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Session: 1
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Animation for Beginners Part 1: The Process
Speaker: Oscar Stringer (Southstreet)
Suitable For: Subject and general teachers, all key stages
A hands-on workshop focusing on the planning and preparation necessary to use animation in the classroom and its potential in teaching and learning. The workshop will also give examples of use from across the curriculum.
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B
Session: 1
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Enhancing Learning Using Photography
Speaker: Chris Morley
Suitable For: Subject and general teachers, all key stages
This hands-on session will look at the use of digital photographic images in the classroom. You will find out how to manipulate and enhance photographs, using photography in art and presentations.
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C
Session: 1
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Video Conferencing – National Opportunities
Speaker: Tim Boundy
Suitable For: Head teachers and teachers – all key stages
A workshop outlining the variety of educational content on offer to all schools connected to the NEN through JVCS. A wide number of organisations offer lessons and services via video conferencing. The session will include live link-ups to demonstrate some of the opportunities available. The session will also look at the potential for schools collaborating and working together using VC.
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D
Session: 1
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Creativity Through Cookery
Speaker: Caroline Cuerden, Consultant
Suitable For: Subject and general teachers, all key stages
This is a hands-on practical workshop on the use of cookit. As a group, you will make and upload a recipe to the website, discover what our ancestors really ate. We will explode a few food myths and look at the potential for using Cookit as a cross-curricula resource and a resource that provides a web2 platform in support of the 'Licence to Cook' initative. In addition the session will also look at the use of Cookit as a food technology assessment tool and as a stand alone resource.
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E
Session: 1
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Special Education Needs– Empowering All Learners
Speaker: Ian Bean, Information and Training Manger and Carol Allen, Advisory Teacher for ICT and SEN
Suitable For: SEN and other teachers interested in supporting pupils with special education needs
This workshop will look at assessment techniques and novel teaching strategies which exploit the full potential of technology for students with a wide range of severe, profound and complex learning difficulties. It will look at the potential of ICT to enable and empower all learners providing them with rich, meaningful and personalised learning experiences.
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Session: 1
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Celebrating Languages
Speaker: Mark Oliver, General Adviser for Modern Foreign Languages and International Education, Cambs & Gareth Davies, ICT Advisor, Cambs
Suitable For: Head teachers and teachers, KS2/3/4
This is a hands-on workshop exploring the interactive E2BN Celebrating Language site. Practical activities working within and working away from the site will focus on celebrating linguistic diversity locally. An important focus for the workshop is how these activities can make a positive contribution to learning. The support for whole school initiatives, such as community cohesion and the global dimension, will also be considered.
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Session: 1
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ICT in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Speaker: Rachel Ager, Independent Consultant
Suitable For: Foundation Stage/Early Years head teachers and teachers
This seminar will focus on how settings and schools can provide an appropriate ICT learning and teaching provision in the Early Years Foundation Stage. It will describe the model of good practice that Rachel developed when she worked in Northamptonshire, exemplified by video clips from a variety of settings. Consideration will be given to how practitioners can and should build on the knowledge, skills and understanding that the children have already developed and how the Foundation Stage curriculum guidance can be interpreted to provide a challenge to the young children of today.
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H
Session: 1
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Good Practice: VLEs in Secondary Education
Speaker: Rashida Din
Suitable For: Secondary teachers and head teachers
This session looks at using a VLE for personalised learning with 24/7 access in secondary schools and will address accreditation and resources at KS4. The session will also address the use of peer mentoring and e-mentoring and discuss there role in the empowerment of students.
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Session: 1
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Good Practice: VLEs in Primary Schools
Speaker: Becki Jennings, Charlene Pinkham, Kerri Hastings & Carol Green
Suitable For: Primary teachers and head teachers
A showcase of how the VLE is being used in a range of contexts in Norfolk schools, including a small school, infant schools and a junior school. Presenters will highlight examples of good practice being used in their own schools to motivate learners, inspire staff and improve communications with parents.
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Session: 1
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A Toolkit for the 21st Century Learner
Speaker: Brendan Routledge, Consultant
Suitable For: Teachers, all key stages
The workshop will focus on an innovative range of tools developed by E2BN to help teachers inspire, motivate and engage a wide range of learners. The tools are intended to be used a cross a wide range of subjects and in different key stages. Those attending this workshop will have the opportunity to try the new E2BN ‘Timeline’ tool which allows users to build complex timelines related to any events. One of E2BN’s newest tools will be unveiled at the conference – this will allow users to select a picture and add an audio narration or interpretation to it. Other tools such as the ‘Diary’ tool and ‘A day in the life’ will be explored alongside some of the established packages such as the E2BN Gallery.
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Session: 1
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Home Access – Pilot Schools Suffolk
Speaker: Terry Ring
Suitable For: Head teachers and teachers
In October 2008, it was announced that Suffolk would be a pilot in the Government's Home Access Pilot to ensure every young person has access to a computer at home. This workshop looks at how the initiative is progressing in Suffolk so far. The challenges and potential benefits.
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L
Session: 1
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Extended Education -Opportunities for Learning Beyond the Classroom
Speaker: Peter Ford and Tony Sheppard, Silverstone Study Centre
Suitable For: Head teachers and teachers, all key stages
This workshop will use the example of projects undertaken at the Silverstone Centre to illustrate some opportunities for learning beyond the classroom. The centre offers a range of activities such as reward days and challenge events across the curriculum, that contain a blend of challenge and creativity, coupled with the latest ways of communicating and celebrating the achievements on return to school.
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M
Session: 1
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Film and Education
Speaker: Christian Turton, Luton CLC and Poppy Simpson, BFI
Suitable For: Subject and general teachers, KS2-4
Film is increasingly being used in education to bring topics to life and engage students in learning across the curriculum. An understanding of media literacy is becoming increasingly important in enabling young people communicate and participate. This hands on session looks at ways in which schools can use film in all curriculum areas in the classroom and school clubs to raise attainment and engagement.
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Session: 1
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Commercial Workshop: Day 1 Channel 4 Learning, Day 2 Xtranet-ITSolutions Ltd
Speaker: Various
Suitable For: All interested in the products on offer
Day 1: E-teaching - feeding the digital appetite of today's learners. Channel 4 Learning
Find out how teachers are using 'Clipbank', the new generation of education resource to enrich the curriculum, improve student engagement and inspire learning. See how TV clips can become much more than audio-visual lesson starters, and can be central to motivating, student-centric learning. Explore strategies being used in the classroom, and see how learners are assimilating their own knowledge and developing a deeper understanding of curriculum concepts.
Day 2: Is Green Computing really Achievable or Affordable? - Xtranet-ITSolutions Ltd
Xtranet-IT Solutions is a leading supplier of ICT hardware, networking services and training to Education. We provide IT Engineers to schools managing their networks and work with schools to best understand how our clients can best deliver the curriculum to their students. Many products are advertising their products as “green” when reality discloses them to make very little difference to the carbon footprint. How do you sort the real from the counterfeit? Join the workshop to find out more about optimising your ICT facilities.
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Session: 2
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Animation for Beginners Part 2: Making an Animation
Speaker: Oscar Stringer (Southstreet)
Suitable For: Subject and general teachers, all key stages
A hands-on session that will provide participants with the basic skills and understanding to develop the use of animation in the classroom. This workshop is suitable for primary and secondary teachers.
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Session: 2
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NEN and the Arts
Speaker: Bob Usher LGfL and TBC
Suitable For:
This workshop will look at a contemporary dance project, - Ballet Boyz - that has produced online resources for all Key Stages. The resources and teacher support materials available. It will also look at the latest developments on ArtisanCam the BAFTA award winning resource that provides pupils with an an insight into the lives of contemporary artists, using a mixture of video and interactive activities. It introduces children to the world of contemporary visual art and encourages them to have a go themselves in fun and exciting ways.
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Session: 2
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Oracy in a FLASH: The benefits of Flash Meeting Video Conferencing
Speaker: Sally Elding
Suitable For: Primary headteachers and teachers
This session will focus on flash meeting a low cost VC solution. It will provide delegates with opportunites to try out the technology and explore issues such as online etiquette, safety and pedagogy. The workshop will emphasise the Oracy benefits. It will describe how Cambridgeshire LA have started to encourage schools to use the Flashmeeting webconferencing tool on collaborative class-based projects. Experience so far has formalised a procedure with etiquette rules for taking part in a web conference and this will also be shared at the session.
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Session: 2
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Assessment for Learning and Pupil Response Systems.
Speaker: Andy Gilmore, Queen Edith's Primary and Sarah Veater, Witchford Village College (Secondary)
Suitable For: Primary and Secondary teachers and ICT Coordinators
Pupil response systems are being used to support personalisation of the curriculum and as an effective tool for Assessment for Learning (Gilbert Report: 2020 Vision, HMI Chief Inspector of Schools). The system is flexible to adapt to a range of assessment needs including formative and summative and contributes to identifying individual needs for quality first teaching. It is simple and easy to use as demonstrated by the action research project ongoing in Cambridgeshire schools. Students can interact and respond to any form of media in a digital format thus capturing their responses ready for quick analysis, tracking of progress and feedback. This workshop is an opportunity to explore the value such a system can bring to the classroom.
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Session: 2
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Exploring Storytelling with Myths and Legends
Speaker: Brendan Routledge, Consultant
Suitable For: Primary Teachers
This hands-on session will look at the use of Myths and Legends. Already nominated in 2009 for a BETT Award and an ERA Award, Myths and Legends is now an established part of many teachers’ toolkits. The site offers teachers and children a vast array of tools to help learners explore stories from around their own region and well beyond. They can explore these stories by reading them, having them read aloud and viewing an image gallery related to the chosen tale. Hundreds of stories, added by users from countries as far and wide as Russia, Taiwan, The Cook Islands and Iceland can be read and rated by other users. The Story Creator allows children to use text, animated characters, speech, sound effects and more to build highly complex storyboards and to then have these published to a world-wide audience. Over five thousand learners have already had their work published in this way
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Session: 2
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Protex Version 2 Configuration Overview
Speaker: Philip Pearce, E2BN Technical Manager
Suitable For:
This workshop is designed for schools who are currently running or considering running E2BN's Protex web-filtering product on a local cachebox. This workshop will give you an overview of Protex configuration with a focus on the enhanced features in Protex version 2 which allow you to adjust the web filtering to meet your schools requirements. This will include the new time band feature in the latest version 2.1 , which could for instance allow games in non-lesson times.
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Session: 2
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Mathematical Mark-making in the Early Years
Speaker: Harriet Price
Suitable For: Early years and KS1/2 Teachers
“While ‘emergent writing’ is a recognised term, that is not the case for ‘emergent mathematical mark-making’”.
Since 2005 six Cambridgeshire nurseries and children’s centres have been involved in a learning network project to research and share best practice in developing children’s mathematical mark-making. Come and see how the findings can support your own practice in developing children’s mathematical graphics in the Early Years.
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Session: 2
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Making The News 2
Speaker: Kathy Olsson
Suitable For: Head teachers, teachers and ICT Co-ordinators KS2 - KS4
Making The News 2 - E2BN newest project provides opportunities for students to create and publish media rich web based news stories using the online tools to record and edit sound and video clips.The more adventurous students can enter a variety of virtual news locations and create reports as avatars.
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Session: 2
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Everyone Wants to Broadcast- Live School Radio
Speaker: Russell Prue, ICT Evangelist
Suitable For:
This is a shorter version of the successful whole day school workshops that Russell has recently been leading. After a short introduction to schools radio from Russell, working in teams colleagues will be asked to write a short 60 second radio script on News, Weather, Sports, Features and just about anything else that appeals. After scripts have been perfected teams will move into Russell's Radio Studio and a recording of that content will be made for inclusion in the live show that will be broadcast at the end of this session. A couple of talented presenters will be selected from the group to host and introduce the live show that will be broadcast to the main workshop room and anyone else in the world that may want to listen! This is a brilliant hands-on participative illustration of just how a live radio project can impact on speaking and listening skills, collaboration, teambuilding and higher level problem solving skills. This is beyond podcasting, this is live on the button radio and will appeal to colleagues wanting to promote C21st learning skills in their school.
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Session: 2
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Realising the Potential of Web 2 Technologies
Speaker: Roger Distill
Suitable For: Subject and general teachers, all key stages
Since the advent of Web 2.0 four or five years ago, a host of new computer applications have arrived on the Internet which offer users a new way of working. Our students use a number of these technologies daily, as do many teachers. But it seems that still too many educators fail to realise the enormous potential for the 21st century classroom. This workshop will look at some of the major opportunities which I believe are being missed by most.
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Session: 2
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Hand Held Learning
Speaker: Ruth Jack
Suitable For: Head teachers, teachers and ICT coordinators, all key stages.
Hand-held technologies such as mobile phones, PDA’s MPS Players are offering new opportunities in teaching and learning This workshop looks at examples from both Primary and Secondary schools and looks at the impact of hand-held technology on teaching and learning
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Session: 2
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The New Primary Curriculum and ICT
Speaker: Rachel Ager, Independent Consultant
Suitable For: Primary teachers and head teachers
This session will look at what a new primary ICT curriculum could look like following the Rose Review. It will explore how we can plan for and deliver a more creative curriculum that develops the ICT capability children need to maximise their potential. It will outline Northamptonshire’s response to this challenge and deliver an ICT curriculum that is fit for purpose.
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Session: 2
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Visible Resources - History and Citizenship Projects Through E2BN
Speaker: Dale Banham, History Advisor, Suffolk County Council
Suitable For: Teachers KS2-4 with an interest in History and Citizenship
This workshop will explore how new resources on the E2BN website can be used to engage pupils with history, develop writing and promote active citizenship. Examples will be taken from Key Stages 2 and 3. A range of Active Learning strategies that help pupils to understand difficult concepts and develop personal learning and thinking skills will be explored as part of this workshop.
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Session: 2
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Commercial Workshop: Day 1 Education City, Day 2 Netmedia
Speaker: Various
Suitable For: All interested in the products on offer
Day 1: ‘Raising Achievement Through Learner Engagement’
This seminar will provide an insight into how EducationCity.com creates the virtual environment that nurtures engagement and how it can support you and your learners to increase achievement and raise expectations of future success. You will discover the impact of the features of the resource; from its stimulating animation, sound and characters. The interactive functions that stimulate learners, to the integral assessment management functionalities that ensure reliability, consistency and validity.
Laura Burton-Nicholls Training Manager EducationCity.com
Day 2: Netmedia Learning Platforms - a re-design in teaching and learning contexts for the 'creative classrooms' of tomorrow
Find out how teachers are using the Netmedia Learning Platform as a 'change driver' for the school's creative curriculum. Based entirely on classroom practice, see how children are rising to, and exceeding expectations as they use the Platform to respond to challenges in new and innovative ways.
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