Programme:

08.45 Registration and Coffee

09.15 Welcome and Introduction: Robin Casson, Director of Schools and Family Support and Richard Taylor, ICT Advisor

09.25 Terry Handley : Harnessing Technology

10.20 Introduce Seminars

10.25 Seminar Session 1 - choice of one of the following seminars:

 ICT in the Foundation Stage
Presenter: Sue Wild, Advisory Teacher for ICT
ICT in the Foundation stage is an exciting and enjoyable experience. Come along and see the breadth and variety of ICT experiences we can offer to our young learners. Crammed into this session will be examples of good practice from the DfES Learning and Teaching using ICT CDRom, using cameras, BeeBot, role play resources, Shoofly MoonBuddies and packages made by the ICT Team.

Audience: Foundation
 Using Interactive Whiteboards  across the Primary Curriculum
Presenter: Andy Johnson, Alnwick South First School
Andy has delighted, inspired and motivated teachers at our last two conferences and this year he will offering a class teacher’s perspective on making interactive resources tailored to your own class’ needs. Andy has experience of teaching in year 4 and is currently working with reception at Alnwick South. Come along to find out more about making full use of your interactive whiteboard.
Audience: Primary
 2 Create
Presenter: Ian Campbell: 2Simple Software
2Create allows children in KS1 & KS2 to plan and produce their own multimedia projects, interactive books, talking stories, presentations, slide shows, websites and much more! Videos and support files are included to teach the QCA ICT from Reception to Year 6 (Unit 6A), together with further videos and ideas embedding Multimedia Authoring in history, geography, science and many other curricular areas.
 This will be a hands on session in which participants will have the opportunity to work in groups on laptops to produce an exciting project!

Audience: Primary
Best Practice in SEN ICT – Clicker 5
Presenter: Philip Hackett: Cricksoft
Philip Hackett's presentation will focus on the practical application of Clicker 5 in the classroom. It will show how easy it is for teachers to use Clicker to support their children’s writing, across a range of abilities and ages, and with particular reference to SEN users. The presentation will also show how to make on-screen books and other multimedia applications, as well as how to get hundreds of freely downloadable resources for Clicker 5. The presentation will also showcase some brand new resources for Clicker that are particularly suited to SEN users: Oxford Reading Tree for Clicker, Trackers for Clicker and ClickerVision.

 Audience: All
Animation and Film
Presenter:  Prudhoe High School
This seminar focuses on animation and film used as part of the curriculum and as exciting projects. Practical examples of creating animated films will be described and showcased by the teachers working with the students.

Audience: All

Northumberland Video Library
Presenter: Steve Bunce:  Secondary Teaching and Learning Consultant

Using a library of high-quality stock video footage, pupils can produce film adverts for Northumberland.
This seminar focuses on the practical side of using media in the classroom and unpacks the video resources created for this exciting project.

Audience: All
11.10 Coffee

11.40 Seminar Session 2 - choice of one of the following seminars:  

 2 Create
Presenter: Ian Campbell: 2Simple Software
2Create allows children in KS1 & KS2 to plan and produce their own multimedia projects, interactive books, talking stories, presentations, slide shows, websites and much more! Videos and support files are included to teach the QCA ICT from Reception to Year 6 (Unit 6A), together with further videos and ideas embedding Multimedia Authoring in history, geography, science and many other curricular areas.
 This will be a hands on session in which participants will have the opportunity to work in groups on laptops to produce an exciting project!

Audience: Primary
 Interactive Resources and Primary Games
Presenter: Mark Cogan: Primary Games Ltd

Many schools are familiar with Interactive Resources created by Mark Cogan from Primary Games Ltd. Mark has agreed to offer a seminar  demonstrating the excellent Early Years Maths Pack. Teachers will also have an opportunity to evaluate and comment upon the new Literacy Pack materials and an early viewing of Primary Games Vol.5.


Audience: Primary
 Using Storytelling in Primary Language Teaching
Presenter: Louise Harty, MFL and Gifted and Talented Coordinator
Come and experience how language learning strategies and knowledge about language can be introduced and developed by the non specialist through the delightfully animated tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Available in French, Spanish, German and Italian.

 Audience: Primary
SEN: Using ICT Beyond the Curriculum
Presenter: Val Brown, Becta ICT in Practice Award Winner, 2004
Join Val Brown, Deputy Head of Woodlawn School, Whitley Bay, as she shares some of their inspiring work through a selection of case studies. Come and see how ICT is used in a special school to support play, communication and learning.
 
Audience: All
 Vodcasting
Presenter: Mark Simpson, Cramlington High School

Vodcasting – what is it, how will it enhance my students' learning and how can I do it?

This highly practical session will demonstrate how to create professional quality video tutorials to support students' learning. It will show real examples from Cramlington High School's Intranet and VTLE.

Audience: Secondary

Games in School
 Presenter: Steve Robson:  Secondary Teaching and Learning Consultant
A review of the Northumberland Games project, including reports from teachers who have replanned Year 9, and run special courses in Key Stage 3 and beyond to explore making games as an engaging and useful part of the ICT curriculum.

Audience: Secondary

12.25 Lunch (2 sittings) and Exhibitors

13.40 Seminar Session 3 - choice of one of the following seminars:  

 ICT and Literacy: Shoofly
Presenters: Anne Curtis and Vicki Cable
Probably the best and most beautifully presented curriculum support materials to come into schools this year. All schools in Northumberland with Primary age pupils have been provided with the ICT resource packs 'Jack and the Beans Talk' and 'Moon Buddies' from Shoo Fly. In these workshops Anne Curtis, the author and Vicki Cable, curriculum support from Shoo Fly, will look at this exciting bank of teaching materials and how they can be used in the classroom.

Audience: Primary
Using Interactive Whiteboards  across the Primary Curriculum
Presenters:  Andy Johnson, Alnwick South First School
Andy has delighted, inspired and motivated teachers at our last two conferences and this year he will offering a class teacher’s perspective on making interactive resources tailored to your own class’ needs. Andy has experience of teaching in year 4 and is currently working with reception at Alnwick South. Come along to find out more about making full use of your interactive whiteboard.

Audience: Primary
 Multimedia Project
Presenters: Teachers from the Multimedia project

The Multimedia Project has been a great success this year.  The over-subscribed course freely-supplied digital cameras and software for each school and provided support through training. The teachers planned and delivered the exciting projects using cameras and video to create, for example, French tours of Hexham, healthy eating videos and interactive science quizzes.
This seminar will presented by teachers showcasing a sample of their projects.

Audience: All

 VTLE
Presenter: John Harbottle, Advisory Teacher for ICT
The Government have set a target for all schools to have a Learning Platform by 2008. This session will look at the progress made so far in the collaborative development of Northumberland’s Virtual Teaching and Learning Environment (VTLE). It will provide an explanation of how this supports a broader e-learning strategy, a demonstration of the VTLE, and time to consider how First and Middle Schools may become involved in further development and use of this platform to enhance teaching and learning

Audience: All
ARTstART
Presenter: Tony Murray, Advisory Teacher for Art
Tony Murray has produced a suite of 10 cd-roms to support developing Art in the curriculum. Three of the cd’s have an ICT focus – Art and the Natural Environment, Art and the Urban environment and Warhol Portraits. Other themes include Portraits and people, Performance and headgear, paper and card masks, fathers and family men, willow withies and murals. The resources are aimed at teachers in all phases and will provide a valuable digital learning resource for ICT leaders wishing to further engaged their Art Teacher colleagues in using ICT to support learning.

 Audience: All
 Podcasting
 Presenter: Astley High School
The use of emerging Information Learning Technologies (ILT) such as iPods, MP3 players, 3G phones and the Sony Play Station Portable may be in its infancy but its potential to engage learners and provide digitally rich resources to enhance learning and raise standards and attainment is exciting colleagues locally and nationally. This seminar will provide an opportunity to find out more through the development of school-based and student-centred activities at Astley High School as they develop Podcasting within the English and MFL curriculum.

Audience: Secondary

14.30 Seminar Session 4 - choice of one of the following seminars:  
ICT and Literacy: Shoo Fly
Presenters: Anne Curtis and Vicki Cable
Probably the best and most beautifully presented curriculum support materials to  come into schools this year. All schools in Northumberland with Primary age pupils have been provided with the ICT resource packs Jack and the Beans Talk and Moon Buddies from Shoo Fly. In these workshops Anne Curtis, the author and Vicki Cable, curriculum support from Shoo Fly, will look at this exciting bank of teaching materials and how they can be used in the classroom.

Audience: Primary

Music and Interactive Whiteboards
Presenters: John P. Verney, Jill Walker: Northumberland County Music Service
John and Jill will demonstrate simple music composition ideas for both specialist and non-specialist teachers using the SmartBoard.  They will show how Smart Notebook can be used with children from Foundation Stage to KS2 and will take you through the units on Notation, Rhythm and Pitch which they have developed for publication on our Northumberland NGfL website.

Audience: Primary
Photostory
Presenter: Tony Murray, Advisory Teacher for Art
Microsoft Photostory 3 is a free, downloadable package that pupils can use to easily create impressive presentations. Digital images can be touched-up, cropped or rotated. Adding special effects, soundtracks, own voice narration, titles and captions is simple. This seminar will demonstrate how ICT encourages, motivates and supports pupils to express themselves across the curriculum.

Audience: All
Thinking through Fables in MFL
Presenter: Louise Harty, MFL and Gifted and Talented Coordinator
Looking for something fresh, new and challenging for your French lessons? Come and explore how our exciting collection of animated fables in conjunction with thinking skill strategies can enhance the learning process in an MFL classroom.

Audience: All
Kar2ouche and MediaStage
Presenters: John Griffiths and Sally Sayers: Immersive Education
An overview of Kar2ouche - Come and see some practical examples of ways in which Kar2ouche can be used to create storyboards or animations to assist in embedding ICT into the curriculum. This software can be used to support the teaching of Literacy, History, Media  and PSHE at KS2, 3 & 4. You will also see how Kar2ouche can inspire your students with creative activities.  Examples of pupil’s work will be shown demonstrating how students of all ages and abilities can use this software.

A brief overview of MediaStage will be given demonstrating how this fully immersive 3D production studio enables teachers and students to become theatre, film and TV directors, camera crews and lighting technicians. Stunning 3D performances can be created alongside a full course of activities written by Heinemann.

Audience: Secondary
3D Photography
Presenter: Steve Bunce, Secondary Teaching and Learning Consultant

Bringing pictures to life - pupils have created 3D digital photos of everyday objects using a variety of methods; the classic red-green glasses, animated gifs and Flash movies have created interesting effects that enthused the pupils to make the picture ‘pop out of the page’.  Come and have a go!
Audience: Secondary

15.15 - 16.00  Russell Prue: Time to Try Something New

16.00 - 16.15 Conclusion, ice cream and distribution of free resources

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Please book your place at the conference and make your seminar selections by Friday 26th May