[email protected] Colette Cotton ICT/International co-ordinator @ St Mary’s CEP Folkestone.

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[email protected]

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

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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

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http://www.kenyabirds.org.uk/

Mirera School

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( 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!

Using ICT to find the countries and follow migration

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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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Unipiha School(17 pupils)Nr Tartu

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Art Work inside

Learning how to do a block graphs with stickies!

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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.

Publications

• BBC Schools free pack..

World on the Move..(KS2)

• QCA…The Global Dimension in Action

• British Council’s…Learning World