ICT fun for free
Description
Shropshire headteacher John Rowe is challenging his primary school pupils with a range of free-to-use computer software downloaded from the internet. He says that unless they are stretched at school there's a good chance that increasingly computer literate children will power down. So he's using free software across a range of subjects from science to literacy to keep children engaged and stimulated. For example there's the programme which enables children to create their own stop frame animation projects. By downloading the software at home, the children can continue to work outside school and can post the fruits of their labour on the school's blogsite so that others can see it and comment. Other free programmes he's discovered include a digital audio programme that allows the children to record performances of the school choir and create mp3 files which their parents can download from the school's website to listen to at home.
Runtime
17 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2008
Database
Alexander Street
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