River Watch is an opportunity for children aged five to eleven in schools across Kent and Sussex to

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What is River Watch?
River Watch is an opportunity for children aged
five to eleven in schools across Kent and Sussex
to collect and publish on the Internet
information about rivers and waterways in the
region. Published work covering all areas of
the curriculum will include written reports,
poems, graphs, tables, art work, video, music and
dance.
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Who is taking part?
37 Kent primary schools have registered
and are participating in the River Watch 2007
project.
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Project Aims
Children participating in the project will have
the opportunity to use Broadband Connectivity
to Research and gather information in and
outside the classroom Publish their work for
others to view on Making the News Compare and
contrast maps and aerial images of different
locations Ask questions and discuss their work
with other project schools
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What are the children doing?
Planned activities include
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Google Maps provides detailed maps and aerial
photographs
How are we using ICT?
Making the News is an on-line publishing tool
FlashMeeting enables simple and secure video
conferencing
"Core Software"
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How are we using ICT?
Sound recorder
Storytelling
Digital images and video
Promoting Pupil Creativity
Sound Editor
Datalogging
Movie Making
E-mail
Planning
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How is the project being managed?
Kent National Grid for Learning Download project
resources
http//www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/index.htm
http//kmi4schools.e2bn.net/rostra/news.php?r796
http//www.segfl.org.uk/microsites/view_project.ph
p?id21
Making the News Area for teachers and children
to publish work
River Watch micro-site Area for Teachers to
publish resources and share ideas
Promoting "on-line" Learning communities
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How is the project being managed?
Project and Leading ICT Teachers are responsible
for organising
School Visits
School INSET Ask an
Expert Day River Watch
Day
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School Case Studies
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"Ask the Expert" - July 4th 2007
The Ask the Expert Day on Wednesday 4th July
2007 was an opportunity for children to interview
adults from local river agencies and
organisations about a wildlife and conservation
issues. What have we found out? Visit the River
Watch Making the News web-site to read the
childrens reports and articles.
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What have we achieved?
Over 100 schools in Kent have applied and been
issued with a Making the News account Nearly
100 Kent schools have applied for FlashMeeting
accounts since November 2006 18 Clusters in Kent
plan to use videoconferencing next year (most
will be using FlashMeeting) 74 MFL Leading
Teachers have received training on using
FlashMeeting and Making the News since
January 2007 Kent Leading ICT Teachers have
organised and led training sessions for Calais
teachers on using Making the News Several
Clusters are using FlashMeeting to support
Transition projects West Sussex Grid for
Learning have already published details of River
Watch 2008 and are planning training for all
schools The River Watch model used to promote
on-line learning is to be adopted by all
Authorities across the South East region in
2007/8
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What next?
Nature and Weather Watch
Schools and Clusters across Kent will shortly be
receiving a letter inviting them to take part in
Nature Watch and Weather Watch
For more information contact Ian Coulson
Phil
Bracegirdle Geography and History Advisor
HOS ICT Consultant Ian.coulson_at_kent.gov.
uk philip.bracegirdle_at_k
ent.gov.uk