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teddybear

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After loads of nagging, moaning and being a pain to the bosses above me I've finally managed to get the go ahead for a computer suite in one of the primary schools I work in. This school is quite a large one, we are getting loads of laptops refreshed soon and some of them will be replaced with desktop PCs.

 

I've got the go ahead to have it rewired, more power and network points plus the schools janitor was a joiner in years gone by so he's almost finished putting desks all the way around the room. A promethean board has been ordered and I'm going to see if I can bat my eyelids to the SMT to see if I can also get a decent colour laser printer for the room (although there are 9 in the school, one may be moved...)

 

The reason I am posting is asking for ideas on brightening the room up a bit.

 

What kind of posters or other things would be a good idea to cover the walls? I found a site a while ago with some posters showing computer parts etc (this room will be used by kids from primary 1 to primary 7) but of course I forgot to bookmark it.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :-)

 

Thanks!

teddybear

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EduTech, I'm sure I've been to that site but didn't get anything sent to me. Will try again in the morning.

 

Leco, thanks for the link. Will have a wee look and see if the school is willing to buy some.

EduTech

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EduTech, I'm sure I've been to that site but didn't get anything sent to me. Will try again in the morning.

 

Leco, thanks for the link. Will have a wee look and see if the school is willing to buy some.

 

Hi Mate,

 

Ok try again in the morning.. if you dont get anything let me know and i'll send you on my spares if you wish :)

 

James.

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teddybear

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Hi Mate,

 

Ok try again in the morning.. if you dont get anything let me know and i'll send you on my spares if you wish :)

 

James.

 

Thanks James, I've just e-mailed so will await their delivery :-)

6Foot2

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I will add more resources [if I find them] to this post.

 

Fresher Schools [be sure to scroll down the page]

 

Schools Links [Lots of resources/posters of the type sought in the OP]

 

LGfL/Curriculum/ICT [some (all?) of the self extractors seem to have a spelling mistake in the file destination: Be sure to check where the files are extracted to!]

 

IGCSE ICT [Again scroll down a little]

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synaesthesia

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Seen this in a couple of schools - disassembled PC's and laptops glued to some ply sheet and hung on the walls. One of them even had a rudimentary light system set up so people could identify each part by pressing the corresponding button. I found this a little "scary" in a Primary school however it really helped the students understand the important parts and very importantly, got them very interested in IT.

 

Favourite one was an A3 sized peice of ply, and the laptop stripped down so it hard the keyboard off, motherboard in plain view, processor, cdrom, hdd, tft etc all "separated" from the unit. Great thing to do with an old laptop that would otherwise be binned.

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john

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The DT Tech at a school I used to work stripped down a Sony Mavica FDD Digi-cam and did that and it was amazing, he did it on an A3 piece of ply and split it making little brackets to hold it all up so you could look through it from all ways it was really a masterpiece, it should have been a piece of modern art :) Very good idea though showed how it all works :)
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Favourite one was an A3 sized peice of ply, and the laptop stripped down so it hard the keyboard off, motherboard in plain view, processor, cdrom, hdd, tft etc all "separated" from the unit. Great thing to do with an old laptop that would otherwise be binned.

 

This can be done in such a way that the laptop still works, too, which always looks impressive.

 

An entire classroom stuffed with blatantly IT-related posters might wind up looking a bit dull/intimidating, so it might be an idea to display something that is more subtly IT-related. Computer generated images of landscapes are good, or creatures/people/cartoon characters (scenes from recent CGI movies might work well).

 

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David Hicks

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teddybear

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Seen this in a couple of schools - disassembled PC's and laptops glued to some ply sheet and hung on the walls. One of them even had a rudimentary light system set up so people could identify each part by pressing the corresponding button. I found this a little "scary" in a Primary school however it really helped the students understand the important parts and very importantly, got them very interested in IT.

 

Favourite one was an A3 sized peice of ply, and the laptop stripped down so it hard the keyboard off, motherboard in plain view, processor, cdrom, hdd, tft etc all "separated" from the unit. Great thing to do with an old laptop that would otherwise be binned.

 

:D Excellent idea... My mind's ticking away now!

teddybear

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This can be done in such a way that the laptop still works, too, which always looks impressive.

 

An entire classroom stuffed with blatantly IT-related posters might wind up looking a bit dull/intimidating, so it might be an idea to display something that is more subtly IT-related. Computer generated images of landscapes are good, or creatures/people/cartoon characters (scenes from recent CGI movies might work well).

 

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David Hicks

 

Agreed, will get some of the first classes (or even ones using the laptops etc) to make up some things for the walls too. I can get the first years at high school to make up some things too.

teddybear

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Just checked my work e-mail and found this OOO message from the contact at Microsoft for their Office 2007 posters. I'll forward on the message I sent to James on to the new person in the role ([email protected])

 

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Thank you for your email.

 

I am currently changing roles within Microsoft and will be focusing my handover to my replacement Samantha Mills. As well as this I shall be on Annual leave with no access to e-mail or voice mail from Thursday 16th July returning Monday 27th July when I shall respond to your email.

 

In future please send emails regarding to Public Sector Hospitality, Events or Literature to Samantha Mills [email protected]

 

Kind Regards

 

James Colbert

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Edu-IT

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EduTech, I'm sure I've been to that site but didn't get anything sent to me. Will try again in the morning.

 

Leco, thanks for the link. Will have a wee look and see if the school is willing to buy some.

They just turned up for me months later. I didn't think I would get them either.

 

In future please send emails regarding to Public Sector Hospitality, Events or Literature to Samantha Mills [email protected]

Do they not want people to guess email addresses for their staff members?

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teddybear

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Had a word with my boss this morning, managed to obtain an old HP base unit (dc7700 I think) so that will be stripped down and somehow mounted on a piece of board for the wall.

 

He's also given me a couple of old digital cameras to see if I can do something with them too :-)

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