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This may well be the last news update to this website, certainly it will be the last one this year. As previously mentioned, we are amalgamating our current three websites into one super new website on the FutureClass domain (www.lambeth.futureclass.net). Many of the features of this site will move across to the new site, but this site will remain as an archive and in particular, a record of the earlier Brixton Connections project. The site should be up and running early in the New Year.
We would like to thank all visitors, especially those who signed the visitor's book and left helpful comments, over the years. We look forward to you joining us over at FutureClass, which will be a very interactive site, and making your contribution there. Or, just pay us a visit and make use of the many resources you will find on the site.
Finally, happy holidays to all our readers.
Phil Redman - Webmaster
The ICT conference took place last Wednesday and was attended by over 40 colleagues from schools in the LEA.
The main presentation was on the LGfL portal. Colleagues from Digital Brain took delegates on a brief tour of the functions and facilities on over. Schools will shortly be informed of how to sign up.
There were also demonstrations of Spark Island, Espresso and the new Help the Aged schools website.27th-November-2001
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last couple of weeks. This has been due to technical issues beyond our control.
Tomorrow, we have the ICT Conference at International House. The next news bulletin will give a brief summary of the content.
As part of the FutureClass update, we will be showing the designs of the new FutureClass website.
Lord Puttnam hosted the BAFTA Interactive Awards for 2001 in
London last week, when GridClub (developed
by Intuitive Media, Channel 4 and Oracle) won the Award for Online Learning.
Judges commented, "GridClub proves that learning can be great fun! A rich
resource that creates an engaging and absorbing experience through great design
and dynamic content for 7 - 11 year olds. Really makes use of the technology to
offer a multitude of activities."
GridClub is the official DfES education website, designed especially for 7 to 11
year-olds.It's free, fun, safe and can be used at home or in school. GridClub's
fantastic resources are designed to help children learn and enjoy themselves.
The school website of the month is Dunraven School. Congratulations to them.
The Autumn ICT Conference takes place on the 28th November. Letters have gone out to ICT co-ordinators this week. The main item on the morning's programme will be a presentation on using the LGfL portal by Digital Brain. We also hope to have a preview of the new FutureClass website available. Collegues can book online by clicking here.
The minutes of the NGfL Project Implementation Group, or PIG for short, are now available on the NGfL page of the website.
The group who will be working on the NGfL category B funding project, currently known as FWiP (Futureclass Web Innovations Project) has been formed and will hold it's first meeting in November.
Copies of the ICT Electronic Newsletter are now available on the Futureclass website.
Chris Davies, our new e-Learning strategist is looking for any good consulting advisors or inspectors who would be interested with working with our secondary schools to evaluate provision and advise on strategies for improvement. Please email Chris with ideas.
Our school website of the month for October is Triangle Nursery.
Details will shortly be sent out to schools on how to register their staff and pupils for the LGfL portal managed by Digital Brain. In the meantime, you might like to have a browse around the portal, which is being updated daily, to see what it will have to offer. The address is: www.lgfl.net. Digital Brain will be attending the ICT Conference on November 28th to give a full demonstration.
Welcome to a new term and school year. This term will see a lot of changes in our websites as we are currently reviewing them with a view to amalgamating them in to one super site. Watch out for updates on this page.
Chris Davies has now formally taken over our section. A big welcome to him from us all.
On the Lambeth.futureclass site, you can read how to apply for NGfL category B funding.
Finally, the Science Museum are looking for teachers to participate in a new project. Please click here for details.
ICT in Practice Awards - final call for entries - closing date
27th July 2001.
Becta/TES ICT in Practice Awards 2002 - you could win £5,000! - Final call for
entries.
This is the second year of the ICT in Practice Awards, again supported by the
TES and sponsored by BT Education. Building on the success of the first year, we
will be using the Awards scheme to develop evidence about effective practice
using ICT, to gauge how this is impacting upon teaching and learning, and to
share this information with the wider teaching community. W hy not encourage
your colleagues to get involved? Why not nominate a colleague? Or why not ask
someone to nominate you?
We have expanded the award categories this year: Management (primary, secondary
and post-16) , Inclusion (primary, secondary and post-16), Subject Teaching
(primary, secondary and post-16), Innovation and Change, and Advice and Support.
Details of all the categories can be found on the web site: http://www.becta.org.uk/practiceawards
Prizes:
Each winner will receive £2,500, with an additional £2,500 going to their school
or organisation. Runners up will receive £500, with an additional £500 going to
their school or organisation. The nominations will be open until 27th July 2001.
Further details, including information about the categories, criteria, last
years winners and an entry form, are available on the web site.
The closing date for nominations is 27 July 2001.
Web site:
http://www.becta.org.uk/practiceawards/ E-mail:
practiceawards@becta.org.uk
If you haven't yet booked for the ICT Conference on 13th July, please do so today. See last week's news for details.
The July school website of the month is Turney School.
The NGfL Project Implementation Group meet on Thursday. One of the main items on the agenda is the distribution of this year's category B 'innovation' funding. Schools should be receiving details in the near future. Minutes from the meeting will be posted on the NGfL page of this website as soon as they are available.
Friday 13th of July is the date of our next ICT conference. The main speaker is Brian Durrant, the Chief Executive of the London Grid for Learning. If you haven't booked yet, then the quickest way to do so is through the booking form on the Lambeth Schools INSET page.
Becta has just published a new Information Sheet on 'Internet Safety', which is available on the Becta web site.
Internet Safety covers the latest guidance on pupil photographs on school websites; chat rooms; pupil email addresses and school email systems; and Internet filtering. This guidance is also available on the Superhighway Safety website.
Schools have this week received their letters informing them of their category A NGfL allocation. Information on category B spending will be circulated shortly.
New on the HotLinks page are some links to Education for Sustainable Development documents, recently produced be Lambeth Environment Directorate.
Lambeth schools will be receiving their letters confirming their allocation for NGfL Category A funding in next week's bulletin.
The June school website of the month is Herbert Morrison. Congratulations to them. Last month's was Wyvil.
Becta is pleased to announce the second year of the ICT in
Practice Awards, again supported by the TES and sponsored by BT Education.
Building on the success of the first year, we will be using the Awards scheme to
develop evidence about effective practice using ICT, to gauge how this is
impacting upon teaching and learning, and to share this information with the
wider teaching community.
Each winner will receive £2,500, with £2,500 going to their school or
organisation. Runners up will receive £500, with £500 going to their school or
organisation. The nominations will be open until 27th July 2001. Further
details, including information about the categories, criteria, last years
winners and an entry form, are available on the web site.
Web site: http://www.becta.org.uk/practiceawards/ Email:practiceawards@becta.org.uk
Several schools have created websites, and there are some very good ones too, since the schools section was last updated. Links to their sites can be found in the schools section. If your school site is ready to be published, please let us know and we will publicize it here.
An evaluation of the FutureClass event is now available on the FutureClass website. Also on that site is a new discussion board. We intend to use just one discussion board across all our websites and are currently looking at options.
We are getting together a small group to help us form our Internet/Website strategy. If you would like to join this group, please email Phil Redman.
Several Lambeth teachers recently went on a TIPD (Teacher's International Development Programme) visit to Australia. You can read all about their visit on their TIPD website. New on the Lambeth.FutureClass website is a web board for discussion of the ICT strategy.
The NGfL Project Implementation Group (PIG) meets tomorrow. The main item on the agenda will be the distribution of the NGfL category A fund. Distribution of this fund depends very heavily on receiving the pro-forma development plan back from the schools. If your school hasn't yet returned the form, please do so now.
The launch of the Lambeth.FutureClass ICT strategy takes place on Monday. The main speaker is Lord David Puttnam and Michael Wills MP will close the conference. Full details are on the Lambeth.FutureClass website where you can download the draft strategy.
Further to the April 2 item on what constitutes a computer, a number of schools have called or emailed to ask if ILS systems should be included. The answer to that question is yes! Also, nursery children are not included in the roll figures as NGfL is for KS1-4.
To make up for the Easter break, there is a larger than usual collection of links on the hotlinks page today.
Schools will have received pro-formas recently for completion of their ICT Development Plans. Please get them back by 4th May. The DfEE has recently published new guidance as to what constitutes a computer:
Only computers used for teaching and learning should be counted when assessing progress towards the computer to pupil ratio element of the baseline. This definition includes:
The following should not contribute towards computer to pupil ratios:
This means that those class sets of DreamWriters and AlphaSmarts count!
New guidance for schools is to be displayed on the DfEE's Internet safety web site on the following areas:
Schools are strongly recommended to amend their Internet Acceptable Use policies as appropriate.
The NGfL Project Implementation Group met this morning. The minutes will be posted on the NGfL page of this website shortly. One of the main items of discussion was school ICT development plans and funds distribution for phase 4. Schools will hopefully receive a letter and pro-forma next week.
Dr. Chris Abbott of King's College London was the keynote speaker at our ICT Conference this week. The website links he spoke about can be found on his website.
We have moved our web forum to another provider. This means that we will have to start our discussion topics all over again. Please visit the forum to get the ball rolling.
The LEA's subscription to Lambeth CR-ed expires on the 31st March. However, we are looking for a number of schools to continue working with CR-ed over the next financial year. If your school (KS2-3) is interested, please email Phil Redman.
Schools and colleges have been offered the chance to demonstrate their imagination, creativity and use of the latest technology by entering the prestigious Becta/Guardian UK School and College Web Site Awards 2001. The awards showcase the best of school and college Web publishing and encourage schools and colleges to contribute to the National Grid for Learning. Details of the award categories and criteria are available on the web site. Within each award there will be separate entry categories for Primary, Secondary and Post-16. The closing date is Friday 13th April 2001.
For further information about the awards and an entry form:
Please click
here.
E-mail enquiries: webawards@becta.org.uk
Web Nose Day Award
Becta have teamed up with Comic Relief to challenge schools and colleges to
take Red Nose Day activity on line. The award will be given for the best set of
Web pages (a maximum of six) which reflect the work of Comic Relief and Red Nose
Day. The Guardian are
providing advice on how to make your Web Nose Day irresistible, and
BBC Webwise
are offering templates and designs that can be downloaded and used on your Web
Nose Day web site. Within each award there will be separate entry
categories for Primary, Secondary and Post-16. Web sites entering the Web Nose
Day Award should be 'live' the week before Red Nose Day (16th March 2001)
and the week after.
Preparations are well under way for the Lambeth Spring Term ICT Conference which takes place on March 14th at Lambeth PDC. The main speaker is Dr. Chris Abbott who will talk about ICT: Changing Education. There will also be updates on London Learning, Lambeth's draft ICT strategy, the NGfL and loads of other useful stuff. If you haven't booked already, then please do so by following this link www.lambeth-schools.org.uk/course1.html.
Congratulations to David Nicholls of Thurlow Park who was runner up in the Special Educational Needs Secondary category of the BECTa ICT in Practice Awards. David is featured in last Friday's Online supplement of the TES.
Next week is half-term so the next update will be in the week beginning February 28th.
Schools should shortly be receiving a letter giving details of NGfL funding for 2001-2002. Next year's fund will be discussed in detail at the next NGfL Project Implementation Committee which meets on 15th February.
Just a brief reminder that you can book up your ICT INSET courses on the Internet at www.lambeth-schools.org.uk/course1.html. We are currently working on the programme for the next financial year.
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Some of the schools involved in the Lambeth SWOP project were here yesterday working on their websites with NetSetGo. Any schools or potential sponsors can join the project by completing the forms on this page.
