GENERAL

Courses

The following courses still have places available:

• Tue 1 May Creating Web Pages with Digitalbrain (Day 1 Half Day) 21/752
• (Day 2 Thu 7 June Full Day)
• Thu 3 May Digitalbrain Management 21/753
• Wed 23 May Data Handling 21/756

Apply to the Inset section at Cricket Road or online at: http://intranet.oxfordshire.gov.uk/links/intranet/oqsaapply

Reminder to ICTC's that the termly ICT meetings will take place on the following dates in different areas. The meetings are free and open to anyone.

• Tue 22 May Tower Hill, Witney 4.00 - 5.30 21/754
• Tue 22 May Cricket Road 4.00 - 5.30 21/755
• Wed 23 May Northbourne, Didcot 4.00 - 5.30 21/756
• Thu 24 May Queensway, Banbury 4.00 - 5.30 21/757
• Thu 24 May Bicester community College 4.00 - 5.30 21/758

Apply to attend these sessions by contacting the ICT Centre directly by e-mail (sds.ict.education@oxfordshire.gov.uk), by fax (01865-428030) or by telephone (01865-428034)

Tesco Voucher Competition

The members of the ICT Advisory Team have been busy collecting Tesco Computers for Schools vouchers and once again will be sponsoring a competition, the prize for which will be our entire stack of vouchers. To enter the competition send a digital photograph which represents "Spring in our School" to competitions@sds.theocn.net by Friday 18 May. Please ensure that your digital photograph has the name of your school either in its title or in the e-mail address used to submit it.

PRIMARY

Videoconference Opportunity

A beginners guide to Videoconferencing course is running for a half day on Wednesday 4th July. Part of the session will link with the national Maritime Museum and the session will be what has the sea got to do with me? In this video conference session, pupils will discover the ways in which the sea is important to everyone living on Planet Earth. The session explores: resource issues, fossil fuels and renewable energy resources, sustainability and its implications, and global citizenship. This will be suitable for an upper KS2 class and could link with any environmental project. If your school would be interested in taking part in this please contact through email: anna.foreman@oxfordshire.gov.uk

SECONDARY

DiDA

DiDA Grade Boundaries and Candidate Statistics for SPBs issued in September 2005(0905)

http://alerts.edexcel.org.uk/go.axd/12714

Moderators Report Levels 1 and 2

http://alerts.edexcel.org.uk/go.axd/12713

Cancellation - OCR Nationals inset 6 June at Cricket Road

The above course has unfortunately had to be cancelled but will be rescheduled for the Autumn Term 2007 08

Crocodile Technology 3D

Crocodile Clips have launched a new online training course for Crocodile Technology 3D, which is an easy to use simulator that lets you create, prototype and test systems that combine electronics, programmable PIC chips and mechanisms, before simulating the PCB layout in 3D. The training course has been designed to help teachers use Crocodile Technology 3D more effectively in lessons and is freely accessible to all from the Crocodile Clips website. Follow the link for further information: www.crocodile-clips.com/training

Best wishes,

The ICT Advisory Team

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