Islay ICT: M2ScreenInk

Wednesday, 11 April 2007

M2ScreenInk

I have been looking for a way of adding highlighting to web pages for a while now. In PowerPoint (or any office app) the inking is built in to Tablet XP.

After much searching I found M2's Screen Ink. I have been using it for about 3 month's now.

It is a great little app but it has not been developed since 2003. One of the best things I have found about it is when it is used in 'Live' mode you can add ink on top of video's or animations. This makes using web pages in class, with the wireless projector, much easier. I can add emphasis where I want as I talk.

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The Islay High School Project

As a School of Ambition and Excellence we are some way down the route of these 4 strands

1. Developing the leadership potential and capacity of the whole school, Staff and Pupils 2. Introducing Vocational Courses to the curriculum 3. Removing the age and stage restrictions from the certificated courses. 4. Developing the use of ICT to support the curriculum

I am heavily involved with the ICT strand so that is what I will be talking about mainly. Though, of course, the other strands will be brought in as well. So what are we planning in the ICT Strand?

Every Teacher has a Tablet PC A wireless network Wireless Projectors in every teaching area A presentation space in the Assembly Hall A Media Server A Class Server Existing courses digitised S1 'Benchmarked' for IC3 Giving them individual curriculum in S1/2 Once these are in place then give every pupil a UMPC computer

All of these are in Partnership with Microsoft, Dell, Diageo (Large local employer) and Prodigy (Certiport solution provider).

Maybe more partners in the future We have just started down this route. I am sure we will have lots of challenges ahead.