We had a fab fab french morning yesterday with Year 6 from Windy Nook school. The children used a range of CLC technologies - podcasting using Audacity and our Web Radio and performance using green screen. We're busy adding the content to their MFL weblog.
If you'd like us to help out with your MFL initiatives....just call us.
We're busy creating some sound files for our web radio station. We come back again to the musictastic experience that is Sony Acid....There's just so much to be had from this impressive looping app, not least the free sound loops and fx.
Here's a sample intro we've been playing with for the past 30 mins
Dryden school who have been working very hard to get ready for the School Report Day in March are the main feature on the BBC School Report website today. Watch out for their reports about the news in the North East
Click below to follow their work.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
school_report/7188970.stm
Well done Dryden School!
This week we're down in London to present at and participate as a practitioner at the Handheld Learning 2007 Conference: October 10-12th 2007.
We'll be there with our strategic partners Maad Ltd and we'll have something nifty and new to introduce...more of which, later this week.
Come and chat with us....
Supery-doopery Christmas Craft Fair chock-a-block with goodies for you to buy: jewellery, woodcrafts, ethnic objets, textiles....with over 25 stallholders attending.
A must for your diary!
Saturday December 1st and Sunday December 2nd 2007
9.30am - 4.00pm
Gateshead City Learning Centre
Free Entry - Free Parking
Call 0191 460 2900 for more information.
Traders - please call for table rates and availability.
Check out Mr Mullen's shiny new CADCAM website....and then call us to book your session here at the CLC.
Old friends but now relocated and given a shoe-shine....from colleagues within the Raising Achievement Service...
www.gatesheadgrid.org/numeracy
www.gatesheadgrid.org/literacy
Gateshead teacher Anna Guerin is shortly off to Japan for a couple of years to teach in a British school in Tokyo. You can check out her experiences on her new blog: teacherinjapan.org
ictGateshead summer conference began with Lisa asking if we, as educators, are ready to support her through the next ten years of digital development. Are we currently providing the e-opportunities which young people need and are already embracing in their own lives? Click on the link below to listen to Lisa's thoughts and questions.
We've just finished a major revamp of Tyne and Wear Archive Service's popular Westall's War website. If you haven't visited before please do pop over and read about the worst air raid disaster in North East England during WWII. 107 people were killed by a direct hit on the shelter in Wilkinson's Lemonade Factory in North Shields.
We're finalising a new website for a Gateshead teacher who is lucky enough to be off teaching in Tokyo for the next two years. She's volunteered to blog the experience for colleagues back oop North and looks forward to getting bags of questions and comments....
Sayonara....as they often say up here.
We've been running our web-based radio station for several years now and we're powering up in response to increasing demand from our schools.
We've invested in professional standard hardware/software from psquared and over the summer we'll be revamping our scheduled broadcasting and the webradio site itself.
Why not book a half-day or whole-day web radio session for your class here at the CLC? Full details on www.ictgateshead.org/radio
To date we've developed over 80 blog-based web sites for a wide variety of clients. Take a look at our Blogorama page to see who's online with this cutting edge solution.
Schools who have signed up for our ICT Service Level Agreement can get a high-end, interactive website for only £250.00. Best of all the technology used allows non-techies complete content control over their website. The learning curve is just a gentle hill....
Non SLA schools will be charged £800.00 for the same service.
Our service to you includes:
- Full design and build
- Initial content upload
- Hosting (small annual fee applies)
- Technical Support
- Multimedia (video/audio) hosting
- Training including whole school inservice
Too good to miss - Join the Conversational Web today.
Call Peter Bolger at the CLC on 0191 460 2900
A dragon-tastic theme day for Gateshead schools - we take you through the world of St George and The Dragon using radio, video, weblogs, drama and more in a fun-packed exploration of the legend of our patron saint.
Check out how High Spen Primary viewed their whole school day at Dragonspear.
Book your session by calling Gateshead CLC on 0191 460 2900
There be new crew mateys joining the Sweaty Sock this week.
Aye, lubbers from Barley Mow Primary School will be hearing ye adventures of Colin The Cabin Boy and adding their own names to the crew weblog...oh and getting on Pirate radio and tv too.
Check out what they get up to on www.walktheplank.org.uk
Book your Pirate Theme Session by calling Gateshead CLC on 0191 460 2900