A short introduction to blogs – how they work and why they matter.
Short animation demonstrating the main features of a typical learning platform.
The Flash animation is by Aaron Bowler and the whole sorry project was written by Chris Thomson at Sheffield East City Learning Centre.
The basis for the script of this video is the standard specification for Learning Platforms from BECTA’s website.
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.
YHGfL have updated their E-Safety information. More details here.
BECTA also have updated information. here
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
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