ICT Subject Leaders' Meeting - June 21st 2012

A big thank you again to all the subject leaders who attended the June ICT Subject Leaders' meeting. From my perspective it was really useful to meet with so many subject leaders and discuss how you are using ICT to support teaching and learning. This year we have now had over 50 schools represented at the meetings.

Please find a summary from the feedback questionnaire  below.

Session	Question	Average score based on 20 responses.
1.	Developing Effective E-Safety Practices	5
2.	ICT Cross Curricular Resources	4.5
3.	Sharing Best Practice	4
4.	Research and Communication Strand of the Bristol Scheme of Work.	4.5

Scale 1 = I did not find this useful                5  = I found this extremely useful

Share ideas/resources section:

http://bristolprimaryictnetworkmeetings.blogspot.com/p/shared-ideasresources.html

It would be very useful if you could e-mail me any ICT planning so that I can add it to the shared planning area on the blog. (e-mail planning to chris.unsworth@bristol.gov.uk)

If anyone would like to write a post to share how they are using ICT to support teaching and learning in their school then please e-mail me and I will provide you with a contributor account.

AST Outreach Support

If you would like to request AST outreach support then please complete the form below and send it to kate.rick@bristol.gov.uk

Click here to download an AST Outreach Request Form

A member of the senior management must complete this request.

I look forward to meeting/working with you soon.

Best wishes

Chris

All comments posted are welcomed.

West of England Regional ICT Conference

The 14^th Regional ICT Conference will be taking place on the 4th June 2012. The conference is organised by partner local authorities in partnership with and sponsored by the South West Grid for Learning Trust.  This years theme for the conference is Back to Their Future.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Richard Noble, OBE – Entrepreneur and record breaker
• Tim Rylands – Inspirational teacher with a love of the creative potential of technology
• David Brown – National Adviser for ICT for Ofsted
• Russell Prue – ICT Evangelist and regular guest of the conference back by popular demand
• Paul White & Oli Milroy– Education Through Expeditions connects explorers, scientists and researchers with schools through an online platform.

Click here to download the poster for the Regional ICT Conference.

Click here to view the Regional ICT Conference website (including booking information).

Bristol Primary ICT Subject Leaders' Meeting -21st June 2012

Welcome to the third and final ICT Subject Leaders' Meeting of the year. 

 

Cross Curricular Learning Resources

Assessment Progression Sheet -  Primary Pete's Blog: 

http://primarypete.net/ict-progression-maps

Skye in the classroom: http://education.skype.com/

Flashmeeting http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/home.html

Art and Photography

Royalty Free Clip Art http://www.clker.com/

Photovisi http://www.photovisi.com/

Jigsaw Planet http://www.jigsawplanet.com/

Photosynth http://photosynth.net/

Panoramas DK http://www.panoramas.dk/panorama/panoramic-head.html

Google Arts Project http://www.googleartproject.com/en-gb/collections/

Warholize Me http://warholize.me/

http://graffiticreator.net/htm/black/chrome5.htm

The Adobe Museum of Digital Art http://www.adobemuseum.com/

The Endless Mural http://www.endlessmural.com/

Artoy  http://www.sourcebits.com/artoy/

Webcams 

World Land Trust

 http://www.worldlandtrust.org/webcams?gclid=CN3pwe-I1bACFdKBfAod-CwM1g

Dorset Wildlife Trust

http://www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/raptorcam.html

WWT

http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/webcams/?gclid=CJev4bqJ1bACFcUmtAoddGun0Q

Africam

http://www.africam.com/wildlife/index.php

BBC Wildlife Cams

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/webcams/animals/

RSPB

http://www.rspb.org.uk/webcams/

BBC Spring Watch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qgm3

NASA Space Station Webcam

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/mar/HQ_09054_ISS_WEBCAM.html

Bird Box Project

http://birdbox.segfl.org.uk/ 

Video about The Bird Box Project http://www.segfl.org.uk/projects/show/birdbox_film/

http://mtn2.e2bn.org/mtn/

http://clips.e2bn.org/

Digital Eye Project http://repurpose.segfl.org.uk/digital-eye/

Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/

Tom Barrett's (@tombarrett) Interesting Ways Presentations

http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/

National Education Network http://www.nen.gov.uk/

E-Safety

E-Safety Resources

SMART Rules Poster

Example AUP- Children Part 1

Example AUP- Children Part 2

Example AUP - Children Part 3

Example E-Safety Monitoring Sheet

Vodafone Digital Parenting Magazine

Orange Safety On-line

Safer Internet Day

CEOP YouTube Channel 

http://www.youtube.com/user/ceop

I have embedded the videos using YouTube which might be blocked on your school network.  You may wish to download them using a YouTube downloader such as Zamzar.

 http://www.zamzar.com/

Here are three Facebook Online E-Safety Videos posted by @ictmagic. I would suggest these E-Safety videos would be suitable for year 6 children, perhaps during work preparing  them for transition to secondary school. You may want to use these videos as a starting point for a discussion. I would recommend that you watch them yourself first!

  Chapter 1 - Friend Requests


 

Chapter 2 - Looking after your online status

Chapter 3- Online Bullying

Other good Facebook E-Safety Sites 

Facebook E-Safety Pages 

Facebook E-Safety Teacher Page  

Follow the link on this page to download the teachers' guide.

Facebook E-Safety Parents Page 

Progression in Internet Research

If I had a penny for every time I observed an ICT lesson which was based around internet research I would be a very rich man. However, in the many internet research lessons I have observed, few (if any) have taught the children how to use an internet search engine effectively and more importantly safely. Even fewer have taught the children how to discriminate between  information sources. Researching using the internet is something that every child should be taught to do in order to develop effective life long learning skills.

Simon Haughton's Views on Progression in Internet Research

Simon Haughton (Twitter:@simonhaughton) is an ICT teacher/manager from Parkfields Primary School in Rochdale. When ever I want to find out about something ICT related his blog is always my first port of call.

Internet Progression by Simon Haughton

Examples of Planning using Internet Progression objectives by Simon Haughton

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Progression in Digital Research

Progression in Internet Research Bristol Scheme of Work 

Google Search Engine

Google Search Engine Research Posters

Google Internet Research Lessons

Useful Research and Communication Links:

Net Smart Kids http://www.netsmartkids.org  Search site for children.

Kids Click http://www.kidsclick.org/  Web search for children created by librarians

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Yahoo Kids http://kids.yahoo.com/learn  Yahoo search engine version for children

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Ask for kids http://www.askkids.com/ Version of ask search engine for children.

Media Gallery http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery-swgfl.html  Moderated site for finding and uploading images, video and sound files.

Staying SMART On-line http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/stayingsmart

Quick: The Quality Information Checklist http://www.quick.org.uk

Smart Surfers http://www.smartsurfers.co.uk

Internet Proficiency Scheme for Key Stage 2 Pupils http://www.gridclub.com/

Search Engines for children http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html

Swiggle Search Engine for children SWGFL  http://www.swiggle.org.uk/