My name is Ray Chambers and I’m an ICT teacher at Lodge Park Technology College. I have a passion for programming and believe that there needs to be more of it in the ICT National Curriculum. I’m 25 years old and I’m from Corby, Northamptonshire in England.
I have been teaching for the last 3 years and trained at Nottingham Trent University for my PGCE joint GTP. I enjoy teaching ICT and using innovative technology to get the students more involved.
One of my passions at the moment is to work with the Kinect and I have managed to build a library of Kinect applications up just by teaching myself through video tutorials and online videos. All of these applications are available for you to download and trial and if you have any questions you can feel free to tweet me: @lanky_boi_ray.
This year (2011) I was fortunately enough to be picked as one of the finalists in the Microsoft Innovative Teachers forum. I will now be going to Lisbon (Portugal) in March to showcase my project in which I used Kinect Sports to get my students more involved in their learning. It was this project that inspired me to build Kinect Applications and the reason why my Kinect Library is growing and growing. If you have any suggestions for applications, please let me know as I am happy to build them, as and when I get the time.
Twitter: lanky_boi_ray
Gratz Ray
Very good job finding ways to utilize Kinect in teaching!