Kent Learning Zone

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Kent Learning Zone
Virtual Learning Environments

• Presentation to Cluster Schools
• 23rd. February 2009.

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HOS presentation

• Getting started on KLZ John Duncalfe
• KLZ for teachers - Michelle Brayford
• Using KLZ with a class Lucy Henderson
• Next Steps for our three schools
• Collaboration (schools and teachers working
  together across the Cluster) Andy Place

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What does it look like ?
https//portal.klz.org.uk/
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Getting started

• The initial starting point is to register an
  interest and to establish staff accounts
  (currently there is no charge for this).EIS

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Training implications 1

• EIS provide three courses
• Admin Level 1
• Admin Level 2
• End User Training
• EIS suggest the two KLZ Administrators for each
  school attend these courses.
• Each course comes with a detailed manual of the
  day.
• Following this training schools then need to
  deliver initial KLZ training the staff.
• Children will just know what to do intuitively!

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Training implications 2

• Using the Training Site this is available to
  all teachers and includes two Demo schools
  giving lots of good examples and ideas.
• It is read only so cannot be damaged!

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The demo schools- these provide lots of ideas.
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Help and support
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KLZ e-mail

• Available as soon as a school goes live.
• The change-over from existing provider e.g. RM
  Easy-mail can take place some time after starting
  with KLZ.
• There is guidance available on the support area
  about the change over.

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Virtual Learning Platforms provided by various
companies.

• These will involve extra cost and the HOS team
  wanted to look at and develop KLZ before thinking
  about a VLP.