Learning Platform Training November 21, 2007
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The first phase is over and though it was tough mentally (for both participants and trainers) there are some really exciting ideas coming to the fore. I just hope that, with everything else on schools’ agendas, the ideas discussed this week get the opportunity to bear fruit.
Excuse me while I pour the second glass……
Learning Platform / VLE demonstration October 13, 2007
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Whilst this video is presented by a Secondary school it is interesting to see the methods used to introduce the Learning Platform into the school.
Speaker: Domenic Volpe, Acting Deputy Headteacher, Heaton Manor School and Richard Campbell, ICTAC, Heaton Manor School
Heaton Manor is a large mixed comprehensive school that used to have a messy shared G: Drive, where staff and students, if they were lucky, could negotiate their way to a file or folder. Five or six years ago staff began to ask whether there was a better way. Surely there could be better use made of the technology that was beginning to litter the school?
Heaton Manor is now a leader in the use of VLEs as not only a learning tool allowing true interaction between student and teacher but underpinning all that happens in the school.
The recently changed school day, the Progress, Behaviour and Welfare system within the school as well as the innovative Teaching and Learning Research work is all enabled by the spine of the school which is the Heaton Manor VLE. Presented to AMAC September 2007
