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Table of Contents
Features
IT Education: Initiatives among Mumbai Muslims
Rehana Ghadially and Farida Umrani
Mapping the Neighbourhood: An alternate learning experience
Satyaprakash
Changing Paradigms: Exam results through the Internet
Neeta Verma and Sonal Kalra
Integrating the role of teachers: ICTs in higher education
Seema M Parihar
Perspective: Information for development
Karl Harmsen
Rendezvous
Map India 2004
Columns
Insight: The hole-in-the-wall
Sugata Mitra
Book review: Transforming e-Knowledge: A revolution in the sharing of knowledge
Madan Mohan Rao
What's on
Et Cetra
 

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Games people play

Communicating basic ICT skills to children requires considerable innovation and effort on the part of the teacher. Here are a few examples of exercises that have been followed in several schools of UK. Contributed by several dedicated teachers and educators, these exercises are both fun as well as easily replicable as non-normative and emulative teaching methods.

Name of Activity Age Range Description
Making Web Pages 5 - 11 Clear guidance and advice for those wishing to start making web sites. Particularly useful for anyone thinking about setting up a new school web site.
Genre Net 5 - 11 Explains how to teach children about different genre, while using computers (and particularly the Internet). Contains loads of ideas and guidance relating to Word Processing, Using Email, Searching the Internet and Making Web Pages.
Morris the Martian 5 - 11 Fun activity which lets children use a roamer or other similar control equipment
KS1 Colouring Activity 5 - 7 A simple ICT activity to use with younger children at the start of the school year. Contributed by Pennie Coren.
Calligrams 7 - 11 A very useful worksheet giving instructions and inspiration in relation to making calligrams using WordArt.
Tessellations 7 - 11 Use MS Publisher to develop children’s knowledge of tessellation of different shapes. Also includes an excellent interactive worksheet in Publisher format.
Make Your Own Postcards 7 - 11 Let children use computers to make lots of great personalised postcards (real and electronic).