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Naace wishes to celebrate the innovations and great ICT ideas in schools with a new collection of ICT ideas and interventions that not only work but excite others. The aim is to seek high leverage activities which have a relatively low effort to formulate or implement but yield extremely beneficial outcomes in terms of teaching and learning. We hope to create a downloadable booklet along with a collaborative space that can continue to be updated, timely and inspiring. Contributing schools from all phases including SEN will be acknowledged in the publication.
shoot [shoot] shoot·ing, verb (used with object)
to send forth (words, ideas, etc.) rapidly: to shoot questions at someone.
star [stahr],noun, adjective, verb
Astrology. a heavenly body, especially a planet, considered as influencing humankind and events.
destiny, fortune, temperament, etc., regarded as influenced and determined by the stars.
Shooting star
a sign of advancement. A shooting star is also symbolic of big changes in your life.
an algorithm for calculating the shortest path in a graph or the quickest way to get from one locationto another
shooting star is the common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere to become a meteor. If a falling star survives impact with the Earth's surface, then it is called a meteorite. Meteorites can be big or small.
Examples from a Primary and a Secondary school (from ‘Butterflies for the use of ICT’)
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Recording evidence is about to become much easier in the more practical lessons since buying a set of digital cameras. The teachers are able to record, save and file evidence in minutes. Some children are now being trained up to do this. Our reception teacher found that one reception child recorded a piece of PHSE evidence that she was not aware of until downloading the footage in front of her children.
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Impact
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Our evidence bank is becoming more personal and more reflective of every day classroom experiences. It is also much easier to update and access without producing huge amounts of paperwork and having to locate the relevant file!
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This is a piece of work for Year 8 Art which we call Sardonic Faces. The Department gave a short presentation featuring Francis Bacon and Edvard Munch who both dealt with tortured images, including distorted faces that were half-human, half animal. Students researched how artists use paint, shapes and colours to tell a story. All students had their faces photographed with the digital camera; this image was then placed on the shared curriculum network. After learning how to use the photo manipulation software, they retrieved their image and used a number of tools and filters to distort it, noting the effects they obtained and how they could use them in their design. The final images combined many of the features evident in the experimental stages.
We enlarged their work to A2 size and they painted the final image in acrylic paint to create a textural finish. The final designs were far more adventurous than either teachers or students thought possible.
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Impact
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Students found designing with the computer programme allowed them more flexibility and creativity. Most students developed their own technical skills and used the programme with confidence. They saw the endless possibilities of using it as a tool and what would have taken weeks was easily managed in a much shorter period of time. The impact on the Art Department is enormous; and it is now writing more advanced Schemes of Work for KS4 and KS5.
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We have a small panel to invite schools to contribute ideas.
The panel will collect contributions, collate, and together, review and recommend a selection of ideas for publication. We are also seeking relevant, inspiring quotations.
We will circulate a invitation to contribute ideas as widely as possible to all phases and types of school.
A choice of forms is provided to collect ideas from schools;
online http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/shootingstarsideaform
Word form (download and e-mail back) http://tinyurl.com/shooting-starsform
If you are interested in contributing but would like more information, please e-mail Naace Board Member allison.allen@outstream.co.uk
For ideas see http://tinyurl.com/ICTbutterflies-outstream - ‘Butterflies for the Use of ICT’ published in 2006, aimed to produce ideas from schools regarding use of ICT. The book exceeded all expectations and became required reading in a number of teacher training colleges and schools across the world as well as in the UK. It has very recently been taken down from Teachernet and DfE publications
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