EduGeek.net - Blogs - Connecting classrooms through ICT - projects, sharing, networking for teachers and students by lizhitchcock http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/ en Wed, 22 May 2013 01:10:47 GMT vBulletin 2 http://staticc3.cdngeek.net/images/misc/rss.jpg EduGeek.net - Blogs - Connecting classrooms through ICT - projects, sharing, networking for teachers and students by lizhitchcock http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/ Becta supports our BETT offer ! http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/252-becta-supports-our-bett-offer.html Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:44:17 GMT We got a Supported by Becta logo on to our BETT brochure about school linking. So now we have DCSF and Becta logos sorted out. We got a Supported by Becta logo on to our BETT brochure about school linking. So now we have DCSF and Becta logos sorted out. ]]> lizhitchcock http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/252-becta-supports-our-bett-offer.html Anyone got a sec? http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/251-anyone-got-sec.html Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:08:19 GMT We have written a brochure for BETT. Please can ANYONE on Edugeek look at it for me to say if it would potentially arrest the attention of a passing... We have written a brochure for BETT. Please can ANYONE on Edugeek look at it for me to say if it would potentially arrest the attention of a passing ICT HoD or primary ICT coordinator. Pleeeeaaase?
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]]> lizhitchcock http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/251-anyone-got-sec.html We got there http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/250-we-got-there.html Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:03:27 GMT End of term we reached our target of 3000 links that we have set up for schools in the UK. We actually had a thermometer on the wall that we coloured... End of term we reached our target of 3000 links that we have set up for schools in the UK. We actually had a thermometer on the wall that we coloured in, day by day. :humble: ]]> lizhitchcock http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/250-we-got-there.html St Vincent linking with Bucks schools... http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/249-st-vincent-linking-bucks-schools.html Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:01:17 GMT Had Bucks meeting last week in High Wycombe and the 8 heads chosen to go to St Vincent & Grenadines are all fab and full of ideas.

We've also had more than sixty applications from local authorities to link four of their schools with schools in Latin America, India and Sri Lanka, the panel to choose the 25 successful applications is on Jan 7th.

The delegation is going in at the highest possible level so all the materials they share will be properly suited to curriculum requirements. I'm going to try and source a whiteboard for each of the eight partner schools so that webconferencing becomes a part of the link.

I know from past experience that the teachers in SVG will be more interested in their own CPD while the UK staff are seeking impact on learners - linking is sometimes about resolving these two objectives so everyone wins. ]]> lizhitchcock http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/249-st-vincent-linking-bucks-schools.html Global learning through ICT http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/235-global-learning-through-ict.html Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:25:55 GMT Well we are off; yesterday I got the news that the Buckingshire area link with St Vincent & Grenadines (SVG) is going ahead. High Wycombe has a lot of SVG families who migrated back in the 50s and 60s; these projects will reflect this community and its history and also include curriculum links to human rights - namely fair trade, slavery ('resistance and rebellion'), MFL (French and Spanish is spoken) and a host of other stuff - arts, music obviously.

How will it be done? I'm talking to Intel about supplying some ICT and sending over 8 heads and two LA people, one of which is head of ICT (and is probably on Edugeek if I looked). Bucks already shares a lot of its curriculum on its Moodle and I am hoping partner schools can do this too; with shared Moodle courses for some of the topics above that allow interraction and exchange to take place through webconferencing, discussion boards and so on.

All the schools that particpate will be eligible to apply for funding for visits and projects over the next 3-5 years, so it should build into a really strong bond between Bucks and SVG.

Jamaica anyone?? ]]> lizhitchcock http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/lizhitchcock/235-global-learning-through-ict.html