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January 2003
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Schoolscape | MirandaNet's
Birthday | UK/Chinese Exchange
New Scholars | Teachers of the Year Awards
1. THANKS TO SCHOOLSCAPE
Thanks to our Schoolscape@Future project we are now able to provide regular news bulletins on MirandaNet colleagues and their activities. This project which was secured by MirandaNetters Bryn Holmes and Marilyn Leask is funded by the EU Socrates Minerva initiative which promotes the study of Open and Distance Learning and the use of ICT in the field of Education. We are working with Portugal and Ireland.
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2. UPDATE ON THE MIRANDANET 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
The
highlight of Miranda's 10th Birthday Party was the traditional dancing and
singing from our Czech colleagues. Zdenka, Boba and Lenka came in full costume,
from their National Theatre, and presented Tina with rye bread and salt in
an old ceremony which cements friendship. AND NOW WE HAVE THE PICTURES!
3. MIRANDA's BIRTHDAY PRESENTS
Miranda
received some delightful presents on her birthday from the Fellowship. Hung
in the office is a photo collage of our eight year Czech Miranda alliance.
A Renee Macintosh watch, a liberty silk scarf, a book of Art and Crafts in
Holland, an original page from Bryan Talbot's graphic novel, the Rat's Tale
that we are using in our City Citizens project, and many other treasures.
Tina thanks you for such unexpected thoughtfulness on Miranda's behalf.
4. UK/CHINESE CURRICULUM EXCHANGE
We would like to extend our appreciation and thanks to Actis and Promethean who funded school visits and a reception at the Conrad Hilton Hotel for the Chinese teachers at BETT03. It was particularly pleasing to have a mixed group of heads and senior teachers as well as classroom teachers.
Our thanks also go to the UK teachers, heads and the guides who hosted these visits. The schools involved were Cheam School in Reading, Blue Gate Fields Infants and Junior Schools in London, Waldegrave Girls School at Twickenham, and Chafford Hundred Campus in Essex. Each of these schools put extra time and effort into making the Chinese welcome and encouraged them to ask questions. This time was very much appreciated by the visitors.
We do not want these warm feelings of friendship and the opportunity for long term exchanges to dissolve away. Most of the teachers had made excellent contacts and had plans for projects. The MirandaNet Fellowship would like to give these plans a boost by providing a MirandaNet web page for the Mulan Community. WATCH THIS SPACE.
5. NEW MIRANDANET SCHOLARS
Francis has been kept busy in December and January sending out information to new scholars. They come from fields as far apart as Tom Moore from Melton Mowbray in the UK, Francis Olabampe from the Gambia in West Africa, Rob Clarke from New Zealand now in the UK, Marie Gibbs from Bristol, Georgina Stein from Canterbury in Kent, David DeShon from Michigan, USA and Shahjahan Siraj from Bangladesh. We will be very interested the see the case studies on projects these scholars will be providing as their qualifying route for Fellowship status.
6. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALASTAIR WELLS AND KEITH PHIPPS - TEACHERS OF THE YEAR PRIZES @ BETT03
Becta run an annual award system called the 'ICT in Practice' awards. There are several award categories for Secondary, Primary, Management and tertiary college practitioners. The Teaching award seeks to recognise innovative or exemplary work which has impacted on pupils' learning. Nominees are nominated each year with a closing date at the end of July.
Nominations
are shortlisted by judges. In the secondary category both Alastair
Wells and Keith Phipps were
shortlisted amongst eight to be visited in their schools. The shortlist was
trimmed down to three. These people were then asked to make a presentation
before a large panel of judges at a hotel near Becta headquarters in Coventry.
Alastair
Wells was announced to be the joint winner of the secondary category and Keith
Phipps was announced as the runner up. They received their awards at the BETT
exhibition Olympia in London in January 2003.
Further details can be found at
List of winners can be found at
Their profiles can be found at
www.becta.org.uk/practiceawards/ awards/subjectteaching/2003/wells.html
www.becta.org.uk/practiceawards/ awards/subjectteaching/2003/phipps.html
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