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Teachers' reception
Monday 12th July
Talk and Panel Discussion 17.15-18.30
Refreshments in Ada Byron King Building 18.30-19.00
This event covers practical ways to
use the Internet with young writers aged from 7-16. It should
be of interest to teachers, education advisors, librarians, arts
workers and others interested in developing children's writing
using the Internet.
Admission is free with an invitation.
To request an invitation please contact incubation@ntu.ac.uk.
We also welcome any Incubation attendees interested in writing
and education.
The format of the session will be as
follows:
| Teachers’
Reception |
| 17.15 |
Talk
by Simon Widdowson about his work as Digital Teacher in Residence
(mainly primary) |
| 17.45 |
Simon will be
joined by a panel of teachers and advisors who have taken
part in projects this year. The panel will take questions.
This will include the projects aimed at Key Stage 2 and the
transition project (Year 6/7) |
| 18.15 |
Launch of Farewell
to Margaret Glen-Bott quilt website (secondary school) |
| 18.30 |
Refreshments
in Ada Byron King building |
| 19.00 |
End |
 Farewell
to Margaret Glen-Bott School quilt website
MGB School closes in July 2004 after 47 years. Funded by Creative
Partnerships Nottingham, Helen Whitehead from Kids on the Net
has been working to collect memories of the life of the school
under the headings Facts, Friends and Feelings. The final version
of the MGB
quilt will be launched today as well as
the accompanying book.
Kids on the Net is supported by Experian,
whose UK headquarters are in Nottingham
Simon Widdowson
Simon has spent the last year employed as a digital teacher in
residence with the trAce online writing centre, as part of the
Nesta funded Writers
for the Future project, looking at ways to encourage children
to use innovative forms of digital writing to communicate.
 He
has created two online literacy based projects - Dragonsville
and Adventure
Island - that are aimed at developing children’s literacy
skills, as well as developing additional teaching resources that
are within the eTeachers
Portal which show teachers how ICT can be used within literacy
lessons.
In addition to working virtually, Simon has visited
schools around the UK, taking workshops, training teachers and
teaching in lessons. Here he has seen the impact that the projects
and resources have had on children’s literacy skills, and
he will talk about how these have raised achievement within primary
literacy lessons.
He has seen how schools with varying ICT resources
have used  online
learning to raise the achievement of all pupils. Through collaborative
learning, combined traditional and cutting edge teaching, as well
as extended tasks to be worked on at home, literacy skills have
been improved within the primary classroom.
Simon will demonstrate how the online projects and
resources allow these approaches, and allow a child to continue
learning beyond the walls of the school.
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