“If you weren’t there – you missed out!” That was the verdict from one of our delegates at this year’s ICT Conference.

Over 300 delegates were challenged and inspired by keynotes speeches from Doug Brown and Steve Molyneux. Both speakers congratulated our schools on their progress with ICT and encouraged them to continue to move towards a new, personalised use of ICT for learning and teaching.

This year, we chose to focus on local excellence in our seminars, ensuring that all related to leading edge practice in Hertfordshire. The delegates clearly felt that this was useful, and reported in their evaluations that these sessions had given attendees a renewed sense of excitement about the potential of ICT and given them the impetus to build on the concepts explored back in school.

All in all, the day seemed to pass all too quickly…but never fear – the next ICT Conference is already in the pipeline! Keep watching this space……….

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Professor Steve Molyneux is the Director of the Learning Lab, a recognised European centre of excellence dedicated to the promotion and use of Information Technology. More...

Doug Brown is the Divisional Manager of the ICT in Schools Division which leads on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills on the Government’s ICT in schools policies in England. His team have responsibility for infrastructure, connectivity, content development, skill development, teacher in-service support and embedding good practice in the use of ICT in all aspects of school life.

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Winners

1st prize

A Visualiser
won by
Link and Learn includes the following schools:

Stapleford Primary

Fleetville Junior

Fleetville Infant

Hammond

Mount Pleasant

• Link & Learn
  The above 5 schools worked together to build the Link and Learn web site which provides the opportunity for pupils to work on their personalised targets both at home and at school. The web site is a forum for parents to find out more about their children's targets. Parents have the opportunity to work alongside their children on these targets through the use of activities that have been labeled to match those targets. There is a place on the web site for teachers, pupils and parents to communicate about progress towards these targets, thereby ensuring greater communication between home and school.

2nd prize

Projector won by
Mr Allison
Sandringham School

Mr Allison has designed a web site to help all his media students make the most of their studies.

• www.allisonmedia.net

Criteria

Is your school experimenting with ICT in an innovative way that supports teaching & learning in the curriculum?

If you are using ICT in an innovative way to support learning in the curriculum, then this award could be yours. We are looking for the most exciting, ground-breaking use of ICT in subject learning in our county, in any type of school and any phase.

Entry

Submit an overview of the innovative work. Include description, any planning, and examples of students’ work with a focus on the way in which ICT was used. Supporting information, such as photos and video is welcomed, but not essential.

Judging Criteria

The panel will be particularly interested in:

• The way in which the use of ICT was innovative

• How the use of ICT added value to learning

• How ICT supported an inclusive agenda

• How the impact of using ICT was monitored and evaluated

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Julieanne Bensissi from Meryfield Community Primary
Won a Sanyo projector donated by Enterprise MPC

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Prizes donated by Pearson/Longman, ProQuest and Intellego:

• Bowmansgreen Primary School

• St Joseph RC Primary School (351)

• Martins Wood Primary School

• Windhill Primary School

• St Joseph RC Primary School (351)

• Monks Walk School

• Roundwood Park School

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