August 2008

Dewhurst School

Children on a residential school trip created daily podcasts and posted online videos and photos to keep their families up to date with their adventures.

KS2 (Relevant to all)
ICT, cross-curricular

August 2008

Barnwell School (A Business & Enterprise School)
Marie Hart, Geography teacher at Barnwell School in Stevenage, has been encouraging her students to use iPods to help with their GCSE revision.

Secondary:
Using iPods for GCSE Geography

Feb 2008

Sandon JMI School & Francis Combe School
Podcasting, or the delivery of radio-style broadcasts across the internet, is rapidly gaining popularity in schools. It offers an engaging, creative and exciting way to use ICT in different curriculum areas, as well as helping youngsters to develop a number of key skills.

Podcasting in Hertfordshire Schools
All key stages

Nov 2007

Kings Langley Secondary School
Modelling does not come easily for many students. The concepts are much too abstract. You ask them to work out how much profit they will make if they buy roses for 50p each and sell 20 for 90p. The majority of students will have no problem in giving the right answer. Teaching and learning becomes more challenging when you ask students to translate the simple calculation into (A2-A1)*B3. There has to be a better way of covering modelling...

KS3
ICT Game Authoring/ Extended Projects/
Modelling

Oct 2007

St Lukes School
It is estimated that today 95% of young people own some form of mobile technology. This may be a mobile phone, a handheld gaming device, an MP3 player or a combination of all three. It is a technology aimed at young people, that young people know, and that has become a ubiquitous part of their lives, used to communicate, create, record and share.

KS3 & KS4
Numeracy, ICTAC
Special Needs

Oct 2007

Francis Bacon Maths & Computing College
A range of learning and teaching strategies are being combined at Francis Bacon Maths and Computing College to enable students to work independently within ICT yet at the same time receive very structured guidance on their current attainment and how to progress.

KS3 & KS4
Personalised Learning and Assessment within ICT

July 2007

St Lukes School in Redbourn is a Special School for children and young people with moderate learning difficulties and associated needs. Recently a number of the classrooms have been equipped with GeneeVision 6100 Visualisers.

Inclusion /
Use of Visualisers - cross curricular

Jan 2007

Roundwood Park School As a Mathematics and Computing College, our focus is very much on encouraging all students to take an interest in ICT. At KS4 and 5 there has been a definite imbalance in the amount of girls who would like to pursue an ICT based course and so the club was started to try and remedy this in the future. 

Computer Clubs 4 Girls (CC4G)

Dec 2006

The Valley School Using video-conferencing to enable pupils in a book club to discuss books they have read with pupils in another school.

Video Conferencing in a Special School

June 2006

St Luke's School The great thing is that ICT is accessible to all pupils with careful planning, preparation and delivery. 

Oh…….and lots of enthusiasm!!

ICT in Special School

January 2006

St Luke's School
The results of an evaluation of the ease of use of a voting system in the classroom and its benefits for learners, particularly those with learning difficulties.

Voting Systems

November 2005

Watling View School
Using video conferencing to allow learners to work collaboratively with other SLD learners at Lakeside School.

Video Conferencing

November

2005

St Luke's School
Video conferencing with an international group of teachers and learners.

Video Conferencing

March 2005

Watford Playing for Success

Playing for Success (PfS) is a DfES funded national initiative which uses sport to motivate young people to become successful learners.

Literacy, Numeracy and ICT