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A Department Website - Horbury School, Wakefield

Innovation in the use of the intranet to support Geography learning

Terminology

Horbury School's original intranet project outline dated December 2004 is shown below. The full project report from June 2005 can be downloaded at the foot of the page >>>


Original Project Outline

Staff
  • Create on-line bank of resources
  • Get staff to access on-line resources
  • Train and encourage staff to generate and upload resources
Pupils
  • Focus on KS3 Year 7 – 7 Delahunt
  • Pilot 1 unit: Green 4 – The Restless Earth
  • Pupils to be able to access resources for this unit both in and out of class via intranet
  • All homework for this unit to be accessed via intranet
Content
  • Existing resources which are electronically based - some converted to web pages
  • Explore multiple intelligence approach to teaching some of the concepts - PW to review resources and suggest strategies to SC
Interface
  • Moodle and/or Macromedia Contribute 3 at school and home
Technical Support
Evaluation
  • Staff (1), pupil (3) and parents (3) questionnaires
  • End of unit assessment – control group complete assessment without access to these resources taught in traditional fashion (7 Gillard) and compare results with Moodle group
Time Scale
  • Initial pilot to be completed at GA conference 30th March 2005
  • Case study to be completed by July 2005
School Support
  • 0.5 day required for kick starting project for SC and PW
Additional Activity
  • SC to explore use of Open Mind and Mediator as a means of pulling learning plans into a visual web-based environment for both Staff and Ofsted.
  • These products will allow pupils to Mindmap, Brainstorm, etc and also create Flash animations such as models of the Water Cycle, Ecosystems, etc.
  • SC to liaise with JM and PW and decide if products worth purchasing



Horbury School Intranet Report (70k)
note: this file requires Microsoft Word.

 
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