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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Maverick Television (Television network) (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: [London] : Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education, 2008.
Series:Education in video
Inspirations ; 3
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012).
Physical Description:1 online resource (17 min.).