catherine.macmillan

At the moment we are learning about ‘People Who Help Us’ and over the last week we have been focusing on people who help us in school. One example of how I have incorporated ICT into this is by using the video camera with the children to interview staff. We decided on two [...]

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The children made alien puppets using a variety of art and craft material. I incorporated ICT into this activity by using a digital camera. Before the activity started I took photographs of all the resources on offer to the children and printed them onto sticky back paper. I also made a sheet [...]

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Today the pre-school children were learning how to take photographs with the digital blue camera. They were really motivated by what you could do to the photographs using the software that came with the camera.
They quickly picked up how to both take the photographs and download them onto the laptop. The activity was linked into [...]

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Today my pre-school group of children were learning about different shapes in the environment. We had a circle time in the nursery first and talked about some of the different shaped objects we could find. Afterwards the children were given the digital camera in groups of three to go around the school and take photographs [...]

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During our first topic this session we did a lot of activities about our emotions. One activity we did involved the use of digital photography. During a circle time we discussed different emotions and when we experience them etc. The children then took photographs of each other displaying different emotions. We had some very dramatic [...]

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