Jan 17 2010
BETT 2010 – things I found out…
Photo links here…
I work as a head of ICT in a large comprehensive school using Fronter as our VLE. Therefore you will see a bias towards the following topics:
Home Access from Becta
eSafety
Fronter
ICT Strategy and CPD
Miscellaneous findings
Home Access from Becta (see slides 12-30)
- www.homeaccess.org.uk/
- The government’s made a grant of up to £528 available for low income families with children living in England; it’s targeted at those without access to the internet.
- Years 7-9 for secondary school
- the pilot was a huge success – 90% take-up
- Learn from pilot schools what level of engagement you require
- Eligible parents get a visa card with £528 to spend on a suitable system at approved suppliers such as Comet
eSafety (see slides (38-48)
Having run eSafety days for year 7 and Year 8 in the last month, needing to do something for older students, I was interested in what Childnet and CEOP to say.
- Safer Internet Day 2010 on the 9th February
- new materials ready in the next week
- new Know-it-All materials will be streamable off the website (Hurray!)
Fronter (see slides 1-11)
- new parent portal – I liked the simplicity and the colour coding
- New look Fronter coming in the style of the new goal tool that they have available
- Investigate the following
- open/edit/save function
- Page tool
- Change language on page
I am not the only one to consider it very clunky at moment…
ICT Strategy and CPD
- I liked the new Vital website for ICT CPD
Miscellaneous findings
- Use Ofcom data in future eLearning assembly
- live@edu – free e-mail solution / online storage for schools from Microsoft
- semblio – free multimedia authoring package from Microsoft
- Office 2010 – look for plugin to offer alternative to ribbon…
- New Casio Projectors – 20,000 hours due to new laser/led technology
- www.ict-register.net/
- www.ictcpd4free.co.uk/
Hope this helps,
Chris