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This has been an interesting time for the college and we have just started to scratch the surface of all the other services available with this service.
We aim to be a 'College in a Cloud' before long. For more information please do contact us.
SSAT/ Becta are holding a series of online reporting events this term in schools around the country - many Register Schools are among them! Come an see systems in action and learn from these schools' journeys to take the fast track to your own system.
Dates and locations:
PPN1010784 - 8 March, Bishops Stortford High School, Hertfordshire
PPN1010785 - 16 March, Bishops Stortford High School, Hertfordshire
PPN1010758 - 18 March, Notre Dame High School, Sheffield
PPN1010782 - 23 March, Bradley Stoke Community School, Bristol
PPN1010783 - 24 March, Hodgson High School, Lancashire
PPN1010757 - 24 March, Monkseaton High School, Tyne and Wear
PPN1010793 - 25 March, Broadgreen International School, Liverpool
ACN1010756 - 25 March, Kingsbridge Community College, Devon
PPN1010759 - 25 March, Notre Dame High School, Sheffield
PPN1010786 - 25 March, St Paul's Catholic College, Burgess Hill, Sussex
PPN1010801 - 26 March, Perins School, Hampshire
To book, please click on the event number hyper-link or go to www.ssatrust.org.uk/events and type in the event code.
For any queries, please contact Caroline Bedford at engagingparents@ssatrust.org.uk or telephone 020 7802 0982.
One of the main outcomes from the Beyond Current Horizons programme has been the Vision Mapper Toolkit, designed to support long-term planning in the areas of school and curriculum redesign and providing inspirational ideas and practical materials.
SSAT and Futurelab Workshops
The SSAT and Futurelab have developed a new series of practical workshops based around the Vision Mapper toolkit [above] to provide schools with opportunities to discuss how they can start responding TODAY to those challenges and unforeseen circumstances. Delegates will ...
- Explore a range of scenarios facing education [for example, the merging of working and leisure practices in certain age groups, the ability to work remotely and yet still have access to personal workspaces and personal clouds of information, the rise in use of personal and mobile technologies, the lowering of barriers to data storage … ]
- Use workshop techniques to start planning the development of resources to start addressing the challenges …
- Focus on school redesign, curriculum redesign and community services initiatives.
Location of the events
12 March – London
26 March – Birmingham
30 March – Leeds
Costs
£199 for affiliated schools and £245 for non-affiliates. Further information and the booking forms can be found on the SSAT website ...
Now entering their fifth year, Becta’s ICT Excellence Awards provide a great opportunity to not only celebrate the amazing work of schools, local authorities and other supporting organisations but to share the experiences of those at the forefront of the use of technology in learning.
The winners of the 2009 awards were announced at the Bristol ceremony on 19 November and there are examples of truly inspirational work amongst the winners and runners-up. To mark the beginning of sharing the winners’ great practice, many schools are opening their doors during the first week of February 2010, to showcase what impressed the judges and to give their visitors the chance to see their work for themselves. For full information about the dates and locations of these open days, please go to the ICT Excellence Awards web pages: http://awards.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=2107. There are also films and case studies of each of the winners now available on the website.
And if this work inspires you and you want to share your story or that of a school that you know, the ICT Excellence Awards 2010 are now open for entries. For more information on the categories and criteria, and to access the online entry forms, go to www.becta.org.uk/excellenceawards. The deadline for entries is 24 March 2010.
The school won an award for the second year, this time in the Leadership and Management category.
The Robin Hood website has had another recent revamp. Wallwisher (www.wallwisher.com) and twitter (www.twitter.com) elements have been embedded into the front page to give a dynamic feel. Areas of interest for teachers include the 'For Teachers' section -
http://www.robinhood.leeds.sch.uk/teachers/index.php
and the "We Like' section -
http://www.robinhood.leeds.sch.uk/pupils/welike.php
Headteacher, Mark Wilson has attached a blog as an adjunct to the school website... with recommends for good sites to use that support effective learning
http://wilsonm01.blogspot.com/
Mark has been involved with a project in Leeds to develop local content to support schools in the effective use of technologies for learning.
http://www.evolveleeds.org.uk/player/ features 'butterflies'.. 1 minute clips of effective practice, using technologies for learning... that are updated weekly.
de Ferrers officially launchedts phase 2 VLE - Frog - to all staff and students on 2/11/09. Several schools in Staffordshire are now using or considering adopting Frog and we hope to form a Frog cluster very soon.
Read about how the Frog VLE is going on our FrogBlog:
http://www.deferrerstv.com/frogblog/
News stories below:
http://www.educationbusinessuk.net/content/view/1289/2/
These awards are given annually to recognise the best examples of the innovative use of media in teaching and learning. See http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/partners/medea.htm for more information and http://www.medea-awards.com for further information about other European partners and how to enter this year's competition.
The Ashcombe's webmaster, David Seume, is the UK Contact Point for MEDEA
In February 2009 Costello Technology College received notification of becoming a FROG specialist school for the work we are doing with FROG, our learning platform to secure greater parental engagement and school improve. The school was presented with our plaque in whole school assembly in April 2009 by Tariq Isa, one of the FROGTrade directors.
If you are interested in how the college is developing its use of FROG please visit the blog: http://costello-frog.blogspot.com/