Becta supports our BETT offer !</h1> <article> <h1>Becta supports our BETT offer !</h1> <p>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:44:17 +0000</p> 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. </article> <article> <h1>Anyone got a sec?</h1> <p>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:08:19 +0000</p> 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 <abbr title="Information and Communications Technology">ICT</abbr> HoD or primary <abbr title="Information and Communications Technology">ICT</abbr> coordinator. Pleeeeaaase? </article> <article> <h1>We got there</h1> <p>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:03:27 +0000</p> 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. </article> <article> <h1>St Vincent linking with Bucks schools...</h1> <p>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:01:17 +0000</p> <p>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. </p><p> </p><p> 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.</p><p> </p><p> 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. </p><p> </p><p> 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.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Global learning through ICT</h1> <p>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:25:55 +0000</p> <p>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.</p><p> </p><p> How will it be done? I'm talking to Intel about supplying some <abbr title="Information and Communications Technology">ICT</abbr> and sending over 8 heads and two LA people, one of which is head of <abbr title="Information and Communications Technology">ICT</abbr> (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.</p><p> </p><p> 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.</p><p> </p><p> Jamaica anyone??</p> </article> </main></body></html>