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colette.cotton@intuitivemedia.com
Colette Cotton ICT/International co-ordinator @ St Mary’s CEP Folkestone
• Climate Change (UN Conference held in Copenhagen December 2009...responsibilities)
• Every Child Matters agenda (safety, health, global issues)
• Emotional Intelligence (influenced by values, expectations)
• Personalized Learning (taking responsibility for themselves and others)
• Sustainability (latest initiative to be taken on board by DcSF)
‘ A Global dimension helps learners to explore and make sense of the big
issues of the world” QCA 2007
• A Global dimension with sustainable development
• Ability to talk to experts (RSPB) & global schools through Flash/meetings
• An understanding of personal, local, national and global issues
• Collaboration…sharing of real information through ICT across the world
• Encourages a creative, global curriculum
• Embeds ICT across the whole curriculum
• Gives an audience for pupils work (databases, graphs, art, literacy, music)
• MOTIVATES pupils learning
• Brings the world into the classroom
IT’S FUN
The following International countries are on these Migration routes:
• Nigeria
• Kenya
• Iran
• Italy
• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• ScotlandLink
Peponi House
(first count on Monday 25th) Kenton School
(1st count completed on the 19th Jan)Nairobi district
Mirera SchoolLake Naivasha
(4000+ largest in Kenya)
African Pied Wagtail
Baglafecht Weaver
Black Kite
Bronze Sunbird
Common Bulbul
Hadada Ibis
Olive Thrush
Pied Crow
Red billed Firefinch
Speckled Mousebird
Variable Sunbird
White browed Robin Chat
Country and School ______________________________Group___________________________
Bird Watch
Useful Equipment...binoculars, digital still or movie camera, bird book oridentification sheet, sketch pad, recording sheet, pencil
Date TimeOutsideTemper
atureName of Bird
Howmany didyou see?
Colours Habitat Food Other Comments
( September) ‘Still living at the Owl Sanctuary…tried 3 flights but has now given up all aspiration of mastering the art of aviation and just waddles everywhere’.
His new friend Shale the tortoise!
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• Sharing
• Planning
• Problem solving
• Investigating
• Creating
• Celebrating
• Assessing
Overseas Schools Links… January to July
1. An opportunity to link with schools overseas and find out which birds visited school grounds in the USA, Kenya, Australia and parts of Europe during the week of the RSPB ‘School Bird Watch’ Survey. Jan/Feb 2010
2. First Global Flash/meeting Thursday 11th February
3. Bird Watch World Day - A 24 hour event linking project schools across the world with ICT and Literacy. An opportunity for pupils across the world to web conference and share information about the birds that live and visit your school grounds. March/April
4. An opportunity to collect and share data about the birds found in school grounds around the world in May/June/July
“My son recorded these Rubythroats outside our backdoor here in Mississippi with the new iPod Nano. I just marvel at these little creatures! “ Teacher from Henderson School in Starkville
Hungry Humming birds
A fact file using Britannica online on SCP… from a 10 year old in Kenya
We have started our monarch project and actually have eggs, caterpillars and pupa in the classroom.
Migration in North America
RSPB’s Great School Bird Watch
• Graphs
• Textease database
• Word
• Publisher
• 2Connect (mind Mapping.+ sound)
Hardware used:• PC & Laptops
• Webcam
• Data logger
• Digital camera
• Flip camera
• Beebots
• Pixie
• Microphone
• Binoculars
WEBSITES• www.rspb.org.uk
•www.learn.co.uk
• www.Superclubsplus.com
• www.Schoolnetglobal.com
• http://microsites2.segfl.org.uk
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Weaver Bird
Hawk
Parrot
Eagle
Sparrow
Marsh hawk
Barn Swallow
Goose
Nigerian Birds
Owl
Vulture
Robin
Pigeon
Dove
Kite
Wood Pecker
Data
• 188 posts from 26 world wide schools during the 24 hr blog on SeGFL
• 50+ active schools for the project
• 15 world wide schools took part in the BBC’s Flash/meeting with Kaye
• 200+ schools registered an interest on Superclubsplus
• 5,000 children set up their own weather watch pages on SCP
• Flash/Meetings or Video/conference school to school
• ‘Hot Seating’ in Flash/meetings (RSPB)
• e-Mails
• Online forums & ‘Hot Seats’ (SCP/GSC)
• Blogs (SeGFL site and SCP/GSC)
• School’s Collaborative projects published on SeGFL, e-Languages, BBC World Class
• Individual Collaborative projects on SCP/GSC,
• Learn.co.uk (World Newspaper to create for this project)
• Sharing of data from live webcams in bird boxes
• Podcasts (audacity)
• Video clips (Use of flip camera)
• Talking post cards for birds singing.
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