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Presenters,
Downloads & Links |
Exploring
Visual Media to support the Primary National Strategy
Led by consultants David Cook and Charlie
Harber from the PNS team, this practical and interactive
session looked at examples of how we might use digital
images, video, animation and multimedia to support and
enhance learning, within the areas of literacy and numeracy.
Following from this session, please now find some of the
resources used, or handed out on CD, available for download.
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Susan Pennington, David
Cook and Charlie Harber updated
We’d like to thank David and Charlie for contributing
their materials to this list.
Maths
Smart Notebook files with images to support
Maths – examples of using images in Numeracy and
Robin photos (Charlie Harber)
If you don't have a Smart Notebook and would like to view
the files, below are pdf versions to download:
Animation & Sound
Smart Notebook used to support use of animation and sound
part of the session (David Cook)
If you don't have a Smart Notebook and would like to view
the file, there is a pdf version to download:
Useful web links for exploring and accessing
digital media
Brief information on where to go next for support further
resources eg. Bfi Story shorts DVD. |
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Making Waves with Radio
A collaborative project to support cross
curricular learning using radio |
Wroxham, Cuffley and St Giles Schools |
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The Best of Both Worlds
A geography based project with primary
and secondary pupils in Stevenage.
The seminar described the Best of Both
World project, which began 2005 and involved pupils using
digital video to develop their geography work. It ran
in the year of Stevenage’s 60th anniversary as
a New Town, and investigated how the town has grown and
developed and what the impact has been for its communities.
This phase of the project, which targeted gifted and
talented children from seven Stevenage primary schools,
was held at Barnwell School.
The latest phase of the project which involves the St
Paul's Walden Primary Learning Network, is being run
at Sir John Lawes School. It involves pupils from six
schools who are using digital video in a literacy context.
The
seminar was presented by Shelagh Mackenzie is a Primary
ICT Adviser for Hertfordshire. Jeremy Reynolds, the
Hertfordshire County Adviser for Gifted and Talented
Provision and an AST Co-ordinator was involved in the
project. |
Shelagh Mackenzie and Jeremy Reynolds
For more information, including edited versions of the
films produced in the first phase of the project, take
a look at the:
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Video Conferencing
in Schools
Using video conferencing to support
learning – a guide to getting started and reaping
the rewards! |
Watling View and St Luke’s
Schools |
Using
New Technologies to involve and captivate learners
In the seminar, we looked at and tried
out two pieces of hardware (a voting system and a Sympodium)
and one piece of software (a Wiki).
In the seminar, we used a voting
system to try some quick quizzes, some opinion polls
and some AFL activities. The voting system showed how
a whole audience can quickly become fully involved in
an activity. In the round-up, we took a poll on how many
people would consider getting one and 78% were more than
likely to do so.
The
Sympodium is
a bit like an Interactive Whiteboard on a screen; it
is something like an electronic, interactive lectern.
It comes with Smart software (like Smartboards) and allows
you to face a class whilst interacting with your screen.
The class can see a projected image on the board behind
you. So it avoids shadows, blinding projectors and turning
your back on a class.
Finally, we accessed a wiki to
write our own short web pages about the seminar. A
wiki is a bit like a multi-user blog. It is a website
that anyone can access and anyone can edit (though
both of these can be restricted). The most well known
example of a wiki in use is wikipedia;
this is an encyclopaedia which can be edited and expanded
by anyone in the world. Consequently, Wikipedia has grown
into a globally produced community (and hopefully definitive)
encyclopaedia. We discussed the possibilities of using
wikis with children for collaborative working, peer review
and reports. Also, they would be useful for teachers
wanting to work together on lesson plans or even something
as simple as a set of instructions. |
Charles Tracy and
Sue Collins
Presentation:
Quiz:
Find out more about:
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Active
Learning and ICT in the Early Years
Making the most of active learning – Beebots,
Interactive Whiteboards etc.
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Therfield First School and Megan
Wilcox |
Link
and Learn – using ICT to support personalised
learning
A collaborative project with 5 schools – learning
journals within a Primary Learning Network
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Fleetville Infant, Fleetville
Junior, Stapleford, Hammond and Mount Pleasant Schools |
Let’s
Handle Some Data!
Making datahandling accessible to all
learners
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St Luke’s School – Sally
Yates and Ghina Nasser |
Creative
use of ICT Tools for Annotation and Evaluation
How can students engage in the learning
process? Exploring technologies and techniques to improve
critical self evaluation of work.
Not teaching a new interesting course
like DiDA? Your students have lost motivation and are
struggling to achieve a level 5 and above?
You
can engage your students to learn by using various
audio and visual technologies as various stages of
their coursework. Using Audacity and Microsoft Producer
will enable your students to access the higher order
skills of annotation and evaluation an area that many
students struggle with.
ICT is a valuable tool that enables students to access
the curriculum and yet as a discrete subject ICT is seen
more as a burden to the student, it’s all word
processing! By becoming more accepting of the technologies
that our students use and integrate them into everyday
classroom practise then the future could be this, setting
homework by O 2 free texting, and downloading photos
from their camera phones to use in their publicity project,
updating learning logs in the diary-room. How many students
would you be engaging? |
Maria Izamis and
Ann Layzell
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A
Control Challenge
A practical exploration of an ICT activity
and its assessment |
Jonathan Dobres and Jo Roberts
(Sir John Lawes)
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