| It's often said that pupils learn the most from | | | | Save your work frequently. |
| what their teachers do, rather than what they | | | | Use the correct terminology, and not confuse |
| say. Here are eleven good practices you need to | | | | "memory", say, with "hard disk space". |
| adopt if you want your kids to lean good habits | | | | Back up your work regularly. |
| rather than bad. | | | | Use ICT to produce signs for displays. |
| Ensure that computers and software are set up | | | | Use computers for administrative tasks, such as |
| and working properly before the lesson. | | | | producing lists of pupils, producing quality |
| Observe health and safety regulations and | | | | worksheets, communicating with other schools, |
| common-sense rules, such as not eating or | | | | exchanging data with examination boards and so |
| drinking at the computer. | | | | on. |
| Observe the correct procedures for using the | | | | Use ICT overtly for real tasks, such as giving |
| equipment, such as by shutting down properly | | | | each pupil a sticky label with his/her name and |
| rather than simply switching the computer off. | | | | class on, obviously mail-merged. |
| Save your files in folders on the hard disk or on | | | | As you can see, none of this is rocket science -- |
| the network with meaningful names, not Doc1, | | | | or even complicated. Makes a big difference, |
| Doc2, or Joan1, Joan2 etc -- in fact, you should | | | | though, especially when carried out day in and day |
| have a system for naming your files. | | | | out, week in, week out. |
| Organise your computer workspace well. | | | | |