The greatest IT problem facing schools is no longer acquiring or using hardware. It is finding ways of sharing good practice.
We think that can be done OnLine, and this website is a start.
But we'd like to bring people together to see what else we might do - and what we might achieve together.
To that end we are going to hold a Conference here at Radley College on Tuesday 27 June 2006.
The aim of the day is to explore the educational possibilities of current web developments: WebLogs. RSS Feeds. Tags. Social Networks. These could all radically affect the way we teach our pupils in the future - and the way that they learn.
The Conference should prove the catalyst for a network of links in which teachers from a wide range of schools share ideas and resources. We will use the day as a launch pad for the various web tools that will make that possible.
And thanks to the generosity of the Hollington Trust we can do all this at no cost to you.
We plan to develop these initiatives right across the curriculum - but our initial 5 subject areas will cover English, Modern Languages, Classics, Physics and Geography. Three of these subjects have seen numbers decline in recent years and we, as much as anyone else, hope that this initiative might help to address that problem.
The programme for the Conference is as follows:
- 10:00 am Coffee and Registration
- 10:30 am Keynote speaker – Professor Bill Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute.
- 11:30 am Presentation – Ian Yorston and David Smith, Radley College.
- 12:30 pm Lunch - and opportunities to look at hardware, software or tour the College.
- 14:00 pm Divide into subject specific groups.
- 15:00 pm Plenary: Dr. Chris Davies, Department of Educational Studies and Vice President of Kellogg College, Oxford
- 15:30 pm Tea and depart.
We very much hope you and your colleagues will come along on Tuesday 27 June 2006. We anticipate interest from Directors of Studies, Heads of Faculty and Heads of Department, particularly those engaged with English, Modern Languages, Classics, Physics and Geography - as well, of course, as ICT.
Please let us know if you would like to come: e-mail Roger Shaw at rds@radley.org.uk or write to him at Radley College, Abingdon OX14 2HR.
And if you or your colleagues are already doing this sort of thing, and would be willing to share your experience, then please e-mail Ian Yorston, who is Head of Digital Strategy here at Radley College.
Or simply post to this weblog...
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