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| ICT Newsletter #270 |
20th November 2006 |
GENERAL
Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education Guidance
Download this important guidance on safeguarding children, including recruitment and vetting checks for those working with children in the education sector.
The letter, from Beverley Hughes, the Minister for Children, Young People and Families, gives context to the guidance and why all schools should have a copy of this important publication.
Visit Teachernet to view the letter
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/familyandcommunity/childprotection/goodpractice/saferrecruitment/
Competitions
Graftas 2006: Many children have been busy directing, filming and editing videos
ready to submit to the GRAFTAs competition for this year. The closing date for
this competition is Friday 8th December. Please remember to put the school name
clearly on the CD. Should you want to see last year's entries, please go to:
http://www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/graftas2005/index.html
REMINDER: There are two AppleMac computers available (one PC and one i-book), to loan out to schools for two/three week periods. Each computer can be loaned with a Digital Video camera for use in Secondary, Primary or Nursery Schools. Please contact Christine Ruane if you would be interested: christine.ruane@oxfordshire.gov.uk or 01865 428034. This might be useful for the GRAFTAs!
Audio Network Ideas
Just a reminder that Oxfordshire Schools have access to 3,587 high quality MP3 audio music files that can be used to enhance pupils' work and teachers' lessons. Full details of the license can be found at: http://www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/audio/ Website: http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/
Idea of the Week: Sleigh ride could be used for background music to a range of Christmas projects e.g. backing to a PowerPoint presentation that retells the Christmas story. It could also be used as a stimulus for a Christmas art scene. http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/track_details.asp?type=4&trackid=2512&l1=&l2=&l3=&l1c=&l2c=&l3c
Click on the next link for a list of other Christmas related music: http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/tracks.asp?offset=30&type=4&keywords=christmas
Digitalbrain Latest
Please note that Digitalbrain in Oxfordshire is financed up until February 2009. If you have not already done so please get in touch with us at the ICT Centre to discuss your school's Digitalbrain entitlement sessions (these are free training opportunities). (01865 428034) Thank you to all schools that have already made arrangements for training - we look forward to working with you soon.
British Computer Society Reminder
Visit http://www.oxon.bcs.org/webcomp to sign up for an information pack for the BCS website competition. Remember that the competition is open to teams of primary and secondary pupils from all Oxfordshire schools.
PRIMARY
QXS Microscope Deal
Dabs are selling the QXS Microscope at £72.83 including VAT. Please go to the link below for further information.
Espresso
During Term 6 Espresso were able to offer a specially negotiated rate for Oxfordshire schools. Although this agreement was originally negotiated to run for term 6 only, an extension to this deal is now available to schools that order by the end of term 2. So if you were considering it in the summer but just missed the boat, you now have a further opportunity to buy at the special price of £6 a pupil. Further details of this are available in the OCN ICT Curriculum area conference.
SECONDARY
DiDA Delivered
The NWGfL, who released the resources in 'DiDA delivered' have begun to release resources for the OCR National Certificate in ICT. They can be found at: http://www.ncit-delivered.org
It seems likely that some of the later materials will be charged but released under open source license allowing schools to modify the content.
GCSE OCR B
The consultants attended an inset session presented by Steven Cushing in which
he emphasised that teachers should not be afraid to award full marks for coursework
where they felt it was deserved.
Best wishes,
The ICT Advisory Team
