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The Pied Piper of Hamelin Planning
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Brain Break Menu
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Thinker's Keys Booklet
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Interactive Whiteboard Labels
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CBBC me and my movie has film-making tutorials and a safe space for children to upload their own films. There's also the chance to win an award in association with Bafta. Visit the site for more information and to download free children and teachers' packs.
Animoto videos can now be upgraded to DVD quality. For $5, you get two downloadable formats: an MP4 file which can be played directly on your computer with QuickTime, and an ISO file which can be burned directly to a blank DVD. Or, for $20 (plus p&p), they'll mail you a nicely branded DVD.
They have also introduced an "Animoto for Business" program, which allows you to create Animoto videos for commercial use. The package includes unlimited DVD-quality downloads and a few premium business features, such as no Animoto watermark, no buttons at the end of the video, and the option to pick something other than a green screen for your video's cover. You can find out more at http://business.animoto.com.
Link: http://animoto.com/
Taken out of an email from RM: Control ICT is an exciting area of the curriculum that can facilitate problem solving, maths and science investigation and help to develop speaking, listening and writing skills. But it is also an area of the curriculum that many primary schools find challenging, to help we would like to offer you a free whitepaper.
With the help of Hertfordshire LA we are delighted to offer a free of charge whitepaper offering practical guidance to support teachers, including example lesson ideas to engage and motivate pupils - to download your free whitepaper click here.
The whitepaper shows how LEGO Mindstorms technology can be used to overcome some of the challenges around using control ICT in schools, linked to this we are delighted to be able to launch a competition to win a class trip to Legoland in Windsor including a free educational resource pack and a workshop for pupils. Click here to enter our competition and view the terms and conditions.
An eco-conscious schools computer is being launched by RM which it is claimed will use less energy than a standard household light bulb. The Ecoquiet RM PC 50, being claimed as one of the lowest-energy computers available in the UK, operates on full load at about 47 watts. This is closer to a laptop's power use than the 60 to 250 watts used by some desktop computers.
It was announced today that the UK Council for Child Internet Safety will launch in September 2008, six months ahead of the recommended timescale set out by Dr Tanya Byron in her report ‘Safer Children in a Digital World’.
Stakeholders, including a mixture of children’s charities and industry will be informed about how they can join the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, which will be responsible for developing and leading a Child Internet Safety Strategy and advising Government on e-safety.
Everyclick.com works just like any other search engine, but allows the users to choose the charity they would like to benefit from their searching. The revenue generated for charities comes from companies that advertise on the site. There is no sign up fee or hidden charge to the user or the charity, it’s free giving.
Charities of all sizes are benefiting from this new fundraising service, they range from Cancer Research to your own school. If 10% of the UK online population used Everyclick.com for their searches, an additional £172,000 would be raised for charity every day.
“Most of us wish we could give more, now we can. Everyclick is a really simple way to raise money for free, just by doing something you already do” said Polly Gowers CEO, co- founder and winner of the WEBA Ethical Entrepreneur of the year 2007. “As we see it, every search that is not raising money for charity is a search wasted.”
Everyclick.com has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity, please see the website for an up-to-date total.
Link: www.Everyclick.com
Children as young as five years old are the focus of a new online safety programme launched yesterday by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre.
OFCOM research indicates that 59% of 5-7 year olds access the internet at home and that 21% do so unsupervised. Now building on the success of the organisation’s Thinkuknow education initiative, which has already reached over 1.7 million children and young people between the ages of 8-16 years, the UK’s Centre for tackling the sexual abuse of children is now reaching out to parents of much younger children with vital ’safety first' advice.
Hector’s World comprises five state-of-the-art, animated episodes. It takes children on a journey with Hector and his friends as they explore issues such as personal information, trustworthiness, making positive choices online and how to be open with a trusted adult when they use the internet.
The animation has been adapted for a young UK audience following successful running of the programme in New Zealand and is backed up by a series of free resources available to parents and teachers via the dedicated CEOP education website - thinkuknow.co.uk. All materials have been developed in consultation with Becta and with teachers.
The government’s recently published Byron Review is an exhaustive report on the current state of child safety specific to video games and the Internet. The review highlights that many online “virtual” activities can have a detrimental effect on real life, such as bullying and racism; the data further identifies that exposure to inappropriate material online can promote harmful behaviour, and contribute to negative beliefs and attitudes.
The report advocates the creation of a UK Council on Child Internet Safety to look into ways of improving regulation, education and information, along with a focussed social marketing campaign to highlight the dangers. It also includes many recommendations for schools that will soon become mandatory, such as integrating e-safety into the school curriculum, an accredited filtering service, and calls for OFSTED inspections to hold schools to account for their policies on e-safety.
One way of preparing your school for these changes is to sign up to the Schools in Britain Internet Programme being launched by Brightfilter, an Internet Filtering company. The Schools in Britain Internet Programme helps schools ensure that they are both morally and legally compliant.
Those schools signing up to this free programme will receive the following key benefits:
• Schools will receive initial guidance and quarterly e-updates pertaining to government regulations and compliance, plus regular correspondence including programme updates and additional components.
• All families of school pupils will get a free subscription to the home user version of the filtering software (Brightfilter Parental Control), so that the same level of protection will be afforded to children at home as employed in their school.
• Discounted optional access to accredited, award-winning Internet filtering software.
• Schools following the guidance offered by the programme will ensure that they meet the OFSTED criteria.
I guess this end's up as a sales pitch to the parents, but with the free information available it may be worth considering.
Between January and March 2008 155 learning professionals shared their Top 10 favourite tools for learning (either for their own personal learning or for creating learning for others). The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies then used these lists to compile the Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008.
This list, which contains a lot of already well known pieces of software, contains a few hidden gems that are free. Useful for ICT co-ordinators.
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