Developing Student Improvement Leaders is one of our Schools Innovation Projects and it aims to make use of new technologies to impact on teaching and learning.

All Saints VA CE School in Stockton will be developing a Moodle VLE with areas for curriculum, care and guidance, student leadership, governors, parents and community.

GCSEPod has an important role in this project regarding the investigation of the use of new technologies and how they integrate and work alongside the All Saints VLE.

The ‘Student Improvement Leaders’ will be dev...

Infocow from Futurelab and icould have joined forces to offer a competition open to 14-19 year-olds in the UK for a chance to win an exciting opportunity to spend a day with one of six people at the top of their game.

Ever wondered what it would be like to be…

• a journalist on a glossy magazine
• an advertising exec for a London-based agency
• a football coach and football marketing manager for a top team
• a racing car designer
• a film buyer for a national cinema chain
• a production manager at a busy TV production company

This is your chance to find...

You are invited to take part in an International School VC event on Immigration and Human Movement.

The event, for students aged 8 to 18, will consist of a series of expert presentations from the US and UK between 20 September and 15 October 2010. Students groups are also invited toprepare presentations for an international videoconference on 19 October.

A flyer is attached and more information is available on the project website. To register for the expert presentations or to provide a student presentation visit  http://k20.internet2.edu/immigration

Many of you will have seen the news headlines, but here is some additional info from CEOP about their new app in collaboration with Facebook.......

CEOP and Facebook have developed a new free application that will make young people safer within Facebook.  ClickCEOP is a new app which links the young user and parent directly from their Facebook home page to help, advice and reporting facilities of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre

The 'CLickCEOP' app is a three stage application that asks young people to:

• Add the app - and the ClickCEOP tab will appear at the top of your profile...

Constitution Day Student Summit

September 17, 2010 9 AM – 1 PM EST

The project will support a day-long “Constitution Day Student Summit” for students in 15 southwest regional school districts. The students will apply the principles of the US Constitution to the regulation of the Internet by creating a “Bill of Rights for the Internet”. Students at Cornell High School for the event will work with students in (four) other countries through videoconference. Participating students will share ideas prior to the event through a webpage modelled after the “Letters to the Next President” site (http://www.letters2president.org/).

Outcomes:

• Students will analyze the...

That may sound a rather strange question. After all, the internet is there, and young people use it every day.

But what we (the National Education Network and Lancaster University) want to know is, “How do young people and schools use the internet?” “Have they had any bad experiences?” “Do they understand about filtering and e Safety?” “And how do their views of digital technology relate to the views of their teachers?”.

We also want to know about their attitudes to social networking sites. Are they worried about what can happen through the use of these sites, or do they...

The Northern Grid for Learning's ICT in Education Awards 2010 was a huge success!

On Thursday 10th June, we had over 200 children and over 130 adults from almost 30 schools around the region turn up to see who had won in our 11 categories.

Congratulations to everyone who entered and especially to those who were highly commended and winners!

We're in the process of finishing our Awards mini-site so keep an eye on www.northerngrid.org for a chance to not only see who won, but to take a closer look at the entries themselves.

Pupils from a school in Redcar and Cleveland know all about the opportunities the Internet provides. They also know about the risks.

The pupils, aged from 6-8 years old, worked with their class teacher and Creative Partnerships to produce this powerful message about how to stay safe online.

View the E-Safely video

The SEGfL Bird Box Project 2010 is providing schools with an opportunity to share video and data streams collected from nesting boxes fitted with video cameras and other data gathering equipment.

The SEGfL also supports PuffinCam on Burhou Island, 1.5 km off the coast of the channel island of Alderney. The Alderney Wildlife Trust reports that Puffins should be arriving during April.

The Bird Box Project

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