To win this category a school must be nominated by their Local Authority. The award is presented for work across the whole school. Winners demonstrate the positive impact ICT can have on teaching and learning.
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Created by: All the pupils were 15 years old.
Packages used: MS PowerPoint Adobe Premiere Pro Windows Movie Maker Adobe Photoshop Audacity Google Earth
Objectives: The presentation was completed as part of an Aim Higher enterprise project which invited schools to develop a solution to build a major sporting venue for the 2012 Olympics and demonstrate that the facilities would have a sustainable inheritance for the local community. The total submission for this project included models, map, plans, diagrams, costings and full project descriptions all produced with ICT.
The presentation which was submitted for this award was the one delivered by the team at the final judging for the project. It was created and produced entirely by the team, Assistance was given by the CLC to demonstrate techniques of morphing images in Photoshop, animating still sequences in Premiere, using Audacity for sound editing and some aspects of PowerPoint. The team members then applied these skills to their topic and produced the final presentation.
The project entry is both visionary and practical; it demonstrates an understanding of the needs of the local community, promotes this part of the region as a significant centre for sporting development and emphasises the importance of sustainability.
Click below to see the certificate Sumlock presented to the winners (pdf). It includes details of all of the sponsors and details of the prize.
Moorside CP School,, Newcastle, won the category with Take a Walk Through Arthur's Hill
Created by: The pupils were all in Year 5.
Packages used: Mediator was used to produce the presentation although the pupils also used media player to edit and select the video clips and digital camera software to capture still images,
Objectives: The pupils were asked to create a guide to our local area as part of the humanities topic (Our Local Area). Each child had input to an individual page and then a small team compliled the mediator file together.
Woodlawn School, North Tyneside, won this category with their entry: "Our Plasma Ball"
Created by: 11 - 13 year olds
Packages used: MS PowerPoint
Objectives: To use vocabulary to create pictures to represent a plasma ball for someone who has not yet seen or experienced one. To use poetic devices to present images. To combine pictures and images.
Polam Hall won this category with An Anthology of Friendship
Created by: The resource was created by the Year 6 ICT Club Girls
Packages used: MS PowerPoint
Objectives: To use a multimedia authoring program to organise, refine and present a set of linked multimedia pages, which incorporates images, sounds and text, appropriate to meet the needs of a specific audience To recognize the features of good design To work together as a team and share ideas Process involved
During the summer term holidays we saw the development of our Friendship Garden, designed for the children as a place to rest, have time to themselves, time to have fun and meet new friends. Over the Autumn term our Friendship Monitors have grown and become more confident and we have seen the introduction of Friendship Friday where we try hard to make at least one new friend.
Mrs Bury runs a junior poetry club and they have taken the topic of Friendship as a focus for their poetry writing. The girls meet once a week and work together or independently to create wonderful and inspiring poetic words.
Every alternate Monday evening the Year 6 ICT club girls meet for an hour after school and were given the task to develop their knowledge further from their half hour weekly ICT lesson to create a PowerPoint presentation of our friendship poems. The girls spent time collecting their poems together and planning what and how they would present it. They decided on appropriate colours, pictures and videos. They sought help on choric speaking and learnt how to use the digital video camera. Sophie, Katie, Fleur and Rachel were very dedicated to this task and concentrated hard, delegating the work and then bringing it back and discussing further improvements. The girls learnt how to add films, sounds, animations and a 12 second transition in between each slide for maximum impact. The team during their hectic lunchtimes also tried to find the time to add some additional work on this project. Really well done Girls!
Help The girls learnt new skills from their weekly 30 min ICT lesson but the ICT club work was all done independently.
'We have really enjoyed making this PowerPoint; it was amazing to see what we could do and remember. We learnt how to do new things and develop our ideas further and we worked really well as a team.
Thank you Miss Bland for giving us the chance to create this wonderful anthology. We love it!'
Woodlawn School, North Tyneside, won this category with the Secret Magic Rainbow Island.
Created by: The pupils were 11 - 13 year olds
Packages used: MS PowerPoint
Objectives: To create and write a story. To bring together different senses, sight and sound, to create images. To sequence events. To represent movement using animation in a story.
Hartburn Primary School, Stockton and Stockton CLC won this category.
Created by: This was a teacher award Kath Collinson was nominated by Stockton CLC.
Packages used: Elluminate Moodle
Objectives:
Linking hospital with school
Background
Charlotte is currently 7 years old and has had to attend a hospital in Newcastle three times a week for dialysis. She attended normal school the other two days a week. When her school heard about our work, they asked if it would be possible to link her normal lessons to the hospital. Over a period of a few weeks, the hospital was contacted with regard to downloading, installing and testing the software (all that is required is an internet connection and headphones, preferably with a microphone). Meanwhile, Charlotte's teacher worked with the CLC to learn how to make best use of the virtual classroom tool.
The first lesson
On 8th May, 2006, Charlotte, along with the teaching assistant at the hospital, logged on to the live classroom - the link to this is in a secure virtual learning environment in which her teacher is also able to put other resources for Charlotte to use. The lesson was Music, and Charlotte was able to listen to her teacher, hear the singing and also contribute, both by writing messages or by speaking. There is an edited recording of the lesson which includes photos and video footage of her and the children in the class on http://vle.stocktonclc.co.uk/course/view.php?id=6 (click on 'Log on as a guest'). There are also examples of Press releases and a recording of a local radio interview.
Feedback
Charlotte was engaged throughout the lesson and took an active part in it, just as she would if she had been in the real classroom. Her classmates were aware of her 'presence' and included her in the lesson too. The teacher was able to teach 'normally' after the initial 'logging on' to the room and making sure Charlotte could communicate. The technology was 'seamless' and although the teacher had spent some time (but not a great deal) learning how to use it initially, she can see that it has easily been integrated into her lesson and can be used much more.
Further lessons
Charlotte enjoyed the first lesson so much that she asked if she could join the Literacy lesson that afternoon which had not been originally planned, but was able to join as the teacher felt confident that she did not have to make any changes to her lesson to accommodate this. Having been part of that lesson in which a new topic was introduced, the teacher was confident that when Charlotte returned to school the next day, she knew about the new topic and was able to continue with it as if she had been at school when it was originally taught instead of having to try to 'catch up'.
A second teacher has now used the technology in a Numeracy lesson, and within that, the teacher was able to allow Charlotte to write on the whiteboard in the classroom (Charlotte was using a laptop in the hospital). All the children in the class were able to see Charlotte's writing and not only were they amazed, but the work Charlotte was writing (using a number line to subtract) was reinforced for the other children too.
The Future
Charlotte had a kidney transplant (the donated kidney was from her father!) in September and she is now back at school and does not need to join her lessons virtually! - but during this difficult time, through the use of technology, she has been able to maintain continuity not just in her learning but also in the social sense of being part of her class.
With respect to Kath, Charlotte's teacher, she is now working on another project with Stockton CLC on live remote observations where we are working with Durham University and ITT students.
Churchill College, North Tyneside, won this category
Created by: This was a teacher award and the entry was submitted by Chris Wilde. The project involved year 9 students.
Packages used: Front Page MS Word Wikipedia and various websites Audacity Channel 4 Clipbank and Revelation Sight and Sound
Objectives: This was a four week homework project which culminated in an afternoon at one of our local CLCs. We have a paperless system for homework using our VLE and we used this to allow pupils to access and hand in their homework. We decided that a good final piece for a project would be a video and decided to create a unit using the Commonwealth War Graves search engine.
Pupils were given guidance for their research using a web page with hyperlinks to various sites and text input fields where they could store the information about their soldier's regiment, when he died and the battle he died in. This information then led to a written presentation of their findings. Research was completed over a four week period and work was checked and comments added by the teacher using our VLE's paperless Homework system.
The award was presented by Mel Philipson.
With the presentation written we then spent an afternoon at our local CLC where the pupils downloaded their presentations from the VLE and spoke them into a microphone which recorded their presentation as an MP3, after guidance on the software program Audacity. They then looked at the various video resources available through our LEA's subscription to Channel 4 Clipbank. They found videos that would tie into their presentation and earmarked them. Then the pupils were given guidance on how to create presentations in Revelations Sight and Sound.
When the video presentations were completed they were added to our Streaming Media Server and made available to the entire school community via the VLE.
Openzone CLC, South Tyneside were highly commended in this category
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Created by: This is a teacher award and the entry was submitted by Mike Hamilton. OpenZone CLC worked in conjunction with the South Tyneside Stories Group and local film maker Louise Rea
Packages used: I Movie HD Final Cut Pro
Objectives: This was a project embarked upon by the CLC aimed at introducing young people to the process of film production. In total a group of 12 young people (Aged 12-15) started planning the project in March 2006. It has evolved over the course of the last 10 months to involve 35 young people (aged 9-19); they have experienced the whole film process from script writing through to editing.
The focus for the film was History of South Tyneside and involved us using Pathe news clips and a green screen editing process to recreate time travel.
Malvin's Close First School, Northumberland won this category
Created by: This is a teacher award and the entry was submitted by Caroline Horn
Packages Used: MS PowerPoint MS Word MS Publisher
Objectives: To be able to tell the difference between fact and fiction.
Success criteria - We MUST work as a team and sort statements about the Gunpowder plot into 2 groups. We SHOULD explain our choices. We COULD produce our own statements about the Gunpowder plot.
Green Lane Primary School, Middlesbrough won this category.
Created by: This is a teacher award and the entry was submitted by Kate Davies.
Packages used: MS PowerPoint Digital Blue Movie Maker Photostory for Windows
Objectives: The entry was a MS PowerPoint presentation displaying a range of projects that children in the Foundation Stage had created. Most of the projects are a combination of adult and child work. The projects are examples of what children in the Foundation Stage are able to do without too much adult support and projects that can be incorporated into everyday teaching. The project is intended to inspire other Early Years practitioners to not be afraid of incorporating ICT and to see how easy it really can be.
Malvin's Close First School Odd One Out, Where is Sam? Simulations
ICT and the Early Years - Highly Commended
Malvin's Close First School, Northumberland, were highly commended for their entry in this category.
Created by: This is a teacher award and the entry was submitted by Caroline Horn
Packages used: MS PowerPoint
Objectives:
Odd One Out To be able to explain our thinking Success criteria: We must say which one we think is the odd one out. We should explain our reasons. We could suggest another picture that could appear on the screen.
Where is Sam To be able to use positional language
Simulations To understand that a computer can be used to represent real things. To be able to use our ICT skills to solve real-life problems. Success criteria: We MUST match teddy’s furniture to the right rooms in his house. We SHOULD think carefully about the position of the furniture.We COULD insert some extra pictures of furniture.
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Camel Technology College, Darlington, won this catgory with their entry Computer Animation & Games Design Course Showreel.
Created by: The animation was produced by pupils from Year 12 and 13
Packages used: The pupils used Maya 7.0 and the video was editied in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
Objectives: Students were asked to export pieces of their best work to be used in an advertising video to promote the course through a showreel video. The video was cut together and soundtrack added by the course leader. All work within the video is that of the students who have been taught the basics and then have developed their skills.
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Bydales School, Redcar and Cleveland were highly commended in this category for their animated presentation Make the World Happy - Recycle! They worked with Redcar and Cleveland CLC to produce the animation.
Created by: The animation was produced by 11 - 13 year olds.
Packages used: The pupils used Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe Photoshop, JASC Animation Shop and Audacity.
Objectives: The group was exploring the theme of environment as part of a cross-curricular, cross phase technology project. The group researched their materials and was shown the techniques of animating stills, morphing images and creating animated gifs. The results were then placed into Premiere for the final editing.
