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Today we welcome Yr11 students and staff from Thomas Hepburn school. They're here for a Biology and ICT Project Day whose theme is a scientific ethical discussion - "Should a couple be allowed to choose the sex of their baby?"

The students will explore the above by creating a TV Sketch Show and Radio Broadcast.

This morning we welcome Year 3 and 4 from St Mary's Whickham to the CLC. The children will be performing their Christmas Assembly and we'll be recording and filming it for broadcast from the school website before the weekend. You might need dictionaries...the Assembly is partly delivered in French. Tres Bien!

visit the St Mary's school website

We're about to get the toolbox out to construct a French weblog for our friends at Windy Nook.
More details to follow, but expect adventures in podcasting and vodcasting....

Hookergate School's new website is currently under content loading....you can take a preview at...

Hookergate School website

A BIG welcome to Whickham Parochial who join our blogging crowd....

Visit Whickham Parochial school website

Another additon to the blog roster - welcome Glynwood Primary school!

Visit the Glynwood Primary School website

Parkhead Primary school have a new blog powered website - good videos too!

Visit the Parkhead Primary website

We're pleased to announce our involvement as technical partners and hosts of the SoundWords project - a new name for the North East Libraries Radio Reading Clubs. SoundWords brings libraries and young people together with the aim of creating new audio content (book reviews, interviews with authors, poets and illustrators) for dissemination via webradio and podcasts.

You can keep up to date with SoundWords via their website (currently in beta)

We've been working with Victoria Matthews and colleagues from The Thomas Hepburn School to design and create two new subject specific weblogs. These are ready to be used within school within the next few weeks once core content has been uploaded.

You can take a preview pick or even peek at:
www.kmedices.org (Spanish)
www.luvscience4eva.org (Science)

Today we're hosting a visit from Gateshead Libraries Area Managers....Talk and walk around our facilities. We hope they find it a useful catch-up.

Meantime...check out the awesome Gateshead Libraries website

Just back from an interesting session with staff at St Philip Neri introducing their revamped weblog....www.stphilipneriprimary.org

We've had a great morning aboard our pirate ship, "The Sweaty Sock" with our new crew from Corpus Christi Year One. They came dressed as pirates, worked very hard and were excellently behaved. Well done everyone....!

We'll be adding Corpus Christi's pirate work to www.walktheplank.org.uk over the next few days.

Meantime, check out Year One singing YoHoHo...as they left The Sweaty Sock.

Just been doing staff training with the folk at Hill Top school....their weblog in development at www.hilltopschool.org.uk

...have commisioned us to develop their new school website to launch in September 2007.

NCBF is a yearly children's book festival organised by the library services in the region. Each festival attracts over 40 of the UK's leading authors, illustrators and storytellers for sessions in the region's schools and libraries. We've been helping NCBF revision their website to allow commenting and greater interactivity. We're advising too on using radio and video to add a virtual flavour to the events.

We've just finished some video work using chromakey for Gateshead Centre for Enabling Health Improvement. On site soon you can watch Alyson Learmonth DPH talk about the health challenges facing Gateshead.

We have been commisioned to develop a new website and messageboard service for GES. The site will launch in early July.