BBC Education NewsAn official update to the original “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update includes new and updated statistics, thought-provoking questions and a fresh design. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com — Content by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, design and development by XPLANE.
The Learning Zone provides rich audio-visual material for use in primary and secondary schools and colleges. These short videos have been selected to match the curriculum; they can be used in many ways, from the stimulation and engagement of students to the delivery of very specific learning points. Try searching by subject and topic or by keyword. Link
Making the News is a free online publishing system for education that enables news to be published, broadcast and accessed over the World Wide Web. Text, images, animation, video and audio can be easily submitted to the MTN website via a simple-to-use submission form.
MTN is very simple to use. Upload video, text, images, podcasts etc through a single clean submission form. Pupils and Teachers will master the process in minutes.
Each school can have its own home page and account and it is all FREE.
Students and teachers have a new way of communicating with the world - by using blogs! After requests for a safe environment from a number of schools and Local Authorities for blogging, YHGfL are piloting their newly created Classblog. See http://shareit.yhgfl.net Specially designed and created to appeal to children and teenagers, the facility allows all students and teachers to safely write a blog from within their school/college - via a username and password.
The blogs will be fully moderated, can be accessed globally and once written, the text cannot be altered by other users. YHGfL have added in the ability to videocast/podcast so that users can download entries to a variety of devices, e.g. mp3 and mp4 players.
Currently, the project is being piloted by Wakefield and Calderdale and it is then to be rolled out across the region.
Free music downloads are available to all YHGfL member schools, thanks to a unique service via the National Education NetworkThrough the project, teachers and students have access to literally thousands of music tracks of original composition, performances and recordings.
Audio Network provides schools and colleges with free access to rights-cleared, industry-standard, audio files for editing and re-use in school. It can be used for a whole range of creative activities in any subject area and at any Key Stage - but, says YHGfL’s Collaborative Technologies Manager, Andrew Lickley, it is particularly useful for pupils making soundtracks. Audio Networks
We are delighted to announce that the licence agreement with British Pathe has been extended for a further year. This excellent resource is free to YHGfL member schools and contains 12 million still images and 3,500 hours of video footage.
Ilustrations can be found for projects in all areas of the curriculum and saves hours of time trawling through different sources. www.britishpathe.com
There are two new video conferencing sessions available at the NCM:
Session 1: Coal Mining’s Contribution to the Second World War - Stories from a Bevin Boy. Meet Jeff, an ex-Bevin Boy as he unlocks his memories of WW2 (KS2 resource)
Session 2: Meet a Miner
Let one of the mining guides give you first hand experience of a typical day in the mine (KS2 resource)
Visit www.yhgfl.net/video-conferencing/national-coalmining/ to find out more!
YHGfL have updated their E-Safety information. More details here.
BECTA also have updated information. here
Signposts to safety
Teaching e-safety at Key Stages 1 and 2
The children of Wootton St Andrew’s Church of England Primary school have produced two videos:
1) A contribution to The RE Project: A tour of Wootton St Andrew’s Church.
2) A video covering the development of their skipping activities.
(You may be prompted for your Teacher Zone username and password when viewing these videos
The Virtually There book/dvd sets are being sent to all our schools via the Local Authorities. This publication contains both a written and a visual account of the learning journeys of 7 schools across 6 local authorities in the Y&H region in their quest to implement a learning platform.
For more information please visit www.yhgfl.net/learning_platforms/
Please note that LOC8 is currently undergoing maintenance and will be operating as normal shortly.
LOC8 is a FREE mapping system for Yorkshire and Humber schools that allows users to:
See Ordnance Survey maps for the whole of the UK
Broswe maps, enter postcodes or placenames to find a specific location within the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Within the YHGfL region, you can overlay maps with high definition overhead photographs
Compare maps and photographs side by side
Measure distances and areas
See extra information about a location
http://loc8.yhgfl.net
user names and passwords are available form the LA
YHGfL has now purchased a Weather Station for all LAs and it is now possible to view real-time webcam pictures from some of the sites. In addition, by going to www.yhgfl.net, clicking on Resources and following the link to Weather Stations, you can link up to all the graphs and historical data collected both regionally and nationally. Weather Stations.
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