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Sheffield ICT Best Practice Awards – coming to you soon!
February 4th, 2010There’s a lot of great practice going on around the city – wouldn’t it be wonderful if it could be shared and celebrated?
Well, that’s the aim of the Best Practice Awards, organised by Sheffield Inclusion & Learning Service and supported by the 5 Sheffield CLCs. Leading towards an awards ceremony here at the centre in October, entries are invited in any of 6 categories:
- Leadership and Vision: Demonstrating leadership by creatively implementing the school’s vision for the use of technology across the curriculum, school and school community
- Creativity: Working creatively, taking the initiative and seizing opportunities to look beyond established thinking. Identifying new possibilities and opportunities to integrate the use of technology across the school community
- Teaching and Learning in Practice: Creating a climate for teaching and learning in the classroom supported by the integrated use of technology which is characterised by enthusiasm for learning, high expectations, and outstanding learner outcomes
- Peer Support: Engaging other colleagues, parents and teaching assistants in developing their understanding of and skills in technology to support learning and development
- Personal CPD: Showing a continuing commitment to his or her own professional learning and personal development
- Beyond the Classroom: As a champion of technology how does this teacher take the role of technology beyond the classroom to the life of the school and school community.
To help you (and encourage you) to enter, SWCLC staff will guide you through the process. The nomination process is designed to be straight-forward and not time consuming.
Promising entries will also be supported to try for the Becta Award for Next Generation Learning at the Teaching Awards.
If you wish to nominate someone in your school, or wish to nominate a project you are working on yourself, please contact Dave at the CLC (dave@nwsclc.net) or Helen Smith, Senior ICT Consultant at Sheffield L&IS (Helen.smith@sheffield.gov.uk).
Good luck!
Success for online learning resources in STEM
January 29th, 2010A pan-European report has found significant successes for online learning resources on several fronts in STEM subjects.
- 85% of the teachers involved stated that use of the learning resources had an impact on the autonomous learning of the pupils.
- 77% said that the resources made the concepts easier to understand.
- Interestingly, nearly three quarters of the teachers said the resources stimulated their own interest and motivation for the teaching.
- A majority said that the resources made it easier for their pupils to understand experimental results, or developed scientific methodology.
The learning resources were collected from a range of sources and published in several languages. Some pupils experienced problems with resources that weren’t in local languages, or had difficulties with access to ICT rooms and resources. Some were used to better resources, and so didn’t receive maximum benefit.
So, to summarise: well chosen resources delivered with time and space for their use, in language appropriate for the targeted learners DO have a positive effect on learning what are sometimes called ‘hard to teach’ topics.
Take your school to the Oscars!
January 18th, 2010The Steel City Globe film awards are the premier showcase for Sheffield schools to demonstrate their creative use of digital media.
Our Partner Schools teachers can benefit from the following free support:
Film Making for Primary Schools – Some Practical Activities
Wednesday 3rd February 2010 4:00-5:30pm
Simple activities using Microsoft Movie Maker and low-cost hand-held digital video cameras to get students started with film making.
Taking Animation Further
Thursday 4th February 2010 4:00-5:30pm
How to create better animations and films through media literacy activities and better storyboarding techniques. Suitable for Primary and Secondary School staff with some experience of animation or film making, however little!
Free loan equipment
We have film and animation making kit available to loan for partnership schools including Digital Blue cameras and Digital Video cameras.
April 1st 2010 is the closing date for the Steel City Globe film awards.
Primary Schools can enter films of up to two minutes in length and Secondary Schools up to three minutes.
Subscribe by Email!
November 23rd, 2009We’ve recently added a new facility to the web site that lets you subscribe by email. This is great if you’re a busy teacher and don’t have time to visit the site.
You can simply visit the subscription page, add your details and subscribe. You can also visit the same page to unsubscribe at any time.
You will then receive updates about course at the CLC, resources and any other important news realting to teaching and ICT.
Royd Nursery and Infants – Animation Workshop
September 29th, 2009Tracey Scott and Marie Jolly from Royd Nursery and Infants ran an excellent workshop at the CLC on Friday 25th September as part of the Emerging Technologies Conference for schools in this partnership.
The workshop was all about Animation and Film making. Here are the films that they used in the workshop – examples of films made by pupils at the school.
