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BectaX - Get Involved17 March 2010
The Federation of Abbey Schools, Darlington Win ICT Register Showcase Awards!17 March 2010
A huge congratulations to The Federation of Abbey Schools in Darlington who recently won the ICT Register Showcase Awards 2010! More information at the ICT Register Site
The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book - Terry Freedman16 March 2010
Download the Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book How are you using Web 2.0 technology in your classroom? Comment below!
Science & Engineering Week - Teachers TV11 March 2010
Week commencing 15th March 2010 During National Science and Engineering Week 2010, Teachers TV is showing a week of programmes showing innovative and inspirational practice in the teaching and learning of science including a new series featuring a whole range of great science lesson ideas for primary teachers; a brand new 3-part series on urban engineering, and a whole range of new science programmes for use in primary and secondary classrooms. KS2 Science - Engaging Girls with Practical...Education as one of the biggest global growth industries for Britain in 21st Century? - Education Today09 March 2010Over the last decades, RBCs - like the Northern Grid for Learning and E2BN which work in partnership with Easynet Global Services - have gone beyond their original remit to deliver a much wider array of value-added benefits to their constituencies.
Also labeled: NG Services Internet Access is a "Fundamental Right" - BBC News article09 March 2010
What are your views on this? Comment below! South Shields School & Lewis Bronze Win Awards at the Education Resources Awards08 March 2010
Congratulations also to Espresso's CEO, Lewis Bronze, for the well deserved Outstanding Achievement BESA award. His creative flair and passion for education are... OFSTED - The Safe Use of New Technologies16 February 2010
This report is based on evidence from a small-scale survey carried out between April and July 2009 in 35 maintained schools in England. It evaluates the extent to which the schools taught pupils to adopt safe and responsible practices in using new technologies, and how they achieved this. It also assesses the extent and quality of the training the schools provided for their staff. It responds to the report of the Byron Review, Safer children in a digital world. An update on the problems with Smartfilter: Easynet Operations Director informed us of containing work overnight last night involving McAfee engineers from the US. This entails them having captured data on the servers and recreating the situation in their labs to aid resolution. In the meantime, overall traffic flow looks a lot healthier today. Easynet has added another server into the cluster to further reduce the impact on users. They also updated their scripts to do more data gathering for McAfee if a server crashes. As mentioned below no School should be seeing any total outages anymore and if the issue is significantly disrupting any site please report it to the Helpdesk on 0845 333... This tool gauges your school’s strength in ICT, prior to a full analysis on the self-review framework. It also indicates your likely position on the Next Generation Learning Charter, demonstrating commitment and progress in using ICT. The results propose a plan to discuss the impact of ICT in your school. Your approach should involve senior decision makers if you wish to develop this further with the... Thank you to everyone who has told us their plans for Safer Internet Day 2010 so far - please keep sending us your events! If you haven’t seen it already, we have an interactive map highlighting local initiatives and activities planned for SID10. You can publicise your activities and inform members of the public in your local area where they can find out more information and find out about fellow initiatives in your locality. Members of the press may be interested in covering events within your area so make sure to... What are your experiences with using computers at school and home? Do you agree with the article? Comment below! Found them useful? Post a comment below! Closing Date for Entries is 26th February 2010 now 12th March 2010 Many schools in this region are supporting teaching and learning with exciting and innovative uses of ICT. Are you one of them? If you are, enter the Northern Grid ICT in Education Awards, celebrate your success and you could win a prize for your school. If you aren’t, take a look at what other schools are... Update: Google is now phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 - Read More at BBC News Northern Grid and Microsoft recommend that browsers running Microsoft IE6 or 7 are updated to IE8 as a matter of urgency. Security experts have seen malicious attacks exploiting the weakness with these versions of the browser. Google and Adobe have both experienced recent attacks and consider IE6 to be a security weak link. Microsoft recommend that the IE8 browser has the highest security settings however this unfortunately will block user access to a... Tuesday 9th February 2010 is Safer Internet Day European Safer Internet Day (SID) is supported by countries throughout Europe and during the week, a range of activities will be taking place across the continent to help protect young people online. The theme for SID10 is ‘Think Before You Post’ and we hope to make the whole week (from Monday 8th February – Friday 12th February 2010) a week of action in the UK. For further information about internatonal activities for SID please visit www.saferinternetday.org
Museum of London is holding an event on 18th February to demonstrate the benefits of videoconferencing (and other technologies) to colleagues from other London museums. We think the best way to do this is by showing them a videoconference with a school, so we’re looking for a KS1 or KS2 class to participate in one of our videoconferences. If your school is registered with JVCS (and not on half term that week!), your class could take part in any one of the following FREE videoconferences: |
Schools across the UK are invited to become #BectaX Regional Nodes and to be part of the development process and the event. The will be asked to feed their thoughts, ideas and suggestions into the auditorium. If you are a teacher and want your school to take part in this world first educational experiment, 
Are you struggling to incorporate web 2.0 technology into your classroom? Need inspiration? Terry Freedman has released a fantastic online book, collating practical ideas about the kinds of things you can do with Web 2.0 technology.
This section from Education Today looks at the increasing importance of broadband technologies and RBCs on the UK education industry.
A recent poll for the BBC World Services suggest that access to the Internet is a fundamental right, with 4 out of 5 people surveyed strongly agreeing with the statement.
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