We have recently selected year 7’s Toby Dunn and Will Singleton to join our Student IT Management team. Both students have been selected from our Student Digital Leader team, to work with Kevin Sait, the schools Head of IT Strategy, and 6th form managers Paul Harvey and Harry Traynor
Kevin explains:
The management team or ‘the round table’ is a great opportunity for students to get hands on experience in running IT systems in school. Its about giving students opportunities to work with senior team members and gain the understanding of IT in schools and how it effects student learning.
New team members Toby Dunn and Wil Singleton join the Round Table
The team is currently working on the Year 7 rollout for Office 365, which will happening in the next few weeks. The team will also be looking at how the new Microsoft Surfaces have been used around the school.
Toby Dunn has been tasked with looking at future developments on the Surface and has been busy with Project Siena to enthuse students to develop apps for the Windows 8 platform.
Will Singleton is a big fan of the Touchdevelop platform, allowing apps to be developed across multiple platforms.
Its great to have these two students joining the team and helping to shape the IT direction at the Wymondham High Academy.
Spelling assistant is a helpful tool on the windows 8 store. It can help you learn your spellings easily. You type in your spellings. Then click test me. This will then give you some more blank lines, similar to when you opened the app. The app will then say the word out loud, for you to spell in the box. Once you have spelled it and clicked enter a green/red word will appear next to the spelling depending on whether it’s right or wrong.
When we get back to school next week, we will be inviting students to take part in this years Kodu Kup. The Kodu Kup allows students to work together as a team and compete in a national competition for computer programming.
The Kodu Kup is open to students between 7 & 14.
Kodu is a ideal way to get into programming and is available from http://kodugamelab.com
There are some great Youtube resources from people like Ray Chambers @lanky_boi_ray and Nicki Cooper @geeekynicki
I am hoping some of our students from Wymondham High will choose to enter a Project Spark game. Project Spark is a new free development tool from Microsoft for the Windows 8/8.1 platform. Details of it can be found here http://joinprojectspark.com
Lets look forward to our Computer Club members and what they might develop.
MyHomework is basically your school planner on the go. So if you have been given homework you simply put in what subject. When it’s handed in. When you want reminded about it.
As well as this if you have a second device it will sync all your classes and homework to that device.
Wymondham High Academy launched a Student Digital Leader team for the first in time in late December. Its aims are:
to involve students in the day to day running of IT systems in school.
enhance opportunities for learning within the Microsoft IT Academy.
to become school ambassadors within the school and the community.
to promote the coding agenda through practical hands on teaching of other staff and students both in school and the cluster schools.
The plan for Student Digital Leaders is to give ownership of IT systems in school, working with the technical team to offer support and training to staff and students as they go forward.
Students will also gain extra qualifications through the Microsoft IT Academy, including Microsoft Office Specialist and Microsoft Technology Associate.
The blog of the Wymondham High Student Digital Leaders
Wymondham High Student Digital Leaders 