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Hertfordshire Interactive Whiteboard / SEAL Project 2007-08
 The main aim of this project was to develop Interactive whiteboard resources that would enhance the SEAL whole-class teaching. Phase 2 includes resources for Going for goals! and Good to be me.
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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. Funding will be up to £25,000 per project. Find out more... |
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ICT Co-ordinator Cluster Groups
The Spring term Cluster group dates and venues are now available, find out more... |
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 Cunningham Hill Infants School began 2007 Autumn Term with plenty of enthusiasm for their new visualiser resource and were keen to introduce it to Year 2. This was where the WOW factor came in. All the children were very enthusiastic and wanted to try all sorts of ideas on the visualiser. More...
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Web 2.0
This term refers to the ‘new’ generation of websites that enable the user to write to, as well as read from, the web. More... |
BECTA ICT Excellence Awards 2007
We are delighted that a Hertfordshire school has achieved the Becta Excellence in ICT Award 2007. The Bishop's Stortford High School were presented with their award as joint winners in the Leadership and Management (secondary) category. We send them our congratulations.
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Good Practice Case Study: 
Games Development - An Integrated Year 9 Project
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. More... |
Handheld / Mobile Learning Pilot
The Hertfordshire ICT team are looking to work in partnership with a primary school to run a project to evaluate the use of Mobile Technologies in Year 6, with a focus on the impact these technologies might make on the personalisation of learning and Year 6 / 7 transition.
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Schemes of Work
The Herts ICT Management System for the primary phase have been updated. There are versions for single and mixed age classes. More... |
Good Practice Case Studies:
 Cunningham Hill Infants School
For this trial the CPS voting system was loaned from Hertsfordshire Development Centre. 26 Year two children were involved in using the voting systems as a tool for learning with the aim of finding out about the possibilities within a Key Stage 1 curriculum. More...
Handheld Technology
 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. More...
 Personalised Learning & Assessment for Learning within ICT
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. More...
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 2008 Hoscars Competition
Following the success of the 2007 Hoscars, the ICT Curriculum Team are proud to announce the details and dates for the 2008 competition. There is plenty of scope for creativity and curriculum links, so get thinking about how the children in your school could use good quality digital video to support their learning. More...
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 Video Conferencing
This section has been updated and includes two new items:
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 etwinning National Award Winners 2006/07
St Luke's School won a 2nd Place with their project 'Come Together Right Now' More... |
 Walk to School
Primary Digital
Film Challenge Schools
A new competition, an opportunity for pupils to create an advertisement promoting walking or cycling to school as part of Walk to School week. Briefing sessions are being held in September. More...
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Video Conferencing Service in Hertfordshire Schools
We will soon be upgrading the Hertfordshire Gatekeeper. Details of this change will be published on the Announcments section of the Video Conferencing page. |
Podcasts
Another example from Sandon JMI school
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Primary Competition: Made it Happen
A competition for pupils aged 9 to 11.
The deadline for the competition is 5pm on the 13 July 2007.
They are looking for pupil-led innovative ICT projects that have made a positive impact on your school. Your entry should show the best use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources to the benefit of the school, local community, in the UK or across the world. Find out more:
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Free Software to Use in Schools
Take a look at this page which has been updated with lots more useful free software More... |
 Heathlands School Case Study - Story Telling Video Conference
Heathlands School is an all age community special school for deaf children. On March 26th 2007 children from the Primary department in St. Albans took part in Video Conferencing event for hearing impaired children, hosted by the London Grid for Learning (LGfL.) More...
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 Handheld Learning
Often referred to as mLearning, Handheld Learning refers to the use of mobile technologies in teaching and learning. It is estimated that 90% of teenagers own some sort of personal media device. This may be an MP3 player, mobile phone, PSP etc. More... |
Summer Term Primary and Secondary News
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KS3 Example Assessment Sheets These examples could be adapted for use at Key Stage 3 for formative and summative assessment. More... |
ChickCam – Using Video Conferencing technology to observe chicks hatching in an incubator. More... |
 E2BN Conference 2007
3rd – 4th July 2007, The Robinson Centre, Wyboston, Beds.
A two day conference for Heads, Teachers and others concerned with the potential impact of ICT in education. Keynote speakers:
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 Visualisers
A visualiser is a powerful digital camera device that points downwards. It is connected to an LCD projector, enabling the teacher or presenter to display objects, documents, pictures etc with superb clarity. Find out more...
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Hertfordshire Interactive Whiteboard / SEAL Project
The main aim of this project was to develop Interactive whiteboard resources that would enhance the SEAL whole-class teaching materials available for the “Changes” and “Relationships” themes.
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