Colleagues in light of the expected demise of the National strategy site and in particular the Kirklees ICT group , we are expending the Secondary ICT Community on KGfL. This community is accessible without a log in by the following link, regardless if your school has Digital Brain or not:
We have updated the resources in the community and the following have been added:
All the original KS3 teaching units, including various adaptations.
Securing level 5 units
Teaching at level 3 or below units
All the core and optional training materials.
All the materials from subject leader development meetings from 2004 onwards, including the APP materials
Many of these materials are old, however, there are still some gems amongst them, which can be built into your present schemes of work e.g. there are some very useful flash based resources that could be used as Starters in the level 3 or below materials.
If you are reviewing a unit of work, then it is definitely worth looking at these materials to see if there are any applicable resources or ideas.
This final link is to a word document that contains a series of links to the websites for the game making resources we evaluated during the meeting. Links to Game Making Resources
A reminder that you need to book the following dates, which are the 24.11.2010 and 17.03.2011.
The National Education Network (NEN) Safeguarding Group
Can you help in research to understand what you think about the Internet?
The National Education Network (NEN) Safeguarding Group is a national group concerned with your Internet safety. They (the NEN and Lancaster University) want to understand more about your experiences with the Internet, with social networking sites, and with mobile devices.
This new research, being conducted across the UK by the NEN and Lancaster University, ask you to complete a simple survey.
Answers to survey questions will be used to support the needs of the NEN and those of your school. Taking part is entirely voluntary, all survey responses remain anonymous, and no electronic links are set up if you respond.
There are different surveys for
* Head teachers
* Safeguarding officers in schools
* Teachers
* Non-teaching staff
* Governors
* Pupil age ranges
This could be a very worthwhile activity for different colleagues in school and pupils.
Could you please share this as widely as possible in your schools.
We’ve picked up quite a bit of internet and twitter chat about this product today and thought you might like to see it. The software is a free download and allows you to use powerpoint (2007 and 2010) in conjunction with wireless mice to create a pupil response kit.
You might be interested to look at ‘Removing Barriers to Progress in ICT-Handling Data‘ on the National Strategies website; in particular chapters 6-8 cover the development of pupils understanding of creating charts and graphs. Strengths within this section are her use of a consturctivist pedagogy and the way in which the pupils really develop their understanding by developing success criteria.
Her scenario is set as ‘her friends place of work’, adding an aspect of functional skills, but as such she provides a large data set for the pupils to work with. If you want to create large data sets you might find this random data generator site useful, www.generatedata.com.
A big thank you to all colleagues, who attended the Subject Leader’s Development Meeting, for their contributions on the day, especially your work developing the integrated projects. Your evaluations were very positive.
We intend to ask you for further input on the integrated projects at the next SLDM in the summer term.
Below are links to two zip files, the first contains all the materials used during the day, the second to the integrated projects. SLDM 15 Materials
Have you also seen that OCR have made a response to that on their website.
We think it would be useful to have a discussion about KS4 qualifications, and the New GCSEs, at our next Subject Leaders Meeting on Wednesday 3 March. If you have any information that you can bring along to that meeting we’re sure that everyone would benefit from it.
