ICT Newsletter #302

ICT Newsletter #302

24th September 2007

GENERAL

Courses

A general reminder - increasingly our courses give you opportunities to create content that would be very easy for you to save onto a USB memory stick. If you have one, please remember to bring it along to your next course.

The following courses (taken from the 'pin-me-up' sheet circulated in the latest copy of Ox-On-Line) have places available. If you would like to attend please apply to the Inset section at Cricket Road or online at: http://intranet.oxfordshire.gov.uk/links/intranet/oqsaapply

Tuesday 2 October (first of two days) New Primary ICT Coordinators (KS 1/2) 21/779

PLEASE NOTE DATE IS TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER (not 3rd as advertised)

Friday 5 October (one day) IWB for Beginners 21/781

Monday 8 October (morning of 1.5 days) Web Authoring with Digital Brain 21/782

Tuesday 9 October (first of three days) Teachers new to ICT (KS3/4) 21/783

Friday 12 October (one day) IWBs for TAs 21/785

Thursday 18 October (one day) Spreadsheet Modelling for the Terrified 21/788

If you are interested in ANY of these courses please book as above or telephone Christine Ruane for further details (01865 428034)

Competitions

There are a number of exciting competitions coming up. Look out for the fliers in your school:

National Poetry Day Competition (theme DREAM) 17/09/07 - 12/10/07
Foundation Stage Christmas Card Competition 29/10/07 - 23/11/07
Maths Challenge - week beginning 12/11/07

Final opportunity for SLICT

The Strategic Leadership of ICT (SLICT) programme comes to an end in March 2008, so this is the last chance for headteachers and senior managers to participate. Autumn programmes are almost full, but places are still available in the spring term. SLICT provides senior leaders in schools with the strategic awareness needed to make e-learning a key part of their school, and helps harness ICT to improve learning. The programme involves face-to-face learning sessions and a visit to a host school where ICT is a strength.

If your headteacher has not taken part in the SLICT programme, please forward this on to him/her.

Contact slictteam@ncsl.org.uk for further details or call Chris Matchett on 0845 609 0009.

PRIMARY

Congratulations

Congratulations go to Christine Hall of Estone Primary School for winning our Newsletter 300 competition correctly guessing that the ICT Team formed in 1986 - as to the tie-breaker, we're not going to say! A memory stick should have already winged its way to Christine.

We would also like to commend the entry from James Bird of The Blake CofE Primary School for his imaginative entry and a suggestion that he check his glasses prescription before looking at the website pictures again!

British Pathe and The Audio Network

Have you also forgotten about these marvellous resources available free to you via the OCN network? If so keep your eyes peeled for the next Ox-on-line…

SECONDARY

Artworking online

Fauxto (pronounced "photo") has created a Web-based photo editor that might be powerful enough to rival Photoshop. In a launch-day demo, the founders took the Google logo, stuck it on a photographed volunteer's forehead, matched the logo's background to his skin colour, changed his eye colour, shifted the image to grayscale and, without leaving the interface, uploaded the revised photograph directly to Facebook. Fauxto also allows two people to work on an image at the same time. It may never replace Photoshop completely, but it does beat the Adobe product on price - it's free.

http://www.fauxto.com

DiDA Updates

The latest updates can be found by following the links:

Registration, entry and cash-ins

18/09/2007 19:08

http://alerts.edexcel.org.uk/go.axd/16358

Unit 1 Assessment guidance

18/09/2007 17:09

http://alerts.edexcel.org.uk/go.axd/16352

Unit 2 Assessment guidance

18/09/2007 17:09

http://alerts.edexcel.org.uk/go.axd/16353