NEW! Nationals Helper - Local/VLE (SCORM compliant version)
The Government's e-strategy sets the expectation that:
- by spring 2008 every pupil should have access to a personalised online learning space with the potential to support an e-portfolio.
- by 2010 every school should have integrated learning and management systems (a comprehensive suite of learning platform technologies).
 | Mr. J. Wright, Head of ICT at Honiton College in Devon writes:"Students require a range of different support strategies and as far as possible that support needs to be personalised to the students needs. Many students can’t remember a whole demonstration and find real difficulty reading instructions from a page of text. National Helper video tutorials, with their clear links to assessment outcomes, allows our students to recap the demonstrations as many times as they like and when they like. This frees the teacher to focus on raising the quality of the student work by providing regular feedback and systematically monitoring their progress. |
 | Using the SCORM compliant units we were able, with a couple of clicks, to upload the material into our VLE website, UniServity. Allowing students to access the specific resources within our lesson structure makes it easy for them so they spend more time producing the coursework required in lessons and, more importantly, for homework. All in all we don’t have the time to produce this resource ‘in house’ or constantly update it, we prefer to spend our time working with the students and improving their work.” |
| PILOT PROJECT NEWS NEW! News from two other schools taking part in the pilot project will appear soon: Little Heath School in Berkshire. Little Heath also uses the Uniservity VLE. Elizabethan High School in Retford, Nottinghamshire. Elizabethan uses the Frog Teacher learning platform. More news from these two schools shortly. If you wish to take part in the Pilot Project we would like to hear from you. Contact Mike Highfield. |   |