{"id":1441,"date":"2007-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1441"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T05:50:49","slug":"session-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/session-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Session over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/623673056\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1241\/623673056_d534dbb2eb_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Class in a box box\" style=\"float:right;padding:2px;border:solid 1px #eee;margin:3px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I am ready for my holidays rather a lot of interesting things have appeared on the horizon in the last couple of weeks.<br  \/>On the software front I finally got round to using <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">scratch<\/a> with the children, <a href=\"http:\/\/amanita-design.net\/samorost-1\/\">samorost<\/a> is inviting and we tried out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">slideshare<\/a>. As usual I underestimated the amount of time I&#8217;d have to teach in the last couple of weeks of term and suddenly we have no time left!<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago our pcs were refreshed and this should really make a big difference to using ict in the school, the old ones were getting really slow. At the start of this week I had another flurry of excitement when our class in a box box arrived, the laptops to go with it have not got here yet but hopefully this is going to be a great resource to use ict flexibly across the curriculum next session.<\/p>\n<p>My job next year is going to be rather different than what I&#8217;ve been doing this year.<\/p>\n<p> This year I&#8217;ve been teaching with ict across the stages using our new media room, unfortunately for me this didn&#8217;t really work out as planned, term one the suite was not ready, term 2 went as planned, but staff leaving and a lot of staff absences kept me in class most of term 3, term 4 saw the switch from the mitel managed service to dell and put our network out of action for 4 or 5 weeks.<br  \/>From my point of view this has been pretty disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Next session or staffing number change for the worse and I&#8217;ll be changing roll.<br  \/>It looks like I will be spending a fair amount of time on <a href=\"http:\/\/eqi.org\/elit.htm\">Emotional Literacy<\/a>, working with children who have problems in this and other areas of their learning. Pretty challenging, especially as a lot of the things I&#8217;ve been doing over the last few years have worked best with our more confident and motivated learners, how much blogging, dv, podcasting I will be involved in is in question I think.<br  \/>I&#8217;d be really interested in anyone who has experience in these areas passing on ideas and tips, especially ones involving ict and Web 2.0<\/p>\n<p>I am also looking for a wee summer project, hopefully involving being paid for something I enjoy (edu, blogs, html etc) again ideas gratefully received.<\/p>\n<p>I will be continuing to blog a bit over the holidays as I have a few things to think about that I&#8217;ve not had time for.<\/p>\n<p>Have  a great summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I am ready for my holidays rather a lot of interesting things have appeared on the horizon in the last couple of weeks.On the software front I finally got round to using scratch with the children, samorost is inviting and we tried out slideshare. 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