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Over 2,000 Schools participated in videoconferences using JVCS during the autumn term and JVCS supported all its users in over 15,000 hours of videoconferencing.
DfES fund the use of JVCS by schools to make videoconferencing as easy and trouble free as possible. Schools are not charged for using the service.
BETT delegates will be able to conference with teachers and children who have already started using videoconferencing, to hear about their experiences and watch demonstrations of the activities that are possible by videoconference. Delegates will also have an opportunity to see and hear content providers showcasing content that is available to all schools by videoconference.
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Start time |
Title and overview |
Key Stage / Audience |
Presenting Organisation |
10.30 |
Transporting Minds Brief background to the Zone’s activity. What videoconferencing is good for. CPD opportunities using videoconferencing with two practical illustrations (HEADroom and PLANit). |
KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 - aimed at Teachers, Head teachers and Local Authority Advisors | ATHENA EiCAZ, Birmingham |
| 11.00 | Motivate Maths A videoconference session between West Monmouth School, Torfaen and an astronomer in Cambridge, demonstrating interaction. |
Motivate Maths | |
| 11.30 | Natural History Museum Videoconference: Mary Anning A videoconference between the museum, Rodmell CE Primary School and BETT visitors. Nineteenth-century Mary Anning has lots of stories to tell you about her life as a pioneering fossil hunter in Lyme Regis. Did you know she helped discovered the first specimen of Ichthyosaurus recognised by the scientific community when she was only 10 years old? Find out more about her life and her important fossil discoveries that helped reconstruct the world’s past. |
KS2 | Natural History Museum |
| 12.00 | CLEO Videoconferencing Project Introduction to the CLEO Videoconferencing Project. Daniella at CLEO will describe the main features of the project, the museums and collections involved. Catherine from The Wordsworth Trust, Grasemere, Cumbria will then give a brief introduction to the session 'From Story to Poem - the Story of a Leech-gatherer'. |
KS1, KS2, KS3 | Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online - Regional RBC |
| 12.30 | Videoconferencing for music education Rod Franks, Principal Trumpet with the London Symphony Orchestra will demonstrate a trumpet masterclass with beginner students. The LSO will be connecting with Port William and St Teresa's Primary Schools in Dumfries and Galloway. Peripatetic instrumental teacher Grant Golding has been working with students in four primary schools across Dumfries and Galloway for the last year over videoconference in a pilot set up by Dumfries and Galloway council. The LSO is providing an inspirational masterclass once per term this academic year to each of the four primary schools. |
London Symphony Orchestra | |
| 1.00 | National Space Centre Live! The National Space Centre is one of the leading providers of videoconference content for schools. They offer presentations on various scientific topics as well as their very popular, highly interactive simulated mission for students known as the e-mission. The e-mission complements many curriculum areas including Science, Geography, Citizenship, Maths and ICT. |
National Space Centre | |
| 1.30 | Discover Distance Learning View a LIVE taster session from one of our tutors and see how this innovative learning style works. Nelson Thornes Distance Learning is one of the UK’s leading distance learning providers with over 12 years experience in delivering successful GCSE, AS and A2 courses. As part of Nelson Thornes, you can be confident that our courses meet the high educational standards you expect. Distance learning provides an alternative learning experience to the traditional classroom. So come and see how you can provide a wider curriculum choice for your pupils. |
GCSE, AS and A2 | Nelson Thornes |
| 2.00 | Our finest hours Members of the Learning Department will present an introduction to the range of videoconference sessions on offer. These focus on aspects of the Home Front, the Second World War and the career of Winston Churchill. Illustrated with artefacts, posters and photographs, they can be adapted for all ages. |
Can be adapted for all ages | Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms |
| 2.30 | Newstead Wood school in Bromley | ||
| 3.00 | Videoconferencing with The National Archives The session will include an introduction to our services, then an historical interpreter will play the WW1 soldier from our 'WW1 Soldier: All Pals Together ' videoconference workshop for KS3. The session will be jointly led by an education officer and the historical interpreter, and the BETT audience can participate by asking the soldier questions based on the documents that students would use during the actual videoconference workshop. |
KS3 | The National Archives |
| 3.30 | Videoconferencing technologies and Standards Overview and differences of IP, ISDN, Access Grid, Desktop and proprietary videoconferencing systems. |
JANET(UK) Training | |