Open Group - help shape eduBuzz

 

EduBuzz needs you to help continue its growth and usefulness.

Come along to the Open Group Meetings or make your ideas known on the Suggestions Pages.

 

Open Group Meetings:

 

Future eduBuzz Open Meetings for the diary:

 

21 January 2008           Large Meeting Room              John Muir House         4 pm

10 March 2008              Large Meeting Room              John Muir House         4 pm

14 April 2008               Large Meeting Room              John Muir House          4 pm

12 May 2008                Large Meeting Room              John Muir House          4 pm

9 June 2008                Large Meeting Room              John Muir House           4 pm

 

 

 

 

 

18 June 2007 at 4.00 pm: Minute:

 

eduBuzz.org Portal

• Work is underway this summer to improve the portal. The group was asked about the options available to the team:
  • Return to a purely Web 1.0 environment, like the old Exc-el homepages.
  • Carry out the development work that has been planned: maintaining current 'ethos', make homepage more vibrant with current feeds, A-Z contributor lists, A-Z themes list, option to use aggregator à la Pageflakes

    The second option will be integrated to our summer work

• LTS are producing 'how-tos' for general consumption, on how to use social media in a pedagogically sound manner. We can link to this
• We will produce our own how-tos for the eduBuzz systems, short movies and some text to build on what is on the eduBuzz Support wiki. These will feature more prominently on the homepage under Help.

 

Marketing

• When the homepage/portal is more refined...
  • Launch to HTs as soon as possible during the session, to help them understand the potential for practice and see this not as an extra, but as an inherent part of reflective practice for teachers.
  • Invite councillors to blog with their local schools
  • Encourage colleagues in the Open Group and wider education community, where they feel it is appropriate, to run drop-ins in their schools, where people can try things out and learn (potentially provide a toolkit?)
  • Work with the Education and Children's Services Press Officer/PR/Comms dept to create some buzz in the mainstream media.

 

Media literacy

• Parents:

  • MGS are running some sessions on web safety later next year. Potential to update the notion of web safety to media literacy before then with the work of the IT Team, LTS, Bebo and others.
  • Parent TeachMeet Roadshows are planned by the IT Team for clusters. These will take place once materials are developed (therefore, maybe in 2008).
  • School parents' evenings could be used more effectively to disseminate messages.
  • Current guidelines on use of images and student work on the web perhaps need simplified for some parents, the main points brought to the fore.

• Teachers:

  • A need for teachers to be educated on the potential and the risks of kids' online lives.
  • Possible project to have significant numbers of teachers signing up, even in the short term, to Bebo or Facebook to see why these might be attractive to teens, or Bebo/Habbo Hotel for primary teachers.
  • Use of TeachMeet Roadshow training events one possible avenue. Whole-cluster events specifically on this another. No decision taken yet.
  • Likely to launch this after development work (late autumn/winter 07/08)
  • Teachers also need to be made more aware of the Current guidelines regarding the use of student work and images online, and encouraged to expand their sharing of work.

• Learners:

  • The development of a media literacy strategy for the council is ongoing, and becoming a major focus for summer/autumn work.
  • The training of teachers first is seen as vital

• School management:

  • Current guidelines on the use of student work and images online need to be studied, adopted and shared with staff as soon as the new school session begins.
  • The information can be linked into Phoenix for centralisation of who is able to do what.

 

 

Location is:

Large conference room

Education & Children's Services (2nd Floor)

John Muir House

Brewery Park

Haddington

 

If you're planning to attend, please let Susan McNaught (01620 827595) know so that we have an idea of numbers. Thanks!

 

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