Creative ICT
Putting the creative use of
technology at the heart of the curriculum         |
Course Details
- Duration: 1 day
- Audience: ICT co-ordinators and senior managers
This course
is intended to bring alive the possibilities that multimedia offers
learners throughout school. The first session will examine examples of
multimedia work carried out in schools. The second session will show
how schools can begin to work with multimedia themselves without
breaking their budget. The afternoon will look at issues of teaching
and learning, progression and assessment with a final hour for
delegates to produce their own action plan and set priorities.
Cross-curricular ICT
- Duration: 1 day
- Audience: ICT co-ordinators and senior managers
Cross-curricular
ICT has always been embedded in the National Curriculum, but many
schools have found it difficult to realise in practice. This course
will provide lots of examples of ways in which schools have achieved a
cross-curricular approach in different subjects. The emphasis will be
on the use of digital media, and a key component of this course will be
time for delegates to exchange experiences from their own practice.
Basic multimedia skills using free software
- Duration: 1 day
- Audience: Anybody interested in acquiring basic multimedia skills.
This is a fun
day in which delegates will see lots of examples of multimedia made by
children. There will be a review of some of the free resources
available to schools and plenty of time in which delegates can have a
go themselves. Important multimedia editing concepts and skills will be
examined and practiced. By the end of the day the delegates will have
gained enough confidence to have a go themselves in the classroom.
How to be a successful ICT co-ordinator
- Duration: 1 day
- Audience: ICT co-ordinators or prospective ICT co-ordinators
Being an ICT
co-odinator is one of the most demanding roles in any school. Ask
anyone who has done the job, and they will tell you how it is possible
to go from hero to villain in moments; destined to try and fulfil
impossible demands from one term to the next. This course is led by a
highly experienced ICT co-ordinator. It is full of practical advice,
ideas and strategies that will help the hard-pressed co-ordinator raise
his or her eyes above the parapet to see the bigger picture.
The course fee includes membership of the Creative ICT co-ordinator online forum.
The course fee includes membership of the Creative ICT co-ordinator online forum.
How to manage a school website
- Duration: 1 day
- Audience: Senior managers, staff responsible for school websites
This day will
provide a useful insight for managers into the principles of web
design, particular problems that schools face in designing and managing
websites, legal issues, costs etc. Successful school websites are few
and far between, most are left for months or even years without being
updated. It doesn't have to be this way...
Strategic development planning for ICT
- Duration: 1 day
- Audience: Senior managers and ICT co-ordinators
Grand vision,
or pragmatic realism? Developing a coherent ICT development plan is a
vital component of any school's forward view, and yet, it is often left
to an ICT co-ordinator who doesn't have a wide enough remit to look at
the role of ICT across the school, not just as a tool for teaching and
learning, but for efficient administration and communication. This
demanding day will help managers understand concepts such as "Total
cost of ownership (TCO)"; consider the implications of migrating to new
technologies; understanding training and support requirements;
realistic year-on-year budget planning and much more. There will be
time for you to review your existing situation and set priorities for
the future.