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This is the second year that I’m teaching Dida Unit 1: Using ICT.

The first couple of classes I did an intro explaining key vocab such as AIDA, SPB, Eportfolio, copyright, creative commons and Flickr.com. The last 3 we didn’t do very well with last year and as I went to the Marking Dida training up in London where they told us they were going to be really strict, I thought we would get those concepts explained early.

The next difficult thing the students come up with is planning. They don’t like reading the SPB and they don’t like working out what to do themselves. So for Lesson 2 we looked deeper at the SPB and made them do a simple mind map using Open Mind software (another important skill). We set up a folder structure that would you believe it follows the main tasks on the Mindmap and SPB (structured thinking again ouch).

On lesson 3 we started putting more sub tasks in and boredom started setting in. Now according to the scheme of work I should be doing Active Book Chapter 2 Who What Why How (is that right?) but I find it quite abstract. Lots of discussion and talking points, not much for them to do.

Head of dept rightly said try to inspire them, its the beginning of the course. So I used the video of the NSPCC director (Ch 2 Digimodule) and talked about channels of communication, the C in ICT. We identified the channels, the audiences and what each of the audience wanted. Then did the classic Radio 4 vs. Radio 1 to identify how design changes to cater for different audiences (the low abilty group didn’t want to do it for Radio 4 tho.)

Much better.

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