Challenging times for school leaders today
Today's school leaderships face complex challenges in their schools and colleges. Sometimes it is not possible to devote valuable time to researching and understanding those influences that are the most productive. The old saying, "You can't see the wood from the trees." has never been more appropriate. SchoolsICT guides and supports school leaders through the complex maze of ICT strategies that relate to schools today.
We can help your school align with the Harnessing Technology and Next generation Learning strategies and realise significant gains in embedding the use of ICT to support learning.
advises schools and colleges in the UK and focusses on the key and most important aspects of ICT Strategy to ensure the greatest benefit in our schools.
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Next Generation Learning
The Next Generation Learning strategy is now well underway and of vital importance to schools engaged in their evolution in becoming e-mature schools. Almost a year ago I created a short video placing the strategy into the national context and I have published it again here. For many schools it will provide the context they are seeking for moving forward and for others it will serve as a reminder of the direction of ICT in schools today. See the video here…
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Personalising learning
Why is it worthwhile re-visiting Becta’s 2008 comment, “Personalising learning is critical to the next generation of education. Many of the elements that go into it will be familiar, but it’s important to see how those elements fit together to form a bigger picture. In this guide we’ll focus on clarifying the role of learning platforms in particular and direct you to the resources you’ll need to plan and implement that technology more effectively.” Find out more…
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Is your LEA actively promoting Home Access?
Home Access is the result of a realisation that there are still a significant number of learners who do not have a computer and the internet at home. The benefits of learners being able to engage in their learning while at home are accepted. It is envisaged that more than 270,000 households may benefit by March 2011.
e-Learning4Me
e-Learning in UK schools is in its infancy but is rapidly evolving as features in learning platforms are explored and appropriate pedagogy develops. Find out more ...
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The Overworked Biology Teacher Saved!
A couple of years ago a stressed Biology teacher (Mrs X) asked me to help her upload some PDF files to the learning platform. We started talking about the purpose of the files and I began to realise that the teacher could be headed for a breakdow...
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Introducing SchoolsICT Continuing Professional Development
Traditionally, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is provided either off-site, away from school or as a special package provided in school. However, CPD provided in this way:
is not timely, i.e. it is not provided directly when you need it...
Interoperability and Parental Engagement
In education today IT solutions have to be flexible, affordable and sustainable. We can now add two more very important charcateristics - interoperability and integration to benefit from investment and use. SchoolsICT flagship product, SIMS2MOODLE, has clearly demonstrated successful integration and interoperability by bringing together a SIMS.Net and Moodle within schools.
SchoolsICT's new product, SIF2MOODLE, represents a sea-change in interoperability and integration utilising the Schools Interoperability Framework. SIMS.Net and CMIS can now become interoperable with Moodle forming an unrivalled platform for Parental Engagement within Moodle. Because of the SIF2MOODLE architecture, an investment in SIF2MOODLE is future-proof, enabling integration without 'disturbing' existing or legacy systems.
For more information including a briefing paper about Parental Engagement go to Downloads. Register here to be kept informed.
MoodleMe
SchoolsICT are pleased to offer free tutorials on a number of topics. These are ad hoc standalone tutorials. Go to Continuing Professional Development for our structured courses.
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Timetable Week Block
What does this block do?
The Timetable Week Block allows users to know the current week the establishment's timetable is on.
Where is the block available?
The block is available for FREE here
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PaperCut Print Quotas Block
What is PaperCut?
“PaperCut NG™ is a print and internet quota, charging, tracking and monitoring system designed to promote the responsible use of IT resources. It's a premium cross-platform solution specifically designed to meet the needs of ...
