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North Lincs Learning Platform Release Notes

September 5th, 2011

My Learning Space continues to be imporved over time. The latest version went live at the end of August with the following changes:

Included in this deployment are:

Stability fixes to ensure system is robust for use at start of September term

Enhancements

Report abuse and report bug forms separated.
Ability to resend playlists.
Additional functionality of being able to add web links to the event stream, file descriptions in the shared folder and file descriptions in my stuff.
Improved validation for html widget on group dashboard.
Ability for Junior to be turned on/off for individual schools.
Report Abuse functionality added to Junior.
Further optimisation of the junior interface to improve performance.
Ability to view file descriptions in Junior’s Our Work.

We will be publishing a full roadmap of all developments for the next 6 months soon.

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Tags: learning my platform space

Graduate Teacher Programme : Assessment Only Route

July 6th, 2011

North Lincolnshire ITT Partnership can now offer Assessment Only Graduate Teacher Programme.

Are you a well-qualified graduate who has substantial* teaching experience and is currently working as an instructor in a primary, secondary school or FE college?

In your current teaching post do you benefit from regular monitoring of the quality of your teaching and a range of CPD opportunities?

What do I need?

Full details….

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YHGFL Summer 2011 Newsletter

June 14th, 2011

Treasured possessions
Virtual classroom learning
1911 Census data
Resources
Is your school eSafe?
eSafeguarding case study
Facebook guides

If you require hard coppies for your staff please contact Debbie.addinall@yhgfl.net

Download : YHGfL ShareIt Newsletter – Summer 2011

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North Lincs School Leaders Newsletter June 2011

June 11th, 2011

Download : School Leaders Newsletter

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34 Interesting Ways* to use Google Docs in the Classroom (*and Tips)

May 3rd, 2011

Interesting Ways
The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been a privilege connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea. See more

Google Docs is now part of the North Lincs Learning Platform.

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November 20th, 2009

The co-founder of Wikipedia has launched a Web site designed to offer free access to thousands of education-related videos for students ages 3-18.
Larry Sanger, who helped create Wikipedia and has since left the organization, says the new site, www.watchknow.org, will allow students and teachers to sort through a library of online videos by content, and pick out what they need. Topics range from math and science to history. The site is meant to house and organize videos that are free and available online, yet which most people don’t know how to find.
Press Release..

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Poisson Rouge

November 16th, 2009

This amazing website is perfect for pupils to build mouse skills, solve problems, play games and learn to navigate.

“The site encourages, relies on, and rewards exploration. It’s only gotten better as I let students cooperate with each other (they love to show others how to navigate to something). While some of the more complicated puzzles may not entertain many students, I was very pleased to find one autistic student who happily spent hours on those.”

http://www.poissonrouge.com

Perfect for early years.

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Posted in All Subjects, Early Years, ICT

Transformation: Learning Beyond

April 16th, 2009

Presentations from the above event are now available in the Leadership and Management Class.

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Posted in All Subjects, Leadership, Transforming

Google Street View reaches Scunthorpe.

March 24th, 2009

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Posted in All Subjects, art, Geography, ICT

TED Talks Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?

January 26th, 2009

Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?