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Handheld Learning Festival Conference 2009 - NG Report

  15 October 2009

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5-7 Oct 09. Barbican London

Report by Simon Finch, Northern Grid

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The Handheld Learning Conference was unlike any other conference I have attended in recent years. For those who bought tickets early, they received a ‘free’ Ipod Touch. The Touch is a web enabled handheld device, is easy to use and enables users to communicate with the wider world, wherever there is a wifi signal. The conference venue was well served by wifi with many delegates commenting on its quality and indicating in some cases that it was the best internet connectivity they had experienced at any conference.

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Northern Grid School Beats International Competition!

  08 October 2009

hhl_awards_smallIn June of this year Normanby Primary School, in Redcar and Cleveland LA, received the Northern Grid for Learning’s prestigious “Overall Excellence’ award - and this week the school was once again celebrating at the Handheld Learning conference at the Barbican Centre in London.

 

normanby_hhl_2_tThe Y Factor

On Monday afternoon Normanby learners participated in the Y Factor competition. The Learners Y Factor is ‘an opportunity to showcase the innovation and ingenuity being demonstrated amongst young learners using mobile, gaming, social media or other popular technologies in their learning’. There was great excitement and lots of smiles when the judges announced that Normanby pupils were the winners and had been chosen to present to the conference delegates on the Wednesday afternoon.

 

 

 

 

normanby_hhl_1_tThere are two awards in the Primary category; Practitioner and Innovation. Normanby won them both! Carl Faulkner, headteacher was awarded Primary Practitioner of the year and the school also won the Innovation award for their outstanding PDAs to Support Learning Initiative - beating schools as far afield as Australia!





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