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Safer Internet Day 2011 Safer Internet Day is organised by INSAFE in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. Each year hundred of events are organised to raise awareness about online safety issues. If you would like to know more about Safer Internet Day 2011 please visit http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/safer-internet-day

Starting in October 2010, CLEO are introducing Secure ACL's across it's network. For more information on this change and what it means for your school please go to the information page

ICT Excellence Awards – now open for entries!

 

Is your school or organisation making a huge difference with technology? Is ICT transforming the way that learners learn, parents communicate and staff work?  If so, then Becta wants to hear from you!

 

Now entering their fifth year, Becta’s ICT Excellence Awards provide a great opportunity to not only celebrate the amazing work of schools, local authorities and other supporting organisations but to share the experiences of those at the forefront of the use of technology in learning.

 

The awards are positioned as the fourth and final stage of Becta’s Next Generation Learning Charter.

 

Awards categories

All categories are closely aligned with elements of Becta’s Self-review framework and the ICT Mark for schools.  The categories are:

 

Best whole school – for those schools who are using ICT innovatively to transform practice across all their activities.  To be awarded regionally, with an overall national winner.

           

Learning experience – incorporating learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment.

 

Beyond the school – including how the schools extend learning opportunities beyond the “standard” school experience.  This will include how it engages with parents and others and how it offers access to learning in the home and in other locations.

 

Leadership, management and collaboration – looking at how a school creates and implements a vision and strategy for ICT and how it supports other schools in their strategic use of ICT.

 

Support for schools – looking at how an external organisation (both local authorities and others) can support schools in their implementation and development of ICT.

 

The awards are open to all schools, local authorities and supporting organisations across the whole of the UK and in Service Children’s Education settings overseas.

 

If you want to share your story or that of a school or organisation that you know, the ICT Excellence Awards 2010 are now open for entries.  For more information on the categories and criteria, and to access the online entry forms, go to www.becta.org.uk/excellenceawards.  The deadline for entries is 24 March 2010.

 

                                                          

ARE YOU THE BRAINIEST SCHOOL IN BRITAIN?

SIGN UP FOR FIRST EVER ONLINE NATIONAL SCHOOLS QUIZ!

- Primary schools across the nation encouraged to take the challenge in the Next Generation Learning National Schools Quiz-

 

Becta, the Government’s agency for technology in education, and the NEN (National Education Network) are launching the first ever nationwide online schools quiz, which will see thousands of primary school children up and down the country compete simultaneously in this pioneering, interactive competition.

 

Schools entering the Next Generation Learning National Schools Quiz, which will take place on Friday 12^th March, could win up to £3,000 worth of ICT equipment or training for their school, plus there are fantastic spot prizes for successful individuals and teams who take part.

 

The quiz will run exclusively online, via the NEN, covering curriculum areas, including history, science, citizenship, numeracy and literacy. Questions will be provided by a series of high profile national partners who include the Historic Royal Palaces, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the relevant subject associations.

 

The nationwide quiz is aimed at Key Stage 2 and open to pupils aged eight and nine years old. Schools can sign up individual pupils or teams by registering now at www.nen.gov.uk/nsq.

 

Each partner has compiled a series of fun and challenging tests which will pit pupils from across the UK against one another so they can see, in real time, which is the brainiest school in Britain. Every pupil will immediately be awarded gold, silver or bronze certificates, depending on their performance, with one school awarded the star prize of £3,000 worth of ICT equipment.

 

As further incentive, every school signing up to take part in the Next Generation Learning National Schools Quiz will automatically achieve level 1 of the Next Generation Learning Charter, a charter established by Becta stating its public commitment to embrace technology in learning.

 

Stephen Crowne, Chief Executive of Becta, said: 

“We are delighted to launch the first ever online National Schools Quiz and hope to see thousands of pupils across the country taking part in this groundbreaking initiative. Becta believes that integrating technology across the entire curriculum is essential to making lessons and learning more enjoyable and rewarding and this is just one great example of how technology can be used to inspire learners.”

 

“We have got some fantastic partners onboard who have developed a really compelling quiz so if you think your school has what it takes to win then visit www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/nsq and pledge your commitment to Next Generation Learning.”

 

Karen Davies, Head of Museums’ Learning Resources at the Science Museum, said:

“At the Science Museum in London we are known for our innovative, ‘hands on, minds on’ approach to learning.  We are pleased to support Becta in experimenting with new ways of engaging young people and exploring the potential of new technologies.”

 

 

Be a Reporter for the day and win a Laptop and FREE Broadband

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How would you like to win a laptop and FREE Broadband?

Enter the Next Generation Learning LIVE! Reporter competition.

Make a short report telling how you think "Technology is changing the way we learn." It can be in the form of a written report, video or a podcast. The competition is open for pupils aged 10-18 years and the closing date is 30th November.

You could win a laptop and attend the 2010 BETT show in London to spend a day reporting on the world of technology.
The attachment above shows the completion flyer with more details and the link takes you to the site to get started straight away.

Good Luck!

Chinese New Year Video Conference - 8th February 2010 (8:50am - 12:30pm)

The London Grid for Learning, working in partnership with Redbridge LA, will be hosting a videoconference for both primary and secondary schools to celebrate the Chinese New Year (Year of the Tiger) on 8th February 2010 live from the Redbridge Teacher's Centre.

London Grid for Learning is preparing to link up live to schools across London, United Kingdom and China using videoconferencing systems.

The event will exhibit the highlights of the contributions and achievements made by schools in Redbridge about Chinese culture in the local and national community from KS1 - KS4.

It will allow students to have the opportunity, through technology, to develop their speaking, listening and presenting skills as well as expanding their capacity to reflect on and aspire to the acquisition of the attributes that are fitting for a global citizen in the 21st Century.

The programme will include:

• In-session discussion - pupils will pose questions to the Chinese presenter and London born actress Angela May (focus on encouraging pupils' to engage and communicate effectively with the presenter).
• Presentations from individual schools in China and London
• Thai Chi and Calligraphy Demonstration
• Dragon Dancers
• Opportunities for pupils and teachers to discover more about Chinese culture in their classroom

Please register for this event here.

 

 

PhotoShoot is probably the most ambitious learning activity produced by ArtisanCam. It presents the user with the challenge of;

¨ operating a virtual DSLR camera,

¨ controlling shutter speed and aperture setting,

¨ zooming and focussing on green screened footage of a professional dancer superimposed on a chosen landscape,

¨ taking the picture at the critical moment

¨ selecting the best image to send to a picture editor for professional judgement.

A Virtual Editor gives detailed feedback based on the parameters the user has chosen to take the picture.  Photoshoot gives an insight into the science behind photography, imparting an understanding of the cause-and-effect relationship between the settings on a sophisticated camera and  the resulting pictures.

Photoshoot makes a perfect preparation for the change up from the limitation of a point-and-shoot camera to the challenge of  a more demanding instrument.

You may recognise the featured dancer, Wendy Hesketh of Wired Aerial Theatre, last seen on ArtisanCam dancing thirty metres up the side of a building in Liverpool during Kevin Clifford’s ArtisanCam residency

www.artisancam.org.uk

A chance to contribute to the Development of New CLEO Services

CLEO are offering schools an opportunity to contribute ideas towards the development of the new projects outlined in the recent letter to Headteachers from your Local Authority presenting future activities to meet the Harnessing Technology Strategy.

Each school is invited to send one senior representative to the half day sessions which will take place in each County and CLEO will provide supply cover for all attendees.

The workshops will take place on Thursday 10 July 08 in Lancashire and Tuesday 15 July 08 in Cumbria.

Booking Form - Lancashire Primary Schools            AM - Thursday 10 July 08

Booking Form - Lancashire Secondary Schools       PM - Thursday 10 July 08

Booking Form - Cumbria Primary Schools                PM - Tuesday 15 July 08

Booking Form - Cumbria Secondary Schools         AM - Tuesday 15 July 08

Another chance to win an Apple iPod Shuffle

Need to find a useful website to support your lessons? Found a great website and wish to share it with other teachers? CLEO’s latest competition aims to create a collection of the best and most useful links and activities on the web for all teachers across the region.

Simply send us 5 website links for websites that you’d be happy to recommend to other teachers. Our favourite three selections will each win an iPod Shuffle.

Closing Date: Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Download full details and entry form here ..

 

As part of the changes to the Harnessing Technology Grant this year, CLEO is currently planning future targets to support the priorities in the Harnessing Technology Strategy. To assist in the process we would appreciate feedback from schools by completing our survey and returning it to the CLEO Office by email to office@cleo.net.uk or fax to 01524 593515).

Each school completing the survey will be entered into the prize draw to win a digital camera for your school.

(The survey is also available in an online version in the CLEO Moodle, click here to access the questionnaire)

 

“Delights of the Danube” – Alfie Boe performs with the Lancashire Sinfonietta.

 
This month Tenor Alfie Boe returns to his hometown of Fleetwood for a series of open rehearsals, concerts, Video Conferences and Webcasts with an orchestra of home-grown musicians, the Lancashire Sinfonietta.

Alfie Boe is certainly a Tenor with a difference! He has emerged in recent years as one of the UK’s finest classical artists following a colourful few years spent honing his craft in the Royal Opera House and on Broadway. 

The Lancashire Sinfonietta will offer a special live Webcast from Alfie’s old school in Fleetwood as part of their aim to help deliver the “Daily Hour of Culture” target for schools.

Pupils and teachers are eager to hear their former pupil’s amazing voice and in addition to the live audience, his rehearsal will be watched by schools all around the UK via Webcast. Students will learn about the processes of preparing for an orchestral concert and an interactive Video Conference afterwards will give students the chance to chat with Alfie and ask questions.

 
This event launches the Lancashire Sinfonietta’s first series of webcasts and video conferences via CLEO (Cumbria & Lancashire Education Online), part of the NEN (National Education Network), the online broadband service for UK schools.

 The concerts, which follow a musical journey down the Danube, feature Boe performing alongside other stunning Lancastrians from the UK’s top orchestras who make up the Lancashire Sinfonietta. The violinist/director Bradley Creswick will also be joined by the virtuoso gypsy cimbalom player, Kálmán Balogh, who is flying in from Budapest specially for the concerts.

The live Webcast will be on Thursday 13th March 2008.

Call for Bids from Becta and the NEN

'Repurpose, Create and Share'

Learning and Teaching Materials

Up to £25,000 for Secondary Schools wishing to create online digital resources

Click here for more information

 

Advance Warning Notice 15th - 18th February 2008:

Please note that as part of CLEO's continued improvement programme for services over the CLEO network, CLEO will be carrying out planned maintenance to the CLEO server farm from Friday 15th February to Monday 18th February 2008 inclusive. For full details of the outage and services affected click here.

 

CLEO Regional Winners - 'Beckonsale' from Haslingden High School

Congratualtions to the band 'Beckonsale' from Haslingden High School. they are the regional winners for RockIT 2007. Beckonsale will now represent the CLEO region at the national finals to be held on 29th November 2007.

From the rockIT website you will be able to watch a live stream of all the bands on the 29th. Beckonsale are the first band performing at 13:00.

If you are experiencing difficulties with the live stream from the RockIT 2007 website an alternative stream can be seen at mms://leonardo.cleo.net.uk/RockIT Click on the link then launch application - if you have it installed then Windows Media Player should then open. (CLEO schools only)

CLEO is delighted to announce that teachers at schools that subscribe to the Espresso service through CLEO can now access the full service from home. Working in collaboration with Espresso, CLEO is now hosting a new central service, that will enable teachers to prepare lessons based on Espresso resources at home.

Following our evaluation of the use of Espresso by schools in the region, access to the service at home, was the most requested feature from teachers. The new service provides full access, with all the familiar features but with increased emphasis on the route creator, staffroom and community area for helping teachers to plan and prepare lessons using Espresso.

Full details of the new service are available on each County's School Portal. Look out for your school's logins coming soon.

 

CLEO is delighted to announce that all schools across Lancashire and Cumbria are now able to access Cumbria County Council’s online music service tuned-in.org free of charge for the next two years. CLEO has entered into a new arrangement with tuned-in.org to provide access to the online service and to integrate some of the tuned-in content into CLEO’s learning platform provision Moodle. We will be adding examples into the CLEO Moodle vle.cleo.net.uk in the coming weeks. Schools in both counties are already using the materials for a range of projects, such as with Lancashire Music Service. More information on this will be available in the Moodle Update published monthly to the school portals in both counties.

 

The tuned-in.org subscription service provides to a range of music units for F/KS1-3. To access these units please go to the website www.tuned-in.org and enter the CLEO login details.

 

This series of special sessions running throughout March has been designed to commemorate the bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Trade in Enslaved People on 25th March 1807 and help schools deliver the topic of slavery in the classroom. The Beacon Museum in Whitehaven are providing an interactive session where children will explore the triangular trade across the Atlantic and meet an abolitionist from the 19th century who explains the transatlantic slave trade, recalls life before the Abolition Act in 1807 and explores what happened afterwards because slavery did not vanish overnight.  Children will explore the products traded, the conditions for slaves during transit across the Atlantic, learn about slaves for sale on the plantations and help our campaigner write an abolition speech. Genuine and replica artefacts will be used along with documents from the Cumbria Record Office to demonstrate the role of Whitehaven and Cumbria in the slave trade.  The session will end with a consideration of modern-day slavery issues. For more information please visit the video conferencing section of the CLEO website or contact office@cleo.net.uk

CLEO has been involved with a number of video conferencing projects across Cumbria and Lancashire and now offer a wide range of video conferencing sessions through Lancashire Museum Service and Museums and Collections in Cumbria.

These sessions are provided free to schools.

The CLEO Office can book sessions via JVCS for any schools outside the CLEO Network.

More details can be found on the CLEO web site, go to 'Video Conferencing' and 'VC Sessions to Book' and choose 'Regional (CLEO) Sessions' or click below.

CLEO VC Project

If you would like to sign up for Making the News (it’s free) visit www.cleo.net.uk and follow the link This Term on CLEO or contact the CLEO Project Office.

 

Using Making the News offers learners many benefits including increased confidence, improved research and communication skills and collating and presenting information at a professional standard.  Seeing their work published online also provides a real sense of purpose which is motivational and adds to pupils’ enthusiasm and imagination. Many schools already work with local TV, newspapers and radio and we hope that more will join them to learn from their expertise and explore the world of the Media.

 

Read Around the Planet*

TWICE Videoconference Event

English: March 1-2, 5- 7

World Languages: March 9

 

Read Around the Planet is a celebration of NEA’s Read Across America. Classrooms use interactive video to connect with other classrooms “around the planet” and read to each other. The activity is sponsored by TWICE and Polycom, in cooperation with NEA.

 

TWICE provides the registration tool, matches classrooms with partners, and provides support documents. Participating classrooms are responsible for their own video connection and developing their own reading activities for the event.

 

How To Participate

This activity is open to students ages 6-18. To participate schools must be registered with the JANET Videoconferencing Service (JVCS) and have access to two-way interactive video equipment (ISDN H.320 or IP H.323).  If you are unsure whether or not you have access to this type of equipment, check with your school's IT department. They may also be able to inform you if you are registered with JVCS. To check if you are registered with JVCS contact your RBC, regional IT support, or Tim Boundy at UKERNA (details below).

 

Your class will be matched with a class from a different location and each class will exchange reading activities. Classroom to classroom connections in English will take place March 1-2 and 3-5, 2007. Classroom to classroom connections in other languages will take place March 9, 2007. Activities in the UK will probably take place in the afternoons as time zone differences mean that in early March 2pm in the UK will be 9am on the US east coast.

 

Each connection is scheduled for an hour: 15 minutes for testing connections and introductions; 30 minutes for the reading activity (15 minutes per class); and 15 minutes for exchanging information about respective schools and communities. Activities can range from reading a favourite book passage, to dramatisations, to cartoon strips, to a “battle of the books” format - see the web pages for more details: www.twice.cc/read .

 

Activity Timeline

November 1-22, 2006: Verification process occurs. Quality Assurance (QA) checks with JVCS.

December 1, 2006: Match Request Registration Opens

January 10, 2007: Registration Deadline

January 19, 2007: Waiting List Registration Closes

January 26, 2007: Partner Class Match Emails Sent

March 1-9, 2007: Connections occur

 

Registration and More Information

To register your interest or for more information or please contact the UK RAP Coordinator Tim Boundy, Schools Content Coordinator, UKERNA. t.boundy@ukerna.ac.uk or 01235 822370.  Please do not register on the web site.

 

More information about TWICE, the Read Around the Planet event and past events is available on the TWICE web pages: www.twice.cc/read .

Schools will need to register for the event with the LSO at http://discovery.lso.co.uk/alevel/

Any schools that are within travelling distance of LSO St Luke's in London are encouraged to attend in person. Pleasecontact: Amy Higgs on 020 7382 2538 or amy.higgs@lso.co.uk

Details for publication are below:

Know the Score: LSO musicians bring your set works to life Mon 20 Nov
2006, 2-4pm Live web stream from LSO St Luke's, London

      * SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 8 (1st Mvt)
      * REICH New York Counterpoint (2nd Mvt)
 
LSO Animateur Paul Rissmann explores two works for the Edexcel A-level syllabus with the help of LSO musicians. They will clearly demonstrate how the music is structured, analyse the composers' compositional techniques, and set the pieces in their historical and musical context.Your students' understanding will be assisted by specially devised slides included in the stream.
 
Questions will be accepted from remote audiences by  email.
 

The A-level presentation will be broadcast using Quicktime.
 
To sign up for the A-level go to:
http://discovery.lso.co.uk/alevel/

HistoryLive! Webcast / Video Conferencing Events

(including The Beacon in Whitehaven) 

The aim is to demonstrate the flexibility and creativity that videoconferencing can bring to the classroom.  Schools can join in via VC or by simply tuning in to view the live video stream with nothing more than a computer and an internet connection.

For Primary Schools on 27 June

• Ever been mudlarking? Find out about it from John Burns School
  visit the national Archives with some young explorers
• See what Ardleigh Green School have been doing with the Royal Armouries
• Visit an air-raid shelter in Whitehaven throughout the morning, try to spot where Schwartzy is as he dodges around London
• Learn about what happened to Mayflower School in the First World War
  ever been to the Hunting Lodge in Waltham Forest?
• Found anything old and interesting? Ask someone from PastExplorers to identify it for you

and still more to come!

For Secondary Schools on 29 June

• hear from the Camden Young Archaeologists
• see what Northolt School is doing with the Natural History Museum
• visit an air-raid shelter in Whitehaven
• hear about what Lampton School is up to
• watch a contribution for the Ingenium in Richmond
• see what a school in Suffolk has been doing with the National Archives
• throughout the morning, try to spot where Schwartzy is as he dodges around London
• found anything old and interesting? Ask someone from PastExplorers to identify it for you

and who knows what else?

For the programme information and all the details of how to join in visit:  www.historylive.lgfl.net

 To join in via video conference contact Roger Bloxham as soon as possible

Roger.Bloxham@heartoflondon.org

020 7598 4738

07967 347735

Artisancam Live Webcast - Gordon Cheung

 

Operation Montserrat
FREE Teacher Places available

27 April 2006  - Ullswater Community College, Penrith

28 April 2006 - Keswick School, Keswick - NEW!!!

26 April 2006 - Archbishop Temple School, Preston

The National Space Centre together with CLEO invite you to reserve your FREE place experiencing an exciting and thought-provoking e-Mission teacher-training day. The event will include all the teaching resources associated with the mission and the chance to experience a live e-Mission.  There is no charge for the day’s hands-on experience and training with lunch kindly provided by Ullswater Community College and Archbishop Temple School.

Interested in involving your students in an e-Mission?  Come along on 26 or 27 April and test this exciting twenty-first century learning experience for yourself.