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Archive News

On this page you will find all the latest news features from previous weeks.


Archive News
Website Resources and Web links

December 2007

bullet"What’s your child doing online this Christmas"

bulletYou can download e-safety banners for your website from the CEOP website.

bullet The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre are running a campaign in the run up to Christmas aimed particularly at parents and carers.
"What’s your child doing online this Christmas" Visit
www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents

bulletYou can download e-safety banners for your website from the CEOP website.

Has your school received ICT training through Hands on Support? Please take a few moments to fill in our online Hands on Support evaluation

November 2007

bullet Join other schools taking part in the Kent Weather Project from January 2008

bullet ACTIVote demonstration at Kemsing School - Monday 19th

October 2007

bulletCEOP's e-safety Key Stage 2 resource will be launched on 24th October

bullet Internet proficiency teacher's pack (e-safety) is still available as a download

September 2007

bullet Internet proficiency teacher's pack (e-safety) is still available as a download

bullet The Promise of ICT - A thought-provoking teaser of what to expect at next weeks free online ICT conference

bullet St Mary’s School in Folkestone sent their Jet-setting teddies on a global adventure.

e-bears

bullet Can your class solve the Victorian Mill mystey? An exciting new ICT Project for Kent schools

bulletCongratulations to Kingsdown & Ringwould for gaining the ICT Mark.

 

July 2007

The Primary ICT team can be contacted through Tracey Mitchell in the Kent NGfL office from now until term starts in September.

The annual ICT Conference will take place on July 5th 2007 at Ashford International hotel. We are looking forward to seeing you as we have some fantastic things to share with you.

June 2007

Message from Doug Dickinson

Free follow up training for all those who attended one of Doug Dickinson's Textease Training sessions.

Last Textease trainings by Doug Dickinson this week.

Free e-safety CD Rom for Parents

Ask a River Expert Day.
Book your video conferencing session

Textease Trainings get off to a inspirational start

Using Voting Systems on the Interactive Whiteboards in Numeracy lessons - Tonbridge

May 2007

Textease Trainings/Seminars start this week in Deal and Dartford

Baby for James Barrett, Early Years Project Teacher

BBC Panorama programme's evidence criticised as "grossly unscientific"

School needs help - RM Server or not?

The Environmental Transport Association has created free resources for Walk to School Week (May 21 - 25)

Free maps of Europe for every school

ICT 2007 Exhibition & Conference - 5 July

Teaching Resources available to support Evacuation week

Watch the Tentenden Evacuation week video live on your IWB next week.

Free Resources for schools on Kent Broadband - Pathe News and Audio Networks

The Downs FM - Podcast Interviews from Harnessing Technology Conference

Book now for the hands on Textease Seminars/Trainings taking place throughout June

April 2007

NB New Venue for the Canterbury Cluster ITN

Windows XP to be retired in 2008

Free single user copy of a Kar2ouche title for all schools attending ITN meetings with a Kar2ouche demo.

RM Easy Mail and Kent Primary Schools

Kent Learning Zone to be launched in September 2007

Join our Mailing List - for Kent Schools only

Teaching e-Safety
Becta have just published guides for
School Leaders, and Primary and Secondary teachers.

TTS and Kar2ouche will be attending ITN meetings

Congratulations to

for achieving the ICT Mark

March 2007

Woodlands Junior's website is quoted as being "Kent's very own rival to Wikipedia".

Schools are invited to take part in 'The Journey of a World War II Evacuee'.

Kent NGfL website feedback needed. How do you use our website?

The Kent River Watch Project

Kent schools who would like to upgrade their free 2Connect licences to a site licence need to do so before the end of term.

Has your school missed out on the FREE 2Connect Software?

The BBC is to suspend the online education service, BBC Jam, pending a review.

At the Naace Conference in Torquay last week Gareth Mills spoke about 'A big picture of the curriculum' and outlined new QCA developments in the area.

ICT Conference 2007: 3 May: Booking Deadline: 30.03.07
ICT Conference 2007: Best Practice Almanac Competition: Deadline: 23.03.07

Total Lunar Eclipse - see the photographs

February 2007

New guidance on ICT funding published by Becta.

Working Towards the ICT Mark in Kent - Please contact Sandra Patrick for advice.

Make IT Happen - A new competition, for pupils aged 9 to 11 in all primary schools across the UK

Free Textease CT Training events planned for June 2007

January 2007

Free Textease resources matching the renewal of the Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics 2006

See the latest Clicker resources at either of the Breakfast and Twilight Seminars being held in Canterbury and Maidstone

BBC Teacher Online Survey - The BBC are inviting teachers to help shape the future of BBC resources.

Upgrade to Vista? Becta advises schools to wait

Becta's ICT Excellence Awards are now open for entries!

Data projectors and dust - the discussion continues

BETT Show 2007 - join in the discussion

Kent Learning Platform Experiences within Ashford Rural Cluster

Tonbridge 2Connect twilight at Hadlow School cancelled.

Final 2Connect twilight sessions - see dates for this term

 

 

December 2007

bullet Link to St George's School added

bulletRenewed Framework Resources

bulletChristmas Crackers - ICT Christmas activities from Naace

bulletctChristmas Resources created using Textease

bulletPixie / Metal Detector resource (pdf) Linked to the new 'Letters and Sounds' phonics document.

bullet Link to Oakfield Infant School added

bulletLink to the new website of Minster CE Primary School added

bullet Christmas Crackers - ICT Christmas activities from Naace

bullet Link to Knockhall community Primary added

bulletSanta's heli-sleigh
Transform the Roamer into Father Christmas's heli-sleigh

ctbullet Christmas Resources created using Textease

 

November 2007

bullet New website for Stelling Minnis CE Primary School

bullet ITN ICT Twilight dates for terms 3 and 5

bullet St Andrew's Day facts - 30 Nov.

bullet Christmas Teaching Resources

bullet Becta Christmas ICT activities

bullet New website for Canterbury Road Primary School

bullet Internet Explorer7 and Clicker5

bullet New BeeBot Jackets

bullet New website for Hever Primary School

October 2007

bulletVirtual Fireworks - Why not create some for your own school website too?

bullet Creative Writing - Online writing activity

bulletFoundation Stage ......tasty bits

bullet New website for Yalding Primary School

bullet Google search fixe

 

September 2007

bullet Discount prices for Clicker 5 and Clicker Paint

bullet Free ICT Coordinator Course

bullet New ICT Projects Zone - River Watch report, Crabble Mill, podcasting etc

bullet Full details of courses added to the courses page

bulletICT courses page updated.

bullet Dates for ICT Leader meetings for this term are online.

July 2007

Calm Classroom Monitor by James Barrett

Checkout our Software Zone for discounts on software and hardware

June 2007

Textease Resources added - including using Textease Turtle to control traffic lights.

Numeracy Explorer updated with new Textease files

Early Years new microsite launched

River Watch Page updated

Spaces available on the Textease Trainings next week. Resources and software given to schools attending.

May 2007

New websites for:
Cobham Primary School
Lansdowne Primary School
West Kingsdown Primary School
Sedleys Primary School
Ryarsh Primary School

Evacuation Week - Live stream from Tenterden 1939

New website launched for Kings Hill Primary School

New 3 Year development plan based on the self review framework added to ICT Coordinator's Support Pack.

Free 6 month Textease CT site licence
for all Kent primary and secondary schools.

April 2007

May Day - information about this special day

Henry Vlll Playscript written by Kemsing School uploaded.

Interview an Evacuee Workshop for Kent Schools

Note new date for Flash Meeting training in Folkestone (now the 9th)

Ready Register on our Games page now has a new download for 40 users.

IWB pages updates with new resources. See also powerpoint presentation page

The story of St George

St George's Day information

New link to Headcorn Primary school website

ICT ITN twilights dates and venues added

Modern Foreign Languages zone updated

Visit our blog for ideas and website resources during the Easter break.

March 2007

New website for Blean Primary school added

New website for Elham Primary school added

Powerpoint from E-Safety Conference

A link to our very popular interactive whiteboard pages has been addded to the tabs above.

Easter Resources added

Create a Easter Basket Activity added to games page.

New school websites added:
Shoreham Village School
Hextable Infant School
High Firs Primary School, Swanley
West Kingsdown Primary School

ICT Coordinators Support Pack updated.

Red Nose Day Whiteboard resources

Website of St Botolph's CE Primary School added to schools page

Aerial photographs of Kent and East Sussex rivers now hosted on our website.

Horton Kirby Environmental Education Centre

Website for St Paul's Primary School, Swanley added to our schools page

February 2007

Web pages created to support Kent's brand new Science Transition unit on the Environment

New help sheets on Textease in our Software Zone.

Instructional Videos on how to use Smart Interactive whiteboards by Tim

Chinese New Year Activity created by James.
Chinese New Year Resources

January 2007

2Connect dates for Maidstone and Rural Shepway Clusters added.

Special Kent Prices for Tag Learning updated

Special Kent prices for Clicker products added

New date for Canterbury 1 Cluster's 2Connect Twilight at Swalecliffe Primary.

Kent Infomapper - Information and case studies.

Impact of ICT on pupils outcomes - How do you track pupils' progress in ICT?

Free trial of Atomic Learning training videos

Examples of winter poems using Photostory - on our blog.

Canterbury, Shepway, Dover and Deal 2 Connect twilight dates added.

Wittersham C E Primary School's website added

St. Matthew's High Brooms C E Primary School's website added

Dover and Deal 2Connect twilights added

Learning Environments - a brand new resource from Kent to support school leaders in ICT self-review and action planning.

Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School website added

New address for Callis Grange website added

Cliftonville Primary School's website added

Linden Grove Primary School 's website added

Click here fo 2006 News Items

Superstar VJs
The BBC will release all sorts of video clips under the Creative Archive Licence. To allow you to browse through everything from freeways, Hong Kong traffic jams to Jamaican sunsets, they have created 12 different ways of finding the clips.  
www.bbc.co.uk

Download British English Voice
You can download British English voice (Text to Speech) from the Microsoft site.
www.microsoft.com

ICT and Copyright
Naace have produced a document called '
Copyright, the Internet and the Classroom Teacher', which gives guidance on how to proceed in situations that a classroom teacher may come across.
www.naace.org

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