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Our ebooks

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Creating a Technology-Rich School

About the book

The objective of this book is to provide down-to-earth advice for creating a school in which technology plays a key role in teaching and learning. Buying lots of hardware and infrastructure will not be enough: what is needed is a strategic approach.

Unfortunately, many “visions” do not materialise in practice. This book takes you through the processes necessary to maximise the chances of successfully implementing the vision.

The book is 20 pages long, and priced at £1.99, + VAT in the EU.

Topics covered

• Creating a shared vision
• The ICT Strategy
• SMART targets
• Monitoring SMART targets
• The disadvantages of SMART targets and monitoring
• Self-evaluation
• Useful references
• Operational issues
• Relentless follow-through
• An experience-based understanding of the work that needs to be done
• The right personnel to actually do the work
• Changing Direction
• Introduction
• The design stage
• Staffing structures
• Leadership issues
• Conclusion
• Further reading

Who should buy this book?

• Anyone involved in “new builds”
• Anyone involved in the UK’s Building Schools for the Future programme
• Senior leadership and management personnel with responsibility for te educational technology provision in their school
• ICT co-ordinators
• E-Learning co-ordinators

Go On, Bore 'Em!: How to make ICT lessons excruciatingly dull

How to avoid ICT lessons becoming boring, in 10 chapters.

COMING SOON: A Practical Guide to the Importance of Display

A guide to making your computer suite a stimulating environment

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Types of display

Chapter 2: Yes, but *Why* display?

Chapter 3: What to display

• Posters
• Education periodicals
• Pupils’ work
• Sets of instructions
• Sets of rules
• Keywords or technical terms

Chapter 4: How to use displays

• Posters
• Education periodicals
• Pupils’ work
• Sets of instructions
• Sets of rules
• Keywords or technical terms

Chapter 5: How to manage displays

• Introduction
  Who?
  What?
  Conclusion

Bonus appendix: Classroom Display Check Form

Number of pages: 11

Description:

What kind of environment are you providing for your students? What impact does that environment have on their learning? This ebook contains essential guidance, and even includes suggestions on how to manage displays in the light of workforce reform in the UK. Previously published as a series of articles called The Importance of Display in the Premium section of the original Terry Freedman's Articles website.

Price:

GB £1.99 plus VAT.

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