Mar 19 2013

North Yorkshire Digital Leaders’ Conference – #DLNY13 – 21st June 2013

LLS Digital Leaders have been asked to give four talks at the North Yorkshire Digital Leaders’ Conference – #DLNY13. These are what we are planning:

“What we have done so far as Secondary Digital Leaders” – Beth, Luke and Toby (Year 10s)
“The How and Why of Running Digital Leaders” – Mr S and all LLS DLs, including a “2 min guerilla DL presentation about Coding Club” by Jon and Tyler (Year 9s)
Example Digital Leader Projects – “Autology and Online Home Learning” – James, Tally, Jon, Jo and Liam (Year 9s)
“How and Why We Network as Digital Leaders” – Will and Matthew (Year 10s)

NB.This was previously cancelled from 22nd March.

By admin • Autology, Conference, Digital Leaders, Digital_Badges, KS3, KS4, Students • 0

Feb 8 2013

iPad Apps

I’m going to keep my list of apps updated here:
GarageBand
Hootsuite
Met office
Drop box
iBooks
Foxit PDF – for annotating my photo ebooks
Flipboard
Diigo
Amazon
Blog Pad Pro – for WordPress editing
Pocket Informant – The BEST personal Organisation software ever (syching with Google Cals and Toodledo)
Downcast for podcasts

By admin • iPad, Software • 2 • Tags:

Feb 2 2013

BETT 2013 Links and LLS Digital Leaders…

Hi to anyone following up #BETT2013 …

Will, Beth, Maddie, Jo and Mr S presented at the Stone stand.

Here is the Prezi. and here is the Video (16Mb)

DLN Talk here.

I have really enjoyed today.  It was a great experience to speak in front of so many people and it was good to hear from others as well. It was really interesting to look around all the other stands (and collecting freebies.)  It was interesting listening to Mr Rogers talking about using mobile devices in lessons. It was also good looking at the Windows stand at the tablets and looking into the use of them in school. Another thing I found great was having lunch with Johnny Ball! And saw Brian Cox talking live! Speaking on the Stone stand was great (even though the mic was not great) and it was something I had never done before.   Overall I really enjoyed the day!

Going to Bett was an amazing. I am glad I was chosen to go down with Beth, Will, Maddie and Mr Sharples. The start of the day was early and cold. We soon warmed up so we where then happy. I have learnt that no matter how much of an idiot I think look, to other people you look confident and in charge even when things go wrong like squeaky mikes.

I went to BETT today and it was AMAZING! I loved the stalls, and the general layout of the place. I went round with Jo, and we picked up loads of freebies. But first we had our speeches, and I went up after Will. Because I had never held a microphone before, it kept squealing and squeaking because I was inline with the speakers. I was really nervous and my paper was shaking but I felt really proud once I had said my bit. The audience clapped at the end and we all felt happy that we had pulled through. We also had a chance to look at all sorts of laptops, tablets and software which was really inspiring and has given us a lot to think about. We also had a second speech at 1.15 which was a breeze after the first one!  Overall, I had a really good time and would happily go again another year!

By admin • BETT, Conference, KS3, KS4 • 0

Jan 5 2013

Work in Progress – LLS SDLs designing Digital Badges for Badgeathon 17th January

A big thank you to Jon, Jo and Tally for doing these doing the holidays so that people have something to work on at the Badgeathon on the 17th January at Mozilla in London.

This follows Tom and Lucy coming in from DigitalMe for www.gr8ict.com/2012/12/15/digital-leaders-badges-1-11th-december-2012/ and then I set it as an assignment on Edmodo for the holidays.  I’m discussing these with the LLS ICT Learning Team on Monday and on the 15th Jan with my DLs.  My DLs will talk a bit about badges at their talks at BETT13.

Designing a Digital Badge
DUE: Jan 8, 2013

1. Role: Choose a *Role* from Teacher; Designer; Coach; Web
Manager ; Presenter; Explorer, Producer
2. Activity: Link it to something you have done as a digital leader
3. Steps: Write about the steps of the activity involved – try to make it into Learning / Doing / Assessment
4. What SKILLS is the DL learning through this?
5. WHO: Who does the assessing of these skills?
6. HOW: How do you know the DL has been successful in gaining these skills?
7. Badge: Design a badge to represent this… More

By admin • Digital_Badges, KS3_ICT, Students • 1

Dec 24 2012

BETT13 – Developing Secondary Digital Leaders (SDLs)

Talk to be given at BETT 13, Friday 1st February at 11.00pm – Thanks to Tony Parkin for organising.

Developing Secondary Digital Leaders (SDLs)

Three digital leaders from Lady Lumley’s School and their teacher will describe how 25+ SDLs are working to improve the landscape of learning with ICT through

- teaching their year groups
- working with teachers
- using software, the school VLE and Edmodo
- telling the story
- accrediting the skills they are learning with Digital Badges and DigitalMe

Lady Lumley School is an LA comprehensive school in North Yorkshire with no extra money or 1:1 devices, but with great students and staff doing the best they can in difficult circumstances.

Chris Sharples is Head of ICT and also works for NYCC to develop SDLs in other schools.  More information at www.gr8ict.com.

By admin • Conference, Digital Leaders, Digital_Badges • 0

Dec 15 2012

Digital Leaders Badges 1 – 11th December 2012

This post is to talk about our progress with Digital Leaders and starting on the path of Digital Badges, but I want to start this post with this picture…

Maddie, working with a mixed group of KS3 and KS4 SDLs.  I am so pleased to get little snapshots like this of seeing students benefit from the teamwork and responsibilities of SDL work, but always tempered with the thought that this is but a drop in the ocean with the uncertainty in ICT in Education at the moment.

Another highlight was Will (KS4 DL) overhearing me talk about digital disruption, and asking about it when we came onto discussing roles.  If you refer to their video link “Lessons – an arid desert of ICT” then it will come as no surprise that Will has chosen a badge for Digital Disrupter.  I look forward to the design…

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By admin • Digital_Badges, eLearning, KS3, KS4, Students • 6

Nov 12 2012

The Vision: Part 2 – DLs working collaboratively with Teachers

Our first use of the meetings’ pages by both DLs and teachers – well done to Luke and Mr Spooner.

The more work I see going on the more I believe that we need these partnerships between students and teachers in this rapidly changing world… if only for students to quickly realise that teachers do not have all the answers…

By admin • Digital Leaders, KS4, KS4_ICT, Students, Teachers • 1

The Vision: Part 1 – groups of DLs sharing ideas with Teachers

Nov 11 2012

The Vision: Part 1 – groups of DLs sharing ideas with Teachers

As mentioned in the plan for this term, the focus for this term is improving the use of ICT in subjects.  So it was a pleasure to invite both KS3 and 4 DLs to the second ICT Learning Team meeting of the year

 

 

Ex LLS student, Alice, shows a prezi of her University use VLE to Team

 

 

 

 

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By admin • Digital Leaders, KS3, KS3_ICT, KS4, KS4_ICT, Students, Teachers • 0

Nov 11 2012

DLs blog with Arras theme and Rolescoper

The DLs had developed their own WordPress site last year.  However, we needed:

  1. a space to share posts publicly with categories for finding subject content
  2. a private space for tracking organisational progress.
  3. customised access to match the teams of teachers and students working together
  4. access for DLs and teachers from other schools
  5. a layout which means pictures and text are eyecatching and the theme or idea of the post clearly shows. More

By admin • Digital Leaders, LLS DLs' Website • 0

Nov 11 2012

Half term review October 2012

The main focus has been to encourage greater subject use of ICT for better teaching and learning this year.  This has meant delegating responsibilites to DLs and the subject teachers who are members of the new Cross-Curricular Learning Team.

We considered Wikispaces as the collaborative tool to share ideas because I wanted a public sharing of ideas but also a private space for tracking organisational progress.  I also wanted it to look good to encourage the DLs.  I took inspiration from the Nottingham High School collaborative blog, with the WordPress theme “Arras” for easily seen contributions. A couple of hours research of WordPress plugins produced the plugin Rolescoper which gives tailored permissions and meant that I could give customised access for teachers and students to share access to pages. More details on the separate post here.

Lessons from the half-term: More

By admin • Digital Leaders, KS3, KS3_ICT, KS4, KS4_ICT, Students, Teachers • 0

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