It's official...iTribe continues with 6 new members in September. Jake, Sarah, George, Lily, Luke and Katrina have decided to leave Henleaze Junior School this summer to pursue their careers at Secondary School. After much careful consideration, we have selected 6 from Year 5 to take over. Who are they? Wait until September and they will introduce themselves.
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CLEANING THE SYSTEM SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Friday, 14 June 2013
Things we have done
As a result of our weekly iTribe meetings, and the work we have done in between, so far we have:
Changed the layout of the Year Group pages on the website.
Tested out an online booking system for Parents' Evenings.
Signed up to Edmodo and My Big Campus to see if they would be useful for pupil/teacher/parent communications.
Researched the types of cameras available to buy for classes.
Decided how best to use the new netbooks and old laptops.
Looked at the government's proposals for the new Computing curriculum.
Recommended things we think children should be taught in primary school.
Been interviewed by the Governors.
Been observed by the Ofsted inspectors.
Been to meetings at Bristol University.
At the end of June we are going to UWE to tell people about our work at the West of England ICT Conference.
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Changed the layout of the Year Group pages on the website.
Tested out an online booking system for Parents' Evenings.
Signed up to Edmodo and My Big Campus to see if they would be useful for pupil/teacher/parent communications.
Researched the types of cameras available to buy for classes.
Decided how best to use the new netbooks and old laptops.
Looked at the government's proposals for the new Computing curriculum.
Recommended things we think children should be taught in primary school.
Been interviewed by the Governors.
Been observed by the Ofsted inspectors.
Been to meetings at Bristol University.
At the end of June we are going to UWE to tell people about our work at the West of England ICT Conference.
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Our projects
We have recently decided which projects we are going to do. We are doing 7 projects, some are doing and some are exploring. I will give you a name, short description and the leaders for each project. Here they are:
Explore video comunication
Currently, we are looking at the difference between various different programs eg. skype, facetime and google hangouts. We are also exploring their uses and how we could use them to their full potential. We are really excited about the possible outcomes from this project. By George and
Katrina.
Improve H.J.S. website
This project could go on for years! We have narrowed it down to the urgent bits and pieces. One of
the main things that we are doing is trying to achieve updated content and some of it by the pupils. We have discovered that the teachers really struggle to upload things and that it takes up a lot of their
time. Therefore, we are pondering about replacing class pages with blogs. We have added some special code to our website and are tracking the most used pages. We would like to make this easier to navigate as well. By Sarah, Lily and Jake.
Use of technology in class
We want to make sure that we use everything that we have got. Recently, we have got Net Books. We are very pleased and they make a giant change from the slow laptops. In addition, we want to educate all the teachers in their uses. The pupils want to see the technology, the only way is for the teachers to use it. By Luke and Lily.
Cameras
In our survey, we discovered that the teachers would be really grateful if they could each have a camera. We have been investigating all the makes. George wants some cameras so that we can have a film studio. By Katrina.
This post was writen by Sarah.
Explore creating an iTribe website
In this project, we are looking at getting an iTribe website. We have listed the differences between blogs and websites and have now decided that we do not need a website. We are sticking with the blog. By Jake, Sarah and George.
Explore posting forms on the website
The aim of this project is to save paper. We want to find a program to fill in various forms online. Mr. Barber has made a list of all the forms we have to fill in. (That is a lot!) By Mr. Barber and Stuart (our techy helper.)
The aim of this project is to save paper. We want to find a program to fill in various forms online. Mr. Barber has made a list of all the forms we have to fill in. (That is a lot!) By Mr. Barber and Stuart (our techy helper.)
Explore teacher-parent-pupil interaction
We have been looking at various programs like Edmodo and comparing them. We are also thinking of giving each pupil a school email account. We are enjoying seeing all the different ways you can do things. One interesting thing that we found out in the survey is that parents want to be able to communicate more by email with teachers but teachers are worried about having too much email to respond to. By Sarah, Katrina and Stuart.
Explore video comunication
Currently, we are looking at the difference between various different programs eg. skype, facetime and google hangouts. We are also exploring their uses and how we could use them to their full potential. We are really excited about the possible outcomes from this project. By George and
Katrina.
Improve H.J.S. website
This project could go on for years! We have narrowed it down to the urgent bits and pieces. One of
the main things that we are doing is trying to achieve updated content and some of it by the pupils. We have discovered that the teachers really struggle to upload things and that it takes up a lot of their
time. Therefore, we are pondering about replacing class pages with blogs. We have added some special code to our website and are tracking the most used pages. We would like to make this easier to navigate as well. By Sarah, Lily and Jake.
Use of technology in class
We want to make sure that we use everything that we have got. Recently, we have got Net Books. We are very pleased and they make a giant change from the slow laptops. In addition, we want to educate all the teachers in their uses. The pupils want to see the technology, the only way is for the teachers to use it. By Luke and Lily.
Cameras
In our survey, we discovered that the teachers would be really grateful if they could each have a camera. We have been investigating all the makes. George wants some cameras so that we can have a film studio. By Katrina.
This post was writen by Sarah.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
The latest updates
Hello to all the parents who are reading this and scanning it for what we are doing at the moment. Well, today is your lucky day! Here it is:
Things that we have done:
These things have been very enjoyable and are in chronological order. We have a lot of work ahead of us though.
Our next steps:
Sarah
Things that we have done:
- Made iTribe
- Made ourselves known to the school (and the world)
- Made a blog
- Gone to a Nexus Meeting
- Made 3 surveys
- Analysed the surveys
- Decided which jobs are urgent and which are not
- Met the school governors
- Had fun!
These things have been very enjoyable and are in chronological order. We have a lot of work ahead of us though.
Our next steps:
- Decide who does which jobs
- Go to another Nexus Meeting
- Do some of the jobs
- Get ourselves to a suitable point so that the next group can start straight away (if there is going to be another one!)
- Have more fun!
Sarah
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Why me!?
Why ME!? My dad managed to find what the faulty piece was so he ordered another one. But it was faulty again. So he sent it back, they tested it and another one should come soon. Apart from it's not soon. It's been about three weeks since my dad sent the piece back and it's still not here. And a thought came to my head. WHY ME!? :( Of all the people who could have ever got the faulty piece why me? Has this ever happened to you? If so please comment.
Luke
Luke
Monday, 14 January 2013
Hello!
Hello those who are reading this and adding to the 600 or so views we've already had on this blog (mostly to do surveys!). Thank you to all the connected people to HJS who've filled in their corresponding survey. Hello to any foreign viewers as at 14/1/13 we've had ten foreign viewers! 8 Americans and 2 Germans have found out about this as well as the 601 British views. I wonder whether any Bhutanese will discover this just coming up to their 14th technological birthday and also the last country ever to have television! (These are all true facts unless Google is incorrect!)
Anyway, I'm Jake and I'm going to talk a little about technology. I've always known how to use most new technologies and I am also very good at picking up how to use new technologies e.g. I've only seen Windows 8 once before and it's so cool!
I haven't ever posted a blog post for two reasons:
•I've never had anything to post it on
•My sister will just tease me if she saw me doing this or on my iPod or on Basecamp (the way we iTribers communicate). This doesn't occur all the time as I do most of my technological stuff immediately after waking up.
Our technology at home is sometimes stupid. One of our computers you can't print from, the other just restarts all the time and takes hours to update. Why can't technology be perfect - soon it will be cleverer than us so what's the point of it just wasting time updating things that never actually seem to be useful?
Bye for now,
Jake :-)
Anyway, I'm Jake and I'm going to talk a little about technology. I've always known how to use most new technologies and I am also very good at picking up how to use new technologies e.g. I've only seen Windows 8 once before and it's so cool!
I haven't ever posted a blog post for two reasons:
•I've never had anything to post it on
•My sister will just tease me if she saw me doing this or on my iPod or on Basecamp (the way we iTribers communicate). This doesn't occur all the time as I do most of my technological stuff immediately after waking up.
Our technology at home is sometimes stupid. One of our computers you can't print from, the other just restarts all the time and takes hours to update. Why can't technology be perfect - soon it will be cleverer than us so what's the point of it just wasting time updating things that never actually seem to be useful?
Bye for now,
Jake :-)
A little thing about me
Hayo, I'm Lily.
I think technology is meant to be something that people enjoy, something that they're going to use because they want to. With what we have at the moment in our school, people start getting a bit impatient spending more than half the lesson sitting round waiting for things to load (I'm speaking from experience here). We (Itribe) are trying to sort out our major lack in some of our technology, we want to extend it and convince people to use it freely. I have come from a very musical background as my dad does alot of recording and editing and adding special effects, I've seen him cut his tracks into pieces and stick them together in different ways including looping it and warping it.
Because of this I'm very in to music combined with technology, and am intrigued to know more. This is the effect of the advance of technology in the modern world.
I think technology is meant to be something that people enjoy, something that they're going to use because they want to. With what we have at the moment in our school, people start getting a bit impatient spending more than half the lesson sitting round waiting for things to load (I'm speaking from experience here). We (Itribe) are trying to sort out our major lack in some of our technology, we want to extend it and convince people to use it freely. I have come from a very musical background as my dad does alot of recording and editing and adding special effects, I've seen him cut his tracks into pieces and stick them together in different ways including looping it and warping it.
Because of this I'm very in to music combined with technology, and am intrigued to know more. This is the effect of the advance of technology in the modern world.
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