The course starts on Tuesday 29th September 2009 and place
bookings must be by 18th September 2009
4pm.
For
further details please contact ict.courses@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or call 01480 376670
Embedding ICT in My Subjec t
Understanding the Risk
Purpose: Advance warning of e-safety documents
Audience: Heads and ICT staff
The
Cambridgeshire Heads ICT Consultation Group has recommended that we re‑circulate
Understanding the Risk. This short briefing document outlines key issues and points
school leaders to the
free and independent advice available to them before far-reaching decisions are
taken. At the same time
we will send three related documents
covering:
·
questions you
should ask when appointing technical
support
·
security
issues when e-mail is
forwarded
· the safety of wireless devices in schools
Annual Impulse Conferences
All schools will need
to check qualifications information (One Vision are emailing schools about
this). Secondary schools will need to complete the curriculum return and
upload this into COLLECT. The ICT Service and One Vision team will continue to
work together on getting the remaining schools onto B2B Personnel though this is
unlikely to complete by the DCSF data return
deadline. More details are in the One Vision newsletter and on the
portal.
Thank you for all your continuing hard work in making this census a success.
One of the actions from the Byron e-safety
review Action Plan was to provide guidance for parents new to the web
and therefore particularly lacking in confidence.
A simple interactive
course and quiz on Family Internet Safety has now been launched on the myguide
service. It covers many of the top parental concerns about the internet, from
phishing and spam to online rogue traders and extremist websites, from chat
rooms to music file-sharing, and from stealth marketing to safety filters. And
when parents are confident in how the internet can be used safely, myguide shows
them how to realise its many benefits, from saving money to jobsearch, and using
public services to getting involved in their children’s learning.
DCSF would like Schools, Sure Start Children’s
Centres and local authorities to help by encouraging parents to try out
myguide at their local UK online centre (post code search at ukonlinecentres.com
or phone 0800 77 1234) or to ask a friend or family member to get them started
on the myguide website, www.myguide.gov.uk
Please respond directly to this request from the Open University.
I am undertaking some research towards a PhD into
student perceptions of assessment of ICT at
16.
I would like to interview students who are just
starting year 11 and who are following a range of courses – e.g. GCSE, DiDA, OCR
National, Diploma – or none. If you are in, or know of, any schools that
may be able to help and are within reach of
Pete Bradshaw
Dept of Education | The Open
University
Walton Hall |
