Students across the world

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Students across the world think 'birds are cool'
Work published on SCP webpages!
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Bird Watch
Live links with Schools across the World
Colette Cotton ICT/International co-ordinator _at_
St Marys CEP Folkestone
colette.cotton_at_intuitivemedia.com
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Why Global links?
A Global dimension helps learners to explore
and make sense of the big issues of the world
QCA 2007

• Climate Change (UN Conference in Copenhagen
  December 2009...responsibilities)
• Every Child Matters agenda (Safety, health,
  Global issues)
• Emotional Intelligence (influenced by values,
  expectations)
• Personalized Learning (taking responsibility for
  themselves and others)

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International and Intercultural Understanding?
This child (age 9 from Scotland) is working
towards this!
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What can live links achieve?

• A Global dimension with sustainable development
• An understanding of personal, local, national
  and global issues
• Collaborationsharing of real information
  through ICT across the world
• Encourages a creative, global curriculum
• Embeds ICT across the whole curriculum
• Ability to talk to experts (RSPB) global
  schools through Flash/meetings
• Gives an audience for pupils work (databases,
  graphs, art, literacy etc)
• MOTIVATES pupils learning
• Brings the world into the classroom

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Motivation
Using ICT to find the countries and follow
migration
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Setting Challenges ICT and the Global Classroom

• Overseas Schools Links January to July
• An opportunity to link with schools overseas and
  find out which birds visited school grounds in
  the USA, Kenya, Australia and parts of Europe
  during the week of the RSPB School Bird Watch
  Survey. Jan/Feb 2010
• Bird Watch World Day - A 24 hour event linking
  project schools across the world with ICT and
  Literacy. An opportunity for pupils across the
  world to web conference and share information
  about the birds that live and visit your school
  grounds. March/April
• An opportunity to collect and share data about
  the birds found in school grounds around the
  world in May/June/July

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Collaboration

• Sharing
• Planning
• Problem solving
• Investigating
• Creating
• Celebrating
• Assessing

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Worcester Prep Maryland
I do not know if we can install a webcam, but we
can send pictures of our birds to you and we can
v/c with you as in the past.
Sharing information between countries (UK the
USA)
Starkville Mississippi
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Birds from USA Mississippi
My son recorded these Rubythroats outside our
backdoor here in Mississippi with the new iPod
Nano. I just marvel at these little creatures!
Teacher from Starkville School Hungry Humming
birds
We have started our monarch project and actually
have eggs, caterpillars and pupa in the
classroom. Migration in North America
A fact file using Britannica online on SCP from
a 10 year old in Kenya
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IF we embed ICT and use REAL situations we will
add a Global Dimension!
RSPBs Great School Bird Watch
Binoculars Digital Cameras
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ICT Enables Higher Order Thinking and Learning
in a World Curriculum

• RSPBs Great School Bird Watch
• Graphs
• Textease database
• Word
• Publisher
• 2Connect
  (mind Mapping. sound)

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• Hardware used
• PC Laptops
• Webcam
• Data logger
• Digital camera
• Flip camera
• Beebots
• Pixie
• Microphone
• Binoculars

• WEBSITES
• www.rspb.org.uk
• www.learn.co.uk
• www.Superclubsplus.com
• www.Schoolnetglobal.com
• http//microsites2.segfl.org.uk

Collaborate Communicate Problem Solving Self
Assessment
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Birds Links in Kenya
Mirera School Lake Naivasha (4000 largest in
Kenya)
Peponi, Braeburn, Kenton Schools Nairobi district
Braeside Sch Mombassa
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Mirera School
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Waddlesworth!
( April) This Pelican was found starving by Lake
Naivashas
Taken to the The Little Owl Sanctuary which is
run by a governor (Sarah) from Mirera School
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Waddlesworth again!
( September) Still living at the Owl
Sanctuary tried 3 flights but has now given up
all aspiration of mastering the art of aviation
and just waddles everywhere.
His new friend Shale the tortoise!
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Waddlesworth again!
Other feathered friends at the Owl Sanctuary!
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Birds from Estonia
Unipiha School (17 pupils) Nr Tartu
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Art Work inside
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Bird Box and Storks nest outside
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Birds from SCP
A 10 year old in Australia
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World Weather Watch

• Data
• 188 posts from 26 world wide schools during the
  24 hr blog on SeGFL
• 50 active schools for the project
• 15 world wide schools took part in the BBCs
  Flash/meeting with Kaye
• 200 schools registered an interest on
  Superclubsplus
• 5,000 children set up their own weather watch
  pages on SCP

Bird Watch can do the same!
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How can we achieve live linking?

• Flash/Meetings or Video/conference school to
  school
• Hot Seating in Flash/meetings (RSPB)
• e-Mails
• Online forums Hot Seats (SCP/GSC)
• Blogs (SeGFL site and SCP/GSC)
• Schools Collaborative projects published on
  SeGFL, e- Languages, BBC World Class
• Individual Collaborative projects on SCP/GSC,
  Learn.co.uk
• Sharing of data from live webcams in bird boxes
• Podcasts (audacity)
• Video clips (Use of flip camera)

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Links also with Australia Canada Spain India Ira
n Nigeria Poland Czech Republic Orkney Islands
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Are you flying off to start a link ?

• Publications
• BBC Schools free pack..
• World on the Move..(KS2)
• QCAThe Global Dimension in Action
• British CouncilsLearning World

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