I have to be honest, I started to forget the golden rules we decided on at the start of this project. I am in the process of constructing an ICT lesson on trench warfare, the likes of which the world has never seen! Dramatics aside the lesson I started to plan lacked the one thing that we promised ourselves it would not lack, and that was a strong learning outcome. I started to ramble on about parts of the trench, put in links to other sites and gave them activities to do. However, I did not stop and think why are they doing this?

I thought I would take the time to update One Damn Thing fans about the ICT progress me, and my partner in crime have gained. We had the opportunity to play around with some video recorders on friday, it was really cool (damn, im such a nerd!). The point being we learnt how to put that recording onto the computer and then edit it the film, this allowed us to cut out all the bits that we screwed up in (there were quiet a few!). The program we used was Movie maker.

We are right on schedule despite various problems concerning my partner in crime, who shall of course remain nameless! We completed the first drafts of two of our lessons, which have since been submitted to be torn apart by our project leader. We also managed to start the third lesson, which uses Powerpoint in an interactive way. I promise the next blog will be better! got to get back to work now!

Today was spent looking over the various topics in the the Key Stage Three schemes of work, the aim of which was to select lessons for the ICT project. The problems we faced were to do with being faithful to the rules and ideas we had about ICT in yesterdays meetings, and making sure these were being applied to the lessons. Specifically we had to make sure that the ICT was not being used for the sake of it, and that it was offering something new in terms of learning.

Day one has presented some interesting ideas about the use of ICT in the classroom. If i had to decide what the three most important pieces of information of the day were, that would be most unfair, as the themes discussed are potentially endless. However, i have decided that preparation of the resources, their application and communication are the three most important themes of the day. This is because without careful explanation of the resources and there application, there would be much confusion in the lesson.