Bristol Primary ICT Subject Leaders' Meeting - 15th March 2012

Here is a copy of the agenda for the ICT subject leaders' meeting on the 15th March 2012. We currently have bookings from 30 schools. Please use the form at the bottom of this post to register. The deadline for booking is 1st of March 2012. I will e-mail registered schools on the 2nd of March to confirm their place.

Location: Orchard CLC

Orchard School Bristol, Filton Road, Bristol BS7 OXZ

ICT Subject Leaders’ Agenda - March 15th 2012

9:00   –   9:30	Tea and Coffee
9:30   –  9:45	Welcome messages + Updates- A detailed overview of the status of ICT nationally and in Bristol.
9:45 – 10:15	Developing ICT Leaders in your school- How ICT subject leaders can support/coach other teachers to become leaders of ICT.
10:15 –  11:15	ICT Cross Curricular Resources - Using ICT as a tool to support learning across the primary curriculum. Delegates will be provided with links to resources and case studies examining how ICT can be used as a tool to support learning across the primary curriculum.
11:15 -   12:15	Tim Rylands and Sarah Neil inspired Interactive Writing Frames – Using Microsoft PowerPoint to create multimodal writing frames. Delegates will be shown how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create interactive multimodal writing frames.
12:00 -   13:00	Lunch + Networking
13:00 -   13:30	Websites/resources of the term – an opportunity for delegates to share best practice/resources.
13:30 – 15:00	Individual/Group Planning- Delegates will be given the opportunity to plan with other ICT Subject Leaders. Delegates will be provided with examples of planning. (Optional) Bristol Scheme of Work Focus Group – An overview of the scheme of work focusing on how subject leaders can support planning in their school. This session is designed for teachers who are new to the role or thinking about implementing the Bristol ICT Scheme of Work. (Optional) Assessing ICT Focus Group – An introduction to assessing ICT. Delegates will be given the opportunity to share best practice and look at how schools from around Bristol assess ICT.
15:00 – 15:30	Reflection/Action Planning – Delegates will given the opportunity to reflect on the network meeting creating an action plan for supporting their school.

Delegates should bring:

·         Copies of ICT planning from across their school

·         Examples of assessing ICT.

·         Examples of best practice/learning resources to share.

Safer Internet Day 2012 - SID

Useful SID learning resources




http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/download-schools-pack/


http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day


http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/Supporters





SID Radio Programme


 http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-radio-programme

ICT Subject Leader Meeting - Thursday 15th March 2012

Dear all,

here is the registration form for the second ICT Subject Leaders Meeting on Thursday 15th March 2012. I will e-mail more information to all schools next week. Sorry this post is so short but my writing hand is currently in a splint!

best wishes

Chris

Bristol Merlin Matters Event

Dear Colleague,


I’m getting in touch to let you know about a free ICT event which is happening near you. We would love for you to come along to our Bristol Merlin Matters event and pick up some practical ideas for using Merlin in the classroom. Staff from Merlin schools around the area are coming along to St Patricks Primary on Monday 27th February from 4:30 – 6pm to share their best practice with Merlin and ICT. It is a free event to help raise awareness of good practice with ICT and Merlin around Bristol.


This meeting would give your school the opportunity to pick up some good ideas for practical uses of ICT and Merlin in the classroom. Also you’ll be able to set up collaborative links with schools nearby. As such we feel it would be a hugely beneficial event for staff from your school and others in the local area to attend, impacting on your use of Merlin now and in the future.


If you are interested then please do get in touch to let us know you’ll be attending by replying to this email. Sharon Lemon has very kindly let us host this event at St Patricks and we are very grateful for this. Please find the schools address below and, if you would like to contact Sharon, her school email address:


St Patrick’s Catholic Primary


Blackswarth Road,


Redfield,


Bristol


BS5 8AS


ict.st.patricks.p@bristol.gov.uk


Kind Regards,


Kathryn Goldby


Administration Assistant (Merlin)


T: 01392 351897


Email: kathryn.goldby@swgfl.org.uk


Website: www.swgfl.org.uk


Twitter: @MerlinKat

YouTube for Schools: Join the Global Classroom

Information quoted from: http://www.youtube.com/schools

'YouTube for Schools provides schools access to hundreds of thousands of free educational videos from YouTube EDU. These videos come from from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED as well as from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy,Steve Spangler Science and Numberphile.

School admins and teachers can log in and watch any video, but students cannot log in and can only watch YouTube EDU videos plus videos their school has added. All comments and related videos are disabled and search is limited to YouTube EDU videos.

You can customize the content available in your school. All schools get access to all of the YouTube EDU content, but teachers and administrators can also create playlists of videos that are viewable only within their school's network.

YouTube.com/Teachers has hundreds of playlists of videos that align with common educational standards, organized by subject and grade. These playlists were created by teachers for teachers so you can spend more time teaching and less time searching.'

BBC article on YouTube for Schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16141986

Year 6 - E-Safety

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!

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/

  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 

Please post a comment if you know of any other good E-Safety Sites.

Finally, at what age can children legally use Facebook?   

Answer: 13

Interesting fact: More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.

November's Network Meeting - Follow Up Post

A big thank you again to all the subject leaders who attended the November ICT Subject Leaders' meeting. From my perspective it was really useful to meet with you all and discuss how you are using ICT to support teaching and learning. I have already started to plan how I might use some of the resources shared.


 Please find a summary from the feedback questionnaire  below.

Session	Question	Average score based on 14 responses.
1	Bristol Scheme of Work – An overview of the scheme of work focusing on how subject leaders can support planning and assessment in their school.	4
2	ICT + Literacy – Using ICT to enhance standards and enjoyment in literacy.	4.5
3	ICT + Math – Using ICT to enhance standards and enjoyment in Maths.	4
4	Websites/resources of the term	4.5
5	The Future -Group discussion. How should the ICT Subject Leader meetings evolve over the next year? How can we share best practice? How can we share planning and ideas? How can we communicate effectively? Who can we turn to when we need support?	4

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

Response to written comments:

Things you found useful:

• having a subject leaders' blog is very useful as it provided an area where we could check for updated information and share our own planning/practice.
• providing a questionnaire before the meeting resulted in the agenda being relevant to subject leaders’ needs.
• publishing the agenda before the meeting was very useful.
• using an online booking form was convenient and easier than in previous meetings.
• having all meeting dates for the year published at the end of term 1 enabled teachers to give their SMT more notice which increased the likeliness of them being able to attend the meeting.
• publishing all notes on the blog enabled subject leaders who were unable to attend to view information.
• publishing notes using Google Docs enabled subject leaders to easily share information with other teachers.
• The shared planning area was useful as it enabled subject leaders to see examples of best practice.
• being given time/being shown how to create a blog.
• having the opportunity to meet with other subject leaders.

Areas you would like to focus on during the next Subject Leaders Meeting.

• greater focus on how Maths can be used to support teaching and learning
• opportunity in the afternoon to plan with other subject leaders and have 1:1 with AST.
• examples of how to use assessment tools in relation to the Bristol Scheme of Work.

There will also be a meeting agenda questionnaire sent to all Bristol schools in January in order to ensure that the content of the next meeting is relevant.

Additional Feedback

A number of subject leaders commented that it would be useful to have a twilight session on blogging. I will look into the possibility of this and e-mail all schools in January.

It would be really useful if you could use the Subject Leader blog to:

Share ideas/resources:

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

Share planning (e-mail planning to chris.unsworth@bristol.gov.uk)

Share how you are using ICT to support teaching and learning. If anyone wishes to write a post on the blog 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

AST Outreach Support Information

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.


Here are the Merlin contact details requested: vicky.moss-crump@swgfl.org.uk