Spreading the .net vibe slide share
- 1. Spreading the .net vibeWelcome:Dan Roberts - Deputy Headteacher Saltash.net Community School
- 2. saltash.netcommunity school is:an 11-18 mixed community comprehensive with 1337 studentsIt has been a specialist schoolin Science and Maths &Computing with a RuralDimension since September 2004
- 3. ‘The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing and the main thing is learning.’Steven Covey – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- 5. Big Brother meets Pig Mother
- 6. Giving students responsibility for their own learningStudents can be found:Monitoring animal behaviour via the school’s PigCam & EggcamCompleting their homework via Twitter and FacebookVisiting the Big Brother-style diary roomBroadcasting live to 30 million people in Indonesia. These are not gimmicks or PR stunts: the innovative experiences happening here are proving to be incredibly effective & happen on a daily basis
- 7. What do students want?They want to learn how to learnThey want easy access to technologyThey want the InternetLet them..... Research Collaborate Create Publish Network
- 9. We are not cheap skates but…Why spend £100s on video conference equipment? All you need is a cheap webcam & Skype or Twitcam
- 10. Why spend £1000s on digital cameras when kids have mobile phones that are just as good?
- 11. Why spend £10,000s on laptops when kids have them at home?What do our students say about open source, social networking & web 2.0 tools?“Enhance our learning”
- 12. “Make learning more interesting and fun”
- 13. “Learning skills to prepare for our future”
- 14. “Free, quick and simple to use”
- 15. “Accessible in school, at home, anytime & anywhere”
- 16. “They can be used in any subject”ICT is not just a tool for learning but a whole new way of learningA responsibility to protect all our learners (E-safety & Acceptable Use)
- 17. A responsibility to share the .net vibeProjects for this year so far…Students designing & creating their own games for the Xbox.
- 18. Students training teachers in the innovative use of technology.
- 19. Students designing & creating their own Apple Apps.
- 20. Students developing a framework for digital literacy from KS1-KS5.Finally, enjoy the journey. As Cervantes said…‘The road is always better than the inn at the end’You can always share in our journey atwww.saltash.net/livestock
- 21. Thanks for watchingFor further information please contact me at the following email address:Robertsd@saltash.cornwall.sch.ukFollow the chickenman on twitter@chickensaltashOr the school @saltashdotnetOr come along and visit us & Max our school dog.
Editor's Notes
- #7: Example of mobile phones and how most young people don’t use predictive text because it is different on different phone models. Therefore they learn to multi-tap so that when they upgrade their phones they can keep texting.Why buy expensive voting pads/systems when a bluetooth enabled phone to PC could perform the same function?
- #9: Recharge the Battery – project (Discuss what the actual project is about etc), show some examples of our students work, students can talk about how they found the project etc – this will form part of the live link up via MSN – Stuart Ball has some slides here that I want to capture about the project from the BETT presentation