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The National Grid for Learning Progress Report Three
Annex D : Web Services, Content and Other NGfL Activities
(since the publication of the last Progress Report)
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | NGfL Website Maintenance and Development |
Description: Support, development and maintenance of the NGfL Scotland website, including news and events, e-mail bulletin, NGfL Focus, Search and Links. Work will continue to create a unified look and functionality across all the sites. The site will also become more interactive over the course of the next year with a greater emphasis on user feedback and online collaborative working. The ultimate aim is that the website is fully personalised to meet the wide range of needs across the Scottish education community. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Communities Channel |
Description: The Communities section of the NGfL Scotland web service continues to provide support to those promoting the use of ICT in the community. Working in partnership with the Digital Inclusion Champions team, the content of the Communities channel aims to serve the needs of community learning and development practitioners throughout Scotland. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | 5-14 Online |
Description: This project continues to support, maintain and develop the 5-14 area of the website. Phase 3 of this project further developed this resource to provide educators with a wide range of 5-14 curriculum specific resources. New features include searchable resources and evaluated website databases. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | 5-14. Exemplification of pupil performance. Gathering and Interpreting Evidence: Social Subjects: 5-14 |
Description: A project which developed a micro-site within the 5-14 website containing moderated examples of pupil's work with accompanying teacher commentaries and judgements in levels of attainment. The material is intended to encourage the development of consistent approaches to assessment within schools and clusters of schools. The material may also be helpful in planning effective programmes of study as well as providing a useful resource when selecting appropriate methodologies within social subjects. The material was launched in May 2003 with 170 delegates and speakers from SEED, HMIE and LT Scotland. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Creativity in Education |
Description: This project links into the current Creativity in Education project funded by SEED and builds on the work done with the IDES Network and the Tapestry partnership. An online resource, hosted on the NGfL Scotland website, has been created, to be used by both primary and secondary school teachers (www.ltscotland.org.uk/creativity/) |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Building on OFDL Project and its Enhancement |
Description: This project produced eight web-enabled learning products based on content developed in the OFDL project. These were Communication at Int2 and H, IT at Int2 and H, Numeracy at Int2 and H and Problem Solving at Int2 and H. The eight products have been reviewed and revised in the last year and all are now in final form. Throughout this revision period the materials have remained available to schools and colleges and informal feedback from users is very positive. Phase 2 of OFDL will develop interactive and text online teaching and learning materials for all the five Core Skills at Access 3 and Intermediate 1, plus Working with Others at Int 2 and Higher. These materials should be available by Summer 2004. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Early Years Online |
Description: This project continues to support, maintain and develop the Early Years area of the NGfL Scotland website. The aim of this resource is to support ongoing professional development for all those involved in the care and education of children aged nought to eight years old. The resource is designed to be the cornerstone of all LT Scotland's Early Years resources. It is dedicated to improving practice and supporting innovation, by providing the information and advice which enables early years staff and primary teachers to keep up to date with current research and thinking and to be informed about new initiatives and policy decisions. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | NQ Online |
Description: This project continues to support, maintain and develop the NQ Online area of the NGfL Scotland website. A major redesign of the website is underway to deliver integrated LT Scotland and NGfL Scotland web services for education in Scotland. This redesign is tied in very closely with the implementation of the Content Management System which facilitates a less centralised and more dynamic approach to content development. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Gaelic Online |
Description: This project will create, support and develop the Gaelic area of the NGfL Scotland website. The overall aims of this online resource are to support ongoing professional development for all involved in the education of children being taught using the medium of Gaelic and to provide a range of online resources to support learning and teaching. This project is managed jointly by LT Scotland and Storlann. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Digital Imaging in Learning and Teaching |
Description: Stills Gallery Education, Edinburgh, worked in partnership with Learning and Teaching Scotland to develop the project. Three digital artists undertook residencies in Bruntsfield Primary School and James Gillespies' High School for 15 days between February and June 2002. A new NGfL website showcases the images, videos, animations and artworks created, as well as presenting additional documentation in three case studies. (www.ltscotland.org.uk/digitalimaging/) |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Grid Club/Learners Channel |
Description: This collaborative project, initially funded by NGfL Scotland last year, with Channel 4, Oracle and Intuitive Media, will be developed and extended. The project has proved to be successful, with partners working well together to deliver a first-rate educational resource. Scottish mediators have been employed to ensure compliance with Scottish curriculum guidelines and to further populate the online resource with Scottish content. (www.gridclub.com) |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Software Evaluation Service |
Description: Following on from the first phase of the Software Evaluations Service, this project has built on the existing evaluations and case studies by returning to 100 teacher evaluators and inviting them to add worksheets and lesson plans to support the software they were evaluating. This information is disseminated through the NGfL Scotland website and a series of seminars across the country. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Supporting National Educational Networks |
Description: This project aims to explore and develop effective strategies for supporting educational networks. Phase One of this project enabled LT Scotland to advise the Scottish Executive on future strategies that should be utilised to support and encourage effective communication with educational networks and explore ways of helping them contribute ideas, CPD and resources nationally. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Scottish Screen |
Description: This project aims to support schools in the development of moving image education to enhance teaching and learning. It involves working on a consultative basis with Scottish Screen, exploring the potential for moving image education in the 5-14 curriculum. |
Type of resource: | Online Resource |
Product/Project: | Healthy Kids |
Description: A website to support the Healthy Kids CD-ROM has been developed and is particularly popular. |
Type of resource: | Online Activity |
Product/Project: | Ticket to Space - Interactive Science Project |
Description: Ticket to Space is a six-week classroom resource which supports the teaching of the science strand Earth and Space at levels C-D in Environmental Studies - Society, Science and Technology 5-14 National Guidelines. Developed in partnership with the Glasgow Science Centre, Ticket to Space provides online and offline activities for each week of the event. A full online event took place over a period of eight weeks during October and December 2002, starting a new module each week. Pupils employed Pioneer to access a variety of interactive space and science activities, workshops and forums. After the successful event the previous year it was re-run in September 2003. Prior to its relaunch, the site was updated in light of feedback obtained from schools and other users. |
Type of resource: | CD-ROM and Teachers Notes |
Product/Project: | Serf's Quest |
Description: This project produced an interactive CD for pupils in late primary and addresses several aspects of the 5-14 curriculum, including History, Geography, Number and Language. A copy of each CD has been distributed to all primary schools and Gaelic medium schools in Scotland. |
Type of resource: | CD-ROM and Website |
Product/Project: | Assess the Herald |
Description: This project produced a browser-based CD-ROM and website aimed at Intermediate 2 and Higher Media Studies students which illustrates and explains the production processes and values involved in producing The Herald newspaper (www.assesstheherald.co.uk). |
Type of resource: | CD-ROMs and Teachers Notes |
Product/Project: | Gaelic Versions of Existing CD-ROMs |
Description: The educational CD-ROMs Lifeskills Time & Money and Lifeskills Smart Spender have been translated into Gaelic and distributed to schools. Healthy Kids will be distributed in Autumn 2003. |
Type of resource: | Online Development |
Product/Project: | NGfL Scotland Content Editors |
Description: Expansion of the team of web content editors, who are central to the maintenance, development and extension of the integrated LT Scotland/NGfL Scotland online service. While each content editor has responsibility for a particular area or section of the site, the team contributes to the development of the service as a whole. |
Type of resource: | Online Development |
Product/Project: | Maximising the impact of Becta's work in Scotland |
Description: This project aims to maximise the mutual UK-wide benefits of existing and new developments and build on the LT Scotland Memo of Understanding with Becta. It will develop LT Scotland's work with Becta and facilitate the accessibility of Becta-produced materials/web sites within the Scottish education community. |
Type of resource: | Information/dissemination service |
Product/Project: | SETT 2003 |
Description: The Scottish Education and Teaching with Technology Conference is the annual national event which encourages the effective use of ICT in education and shares good practice around Scotland. The event, which took place on 24/25 September 2003 at the SECC, Glasgow, combined 110 seminars and four keynote presentations with Scotland's largest exhibition of ICT for education. SETT gives every delegate a free professional development opportunity, allowing them to attend one keynote and two seminars per day from the programme. |
Type of resource: | Information/dissemination service |
Product/Project: | Connected magazine |
Description:Connected magazine provides news, information and guest articles about the implementation of the National Grid for Learning in Scotland. Its target audience is the whole learning and teaching community, with a special focus on ICT in schools. An online version of each issue is made available on the NGfL Scotland website. |
Type of resource: | Online Resources |
Product/Project: | Monitoring and Supporting Young People's Progress |
Description: This project disseminated existing good practice for monitoring and supporting young people's progress at all stages from early years to secondary via a website. The case studies on the website have been reviewed this year resulting in some case studies being withdrawn where the exemplification is not 100% consistent with advice related to the Assessment is for Learning programme ( www.ltscotland.org.uk/assess/index.asp) and some new case studies added. |
Type of resource: | ICT Support |
Product/Project: | Video Conference Bridge |
Description: The project offers a full multi-party videoconferencing facility to the Scottish education community. This facility, which was established in June 2001, enables schools, early learning centres, libraries, colleges and authorities to take part in videoconferencing sessions. Without the videoconferencing bridge, such sessions would either not be possible or would be prohibitively expensive. Innovative uses of the videoconferencing hub are encouraged, enabling LT Scotland to assess the various and effective uses of videoconferencing within education. |
Type of resource: | Conference |
Product/Project: | Game On |
Description: The Game On conference was held in November 2002, more than 200 delegates attended and participated in a variety of sessions and workshops. |
Type of resource: | Awards |
Product/Project: | ICT Enhancement Awards |
Description: The ICT Enhancement Awards, formerly called the ICT Innovation Awards, aim to enable the further development of small-scale innovative projects that have used ICT locally to facilitate learning. The Awards target practitioners, recognise their achievement and support them to take successful work to a higher level. They therefore fulfil a distinct function, not covered by other funding streams, building on successful and effective initiatives. |
Type of resource: | Training Materials |
Product/Project: | Connecting Communities |
Description: A pilot for training community-based learning practitioners took place in late 2000/early 2001, including consultation with community-based practitioners regarding what the possible content of pilot training might include. This was followed by the production of training packs used in the pilot training which was delivered to 60 practitioners over three different sessions. The first phase of the roll-out of the training commenced in December 2001 and 60 practitioners received face-to-face training from LTScotland. A further 500 practitioners were trained using the cascade method devised for the project. The third phase of this project will train 113 practitioners, who will then cascade the training to 1,130 community learning practitioners. |
Type of resource: | Learning Gateway |
Product/Project: | Schoolsoutglasgow.net |
Description: This project offers support to a maximum of 30 children and young people with a supportive community that promotes lifelong learning and acts as a gateway to opportunities in continuing education. Each participating pupil is provided with with a desktop computer system, printer and web camera. Features include one-to-one video conferencing and online telephony. Communication is carried through a customised version of the leapOnline learning environment. Schoolsoutglasgow.net is connected through the Glasgow Schools Network (GSN) via a Virtual Private Network (VPN). It allows access to interactive material and support. Teachers and volunteer buddies will support the online learners. The original timescale of the project (October 2002 until June 2003), was extended until December 2003 to allow the full potential in the support of curriculum delivery and support to be developed. |
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