e-learning curriculum advisory team ict cluster meeting autumn term 2009
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e-Learning Curriculum Advisory Team
ICT Cluster Meeting
Autumn Term 2009
e-Learning Curriculum Advisory Team
Agenda
1. Date and venue for spring cluster
2. e-Learning Team communication
3. Control and Monitoring Progression
4. Monitoring devices
5. Control software and devices:
6. Plans for Control and Monitoring across the curriculum
7. Control and monitoring through Fronter
8. Fronter training opportunities
9. AOB
e-Learning Curriculum Advisory Team
• Date and venue for Spring term
• Provisional date for Summer Conference 2010 – 14th June 2010 at Dillington House
• Contributions to Primary Conference – teacher experience?
For your diaries
e-Learning Curriculum Advisory Team
e-learning plan for 2009/2010
B Planning with ICT
progressions
A Providing experiences within an online learning
space
C Innovative use of ICT across the
curriculum
Harnessing the use of ICT in the primary
classroom
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e-Learning Team communication
https://slp.somerset.gov.uk/Blogs/PrimaryICT
•Find it on the ICT website
•Replacing newsletter
•Resource of the week
•Links to resources on the ICT website
Book you training for Somerset Learning Platform – see details on SIX. This will trigger the creation of your SLP site.
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Control and Monitoring progression
•Are your children having these experiences?
•What training opportunities will you need to plan for?
•What curriculum opportunities are there for using these tools?
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Monitoring devices
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/science/logit_quide/http://www.dataharvest.co.uk/distributor/files/documents/loggers/4030/4030_do185_1_easysense_q3plus_and_q5plus_user_manual.pdf
TTS £79.99 ex VAT
Data Harvest £99.99 ex VAT
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EasySense Q (Data Harvest)
Primary Curriculum Activities booklet:
•Sunglasses
•How warm is our classroom?
•Heart beats
•Which car is the fastest?
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Control software and devices
What is the balance between
hands-on experience and on-
screen simulations?
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Probot
http://www.probot.co.uk/
http://twowhizzy.blogspot.com/2008/02/making-floor-compass-with-probot.html
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First user £39.00
Additional user £15.00
Site license (up to 99 pupils) £249
Site license (up to 249 pupils) £299
50% off until 30th September
Textease Turtle CT
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iboard resources
http://la.somerset.iboard.co.uk/
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Go Control
Download free trial: http://www.dataharvest.co.uk/products.php?&g=tec&ppg=tec&a=bot&ppa=pri&t=soft&code=3550
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Create a program to switch on the fountain during daylight hours only
Start or Stop box. To begin a new flowchart or procedure click on start icon.
Diamond represents a decision.
Parallelogram represents an output. Select the output to be turned on or off.
Rectangle is the process icon. Choose to wait or select a procedure.
A Flowline is used to link on screen commands. Applying a new flow line will automatically
delete an incorrect one.
e-Learning Curriculum Advisory Team
Create a program that will automatically switch on the fountain during daylight hours and illuminate the Town hall and fountain light at night.
Two procedures are required:Procedure 1 – Day with fountain on and lights offProcedure 2 – Night with fountain off and lights on
Is the light level less than 40%?
It’s getting dark (<40%) so run the night procedure (switch on the lights) – keep checking the sensor’s value.
It’s still light (>40%) so run the day procedure – keep checking the sensor’s value.
Yes No
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Training opportunities with Data Harvest
Coping with Control
Year 3 and 4
• Learn and Go interface with easyLEDs to make greetings cards• Learn and Go use with model packs
Year 5 and 6
• Introduction of Go-Control software• Use of software with model packs • Design and create software with K’NEX models
Contact Iain Davison for whole day or two hour session for a group of schools [email protected]
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Lego Mindstorms
Lego WeDo
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Planning for Control and Monitoring across the curriculum
•Where can you build Control and Monitoring opportunities into areas of learning/topics?
•Do we need to invest in additional hardware/software to meet the requirement?
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Control and monitoring through Fronter
• Pivot Stick – make animated graphics to share in Fronter
• Share data across schools – analyse what was happening
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Fronter training opportunities
• Day courses - beginners, advanced, administrators
http://www.six.somerset.gov.uk/curriculum/view_folder.asp?folderid
=6468&depth=1&rootid=6468&level2id=6468&level1=
• Follow-up training – focuses
1. Collaboration in school – forums2. Individual folders / hand-in folders / My Docs3. Other Fronter tools – news tool, RSS,
Visualmail, shared documents4. Collaboration opportunities across schools
e-Learning Curriculum Advisory Team
B Planning with ICT
progressions
A Providing experiences within an online learning
space
C Innovative use of ICT across the
curriculum
Harness technology to support learning in your classroom