Learning from the World – developing and disseminating global content

We have the honour to support Katha, India in their wonderful new project working with many schools, and in the UK with Stoke High School and St Joseph’s College.

These partners provide us with our best example so far of content re-use when the easiCOP publication of the pioneering work on the zero cost energy bike at the January 31st 2008 Stoke/St Jos Suffolk Regional Hothouse  led to the Amazing Katha India Videos on using zero energy bikes in communities for laptops, lighting in the home and learning to read! 

Now see what they are going to do next!  Learning from the World!

Rhythm N Beans - global online and physical face-to-face based content

The work by East Bergholt, Buhumba and Sustainable Communities Network’s David Renton has provided much inspiration to easiCOP partners. David and Jackson brought Jovias and Mujuni (picture opposite) over from Uganda to East Bergholt and Mujuni won our Suffolk Hothouse £100 prize video competition speaking in Rukigan! Mujuni used the £100 to...'build school buildings?!? in beansTALK!

David is now taking things to the next level with Rhythm ‘N Beans providing educational content featuring a Buhumba teacher visiting Suffolk schools! He is also planning to bring onboard more than 50 Uganda schools! See the harsh challenge facing Koch Goma who nevertheless feature in our picture at the top of the page!

Mujuni also appears on the...Buhumba & East Bergholt video on UK TV!...and is fed by the...Beans Means Brains site developed by David which provides school meals for Mujuni and friends! See what Uganda village children think of the Global Future School and their End-of-year dance!  with teacher Irene who will be coming to Suffolk to teach us all how to dance! See  Rhythm ‘N Beans !

Brownhills Community Association – local content development, management and dissemination 

The easiCOP VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) is deployed with Brownhills Community Technology College and their feeder schools  Watling ST,  and Radleys.

It will now be used by their local Brownhills Community Association to develop, manage and disseminate both local content and also the wide range of content available from the BT Betterworld programme including the acclaimed BT Internet Rangers site which helps young people to teach Internet to older people.

See their Wide range of community and educational activities !

iCook! - wonderful local and global humanities related content! 

This wonderful site compares life in Gorseland Suffolk with Kudawella Sri Lanka. See the children videoconferencing with different countries and describing their work! This work has featured on UK TV! Take a look at how Gorseland and Kudawella do their shopping at their markets! This site also contains the Alfie & Family iCOOK Stirfry Video! as well as many fascinating recipes!

See what the Gorseland children think about their videoconferencing experience with Alana and Shannon and when Beth interviews James! See the wonderful first international MOBILE live video conferencing straight over the Internet experience with Gorseland and Kudawella!

See the Kudawella schoolband performing with all their new instruments and costumes paid for by the Gorseland win at our first Global Hothouse!

easiCOP Toolkit - for collaboration & communication and content development, management & dissemination

Our toolkit now consists of: 

·  easiCOP on-line tool including resources, interactive project area and videoconferencing 

·   easiAPP VLE inc Learning Management System, multilayer communication tools (email, blog, forum, chat), student and staff timetables, 3rd party applications (Thin Client). dynamic interface based on user logon

·    Visual Interfaces & Front End portal - a cut down version of easiAPP to provide extra functionality and an attractive and usable interface to an existing VLE 

·     DATASync - cross database agent module allowing integration between different database driven applications such as a SIMS interface for an Assessment for Learning application 

See the Brownhills User Evaluation April 2008 in which teachers, developers and children evaluate the easiCOP VLE, laptop, thin client and iTouch devices, and Thin Client architecture (complete with jargon buster!). See also in the following video how easy it is to Use the VLE to produce SCORM compliant content.

 

The toolkit also contains a wide variety of BT Betterworld Learning Content, Software, Communication kitemark and White Papers.

 

Educational Endorsements

easiCOP has a number of educational endorsements attesting to its curricular value and more.

It was featured at the 2008 UK Specialist Schools Academy Trust Technology National Conference February 28th Manchester Hothouse, keynote presentation and workshop, at the iPhone Conference May 2008 and will the Design And Technology Association Annual Conference July 2008.

On March 10th 2008 to Ed Balls Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families at Stoke High School, Ipswich, who, reports teacher Jon Miller, said: “It is using its technology specialities to good effect. Stoke is totally involved with its community and is a fine example to schools throughout England……..” 

Most recently, we have been invited to write contributions to SSAT, DATA and STEM publications. Extensive documentation on easiCOP, Future School, Hothousing can be found by scrolling down White Papers.