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At the recent Swale ITN, Morag from Tunstall suggested we look at http://www.tutpup.com/ for encouraging pupils to practise and speed up their maths and spellings. A teacher will need to create a free account for their class, and pupils can register with...
Becta guidance, to be published this month, states that protected data must be encrypted before it can be removed from a school. “Until new technology or enhancements to your existing ICT infrastructure can be put in place, you are likely to need to make...
Have you ever wanted to make your photos wall-sized? Here is a totally free website to upload a photo and then create a saveable .pdf file with all you need to print, cut and stick your own. http://www.blockposters.com Amaze your class with a 6ft picture...
The Maths and Literacy games pages have changed over the summer. www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games There were two purposes for this..... firstly to provide more help information for each game. As some of the games are indecipherable! Secondly I wanted all...
How does your school keep parents informed, and involved, in the homework process? Do you use email to inform parents that their child has a particular homework due in on a given day or to send out homework tasks? Do you set homework tasks via a blog...
The Downs CE Primary School's Wiki http://thedowns.wikispaces.com/ Planning for an ICT Club has just got easier with the help of Mark Warner, at The Down's Primary school. Wikis, like other tools (content management systems, weblogs), are being...
19 January - a whole day workshop for 200 Kent teachers. Contact mandy.barrow@kent.gov.uk for further details After Tim's inspirational afternoon presentation at the EIS ICT Conference , we are inviting Tim down to Kent for the last two weeks of January...
The Kent ICT Conference was another huge success with the added bonus of an afternoon enthralled with the imaginative ideas of Tim Ryland . Tim, who is mainly well known through his work using Myst to inspire children’s writing, captured his audience...
Many congratulations to Madginford Park Junior School. The school achieved a magnificant third place in the Primary category of National Finals in the Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge. On 26th June four year 6 boys travelled to Warwickshire to take...
Jackets to fit on your Bee Bot There's an aeroplane to use if you are having a Seaside or Holidays topic. The engines drag on the floor though, so I wouldn't bother with them unless you are really enjoying yourself. There is also a Handa's...
ICT2008 Exhibition and Conference Ashford International Hotel Thursday 3 July 2008 www.eiskent.co.uk Guest speaker Tim Rylands Tim Rylands has been described as “an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology...
As part of the 2Simple ' 10 Year Birthday Celebrations' , for short period of time schools are able to purchase site licences for the entire collection of 2Simple software ( 28 titles and 2 online titles that could be used at home) for either...
TOTTON SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL ICT WEBSITE contains short flash tutorials on a variety of different software and hardware that are great for refreshing how to do somehing or for learning step by step. Software/Hardware covered include: Inspiration, Spreadsheets...
Doctor Who is very popular with a lot of pupils. Here is the link to the BBC where pupils can create their own trailer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/ A great activity to do during an ICT Club. This site and many more have been added to...
Del.icio.us is a free social bookmarking service. Rather than saving your favourites in your browser and only being able to access them on the one computer, you save them to an online account. The social part comes in when you add other people’s accounts...
The Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 list has now been finalised from the contributions of 155 learning professionals from education, workplace learning and continuing professional development. http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html
Becta has launched the 2008 ICT Excellence Awards , to seek out the best and brightest schools that are using technology to help learners achieve. The ICT Excellence Awards aims to identify and reward those schools throughout the UK who are leading the...
A workshop with contributions from Helen MacGregor ASK Music Advisor, Michele Gregson ASK Art Advisory Teacher and Kent Leading ICT Teachers Schools taking part in Weather Watch 2008 are invited to attend a Music and ICT workshop at Oaktree Primary School...
Short film clips that can be used to support the teaching and learning of maths. The first site contains a list of films to use plus a supporting worksheet. http://mathbits.com/MathBits/MathMovies/ResourceList.htm The following site contains a selection...
The 2008 Make IT Happen competition is for primary school students aged nine to eleven, across the UK. Great fun and cash prizes to be had regionally and nationally. Regional prizes of £1,000 and National prizes of up to £4,500! ‘ Make IT Happen 2008...
Kent Broadband will now be centrally funded We are very pleased to announce that, with the help of the School Funding Forum, we have developed a new, three-year funding strategy for broadband in KCC schools. The government specified bandwidth will be...
There are some new resources available from the KentNGfL games page, (they are very much open to change so please do suggest improvements): Phase2 Sound Buttons - supports Letters and Sounds . Choose only the sets you are teaching to make new words. Phase...
Three useful websites to support science have been emailed to me. One is for fun and tests reaction times on tranquilising sheep. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf The other two are more educational. http://www.bbc...
Today, I would like to bring your attention to fantastic webquest that helps pupils understand the pitfalls of the intenet. The website looks, at first, to be fairly well put together and seems to be the ideal site to find out about Explorers. However...
With thanks to Helen Knight, from St George's CE Primary School in Wrotham, for kindly providing the following notes from the Malling Cluster's multimedia day. Thumbnail Searchengine http://www.pagebull.com/ Excellent site. Like a google search, but thumbnails...
There are some new additions to the Kent NGfL games page: Bear Builder: If your topic is 'Toys' or 'Bears' you might like to try designing your own bear on screen. Then write some sentences using the word bank. You can play back your sentences to hear...
The Kent Learning Zone Roadshows are aimed at staff within Kent Schools who need to gain an insight into Kent's solution on how to meet the DCSF 2008 requirement , 'Every pupil to have a personal online learning space'. A personal online learning space...
The WEEE site in Sittingbourne (Swale) is now operational. You can find more details here http://www.swale.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1025 Don't forget to erase or smash hard drives if sensitive data has been stored on the computer. For Office/admin computers...
BETT 2008 has thousands of educational ICT products and services on display, live demonstrations and a range of exciting show features. What impact will visiting the show have on your school? Please share with us your favourite new products/software or...
We mentioned Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) back in July , and we are sure anyone who has signed up to it would agree with us, that it is a very useful resource indeed. By subscribing to Ictopus (it's FREE!), you will receive the weekly Sharing...
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