HIAS ICT Learning Community - Sharing ideas, Innovating with ICT
July 20, 2008 at 9:47 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
http://whatworkswell.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/
WhatWorksWell is a growing database of case-led studies which describe learning improvement. It’s the place where teaching practitioners can share real studies which have improved learning and teaching. They are ‘case-led’ studies because they start and end with the learning needs of the pupils and the difference made to their progress. You can browse or search for case studies relevant to you. If you register, you can add your own case-led study to describe the impact of your own work on pupils’ learning. Case studies remain the property of their author. Explore and contribute!
July 20, 2008 at 9:44 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Team Read is the name for the Summer Reading Challenge™ in Libraries in 2008.
The aim of the Summer Reading Challenge is to get children to read six books from their local library over the summer holiday. Children are given a membership card and keep track of the books they read on a special fold-out poster, collecting some fun stickers along the way.
There are three stages to the challenge to this year: read two books and readers get a bronze medal sticker, read two more and you can claim a silver medal sticker, and read two more (ie six in total) and you can get your gold!
There is even a website too! http://www.teamread.co.uk/
July 13, 2008 at 5:39 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
http://www.supercoolschool.com/
Interactive education has arrived at Facebook with the launch of Supercool School, an independent application that aims to make online learning a collaborative social activity. Launched at the beginning of May, SuperCool School is available to any of Facebook’s 62 million active users and hopes to draw on the knowledge of the website’s wide audience to offer tuition on all manner of subjects, from Mandarin to motor-mechanics. Once users have signed up, they are able to enrol, create and participate in live and interactive on online classes on any topic. Lessons are conducted completely online using webcams, internet telephony, PowerPoint and a web-based whiteboard. If a user finds no scheduled classes on a subject of interest to them, they are able to request a class and specify what they want to be taught. Once a class has been created, teachers can volunteer to take the class or they can be recommended by the members of SuperCool School, blurring the boundaries between student and teacher as all users become potential ‘expert learners’.
Among the first utilities to harness the power of social entertainment media it will no doubt herald the beginning of a new wave of web 2.0 technologies.
Excerpt from the magazine ‘ICT for Education’.
July 13, 2008 at 5:19 pm · Filed under Video Sharing
http://www.schoolstube.com/
SchoolsTube.co.uk: a site developed by teachers for teachers, full of educational video and audio resources.
SchoolsTube.co.uk: a great place for schools & colleges to store and share teaching and pupil-produced resources.
SchoolsTube.co.uk: safe secure and totally vetted, all content is pre-checked by our team before being allowed on the website.
SchoolsTube.co.uk
Visit the site online and use the content for FREE!
SchoolsTube.co.uk: a great way to bring your interactive whiteboards to life and add video or audio into your projects.
SchoolsTube.co.uk: a great digital resource for learning platforms.
July 13, 2008 at 5:14 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The latest issue of the London Grid for Learning newsfeed is now online.
Click to open… Issue #90
· E-Library
· Weather Update
· V/C pricing
· Enhanced VLE security
July 13, 2008 at 4:59 pm · Filed under e-Safety
http://www.teachers.tv/video/26942
This programme outlines simple classroom activities to help teachers to take practical steps to keep pupils safe online and to increase awareness of the potential dangers of internet usage.
E-safety consultant Dr Alan Beecham visits Rhodesway Secondary School in Bradford to work with a group of Year 9 students. Humanities teacher Haroon Gardee and Year 7 inclusion manager Max Crowther join Dr Beecham to gauge pupils’ reaction to a fictitious profile they created on a social networking site. Another activity highlights the dangers of sharing too much information, while a further task focuses on security and privacy settings. At Stocksbridge High School in Sheffield, e-safety officers apply an internet safety policy, run parental awareness evenings, and act as a point of contact for pupils.
July 13, 2008 at 4:54 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
http://www.teachitprimary.co.uk/index.asp?CurrMenu=587
Teachit takes a unique approach to educational publishing. Founded by English teacher Siobhain Archer in 1999 as a spare-time addition to her teaching workload, the online library of learning resources rapidly gathered its own momentum as her colleagues discovered the value of sharing their teaching materials. A compelling example of the true utility of the internet, Teachit grew unstoppably in response to its users’ needs and now represents a huge online community of teachers sharing resources to help focus their efforts in planning lessons.
Teachit specialises in English, Drama and Media Studies teaching resources at UK primary and secondary school level. With Teachit Primary we’re expanding our primary libraries to create a dedicated site for primary school teachers.
The basic concept of Teachit Primary is this:
- an extensive online library of adaptable lesson plans, worksheets, ideas, and activities, contributed by teachers active in the field
- audio and video clips
- topical news items and related resources
- specialist areas for colleagues teaching particular aspects of citizenship
- a suite of specially designed computer-based interactive units, written in Flash
- a news service and information about jobs and opportunities
- a substantial proportion of the resources available free in pdf format.
NB. This product is not endorsed by Havering LA in anyway
July 13, 2008 at 4:42 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
In this resource pack, pupils listen to and sing along with some popular nursery rhymes - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The Grand Old Duke of York and Baa, Baa Black Sheep. They then complete activities based on the characters and events of the nursery rhymes they have heard.
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/nursery_rhymes/eng/Introduction/default.htm
July 13, 2008 at 4:27 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music. The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester. The recording has been unveiled as part of the 60th Anniversary of “Baby”, the forerunner of all modern computers.
[You can listen to recordings of its renderings of the National Anthem and In the Mood. There is also a delightful video excerpt informing us that it can work out in just 25 minutes whether 2^127-1 is a prime, having taken a week to program the problem!]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7458479.stm
Extract from Naace newsletter
July 13, 2008 at 4:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Research has shown that half of 14 to 24-year-olds were happy to share all the music on their hard drive, enabling others to copy hundreds, or thousands, of songs at any one time… Illegal copying in some form is undertaken by 96 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds surveyed, falling to 89 per cent of those aged 14-17. Nearly two thirds copy CDs from friends, and similar proportions share songs by e-mail and copy all the music held on another person’s hard drive, acquiring up to 10,000 songs in one go.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article4144585.ece
Extract from Naace newsletter
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