ISTEC+-+Minutes+May+08

Scratch – MIT – Control & Simulation - http://scratch.mit.edu/ Game Maker - http://www.yoyogames.com/make Flightgear - http://www.flightgear.org/ Phun (physics) – search on Youtube – suitable for younger children – brings drawing to life http://phun.en.softonic.com/ Star struck – linked from http://www.teachict.co.uk/ Paint.NET – [|www.getpaint.net/] RFFLOW – [|www.rff.com/] Gecology? Upload s/w examples to ISTEC Wiki Information Fluency – SH presentation Overview, Resource Checklist (Patana have an extended version) Plagiarism – Zero tolerance policy Educational goals – ability to synthesise information __**2. Technology to process and personalize information and make connections (Paul White):**__ Helping students to assimilate and personalize information and get something out of it. Mind maps – Mind mapping vs mind mapping s/w (is the s/w worth the effort?) NIST using OneNote features Mappio - http://mappio.com/ Inspiration/Kidspiration – expensive! Bubble US - http://www.bubbl.us/ NetVibes – http://www.netvibes.com/#General Opera – Fastest browser – more features – http://www.opera.com/ Search & Find features – built into Vista ! Copernic – searches in the background whilst you are working and builds up a whole picture of files on HDD. Google Desktop – will search on your PC Kinesthetic Learning styles – also become better learner if challenged with different learning styles –personalise by tailoring to a deficiency Ed Origami wiki (Madeleine) - http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/ Blooms Taxonomy – Tools, Resources, rubrics etc. Flat Classroom project - http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/ __**3. Intranet/E-Learning Platform & School Information Management Systems (Clive Roberts):**__ Most schools using a mix of platforms that were not particularly well integrated Problems included inadequate budget/staffing and in some cases a lack of will at Board/Management level Laptop Implementation: Unanimously agreed that for schools to move to the ‘next level’ of ICT development across the whole curriculum all students needed ‘open access’ to computing. This could only be achieved with each student having a laptop with wireless access. Problems over controlling content and access arose. Infrastructure needs to be put in place: Effective wireless bandwidth Sufficient power supplies in all classrooms (for charging batteries) Technical support Security measures Software licensing implications Print Credits? Patana now issued students with ‘print credits’, which restricted the number of pages a student could print per term. This was administered and controlled by the technical staff. **__4. Intellectual property rights for teachers policy (John Tranter)__** CreativeCommons licenses - Contract clauses for work to remain the property of the school? Wikamedia --- students use this instead of Google images to teach good practice and counter plagiarism. Secondary ICT Courses: Middle School ENC (many adaptations) CIE IGCSE IT & CS, EdExcel ICT, MYP, ICDL, US AP, IB ITGS,& CS Reporting ICT Achievements to parents: Wireless network security: Facebook Policy: Should it be used for education? – Impossible to block effectively…. But should we? **__5. Applied ICT – Resources, support material, past papers, texts etc. (Joel White):__** AS Level – recent course – no past papers etc available Thank you to Simon Hinds and Bromsgrove International School for hosting ISTEC Farewell and good luck to Madeleine Brookes (To WAB, China) and Paul White (to ESF, Hong Kong). Thank you both for your invaluable contributions towards the success of ISTEC - It would not have developed to what it is today without your input.
 * __1. Useful Freeware & cool Apps (Simon Hinds):__**

Next meet October 27th – St Johns, Bangkok