Pete Wells, Hollywood on a Shoestring!

Wednesday

Award winning Pete Wells, 11:45, will demonstrate an exciting range of software and techniques that can turn any classroom into a lively, creative Hollywood studio which can benefit all learners!

“Lights, Camera, Action!” Join the digital movie revolution with Pete Wells as he demonstrates an exciting range of software and techniques that can turn any classroom into a lively, creative Hollywood studio which can benefit all learners!
In this fun-packed seminar Pete will show a number of cheap and cheerful ways to turn any child into the next Spielberg! See how learners have benefited from simple, sensory stop-motion animation, exciting Chromakey projects, digital story telling projects (produced without using a camera) as well as scandalous, revealing celebrity interviews!
“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”

Carol Allen, Creativity and SEN made accessible through ICT

Wednesday
Carol Allen, 10:45, will look at catching pupil’s imagination and providing purposeful activities with outcomes that have value with examples based on recent classroom practice.

All learners have the capacity to express their ideas, thoughts and dreams and gain pleasure and enjoyment from doing so, but how are these to be captured when some experience great barriers to traditional learning routes? This session will focus on easy to replicate, practical ideas for all learners whatever their level of ability and skill. Imagination catching; purposeful activities with outcomes that have value are the focus of the session with examples based on recent classroom practice.

Special Education Needs @ BETT

BETT will once again be able to offer a number of strategies and classroom practices to support the SEN agenda with a varied programme of seminars run by practitioners, experts in key areas and exhibitors having a range of resources to support teachers in the classroom and beyond.

Chris Olley,King’s College, London and Education Interactive, Improving the Teaching and Learning of maths and science through the appropriate use of

The TI-Nspire platform represents a significant move forwards for maths educators. Typically a department may have the resources to invest the time and money in using one or maybe two of the dynamic software or graphics calculators available, leaving a wide range of the curriculum untouched. TI-Nspire integrates all of the very best dynamic software into one application which runs exactly the same on a desktop PC and a handheld device for easy classroom use. Multiple representations of mathematics are the natural outcome allowing teachers to support their students in developing mathematical ideas, rather than practicing methods. The session will act as an introduction to TI-Nspire together with an engagement with the possibilities it presents.

Dan Sutch, Doug Belshaw, Teacher, Ridgewood School, Doncaster,Teachers as Innovators

This seminar will look at available resources and strategies that support teachers in developing new approaches to teaching and learning, empowering teachers to act as the innovators of new educational practices. The session will also highlight the resistances to change within schools and share different strategies used by innovative teachers to reduce these barriers. The aim of the session is to enable participants to leave with knowledge of the tools and strategies to develop new practices in their own schools.

Home access through technology

Parrs Wood will show how this school is supporting home access through technology

Leon Cych, Director Learn 4 Life, Using Second Life in the Schools' Sector

Leon Cych, from Learn 4 Life, talks about examples of the uses of Second Life in the schools' sector. He will be demonstrating several current projects and showing how this virtual platform can be used to extend teaching and learning, training and CPD in schools both locally and globally.He will be highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of using a MUVE (Multi User Virtual Environment) to deliver education for the 21st Century. How is this relatively new learning platform being used to engage teachers and pupils in a more compelling ways.