ALL work in schools undertaken by the Computer Bus is designed to demonstrate exemplary lessons in using computers to develop children's IT skills. It is intended to enhance the delivery of other subjects in line with the requirements of the National Curriculum. Just a selection of work is contained in these pages...
Reception and nursery aged children, have used the painting program Kid Pix to practise mouse skills.
From simple shapes, requiring minimal accuracy and ability, students are quickly introduced to more sophisticated drawings,
featuring popular characters from their reading books — including the Oxford Reading Tree and Ginn.
Most groups have also been encouraged to "double click" icons on the screen, to open new pages, and use "pull down menus" to print and close documents.
These sessions have been well received by teachers, who appreciate the opportunity to accommodate an entire group inside the Bus. Sessions for Nursery Nurses are scheduled for the new year.
UK Visits
Bride Year 1 and 2 with their head teacher Sue Entwistle October 12th 1998. The children had to travel to Andreas School and arrived late - having stopped en-route to look at a 'dead cow' spotted in a field!
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BELOW: Screen shots of templates put together in ClarisWorks, the much missed Apple software that combined word processing, drawing, painting, spreadsheet and even a database capability into a single suite of tightly integrated programs!
In Year 1, pupils are required to use the mouse to begin to manipulate words as well as shapes. HyperCard word banks (BELOW TOP) were used with some groups, where children were able to make sentences by 'clicking'. The
words were spoken back to them by the computer. Claris Works Draw documents were also used with students asked to assemble dia- grams and them label them appropriately.
ABOVE: Hypercard was used by ICT Adviser John Thornley to create a 'clickable' word bank called 'Story Writer'.
(These days it is claimed that Hypercard was used as inspiration for Tim Berners-Lee to create the concept that became the World Wide Web!)