http://elgg.norfolk.e2bn.org/elearning/weblog/23669.html

E2BN will be running ‘Safe Smartphone – It’s no Game’ E-Safety sessions on 25th May and 6th & 7th July

Once again we are delighted to be able to offer E2BN schools access to this online interactive role play that develops e-safety knowhow.

Each session lasts an hour and takes place at 9.30, 11.00, 1.30.

Your students take on the role of ‘student adviser’ to a number of virtual characters who are concerned about their own online activity. As the scenario unfolds your students will be prompted, via a series of on-screen messages, to consider how best to advise them. Students respond to the scenario via an ‘instant messaging’ type interface. Throughout the session, our experts monitor and respond to your students comments. The activity encourages students to think about some of the dangers that the Internet presents, how to best to deal with them and most importantly how to keep themselves safe.

Simply send an email to info@engage.net with your name, schools contact details (school name, address, telephone number), number of students taking part and say which day/ time session that you would like to take part in.

Sessions are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.

If your school takes it's broadband connectivity form one of the local authorities listed below and you quote 'E2BN' in your email you will not be billed for these sessions

(Bedford Borough, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, Peterborough, Southend-On-Sea, Suffolk, Thurrock)
Places are limited to two classes per school.
Session run for an hour, at 9.30, 11.00 and 1.30

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We've had a fantastic response to our(Norfolk ICT Conference), with some even saying it was the best ever!  The slides from keynotes and introduction will be on the conference site shortly.  Ewan McIntosh has already made all the material from his great keynote available via his blog.  In the meantime you may like to take a look at some of the blogs of Norfolk ICT Subject Leaders, who are in the process of transforming their curriculum.  They are linked via my other blog.

Australia:

You may recall that I wrote in September to ask who was interested in teacher international development.  Well, we are off to Australia and the colleagues who are going might well be in touch with you as part of their research.  In fact, if you could support Nigel Sinclair (AST, Dereham Neatherd) who is co-leading this trip with some answers to these questions, he will be very grateful.  Colleagues will be reporting back during the ICT Subject Leader Network and the KS3 Network in the Summer Term.  The list of people going can be found in our Fronter room.

 

Staffing changes:

Wendy Styles returned to Lynn Grove High School at the beginning of January and will be working as ICT AST with a whole school focus on assessment.  Although school funded, Wendy can still provide some support for ICT across the county.  Please contact Seb in the first instance.

 

As part of the reorganisation (part 1) here at the Integrated Advisory Services we have welcomed Sheila Denny and Jill Duman to be formally part of the ICT Team.  We’ve always worked closely together anyway, but we are now back in the same room and you might meet Sheila or Jill, as all of us are working much more across all phases.

 

Courses:

We are planning some exciting courses around the use of Google Apps for Education as well as collaborating with Vital on a range of face to face and online courses.  Watch out for the new course brochure to be sent out soon.

 

Subject Leader Network for ICT      -      Spring Term 2011 - please book with Anne Mitchell

The following agenda is designed to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills in order to improve standards in your department

 Session 1

·        Brief updates

·        Impact of white paper on ICT

·        Functional skills incl. apprenticeships

·        Wolf report on Vocational Education (role of ICT Qualifications including IT Diploma)

          

Session 2

·        The Curriculum Review

·        What ICT should every pupil learn?

·        EBac, Gold Standard and ICT

 

Session 3

·        Developing learning and teaching through schemes of work

·        Examples for Y7 integrated curriculum, Year 9 and OCR

·        Choice of focus to work on

o       Considering differentiation

o       Behaviour and climate for learning

o       Developing subject knowledge

 

Session 4

·        Feedback from Teachers International Development – ICT Teachers in Australia

 

Session 5

·        Evaluating different tracking models (3 groups)

o       Vocational related qualifications (OCR, DIDA, BTec)

o       New GCSEs, IT Diploma

o       APP at KS3

 

Session 6

·        ICT across the curriculum

o       Effective models for tracking and development.

o       Progression or consolidation through cross-curricular teaching?

 

Norfolk ICT Conference

Free for Norfolk Schools, £154 per delegate for all other participants.  The Norfolk ICT Conference at the John Innes Centre has got some fabulous keynote speakers and will take place on 23rd and 24th March 2011.  Dawn Hallybone and Ewan McIntosh are confirmed keynote speakers.

Subject Leader Network for ICT      -      Spring Term 2011

The following agenda is designed to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills in order to improve standards in your department

 

 

Session 1

·        Impact of white paper on ICT

·        Functional skills incl. apprenticeships

·        Wolf report on Vocational Education (role of ICT Qualifications?)

          

Session 2

·        The Curriculum Review

·        What ICT should every pupil learn?

·        EBac, Gold Standard and ICT

 

Session 3

·        Developing learning and teaching through schemes of work

·        Examples for Y7 integrated curriculum, Year 9 and OCR

·        Choice of focus to work on

o       Considering differentiation

o       Behaviour and climate for learning

o       Developing subject knowledge

 

Session 4

·        Feedback from Teachers International Development – ICT Teachers in Australia

 

Session 5

·        Evaluating different tracking models (3 groups)

o       Vocational related qualifications (OCR, DIDA, BTec)

o       New GCSEs, IT Diploma

o       APP at KS3

 

Session 6

·        ICT across the curriculum

o       Effective models for tracking and development.

o       Progression or consolidation through cross-curricular teaching?

http://elgg.norfolk.e2bn.org/ict/weblog/21391.html

Subject Leader Network for ICT      -      Spring Term 2011

The following agenda is designed to develop your knowledge, understanding and skills in order to improve standards in your department

 

 

Session 1

·        Impact of white paper on ICT

·        Functional skills incl. apprenticeships

·        Wolf report on Vocational Education (role of ICT Qualifications?)

          

Session 2

·        The Curriculum Review

·        What ICT should every pupil learn?

·        EBac, Gold Standard and ICT

 

Session 3

·        Developing learning and teaching through schemes of work

·        Examples for Y7 integrated curriculum, Year 9 and OCR

·        Choice of focus to work on

o       Considering differentiation

o       Behaviour and climate for learning

o       Developing subject knowledge

 

Session 4

·        Feedback from Teachers International Development – ICT Teachers in Australia

 

Session 5

·        Evaluating different tracking models (3 groups)

o       Vocational related qualifications (OCR, DIDA, BTec)

o       New GCSEs, IT Diploma

o       APP at KS3

 

Session 6

·        ICT across the curriculum

o       Effective models for tracking and development.

o       Progression or consolidation through cross-curricular teaching?

http://elgg.norfolk.e2bn.org/elearning/weblog/21304.html

Adapted from Naace

Safer Internet Day 8 February 2011 It's more than a game, it's your life   Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. The topic for 2011 is "our virtual lives" around the slogan "It's more than a game, it's your life".   To celebrate Safer Internet Day, Naace is encouraging its members to take advantage of the following opportunities: FREE e-safety courses   At www.ictcp4free.co.uk: ·         Embedding E-Safety in the Curriculum (Short Course) ·         Embedding E-Safety in the Curriculum (Long Course)   And in Second Life: ·         See here for joining instructions Prizes, prizes, prizes!   Put your e-safety knowledge to use and win a FREE subscription to to the new Sumdog numeracy website.   We’ve got 20 whole-school subscriptions (each worth £100) to give away, which extend Sumdog's free maths games with detailed pupil reports.   To be in with a chance to win one of them, please complete our short e-safety quiz at www.surveymonkey.com/s/E-safetyquiz   The first 20 winners with the highest score will receive a free whole-school subscription for a year. Enter now!   Get access to a selection of:   ·         interactive e-safety resources   ·        "How to..." guides     Extras, more freebies and support in lesson planning – read

http://elgg.norfolk.e2bn.org/elearning/weblog/21303.html

Increasingly, there seems to be a consensus that pupil owned devices should play a bigger role in their learning at school.  A recent survey by RM, NAACE and Intellect gave an interesting insight into how practitioners evaluate the role of technology in learning.  Whilst we continue to work towards this and can even point to some early success in Norfolk, we cannot yet talk of a widespread approach to make this a normality.  A significant proportion of schools continue to ban pupil devices.  Usually there is an acceptance that pupils will have devices, but they must stay out of sight or will get confiscated. Some schools have taken a bold approach, developed some rules and policy with the student body and are beginning to see some benefit.  Other have started to adjust their networks to provide free wifi & Internet for pupil owned devices.  This is increasingly seen as a normal expectation in FE and HE institutions, with Sixth Forms catching up fast.

What is needed next, are the case studies which show that such an approach has impact on learning throughout the whole institution and not just for the enthusiast who deploys this in their classroom.

Naace connect have just published this video and it summarises what goes on in forward thinking ICT classrooms.  The example is from a school in the West Midlands, for Norfolk examples just ask our ASTs Toby Jones (Notre Dame High School) or Nigel Sinclair (Neatherd High School).  We don't use the same platform as shown in the video. Needless to say, Fronter does this in a very similar way.

http://elgg.norfolk.e2bn.org/elearning/weblog/21036.html

Interesting times - that's what I hear more and more often when I talk to people about ICT and learning.  Clearly, the change at a national level are having some impact, but school life is surprisingly resilient and the impact of technology on learning is increasing if anything. 

Whilst we are in a process of re-organising a few things (See ICT Services for School's project), we are also continuing with some of the work that teachers appreciate a lot.  For a start, there are two big conferences coming up and both of them promise to provide insight into the way pedagogy is changing and technology is enhancing learning.

Our Norfolk ICT Conference (details to be announced shortly) promises some high calibre keynote speakers and the E2BN Conference will provide welcome regional networking as new support structures emerge both within Norfolk and the East of England.