Northern Grid for Learning - School Broadband, eSafety, Learning Resources and More

Northern Grid attended the Kinect™, Kindles™, Know How and Learning Impact! event on Tuesday 27th September.  During the event schools had the opportunity to find out about the wide range of support available from Naace, including the ICT CPD 4 Free website and the Naace ICT CPD award scheme. Vital shared information about the work they do and the support they provide (see: http://www.vital.ac.uk) and some of the events they are supporting in partnership with Northern Grid, including the Tees Teachmeet on October 6th.

Then it was time to hear how Kindles and XBox Kinects are being used in primary, secondary and special school classrooms and a have chance to play with the Kindles and the XBox Kinects set up in the room.

After playtime the session was rounded off with Steve Bunce sharing some great ideas for using free tools to add some excitment to teaching and learning. Ideas included using Angry Birds, Scratch and Camera Mouse - an interesting tool that can turn your nose into a mouse!

The afternoon was very enjoyable and it was great to meet such enthusiastic teachers from across the region.

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