BwD E Learning Service

Explore the wild and beautiful in the most extreme and unexplored corners of the world, along with some closer to home. The Planet Earth Explorer will be regularly updated with new, creatively linked video highlights from the BBC Natural History Unit.

Click on the Open Planet Earth Explorer button on this page [...]

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Ruth delivered a very informative talk about the issues surrounding E-Safety, followed by a seminar in which some sources of practical help were explored.
The Powerpoint presentations for both of these will be in the managing ICT  – leader section of our website.
Direct links will be added below when the documents are available.
http://www.elearningbwd.net/leaders/rootFolder/ESafety_RuthHammond/MainPresentation.ppt
 
http://www.elearningbwd.net/leaders/rootFolder/ESafety_RuthHammond/Seminar.ppt

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John was the first speaker at the conference, and he certainly woke up the audience. His style is unique, entertaining – and at the same time extremely though-provoking. 
Follow this link to his website.

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Over the next few days we hope to add links to the presentations, or to websites containing information relating to the presentations, of the 3 main speakers at our conference.
This link will take you to the home page of Wolverhampton’s Learning2Go project, described by Dave Whyley.

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This guidance advises schools and Local Authorities (LAs) on using specific grants for learning, teaching and managing with ICT over 2006 – 2007. 
Download the documnet in PDF format from http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/0193-2006DBW-EN.pdf

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Discover the Muslim heritage in our world, experience a thousand years of missing history, learn about a lost age of Muslim innovation and invention and discover the Muslim origins of many Western discoveries. 
This is a unique UK based educational project that reveals the rich heritage that the Muslim community share with other communities in the UK and [...]

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Macbeth Act 1 scene 3. The film is a stop-frame clay animation, with modern setting and costume, but Shakespeare’s original dialogue (abridged). The most time consuming part of the production was building the models. None of the young people had done animation before.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/60secondshakespeare/watch/blackburn_macbeth.shtml 

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New versions of both Studio 2 and Primary 2 were demonstrated at BETT in January -patches to upgrade to version 2.5 are now available for download from the support pages of the Prometheanworld.com website.
There are also training animations which illustrate how the new features work. Depending on which version of the software is installed, you [...]

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As part of the annual National Science Week, The Bristish Association for the Advancement of Science has produced 7 downloadable challenge packs:

Exploring Energy;
Colour Chaos;
Vertically Challenged;
Einstein’s Birthday Party Pack;
Domestic Science;
Sounds Like Science;
Sixty Second Science

Go to: http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/Events/NationalScienceWeek/GetInvolved/NSWResources/ChallengePacks/

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For those who have already booked a place at the E Learning Conference (23rd March, Ewood Park), we have uploaded a timetable for the day – click here to view). This should help delegates to plan their day – and for those not attending – they can see what they are going to miss (there’s [...]

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