Literacy Seminars

Saturday

10:30
Emap Education Keynote: Problems with Teaching Literacy? Inspiring Achievers and Under Achievers - A master class of ideas for all teachers

Alan Gibbons & Stephen Heppell

Two major speakers - One from the world of Literacy and the other from the world of IT, joining together to highlight how the traditional teaching can benefit from using ICT.

The Literacy Classroom
Alan Gibbon will examine the kind of educational environment that can encourage pupils to engage with all aspects of literacy. He will offer practical strategies to get pupils of all abilities to read for pleasure and to achieve self-expression through writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

A New Literacy
Stephen Heppell will highlight how ICT is offering new opportunities that broaden our definition of literacy. Authoring podcasts together, parking their video on YouTube, TXTing and blogging, from computers and from phones, from complex threads on MSN to Story Clusters on FlickR, and right across the world our children are rushing back to narrative with a sophisticated ability to tailor their communication to media available. This session explores some the evolution of this new literacy and through viewing their work examines where children are now, and are going, with narrative inside the classroom and beyond.

What are your expectations for this keynote address? Are you aware of the work of Alan and Stephen prior to attendance? What keynote speakers would you like to see address BETT delegates at future events. Post you comments and help develop the programme for the future.

BETT Awards shortlist for Post 16, Sure Skills Literacy Entry Level 3 and Sure Skills Numeracy Entry Level 3Harcourt

Sure Skills is a suite of fully interactive e-courses that match the National Curricula in Literacy and Numeracy, and have been designed especially to motivate adult learners.

Gives tutors the flexibility to work closely with each adult learner and tailor individual lesson plans to focus on their skills needs.

The content is designed to motivate adults by providing the learning in a variety of contexts that they are familiar with.

Do you use this resource with adult learners and if so how successful have you and they found it?

Post a comment to let other know.

BETT Awards shortlist for Early Years Solutions,Garage Topic Pack - Early Vision,Early Vision Ltd

The Garage Topic Pack lets children see working people in their environment including the mechanic speaking, listening and writing, salesman on the computer completing forms and the motorist singining some paperwork.



Is this a pack that you have used in the early years setting and if so what was your own impression?

BETT Awards shortlist for Early Years Solutions, Simple City, 2Simple Software

According to 2Simple Software, Simple City helps stimulate listening, language, independence, collaboration and creative play in the Foundation Stage and Year 1. Adult experts and children guide children through 10 locations based on common curriculum topics while engaging on-screen activities promote children’s role play both on the computer and afterwards.

If you have used this title with your children how successful was it in developing their early skills?

BETT Awards Shortlist - Secondary Core, The Write Kit Key Stage 3, 186Media

The Write Kit Key Stage 3 contains 17 video-based exercises which require pupils to meet a variety of challenges in writing stories, poems, dramas, letters and adverts. Students learn to observe, listen and empathize. Using the exercises will develop an understanding of structure and form, character development, dialogue, motivation, genres, imagery and 'special effects'.

Tell us your experience of using this resource in the classroom and how it helped pupils.

BETT Awards Shortlist - Primary Core, The Interactive Literacy CD-Roms, Smart Learning Ltd

Smart Learning Ltd describe The Interactive Literacy CD-ROMs as providing a selection of texts which can be manipulated on-screen, plus 3 interactive screens for every text included.
The Interactive Literacy Teacher's Books also provide a step-by-step guide through the entire CD-ROM, comprehension questions, whole-class activities, independent work suggestions, extension activities and planning grids. These books are packed full of brilliant ideas to inject energy into your Literacy lessons.

We want to know successful the resource has proved in your classroom.