Cross Curricular Seminars

Wednesday

14:45
Internet Safety - Who is responsible?

Karl Hopwood: Headteacher, Semley CE VA Primary School

This session will outline some of the risks and benefits associated with the use of communication technologies in the primary classroom. It will showcase some resources for both key stages and suggest ways in which to integrate the teaching of internet safety into the everyday curriculum.

Learning Objectives: to understand some of the possible ways of delivering internet safety messages within the classroom. to know where to access resources to help to deliver aspects of internet safety in order to keep children safe. to have a raised awareness of the risks and benefits of using communication technologies to support teaching and learning in the classroom

16:15
Mobile Learning: Breaking Down the Barriers

Lyndsay Grant and Tash Lee, Futurelab

Mobile technology offers enormous potential for young people to learn in new and exciting ways, at home, school or in the community. This seminar challenges our preconceptions of how, when and where we learn and explores innovative ideas for enabling learners to learn wherever they are, using mobile technology.

Thursday

15:15
Social Technologies and Learning in Your Classroom: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and More

Miles Berry & Terry Freedman, British Computer Society

Emerging 'web2.0' applications have the potential to transform e-learning, by giving central place to social learning through communication and collaboration and opening up choice and voice dimensions of personalisation. The session explores case studies of how wikis, blogs, podcasts and folksonomies are being used in the classroom and beyond.

15:15
Digitisation and the Changing e-Content Environment

Catherine Grout, JISC

This session will introduce the JISC's two Digitisation Programmes that are creating an exciting range of new digital resources of value for life long learning and research. It will also comment on trends in the e-content environment for user access to resources and on how public sector funders of e-content are beginning to work together to address some of the gaps in e-content provision and to improve the users experience when accessing digital resources.

16:15
Learning Design Tools to Support Practitioners' Innovation with Learning Technologies

Diana Laurillard and Dr Harvey Mellar, Institute of Education

A summary of lessons learned from collaborative research projects on the pedagogic design of learning technologies, across FE and HE institutions in London. The focus is on the tools and mechanisms for ensuring that research links through to its use in teaching. Participants will be invited to engage in the practitioner community.

Friday

16:00
Primary Learning Network collaboration to create a personalised learning website

Chris Jukes: Headteacher, Mount Pleasant Lane JMI and N School

This workshop will be looking at how a number of primary schools have collaborated with each other.

15:15
What Does Good ICT Look Like?

Terry Freedman, Janet Roberts & Russell Ingleby, NAACE

What does good ICT look like and how do we achieve it? Several leading classroom practitioners pass on some tips - prepare to be challenged!

16:15
Lessons Learned from Implementing a Virtual Learning Environment Across Two Local Authorities in England

Ian Usher, NAACE/Bucks CC

Visitors will gain an overview of school and local authority-level issues associated with implementing a Virtual Learning Environment, discover what works and what doesn't in using VLEs schools at both primary and secondary level - all this will be illustrated by work carried out in a variety of schools across two Local Authorities.

Saturday

13:15
New Tools '07 - Forget the Horizon Enjoy the Here and Now - Ways to Make a Difference using ICT

John Davitt, British Computer Society

12 practical and proven ways to make a difference to the quality and range of student's learning with ICT as a catalyst.

13:00
Digital Media Education

David Baugh, Denbighshire LEA

Using Digital Media in education has huge potential for encouraging creativity in classrooms. There is extensive evidence that shows that using digital media with students increases: motivation, on task time, thinking skills and collaborative skills. This session will show how digital media can be integrated into everyday school activities.

What ideas or practice would you hope to adapt and incorporate into your own classroom practice from attendance at any of these sessions? Are there enough cross curricular sessions in the BETT seminar programme? 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.

Mathematics Seminars

Wednesday
13:30
Reaching the Core of AS Mathematics

Ruth Tanner: Secondary Teacher with post 16/ATM ICT group member

This session take a fresh look at some key topics in AS Mathematics. It is designed to encourage understanding and enjoyment of mathematics at post GCSE level; to promote confidence particularly by consolidating algebraic skills and to help with reasoning. Successful GCSE candidates will be helped to take the next step in their mathematical education through this varied approach including computer files.

Saturday

13:30
Interactive geometry

Jenni Ingram: Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) ICT Group Co-ordinator

This session shows the use of excel to teach the understanding of geometrical concepts. Perimeter, area, symmetry, angle and shape properties are explored in a way designed to help geometrical reasoning; promote discussion about geometrical topics and encourage students to apply their geometrical knowledge to solve problems.

14:15
Embedding ICT - New tools to use in the Mathematics classroom

Alison Clark-Wilson, The Mathematical Association

The Mathematical Association works to support and improve the teaching of mathematics. The session will feature the MA/Intel BETT Award winning software (available free to all from the LGfL website) and a range of materials, advice and support developed in partnership with the DfES and others.

As a mathematics 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 mathematics adequately covered at BETT? Please post your views to the wider BETT community.

Modern Foreign Language Seminars

Saturday
12:00
Wikimania, or using wikis to encourage spontaneous and accurate creative writing in MFL
Peter Morris: Senior Teacher & AST, Gordano School - The National Centre for Languages (CILT)

Wikimania invites pupils to contribute on a voluntary basis to a collaborative story writing exercise using a wiki that has been set up so that everybody in the class can read, write and edit. Pupils access the site when they wish, from home or from school, to edit and or continue the story. The teacher monitors the accuracy of the writing and guides improvement through targeted tips, labelled Tipp von PLM on the wiki pages.

Saturday
14:45
ICT … so what? - Using technology to enhance learning outcomes across all four language skills
Joe Dale: Lead Practitioner for The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and French co-ordinator - ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING (ALL)

Freeware, self-authoring exercises, customisable templates, PowerPoint, podcasts and blogs! This practical session is designed to show how ICT can assist the learning and teaching of modern foreign languages by: practising reading and listening skills, extending speaking and writing activities, making spelling fun and reducing teacher preparation time

Saturday
10:30
Funky Flipcharts, Wicked Websites and Interesting Interactivity in MFL
Lesley Welsh, English Martyrs School & Sixth Form College, Hartlepool

Are you a primary or secondary MFL teacher seeking to make the most of the IT resources you have in your classroom? Come along and discover practical examples of how you can exploit a variety of websites, flipcharts and more to engage and motivate your pupils.

Saturday
13:00
Living Languages - Using ICT to Promote the Productive Skills in MFL
Chris Harte, Teaching Awards

A practical overview of ICT in the MFL classroom. The focus is on children producing high quality resources for their own e-portfolio and other children; including podcasts, videos and 3D games.

As a modern foreign languages 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 MFL adequately covered at BETT? Please post your views to the wider BETT community.

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.