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Assessing Pupil Progress

13, Apr 2010

One of my department’s big focuses this year has been Assessing Pupil Progress, the new supplementary levelling structure for Key Stage 3. We didn’t have any idea what it was until our LA advisor, Pauline Hargreaves, gave us an excellent introduction to it in the Autumn term.
Key competencies
For those who haven’t yet got to grips with [...]

Some Rights Reserved: Unit 1 model assignment update

9, Apr 2010

Back in September I released my OCR Nationals unit 1 course, solely on the website. Over the course of this year, my department and I have been putting additional resources together to plug the gaps in the initial release.
These resources are now being released on a Moodle course in my new resources area as well [...]

Unit 23 resources

8, Apr 2010

Created to map to the OCR Nationals Level 2 framework for unit 23, these video editing resources are currently in-use in my school to great effect. Students take on the role of advertisers/VJs, creating an advert/music video to advertise a Some Rights Reserved concert aimed at promoting free music. As well as teaching aids for [...]

Free scheme of work for OCR Nationals unit 1

14, Sep 2009

Updated: click here for details
Good lord it’s been a long time since I made a post. The reality is that I’ve been working on this for about four months, in and around everything else that’s been going on. It’s now just about ready for release, so here it is.
What is it?
Some Rights Reserved is a [...]

Engagement & ICT

20, Aug 2009

“So what do you teach?”
“ICT.”
“Oh, well at least the kids must find that interesting.”
- Opening to half a dozen conversations I’ve had with non-teachers.

We’re not in the ‘90s anymore, and sitting a kid in front of a computer generates little more excitement than sitting them in front of a toaster. In a society where computers [...]

Moral issues in ICT: handout resource

10, Aug 2009

This is an event – the first resource to be posted born of collaboration! Debbie Jones – @teach_ict – of Teach-ICT fame very kindly put together two of the handouts in this set covering the moral issues in ICT.
The social & moral implications of ICT are something we both have a passion for, yet I [...]


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