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E2BN Annual Conference

24th - 25th June 2008, The Robinson Centre, Wyboston, Beds, MK44 3AR.

This two day conference is for heads, teachers and others concerned with the potential impact of ICT in education. The conference offers a chance to listen to world class speakers, engage in hands on workshops and see how innovation and best practice is offering new challenges to children across the region.

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FREE Training: Getting the Most from E2BN

E2BN are offering schools the opportunity to take advantage of a series of free workshops being run during March and April 2008 in venues around the region. All teachers and support staff in primary, middle, upper, high and special schools within the E2BN region are eligible to take part in these workshops.

The sessions will be focused on making schools more aware of the freely available content which E2BN has created for educational use. The programme will also include an opportunity to become familiar with the wide range of resources available to schools via the National Education Network (NEN).

For instance, you may not be aware that E2BN has created a gallery of high-quality images and video clips which is freely available to schools, that West Midlands Net has produced a site looking at Climate Change, that Cumbria and Lancashire has developed a resource to support teachers wishing to work with animation and that E2BN is putting together a free online resource to support the development of students’ thinking and discussion skills.

The session will give you an opportunity to explore all of the above and more.

Courses will be either half-day or twilight sessions:

• Half-day sessions will run from 9.30 – 12.00 and 1.30 – 4.00 respectively
• twilights from 4.00 – 6.00pm.

Venues, Dates & Booking

To book a place for any of your colleagues please go to:

• www.e2bn.org/events/becta

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Funding Opportunities for Secondary Schools

'Repurpose, Create and Share' learning and teaching materials

Are your teachers using and sharing digital resources for learning and teaching? Becta and the NEN are inviting schools to join this programme to:

• exploit online digital resources

• create new materials to support learning and teaching for secondary aged students using those online digital resources

• work with your RBC (and possibly its Local Authority and other schools) to produce these materials and then share them across the NEN.

For more information:

• Projects last from April to December 2008

• Funding will be up to £25,000 per project

• Bids are required by Friday 22 February 2008

• Acrobat pdf, 266kb/12 pages, 31/01/2008, rbc_call_bids.pdf

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FREE Training: eSafety & How to Use the E2BN Contentnew

E2BN are running some FREE training on eSafety (ThinkUknow) and how to use the E2BN content.

Running from April 2008 - June 2009 and all are being held at Unit 1, Saltmore Farm, New Inn Road, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire SG7 5EZ.

Training Themes and Times all courses include lunch:

• 9.30–3.30: Write, Publish, Achieve

• 9.30–3.30: Bringing History and Geography to life

• 9.30–3.30: Animation Antics

• 9.30–12.30: Esafety: ‘ ThinkUKnow ‘

For Dates and Booking:

• www.e2bn.org/events or email: admin@e2bn.org

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Enter the E2BN Awards 2008 new

There are two challenges:

• Focusing on Current Issues, using Museum Box - this challenge will ask: What are the most important issues today?
• The E2BN Story Writing Challenge, using the tools on the Myths and Legends site.

Closing Date is 23 May 2008

Award winners will be expected to attend the conference (either 24th or 25th June).

More information on how to enter:

• www.e2bn.org/2008 awards

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