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- Strategic Development Fund
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- Name of School : Tideway School, Newhaven.
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- Name of Project Co-ordinator : Mr J Fanning
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- Outline of Proposed Project :
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- The creation of classroom based computer resource materials by pupils.
- Initially the project would look at local historical sites.
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- This would be a three term project, involving :
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- - Summer term 1996 site visits to Tide Mills 'Village', Newhaven.
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- - Autumn term 1996 residential visit to Battle.
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- At each of the sites involved, pupils will create a database of
- computer information/resources that can be distributed and used by
- local secondary/junior schools in curriculum delivery.
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- - Spring term 1997 visits to local junior schools to work with small
- groups of pupils in creating a school specific resource e.g. a guide
- to their school.
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- Aims :
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- - explore ways in which National Curriculum History can be delivered
- through the application of information technology.
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- - improve computer literacy amongst the target group of pupils.
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- - examine and use commercially available computer applications and the
- ways that they can be used in school and in the study of history.
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- - create a database of computer resources on local subjects, that is
- created by pupils and tailored to specific local needs.
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- - improve and expand links with junior schools. Establish a shared
- base of computer software and equipment. Explore ways in which
- senior pupils can link with junior pupils to produce 'pupil
- centred resources'.
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- - explore the effect that use of such software has by parents with
- the relevant computer equipment at home.
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- Process :
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- March 1996. Junior and secondary schools mailed with details of the
- project and asked for requests/ideas/suggestions as to the computer
- material that they would find useful in school.
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- Tide Mills Project (Target Group : Year 10 pupils).
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- The project would operate through April and May, with the writing of
- reports and the distribution of software in June and July.
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- The project will involve a small group of Year 10 pupils. There will
- be a strong emphasis on extra-curricular work, in terms of gathering
- resources and field-study visits to the site.
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- April :
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- Weeks 1,2,3 & 4. Visits to local library to examine and collect source
- material. Two site visits to Tide Mills. One initial visit to explore
- the area with the relevant maps. One site visit to collect digital
- material that can be used in computer applications.
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- May :
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- Weeks 1,2 & 3. Work in school to produce computer resources.
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- The following software would be in use :
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- PC - Microsoft Works; Picture Publisher; Genesis MultiMedia Authoring.
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- Acorn - 1st Word Plus, Paint, Genesis MultiMedia Authoring.
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- Genesis allows the creation of 'stand-alone' programmes that can be
- used without access to the main authoring programme.
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- The package of resources created using these computer applications
- would include :
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- - a library of .pcx/.bmp images of the site and photographic
- sources (for use in multi-media presentations, Desktop
- Publishing packages, etc.).
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- - text files in ASCII format.
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- - Genesis multi-media guide to the site.
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- - Genesis 'workbook' that can be used by pupils to create and
- store their own work.
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- - suggestions and examples of work that pupils could be involved
- in on a classroom basis.
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- Battle Project (Target Group :Year 7).
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- September :
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- Weeks 2,3 & 4. Identify a group of 10 year 7 pupils who would be
- interested in the project. Create a database of primary and secondary
- resource material that is available in school.
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- October :
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- Week 1. Week-end residential visit to Battle to explore the site of
- the Battle of Hastings (taking in the town museum and local parish
- church) and record material - digital, video and audio - that can be
- used in a multi-media presentation on the site.
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- Week 2,3,4 :
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- Creation in school of the relevant computer material that would
- include :
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- - a library of .pcx/.bmp images of the site and photographic
- sources.
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- - text files in ASCII format.
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- - Genesis multi-media guide to the site.
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- - Genesis 'workbook' that can be used by pupils to create and
- store their own work.
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- - suggestions and examples of work that pupils could be involved
- in on a classroom basis.
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- At the end of the Spring and Summer, after software has been made
- available to local schools, these schools will be asked to respond on
- the effectiveness and value of the software.
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- If these two projects are successful, in the Spring term 1997, small
- groups of senior pupils (Years 12 or 13) will be sent out to junior
- schools to work with small groups of pupils in producing, initially, a
- computer guide to their own school. From this, further suitable sites
- for such studies would be identified.
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- Ways in which these schools could access Tideway School computer
- resources will be examined, including the possibility of setting up a
- shared base or pool of computer software (suitable licenses being
- available for commercial software) and computer equipment e.g. digital
- camera, printers, etc.
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- Intended Outcomes :
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- - creation of locally based computer resources that meet specific
- local needs, that are royalty free and can be easily disseminated.
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- - clear examples and guides to the application of information
- technology in the national curriculum.
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- - an improvement in specific information technology skills amongst
- pupils.
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- - improved links between junior and secondary schools.
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- - the creation of a pool of specialist software and equipment.
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- Proposals for Dissemination of Outcomes :
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- - distribution of software in Acorn Archimedes and PC format to
- local secondary and junior schools.
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- - copies of the software could also be distributed to those parents
- who are interested and who have the relevant computer hardware
- at home.
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- - copies of the software created to be lodged with national Public
- Domain libraries (and it may be possible to explore the ways in
- which software and reports can be distributed by e-mail or over
- the Internet).
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- - a written report distributed to each of the local secondary and
- junior schools.
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- - explore the possibility of a half day INSET conference at Tideway
- School, dealing with the creation of computer resources in school.
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- - written reports of the project to relevant educational and
- computer press. e.g. English Heritage
- History Today
- Times Educational Supplement
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- Footnote :
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- - it would be interesting to explore the possibility of creating a CD
- ROM authoring base in school, for the creation of CD Roms that
- contain the relevant software and that could be distributed as the
- discs in the the initial project were (April 1997 onwards).
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