Posted in GLOW on Sep 22nd, 2006 1 Comment »
This being my 4th or even my 5th visit to SETT, I thought I was used to it, but again I was proved wrong. It was nice to meet the Argyll & Bute Glow mentors and put names to faces, but it was also very nice to get home last night as I was absolutely [...]
Posted in Science on Sep 9th, 2006 2 Comments »
Today S1 Science were introduced to the light microscope and using it to look at plant cells – in particular, onion cells. In order to demonstrate this we set up a microscope attached to a “Visiview” video camera which in turn was attached to the Smart board. This allowed the whole class to become involved [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 6th, 2006 2 Comments »
Yesterday I had the pleasure of introducing Microsoft Powerpoint to 15 teachers within the authority, both from the primary sector as well as the secondary sector. I was a bit apprehensive to start with but this soon disappeared as their faces began to light up along with expressions such as “oh, that’s brilliant”, “I can [...]
