ll understand why!

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