Special Needs, Inclusion seminars Thursday

Thursday
10:45
Learning to Read with ICT

Duncan Milne, PATOSS

Use the power of ICT to develop better readers in your class! Discover how to teach synthetic phonics effectively with ICT. Examine concepts including: understanding reading acquisition, utilising ICT and multi-sensory learning, recognising and overcoming reading problems and developing a successful reading programme.

12:00
Making the Best Use of ICT to Support Dyslexic Learners

Victoria Crivelli, BDA

Ways in which ICT can help overcome barriers to learning, including: Making the best use of existing technology, How ICT can help create Dyslexia friendly environments, Guidance on selecting programs and tools to support planning, organisation and recording of information, access to the curriculum and literacy skills.

13:15
Making Learning Special

Pete Wells, Sunderland City Learning Centre

Join Pete Wells, winner of Becta's ICT Practitioner of the Year for Inclusion, for a fun filled seminar! Pete will show how you can use ICT in a variety of ways to engage all learners. Experience a disgusting sensory story, a range of sensory based lesson ideas and watch some fantastic Chromakey films! Come along and prepare to be gunged!

14:30
Is It Accessible? Choosing and Using Software Titles

Adrian Higginbotham, Becta & David Colven Ace Advisory Trust

In these enlightened days of the DDA and SENDA all software should be accessible to everyone shouldn't it? But what to we mean by Accessible, how do we know when we've found it and what happens when we can't find it. A Becta lead discussion on what Teachers and suppliers can expect of each other to support personalisation when using ICT.

In terms of your own continuing professional development, what would you hope to gain by attendance at any of the above sessions? Could more be done to support the Inclusion agenda at BETT? Post your views and help shape future BETT seminar programmes.

Building Schools for the Future seminars

Thursday
16:15
Aiming for Transformation - the Role of ICT in Building Schools for the Future

Steve Moss, Partnerships for Schools

The Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme will rebuild or remodel all secondary schools in England. This session will give delegates a clear understanding of the ways in which ICT can help to bring about a transformation of secondary education and how the capital available in the BSF programme can be used to achieve this.

Friday
12:30
SSAT at BETT: New School - Old School?

Tony Parkin, SSAT

Building schools for the future, harnessing the technology, extended schools and community learning hubs, personalising learning - schools are transforming and turning visionary phrases into new realities - though we need reality checks!

What ideas or practice would you hope to take away from attendance at either of these sessions? Is the subject matter, Building Schools for the Future adequately covered at BETT?Post your thoughts and help shape the discussions about the future of the BETT seminar programme.

Music seminars

Thursday

12:00

Creating loop based compositions using original material

David Ashworth: Lead Music & ICT Education Consultant - National Association of Music Educators (NAME)

Delegates will learn how to record original sound samples directly into a computer. They will then be shown how to edit samples before importing them into a loop based sequencer programme to create a piece of music. Two freeware software applications (Audacity and Acid XPress) will be used in this workshop.

As a music teacher what would you hope to gain from attendance at this seminar? What resources do you use to embed ICT into the curriculum? Are there other aspects of teaching and learning this aspect of the curriculum, and the role ICT has to play, which could be covered within a future BETT seminar programme? As a subject, is music adequately covered at BETT? Please post your views to the wider BETT community.

ICT Seminars

Wednesday
12:45
BESA Keynote: Power and Responsibility - the Disruptive Role of Technologies in Learning

Angela McFarlane

No description available at this time.

Thursday
12:45
Digital Repositories in Further and Higher Education: Their Implementation and Value

Dr Neil Jacobs & Amber Thomas, JISC

The session will arm delegates with up-to-date information on how and why UK colleges and universities are implementing repositories. Repositories allow effective management of, and access to, learning and research materials by working together, using common standards and agreements, so that users have access to a distributed national electronic resource.

What ideas or practice would you hope to adapt and incorporate into your own classroom practice from attendance at either of these sessions? Post your thoughts and help shape the discussions about the future of the BETT seminar programme.

History Seminars

Wednesday
12:00
Using ICT to teach Black and Asian British History

Dan Lyndon: AST, Head of History, G&T co-ordinator, Henry Compton School - History association (HA)

The focus of the session will be to show how ICT can be used to integrate the teaching of Black and Asian British History into the mainstream curriculum. The delegates will be shown the resources available on www.blackhistory4schools.com. The session will also explore what a webquests is, with a focus on ‘The Black and Asian Soldiers of the First World War webquest’ and will take delegates through a quick way to write webquests online.

Objective 1: to introduce delegates to www.blackhistory4schools.com.

Objective 2: to introduce delegates to webquests on Black and Asian British History.

Objective 3: to briefly outline how to write your own webquest

Thursday

16:00
The educational possibilities of museum/historic site websites for KS2 & 3

Colin Hyson: Freelance Educational Consultant and Writer

The purpose of this seminar is to look at the educational possibilities that museum websites have to offer both classroom teaching and as a preperation for a class visit to museum or historic house. It will cover history, art and design and citizenship at both Key Stages 2 and 3.

As a history teacher what would you hope to gain from attendance at any of these seminars? What resources do you use to embed ICT into the curriculum? Are there other aspects of teaching and learning this aspect of the curriculum, and the role ICT has to play, which could be covered within a future BETT seminar programme? As a subject, is History adequately covered at BETT? Please post your views to the wider BETT community.

English Seminars

Wednesday
16:00
Exciting writing with ICT

Trevor Millum; NATE ICT Committee; English and ICT writer and trainer

Trevor Millum, himself a children's writer, will demonstrate some of the techniques he uses to get pupils writing. The careful and creative use of ICT is part of this endeavour, but never the reason for it. In his view, ICT can enhance and extend effective English teaching at all levels.

Thursday

14:45
Using the news to teach literacy

John Galloway - Educational Consultant and Adviser for Tower Hamlets

Learning Through Newspapers. We can learn a lot from newspapers, not just from what’s in them but also in creating them. In this session John Galloway, an educationalist and journalist will look at the different disciplines involved and how we can bring them together in the classroom.

Friday

14:45
Using the news to teach literacy

John Galloway: Educational Consultant and Adviser for Tower Hamlets

Learning Through Newspapers. We can learn a lot from newspapers, not just from what’s in them but also in creating them. In this session John Galloway, an educationalist and journalist will look at the different disciplines involved and how we can bring them together in the classroom.

Saturday

11:00
Using ICT to increase pupil motivation and enthusiasm

Julie Meiner, Assistant Headteacher: The United Kingdom Literacy Association/ Barnsley Learning Services

This session will demonstrate how using a unique multi-user virtual environment has impacted on the achievement of boys in their writing through increased motivation and enthusiasm. The session will explain what the multi-user virtual environment was, how it was used effectively in class and the impact that it had on boys' writing.

As an English teacher and in terms of your own continuing professional development, what would you hope to gain from attendance at any of these seminars? What resources do you use to embed ICT into the curriculum? Are there other aspects of teaching and learning this aspect of the curriculum, and the role ICT has to play, which could be covered within a future BETT seminar programme? As a subject, is English adequately covered at BETT? Please post your views to the wider BETT community.

Design and Technology Seminars

Wednesday
11:00
Embedding ICT in D&T (Working towards e-confidence – a joint D&T Association/NAAIDT/Becta project)

Richard Green: Chief Executive - The Design and Technology Association (DATA)

The session will focus on the national training programme planned and delivered by the Design and Technology Association and NAAIDT as part of a BECTA funded project. To provide clear advice tips and guidance on the use of ICT within specific focus areas of Design and Technology in secondary schools and in primary Design and Technology. The session will also provide background information on developing e-confidence within Design and Technology in both primary and secondary phases. Delegates will have an increased awareness of: A diverse range of ICT applications in Design and Technology, How ICT enhances work in specific focus areas, The concept of e - confidence in relation to D&T teaching and learning.

Thursday
13:30
E - portfolios, IWB and voting technologies supporting quality learning in D&T

Louise T Davies: Deputy Chief Executive - The Design and Technology Association (DATA)

A quick guide to some of the latest technologies and how they might transform teaching and learning in D&T over the next few years. How e-portfolios, interactive whiteboards and voting systems can support and improve learning in D&T. Examples of student and teacher E portfolios from KS, KS2,KS3, GCSE and A level

Saturday

14:15
Making IT Happen in Walsall Academy in Design and Technology

Jonathan Boyle, Walsall Academy

Jonathan will be presenting a variety of approaches in the aim of getting the attention of others. Once the audience are hooked then the teaching begins. The approaches are not necessarily exclusive to Design and Technology.

As a design and technology teacher and in terms of your own continuing professional development, what would you hope to gain from attendance at any of these seminars? What resources do you use to embed ICT into the curriculum? Are there other aspects of teaching and learning this aspect of the curriculum, and the role ICT has to play, which could be covered within a future BETT seminar programme? As a subject, is Design and Technology adequately covered at BETT? Please post your views to the wider BETT community.

eLearning Seminars

Thursday
10:45
LSN Lead Session: e Learning in the Post 16 Sector

David Hunter, LLL UK , John Stone, LSN and Karen Price, e-skills

Changing world, changing curriculum, changing structures - the role of ICT This session will explore the role of ICT in delivering the skills agenda. An agenda which, following the Leitch review, will increasingly come to influence how schools, colleges and work-based learning providers work, and work together in partnership.

Saturday
12:15
Developing the e-confident Learner in the Foundation Stage

Rachel Ager, Northamptonshire CC

The session will define the model of good practice in which ICT is truly embedded in the Foundation Stage curriculum. It will explore how the delivery of an 'emergent' ICT education develops an e-confident learner. This will be exemplified by video from a range of Foundation Stage settings in Northamptonshire.

What can we learn from our education colleagues in different sectors? What ideas or practice would you hope to adapt and incorporate into your own classroom practice from attendance at either of these sessions? Post your thoughts and help shape the discussions about the future of the BETT seminar programme.

Becta Seminars, Thursday

Becta leads the national drive to improve learning through technology. They do this by working with industry to ensure we have the right technology for education in place. They also work to support the education workforce to make the best use of technology to improve learning. So that every learner in the UK is able to benefit from the advantages technology brings, thereby helping them achieve the best they can.

Each day at BETT, Becta will be delivering a number of seminar sessions.

11:00
The role of Local Authorities and Regional Broadband Consortia in aggregated procurement

Mark Wallbank and Chris Faulkner, Becta

This seminar will cover the best value purchasing arrangements that Becta is setting up to deliver infrastructure, learning and data services to the schools sector. It will consider the role that Local Authorities and Regional Broadband Consortia can play in aggregating procurement to provide schools with quality and value for money in their ICT systems.

What would you hope to gain from attendance at this seminar? What is your experience of your own Regional Broadband Consortia ? Post your comments to share with the BETT community.

12:45
How to improve your primary school using Becta’s self-review framework

Bernie Zakary, Becta

This session will explore how school leadership teams can improve their Primary School through self-review and planned use of ICT. In Spring 2006, Becta launched the self-review framework. This session will offer guidance on the best practice processes and principles that can assist you in improving your school through ICT. This will be illustrated and supported by exemplars and experiences from Primary Schools on how the self-review framework has helped them make improvements in ICT. For some this has included achieving the ICT Mark. Be prepared to help your school by registering with the self-review framework now at:

http://matrix.becta.org.uk/selfreview

What is your experience of the self-review process? What information would you hope to take back to school with you by listening to Bernie? Let us know what you think before and after the seminar.

14:00
How to drive and develop quality in FE using ICT

Andy Black, Becta

This session will explore how Further Education leadership teams can improve the provision that they provide through self-review and planned use of ICT. This session will offer guidance on the best practice processes and principles that can assist you in improving the quality of your provision, through review of ICT and the developing quality standards. This will be illustrated and supported by exemplars and experiences from college leadership teams on how quality frameworks have helped them make improvements in ICT. Be prepared to help your college by registering on the Learning and Skills frameworks now at: http://matrix.becta.org.uk

What would you expect to gain by attending this seminar? What are your views about the use of the Learning and Skills frameworks ? Share your thoughts with the wider BETT community.

15:15
Planning for personalised online learning: what does it mean for my school

Robin Ball, Becta & John Morris, Headteacher, Ardleigh Green Junior School

This session will consider how to plan for the use of learning platforms to support personalised learning including developing the strategic vision, preparing for and managing change, and transforming learning and teaching.

What further knowledge and understanding would you wish to take away with you by attendance at this seminar? What is your view about Personalised Online Learning? Join the discussion by posting your thoughts.

16:15
How to improve your secondary school using Becta’s self-review framework

Andrew Sierant, Becta

This session will explore how school leadership teams can improve the Secondary School through self-review and planned use of ICT. In Spring 2006, Becta launched the self-review framework. This session will offer guidance on the best practice processes and principles that can assist you in improving your school through ICT. This will be illustrated and supported by exemplars and experiences from Secondary Schools on how the self-review framework has helped them make improvements in ICT. For some this has included achieving the ICT Mark. Be prepared to help your school by registering with the self-review framework now at:

http://matrix.becta.org.uk/selfreview

As a secondary teacher, what is your experience of the self-review process? What information would you hope to take back to school with you by listening to Andrew? Let us know what you think before and after the seminar.