Speakers

Keynote speakers who delivered unforgettable presentations:

Embedding ICT into Teaching & Learning	The New Learning Landscape	Good Practice securing the best educational ICT Advice	Where do we go from here with ICT?

Embedding ICT into Teaching & Learning

By Mel Philipson, Manager of the Northern Grid for Learning

Mel worked as a teacher in a middle school teaching English & French for 9 years before becoming an Advisory Teacher for ICT for North Tyneside. Was manager of the Education Technology Centre in North Tyneside for nine years managing the work of four advisory teachers and implementing the ICT ESG programme. In 1995 became ICT inspector for Durham LEA, managing eight advisory teachers, managing CPD ICT programme, providing ICT support for schools and carrying out OFSTED inspections within and outside Durham.

Currently Manager for the Northern Grid for Learning, the North East’s RBC (Regional Broadband Consortium) which involves 12 LEAs. Responsible for co-ordinating the roll out of broadband to schools in the North East and for managing the work of the Northern Grid team. The Northern Grid develops on line learning resources and is the co-ordinating agency for educational online resources developed by public bodies within the region.

• www.northerngrid.org

Mel chairs the national RBC managers group, the national RBC content development group and sits on DfES Curriculum on Line Reference Group, the DfES Infrastructure Sub-Programme Board and the DfES/BECTa broadband group. Other work includes providing consultancy on strategic ICT issues for LEAs and EAZs 9Education Action Zones) within and outside the region.

Email: Mel.philipson@northerngrid.org.uk

• PowerPoint97, 54kb/14 slides, 1/11/02, mphilipson_learn_ict.ppt

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The New Learning Landscape

By Richard Millwood – reader at Ultralab

Richard is a Reader at Ultralab, a laboratory which researches and develops the use of ICT in learning, based at Anglia Polytechnic University. Ultralab is at the heart of some of the UK’s largest and innovative projects in ICT and learning, including Schools OnLine, Tesco SchoolNet 2000, Learning in the New Millennium, NotSchool.Net, Talking Heads and many others.

Richard partners Professor Stephen Heppell in the day to day running of Ultralab, as well as delivering cutting edge courses in the design and development of integrated media resources. He has worked on the Computers in the Curriculum Project and as a Research Fellow for Software Tools, both at the APU and King’s College in the University of London. He was also a secondary school teacher in mathematics and computer studies.

• www.ultralab.ac.uk

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Good Practice securing the best educational ICT Advice

By Becta ICT Advice team
Debs Ayerst

• Becta ICT advice website

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Where do we go from here with ICT?

By Doug Dickinson – Independent Consultant

35 years in education, now an independent ICT consultant working on all aspects of enhancing teaching and learning with ICT. He lectures at Leicester University School of Education on the Primary PGCE Courses and is a provider of INSET for their CPD programme. He works with the City of Leicester delivering its NGfL training. A writer of a number of guides and books on primary ICT, a consultant to Granada and Black Cat Educational Software, an RM Window Box partner. He has completed two workshop CDs for RM, one on science and the other on literacy, to accompany country-wide lecture tours. He is a NOF training provider & has written a variety of modules.

He spent a good deal of last year working in Northern Ireland on the integration of ICT into their Numeracy and Literacy strategies. He was responsible for the CD for the National Literacy Strategy concerned with using ICT for Whole Class Teaching. He and a colleague, organise the annual East Midlands ICT Conference at Beaumanor Hall, and he was co-organiser of the fist BECTa Online Virtual ICT Conference. He has travelled the whole of Great Britain, delivering INSET to schools and LEAs. He is also an OFSTED Inspector.

• PowerPoint97, 284kb/39 slides, 1/11/02, ddickinson_way_forward.ppt

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