e-learning strategies & communities David Mason Content manager

e-learning strategies & communities Providing the essential infrastructure Developing educational workforce Building a better elearning market Building collaborative partnerships working with national e-learning communities Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence Embracing the new pedagogies

33 local authorities 2,500 schools 64,000 teachers 1m pupils 10mb to secondary 5mb to primary 600 point video-conf VLE portal 25mb webspace Web templates LGFL’s e-learning infrastructure Gate A MLE On Line, On Track Executive Board Editorial Board 4 Sector boards Premium content Content management system

Web visitor Centrally-provided content Simple content management system Logon needed but only for some content Portal user Centrally-provided content and services (webmail, video-conf etc) Own webspace Logon needed for services VLE participant Active use of own webspace to create and distribute content Teacher/school/LEA creation of courses Sharing of resources across school/LEA/Grid MLE member Complete management system of content and users Includes learning and assessment Integrated into school MIS Essential part of course delivery e-learning on LGFL – definition by user?

LGFL Primary deals

LGFL deals for secondary schools

Developing educational workforce (Primary) KS1 AST teacher – Belinda Evans Brindishe School, Lewisham Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood local Resource member QCA scheme of Work for KS1 History unit 1 ‘How are our toys different from those in the past? ’

Developing educational workforce (secondary) KS3 and 4 Citizenship ProQuest Learning Supporting GCSE coursework

Supporting innovation in e-learning Over 50% of London primary schools have bought Infant Video Toolbox LGFL/2Simple Online Talking Stories are written in English and read out in English, Urdu, Turkish, Gujerat and Punjabi Topics include the Great Fire of London, a trip down the Thames from Westminster to Woolwich, a seaside trip, a London market and a London Park

Building a better e-learning market A London/Espresso e-learning communityDevelop London content

Building a better e-learning market

History Live – Geography Live? Share design template across KS3/4 subjects Work with KS3 Foundation consultants on identifying content Pay for development = ‘free’ content

CLEO-LGFL Geography Collaborative Learning Project The project will twin classes in Haringey, North London with ones in Cumbria and Lancashire with a view to developing children’s understanding of what it would be like to live in a different locality. The project is aimed at Year 5 classes, but could be undertaken by years 4 or 6. It covers many aspects of the geography QCA Scheme of work Contrasting Localities unit. The proposal suggests the following stages: Where are you? What’s our class like? Daily Diary Write a Picture Video conference/video exchange Building collaborative partnerships working with national e-learning communities

Users will only be able to access the free hi-res content from a machine that is physically connected to the local RBC. This is our guarantee to British Pathe that all users of the free content are from the educational sector. Content hosted within the RBC community The licence is between British Pathe and the English RBC’s. If others want to join the licence consortium, they would need to pay £3,000 to the holding RBC Free access to the hi-res Windows media files will be available once user authentification trials have been completed Free access to QuickTime versions of the files will available when they are finished, sometime in January Free access to 2 million photos in the British Pathe library will be available once user authentification trials have been completed British Pathe – conditions of the licence

Towards a network of subject-based centres of excellence

Embracing the new pedagogies And whilst we weren’t looking this happened …. Haringey an on-line course for KS3 Literacy Hammersmith and Fulham resources library RBKC focal point for schools action

Haringey

Hammersmith and Fulham

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Embracing the new pedagogies And whilst we weren’t looking some teachers did this …. Rockliffe Manor, Greenwich Anson, Brent

e-learning strategies & communities Providing the essential infrastructure Developing educational workforce Building a better elearning market Building collaborative partnerships working with national e-learning communities Building networks of subject-based centres of excellence Embracing the new pedagogies