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All courses are flexible to suite beginner, intermediate and advanced ICT levels of practitioners. Content and technique are matched to suite the curriculum outcomes and age phase of students. All titles are one day courses unless otherwise stated.
Using your Learning Platform
Learning Platform (LP) is a generic term used to describe a range of integrated web based applications such as web pages, email, message boards, text and video conference, shared diaries, online social areas, as well as assessment tools. Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are part of the same family of applications and when used in conjunction have the ability to fully integrate ICT with the way schools work, where every member of the school community has access to appropriate information when and where they need it, and tools that are exciting and engaging, whilst enabling them to be as effective as possible. The following courses are all one day in length and are designed to guide you through the process from the planning stages to the proficient user.
Implementation and Planning Consultation Making use of the personal space Creating and developing a space Using the VLE for a teacher/student workflow
Embedding Web 2.0 Technologies
Synopsis: This course is intended to give you an overview of what Web 2.0 tools can do for you in the classroom. How they can contribute to making your students more confident and creative users of technology, as well as enhancing the learning experience and making them more motivated and critical learners. You will learn what Web 2.0 is and the range of tools available to you to enhance the learning experience, and you will look in more detail at three of those tools – blogs, podcasts and wikis.
Supporting the use of Still Images and Animation
Synopsis: This course will focus on the requirement to use digital cameras, images and stop-frame animation techniques to record, develop ideas and share outcomes.
Using Microsoft Windows Movie Maker to support the use of Digital Video
Synopsis: This course utilsing Microsoft Windows Movie Maker focusses on the requirement to use video devices and techniques to record, develop ideas and share outcomes. This course outline can be tailor made to a particular need or curriculum area, for example, to encourage boys’ writing, making science movies, news reports, historical review, or indeed any subject area where non-traditional recording methods and creativity would be a bonus.
Using Audacity across the curriculum
Synopsis: Audacity is a FREE to download, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs for a variety of activities across the curriculum, e.g. School radio station, creation of jingles, adverts, news reports and musical compilations, promote language learning, create talking books to name but a few. Audacity is a FREEWARE program which means that any teacher can freely download and use it without having to pay any money.
Creating and using Podcasts
Synopsis: Podcasting can offer the chance to provide lessons and learning opportunities in a way more likely to engage students than more traditional methods. This course makes use of FREE to download software to embed creative ways of recording ideas and sharing information into the curriculum. Podcasts can be a way of keeping up with educational ideas and can be listened to anytime, anywhere. For students they can be a way of learning in their own time at a place of their choosing. The focus of this course is on creating podcasts with pupils and by the end of it you should know how publish podcast files and listen to your podcast in a browser.
Using an Interactive Whiteboard
Synopsis: An Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) has the potential to enrich learning and teaching across the curriculum. The curriculum/age phase in-context training covers skills and functionality at all levels, is very hands-on and encourages practice on the boards throughout the day.
Using an Interactive Whiteboard in the Foundation Stage
Synopsis: This one day course, aimed specifically at Foundation Stage practitioners, outlines how interactive whiteboards have the potential to enrich learning and creative and innovative teaching across the Foiundation Stage curriculum.
Making an impact with PowerPoint for multi-Media Teaching and Learning
Synopsis: Many teachers find creating multimedia presentations a powerful tool for their own teaching and for their students' learning potential, especially when using an IWB. You will understand how to put together pictures, sound, music, text, video and animation.
Using ICT to encourage Speaking and Listening skills in F.S., KS1 and KS2
Synopsis: This one day course will offer support in the area of speaking and listening designed either for FS, KS1 or KS2 teachers to complement the objectives for reading and writing. The course focuses on "soft" learning that places play and conversation at the centre of nursery, reception and KS1 classes.
Using ICT to Support Reading and Writing in the primary classroom
Synopsis: The aim of this one day course is to give teachers the techniques to develop their pupils’ reading and writing skills using a wide variety of ICT applications. Using a diverse range of ICT, teachers will be able to inspire even the most difficult to motivate readers and writers in their class.
Using Clicker 5 to support Writing in F.S., KS1 and S.E.N. classrooms
Synopsis: Clicker is a writing support and multimedia tool - it enables you to write with whole words, phrases or pictures! It is a very powerful tool and is easy to use, and supports all areas of the curriculum. The software has been found to be especially effective to support the writing of S.E.N. students. This half day course aims to explore and familiarise delegates with the many features of the software.
Using ICT to support Maths and Problem Solving in KS1 and KS2
Synopsis: This one day course will help practioners find out what is meant by a problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics at an appropriate level for their children. It will help them help their students construct an understanding of how ICT can aide mathematical ideas and processes by engaging: creating, conjecturing, exploring, testing, and verifying.
Using ICT in the Foundation Stage
Synopsis: This one day course is aimed to support all Foundation Stage staff in becoming more aware and familiar with ICT in the Foundation Stage. Our children are growing up in an ICT rich environment, so we need to give them meaningful ICT experiences in school. You will learn that ICT is not just about computers and there will be plenty of hands on experience; time to 'play' with recommended hardware and software.
Using Emailing to enrich the curriculum from F.S. – KS2
Synopsis: This half day course looks at the practicalities of creating and sending emails and curriculum ideas for activities and examples to encourage use of emailing from the Foundation Stage upwards.
Using ICT to enhance Science in the Primary School
Synopsis: Science lessons can be brought to life with the use of ICT. It’s true to say that ICT peripherals such as a data logger or microscope can record data that is virtually impossible to document in any other way. This one day course will show you how to use this equipment and how to plan exciting and motivating investigations.
Using ICT to support Science and the Foundation Subjects for the Primary Curriculum Synopsis: This is a one day course intending to give a practical overview in how to make use of a variety of ICT including an Interactive Whiteboard, peripheral hardware, on-line resources and software to deliver Foundation Subject lessons in a creative way.
Using Google Earth in Primary and Secondary Geography and Science.
Using Google Earth in the Primary Classroom
Synopsis: Google Earth is a FREEWARE application from Google. It is a very powerful application with 3D views and, recently, street views so that you can zoom right into buildings or areas. There are also layers to show roads, places of interest and even weather. You can now explore under the oceans and out into space! This course will cover how you can use Google Earth across the curriuclum, e.g. for Geography; 'An exploration of physical Features'. for Science; 'Invesigating animal habitats', or 'Ecology search mission'.
ICT and the Visual Arts in the Primary Curriculum
Synopsis: This is a fun and practical one day course which aims to provide practioners with the skills, knowledge and understanding required to fully exploit the power that ICT can bring to teaching and learning in the visual arts. This course includes ideas for use across the many subject areas for those interested in a more creative curriculum.
ICT and the Creative Arts across the curriculum Synopsis: Increasing creativity has the potential to enrich learning and teaching across the whole curriculum. This one day course is intended to give a practical taster in how to make use of a variety of ICT including an Interactive Whiteboard, on-line resources and software to deliver lessons in a dynamic and fun way.
Using Control Technology in FS and KS1
Synopsis: This half day course will aim to clarify the role of control technology in the Foundation Stage and identify ways in which ICT may be used to support the Early Learning Goals and the N.C. Teachers will have time to play with remote control toys, floor robots and additional resources for a variety of games that enhance cross curricular work.
Control Technology in KS2 - Flowol
Synopsis: Control Technology seeks to enable children to understand how devices attached to a computer can be programmed to perform simple functions. This one day course is designed to give the confidence to practioners so their students can write and test simple procedures using Flowol simulations to turn on and off lights, buzzers and motors, and use a switch to control when and how frequently such events will occur.
| |  | Using 'Hot Potatoes' for Assessment in the Primary classroom |
Synopsis: This course focuses on assessment with the partciular use of the online assessment software 'Hot Potatoes' which is FREE to download. Hot Potatoes allows you to create simple or complex online tests for use in the classroom. You can create end of topic tests, use the tests as revision exercises, create multiple choice items, cloze procedures, crosswords, short answer questions and matching exercises. | |
Assessment for Learning using Response Systems
Synopsis: This course is designed to help instructors use the power and functionality of assessment/response system (typically Activote, ActivExpression, Smart Response) to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. The course will cover general use of assessment systems based on the needs of teachers and pupils. This course is hands-on and teachers will get the chance to participate interactively.
Using Brainstorming/Mind Mapping and Planning across the curriculum
Synopsis: This half day course is designed to help practitioners develop their personal use of mind mapping/concept mapping software for planning and as an alternative to presenting to a class. Mind mapping software helps teachers and children to visualise ideas quickly and easily, without the ICT ‘getting in the way’. It provides a way of organising and arranging ideas, and has been proven to enhance learning for dyslexic students
