Whizzy BsF School June 17, 2007
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Speaker: Ian Smith, Executive Director, Services for Children and Young People
Ian will be talking about the exciting potential created by Building Schools for the Future for creating a 21st Century learning experience based on high quality ICT.
He will explain the Council’s vision for new schools opening in 2010 and the opportunities for the whole community arising from Tameside’s wireless cloud.
For pre-conference reading visit our BSF website: http://www.tameside.gov.uk/bsf/Â which has all the information about our vision.
Making a VLE Work for you in a Busy School June 17, 2007
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Speaker: Domenic Volpe, Acting Deputy Headteacher, Heaton Manor School and Richard Campbell, ICTAC, Heaton Manor School
Heaton Manor is a large mixed comprehensive school that used to have a messy shared G: Drive, where staff and students, if they were lucky, could negotiate their way to a file or folder. Five or six years ago staff began to ask whether there was a better way. Surely there could be better use made of the technology that was beginning to litter the school?
Heaton Manor is now a leader in the use of VLEs as not only a learning tool allowing true interaction between student and teacher but underpinning all that happens in the school.
The recently changed school day, the Progress, Behaviour and Welfare system within the school as well as the innovative Teaching and Learning Research work is all enabled by the spine of the school which is the Heaton Manor VLE.
Innovative Technology for Teaching and Learning – R U Web Two? June 17, 2007
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Speaker: Doug Dickinson, Independent ICT Consultant
This session will look at the way social software is beginning to weave its way into the lives of teachers and pupils in primary schools. It will look positively at the potential for both expansion of teaching and learning and for professional communications. Examples will be drawn from world contexts.
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How Flossie got into the TES, and other Tales from a Primary Learning Platform June 17, 2007
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Speaker: Gareth Davies, E-Learning Development Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire’s learning platform, Starz, has been used in nursery, primary and special schools for the last 2 years. Its early development has been based on enriching the curriculum through communication, collaboration and celebration of children’s achievements.
The session will draw on examples of the experiences of pupils and teachers to reflect on and stimulate discussion about:
- The benefits of a learning platform to young children
- What such a learning platform should provide
- How it can support personalisation
- How it can best be introduced, supported, and managed
- Where it might go in the future
During the session delegates will be encouraged to share their own experiences and views on the value of learning platforms for young children. If there is sufficient interest there will be post-session opportunities to continue the debate through an online discussion forum.
Functional Skills: Implications for Teaching and Learning June 17, 2007
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Speaker: John Kirk, Senior Adviser, Secondary National Strategies for Schools
This session will consider the implications for all learners of the introduction of functional skills with specific reference to ICT.
Delivering BSF Managed Services – The Real Story! June 17, 2007
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Speaker: Mark Hoyland, Operations Director, Ramesys
Mark will talk about BSF managed services in detail, not in theory. Most events focus on the educational benefits of technology, the need for strong school leadership and clear outcomes driven vision, but few are describing exactly what this looks like when translated into reality. Mark will also talk about how he ensures technology is ‘always on’ and why Headteachers shouldn’t need to worry about faulty or outdated equipment. For example ‘hot swapping’ ensures critical equipment is replaced within defined time limits, sometimes in 15 minutes. Mark will also talk about how he works with a school’s current IT provision and ICT staff and how value is added.
Importance of Computing as a Specialist Subject in Schools June 17, 2007
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Panel: Gillian Lovegrove (, Manager, Education and Training Forum), Richard Millwood (Director of Core Education UK), Chris Yapp, Martyn Wilson (Hampshire Adviser and former Chair on Naace)
This session is to debate the importance of Computing as a specialist subject in schools. The proposition is that the study of computing is rich with important concepts and processes for humankind which transcend the simple need for a computer literate workforce and citizenry. The debate will look for strong views to support and oppose this proposition and clarity about the very definition of computing as a subject – what should it contain and how might it be taught in the 21st century?
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