This is the third in the series of five posts on my experience from Teachmeet North East London last week.
Not only did Leon Cych give me a lift back to my hotel after Teachmeet NE London 2009. But he also gave a cracking presentation on some of the projects he has been working on recently and an advanced look at a couple of websites.
The fist of
these was BBC Learning Open
Labs which are a portfolio of learning resources and online prototypes. The
content is 'open source' which means
that everything is free, available for anyone to use and can be modified for
non-commercial use. BBC Open Lab is inviting input from teachers, learners,
students, developers - anyone with an
idea for a learning resource wanting to develop it into a prototype.
Leon showed us a great Mash up that shows a spinning 3D globe and coming out of it are ‘bars’ of information. The ‘bars’ are generated by RSS feeds from the BBC news website. This means that you can quickly look at the globe and see where most of the world news stories are currently coming from. You can also click on a bar of information and get a summary of the news story. A great idea, with lots of potential use in the classroom.
The second site that Leon told us about was ICT CPD for free (or www.ictcpd4free.co.uk).
The website is being developed through Naace, the professional
association for those interested in advancing education through ICT. A complete
set of fully evaluated CPD modules will be available from September 2009.
The modules that will be available
include:
ICT Assessment in Primary Schools
- ICT Assessment in Secondary Schools
- A focus on the ICT knowledge and skills that are required to teach numeracy and literacy within the QCA Primary Framework
- Embedding e-safety into ICT work in school
- Modelling Activities using ICT, Monitoring using ICT
- Using Web 2.0 Visual Learning Collaboration Tools in both the primary and secondary classroom
- ICT Courseware that supports Modern Foreign Languages in Primary Schools
- Ways of developing higher-order thinking skills utilising ICT mind mapping and concept mapping interfaces
I’m assuming that the modules will be available to non-NAACE members as well?
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