About Glenn

Glenn Malcolm ICT Specialist

A brief excerpt about me and my ethos towards ICT in school:

I love to get creative in the classroom and quite simply this has to be the central element to it all otherwise there’s little enjoyment for both the teacher and children. When the children realise that there is as much fun gained from your side of the classroom as theirs then the love for the lesson is there from the get go – even if your experimental lesson goes awry then the kids know that you had their interests at heart. So many times have I seen or heard someone talk about ICT not being liked by the teacher and I have to wonder why. Many teachers don’t know what’s in this mysterious box next to a ‘TV’  and why does it turn off all the time? They also shy away from the computer and labour over hand written and coloured work. And because of this stumbling block they never return through fear or frustration. This used to be me. While at school and university I loved sport and nothing could ever get in the way of it. It wasn’t until I had seen first hand the impact of placing a hat-like piece of card around the monitor to show the kids where to click that I knew I had found my niche. Teaching placements became so much more enjoyable (even with what seemed like a  dial-up connection).

From this moment on I found that every lesson, every subject and every facet of school life could be helped in some way by ICT. The kids loved an art lesson that began with them seeing in full colour and, from many representations of one artist, what I wanted them to achieve. That DTP allowed a maths and literacy session to combine into an improvised project based on adverts and ending in fabulous new cereals, packets, logos and all measured in perfect nets with tabs for gluing. Later this became a healthy food news bulletin, that now could so easily be a blog full of collaborative links, images and video responses.

This is how it is: the internet is linked in much the same way. Never has there been a better time to be so creative. The children now have their lives on their website, their community, their phone and we must channel that in creative but safe manner. The projects we create at school haven’t been the same for the last 3 years. There has been a new and more important tool or application to use that makes a good project great. Presentation tools are a great example; where we once were rooted to PowerPoint we now have avenues to take such as Google docs to share but even better are the likes of Prezi and Vodio that turns that upside down. The kids can record and make the simplest of theme come alive. No longer is it kept to the realm of the older children either as the presentation tool has evolved into a multi-faceted photo/video/text jamboree that children as young as 7 can access (albeit with guidance).

These are new experiences that spur them on to bigger and better outcomes to which I am privileged to have witnessed and shall go on witnessing.

A recent group of art students made a fabulous animation in Japan all with stills of photos using torches and lights to make the characters. It’s called light graffiti and has been around for a while in various forms since Picasso and others experimented with it back in 1949. Then a group artists revamped it and posted to youtube to fabulous acclaim by adding a dance track to it and fully animating the light. Another cue for a creative classroom project that first became a club then a full class project.

This is what keeps me motivated and I am pretty positive that keeps my students motivated too.

I am including my CV below which isn’t the first time I’ve done this but I figured that the ante should be upped especially as the other site is getting lots of hits. Enjoy…

CV

Basic: Nationality – British | Age – 33 | D.O.B 26/ 08/ 1976 | Years Teaching – 8 | Marital Status – Engaged

Contact: glenn.malcolm@gmail.com | @glennmalcolm | glennmalcolm@bisvietnam.com | edtechlounge.com

Experience

British International School-Vietnam. Primary ICT Subject Leader . 2005 – Present day.
The Regent’s International School –Thailand. Year 4 Teacher and ICT Subject Leader. Dec 2003 -2005
Our Lady and St. Chad Comprehensive – Wolverhampton. KS3/4 P.E. Teacher. Sept – Dec 2003
Hodnet Primary School – Year 5 Teacher and P.E/ D+T Co-ordinator. Apr – Aug 2003
Select Teaching Agency – Nov 2002 – Apr 2003
Park Junior – NQT. Year 3/4 Teacher. Apr – Nov 2002
Lakeside Primary School – Willenhall – NQT. Year 3/4 Teacher. Aug 2001 – Nov 2001
Market Drayton Infants – Shropshire – Reception / Year 1 Teacher. June – July 2001

Education:

Open University – BSc. Information Technology – (60 point Certificate attained) (2008 – present)
University Of Massachusetts (Lowell) – Certificate in DHTML programming (04-10 2008)
University Of Wales (NEWI and Bangor) – BA (Hons) QTS- Primary Education (1997-2001)

Experience:
At present I have 8 years experience teaching in Britain, Thailand and Vietnam, leading learning in ICT throughout the primary age range and across multiple campuses following both the 
British National Strategies and the International Primary Curriculum. Through continued professional development, I am up to date with current learning focused classroom practices and trends via online teacher networks and school led opportunities. I am versed in various computer languages and currently in my second term of a BSc in ICT. Further, I am extremely adept at utilising e-learning platforms, reporting and management systems such as Studywiz, Moodle and SIMS.

During my time at BISV I have been central to the primary school’s ICT development and, later, a member of the steering committee for the whole school, I have learned to work autonomously; managing my own projects, and time effectively. Equally I am a focused team member, who adapts easily to different roles. I maintain hobbies that include an array of photographic disciplines, my website and at a weekend I play for a local football and cricket team.

Curriculum Responsibilities:

To assess, revise and deliver a current and ever changing ICT curriculum.
To organise the purchases of software and hardware for a broad and flexible ICT curriculum.
To provide a rolling evaluation of above, target future changes in the Curriculum and strategise for key development.
Support
To provide staff with daily tech support in all areas of ICT from DTP to hardware/ software issues.
To organise INSET both informally and formally. To provide training, targeting needs for staff.
To look out for, understand and evaluate developments in educational IT software and hardware.
To liaise with senior mangers, manufacturers and reps for future purchases and trials according to
development plans. Parents via various platforms – school weblog, open evenings and drop-in/ ad-hoc.

INSET Organised:

• Promethean for Activ inspire – an update and differentiated approach
• What are Bee-Bots?  – Help for Early Years.
• Google Apps – What is it? How to use it? Student Portfolio (2 sessions – ongoing)
• PBworks – How use a wiki with your class and the parents
  
• Easi -speak and Voice recording and editing in Audacity
  
• Video Recording with the Handy Cam and editing in movie maker (2 sessions)
• Thunderbird – Take Control of You Inbox
• Moodle and How to Use BISnet – An Introduction
• Photo editing with Irfanview and Paint.net – a drop-in session
• Digital Cameras – How to use them and Extra features.
  
• Unusual things to do with PowerPoint – Games and Whole class teaching.
  
• Promethean Foundation level and Advanced with Jenny Black – online and at BIS Vietnam (2 days)
• Promethean Foundation level – understanding the website and the tutorials.
• Thailand -  Good Practice in classroom ICT: A guide with examples.
• Thailand – Anti virus and Computer Know How? (4 weeks)
• Thailand – What is Net operator? How to manage the ICT room.
  

Courses Attended

• Studywiz trainers course. BIS Vietnam
• Beam Mathematics – With Gill Potter at BIS Vietnam
• FOBISSEA ICT Conference for Primary leaders. Alice Smith School, KL.
• Assessment for learning INSET—BIS Vietnam.
• International Primary Curriculum Conference – BIS Vietnam
• Learn IT to Learn Workshops – Patana School, Thailand.
• ESL in the mainstream and ESL for the early learner – BIS Vietnam/ Regent’s school, Thailand.

Skilled user

Office programs: Microsoft, Star, Open Office, Mozilla.
Animators: Scratch Animator/ Programmer, GIF, Alice 3-D, Phun Physics
Adobe Products: Premiere, Photoshop,
Photo editors: IrfanView, Gimp, Paint.Net
Google Apps: Earth, SketchUp, Docs.
Programming/ Markup: (Varying degrees of competency) HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript. Java
Various apps for web design and text editing such as Kompozer, NVU

References:

Mr David Lowder

Head Teacher

The British International School

Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam

00 84 8 7444551 (ext: 103)

lowderdavid87@gmail.com

Mrs. Nicky Ryan

Head Teacher

Regent’s School,

Chonburi

Thailand

+66 (0) 38 418777

ryanasaur@gmail.com

Mr. Benjamin Dixon

Deputy Head/ Year 1 Teacher

Bovington First School,

Dorset

England

01929 462 744.

bidleybid@hotmail.com