December 2007 - Posts
This is new feedback post for 2008
The Kent NGfL website is a very popular teaching and learning website used by schools all over the world.
We are always looking for ways of improving our website and so we are very interested to find our how the Kent NGfL (KentEd) website is being used by teachers and children.
Examples of use:
- Planning lessons
- Ideas for using ICT across the curriculum
- Keeping up to date with the latest ICT development
- Finding out what other schools are doing
- Downloading teaching resources
- Quick access to other resources on the internet
- A reminder of when ITN are
- Knowing what courses are taking place and when
- Website of the week
What impact, if any, is the Kent NGfL having on helping teaching and learning in your school?
What would you like to see more on the site?
We mentioned Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) back in July, and we are sure anyone who has signed up to it would agree with us, that it is a very useful resource indeed.
By subscribing to Ictopus (it's FREE!), you will receive the weekly Sharing Good Practice magazine, which is intended to be printed off and displayed in the staffroom. You will also receive mailed Direct2u lessons, which is a resurrection of the old ICT across the primary curriculum lessons that many of us used to receive from BECTA. These come as complete ICT across the curriculum lessons for the primary age range.
"ictoplus is aiming particularly at the more hesitant teachers who have not yet fully embraced the potential of ICT in their teaching and may still need a little hand holding. That is why SGP (Sharing Good Practice) is a printable pdf rather than something more whizzy. I am hoping it will get printed off and put on staffroom coffee tables."
Heather from ictopus.com
www.ictopus.org.uk .
"What’s your child doing online this Christmas"
Visit www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre are running a campaign in the run up to Christmas aimed particularly at parents and carers given that many will be thinking about buying internet and digital technologies as gifts for their children.
As part of this campaign CEOP are offering a registration facility on the ThinkUKnow website where parents will be able to receive regular updates on via email over the New Year. These updates will include information on new technologies, emerging risks and safety tips to help parents keep their children safe online.
Banners for websites
If you would like a banner advert to help spread the messages these can be downloaded from www.ceop.gov.uk/banners.asp.