The Association for Information Technology in Teacher Education

You can now catch up with the latest news and developments about the ITTE summer conference via this wiki page.

Don't forget to book your place soon to avoid disappointment!

The website was fully updated today with the core system and over 20 modules being upgraded. You know the old saying about death and taxes being the only certainties in life? - I think those of who work with computers would add to those 'bugs after updating' - so if you come across any problems, please drop me a message via the contact form. Thank you.

A new feature of the website added during the upgrade is that from now on all posts to the ITTE mailing list will be archived in a specific forum for easy reference.

The ITTE AGM will take place at 15:00 on Wednesday 7^th July at

Conference Centre
Liverpool Hope University
Taggart Avenue
Liverpool
Merseyside
L16 9JD

Nominations are invited for members of the committee to fill the three places that will fall vacant at the AGM.  The committee consists of nine elected members, plus ex-officio members (Chair, treasurer and secretary) and up to five co-opted members.  Elected members serve a three-year period of tenure and, to ensure continuity, periods of tenure are staggered so that three committee members retire each year.  The retiring members this year are Richard Bennett  (Chester), Alison Hramiak (Sheffield Hallam) and Steve Kennewell (Swansea Met) (The committee co-opted Steve in March to fill the vacancy left by Ken Powell becoming Chair).  If there are more than three nominations an election will be held at the AGM.

Being a member of the committee enables you to gain wider experience across the ITT sector and to use your skills and expertise for the benefit of the ITTE community.  There are normally three committee meetings a year.  If you would like to know more about what is entailed, please contact one of the existing committee members.  You can find out who they are at http://www.itte.org.uk/node/2.

Nomination procedure:

• Candidates for election must be an ITTE member and must be nominated by at least two ITTE members.
• Candidates may provide ITTE members with a written election address not exceeding 500 words.
• Institutions are only allowed one elected representative on the committee.
• Nominations and the election address must be sent to the secretary (me) to arrive not later than 12 hours before the AGM.
• Election addresses will be displayed at the location of the AGM at least four hours beforehand.
• In the event of there being more candidates than vacancies, a ballot will take place at the AGM.

Each institution defined in 3.1a (institutional membership) of the constitution and each member defined in 3.1c (individual members who are not in an institutional member) will have one vote for each vacancy.

The AGM agenda and any background papers will be distributed soon.

Number 62 - Summer 2009 (5.93Mb)

Reflections on the Exeter Conference, ICT Induction project, Overcoming pedagogical difficulties, Primary Curriculum Reform Consultation, BBC School Report Project, Playing games up North, A Practical Approach to e-Marking, and Libby Jared in the hot seat...

Hello folks

This Newsletter is to formalise the information which I've previously emailed to you. The ITTE website now includes this Newsletter function which I am trialling to find out how and if it works. So apologies for bombarding you with yet more information but hopefully this newsletter facility will greatly ease the burden of disseminating information to you all.

SIG Area on ITTE website

If you have not already done so, can you register on the new ITTE website (www.itte.org.uk) and access the Mentoring and Coaching SIG area. I've posted an account of our first meeting at the conference there and would like your views on its accuracy. As I did not make any notes in the meeting, this account is going to be very selective and partial (in both senses). Please let me know if I've missed, misrepresented or generally misgotten any views expressed.

Discussion forum

Therer is also a discussion forum for the SIG in which I am canvassing your views as to what should (or should not) be included in the ITTE online resource to support mentoring and coaching (assuming that the funding is released by the TDA). Please feel free to brainstorm any ideas you might have. I can't promise to include or implement them all but I would appreciate any suggestions you have. The resource will ultimately be made available for all providers and not just for ITTE members. However, as the funding is part of the eCommunities development pot, it makes sense for ITTE to make the bid on behalf of all providers. As soon as I have any information on the funding I will let you know.

AOB

Have a restful summer break and hope to maintain contact with you in the coming year.

All the best

Rik

The Computing SIG and the Coaching and Mentoring SIG are now available to members under the SIGs menu... if convenors of other SIGs would like to contact me, or comment below, we can go about creating others.

The Resource Sharing section of the ICT Tutors site is now live. Log in from the tab above and you'll see it listed on the RHS menu near the bottom of the list.

The idea is that you 'donate' resources (at any level of development) and others try them out. If you try something and make changes then you re-upload the new version, indicating the id of the original resource.

Give it a go - it's intended to be a serial collaboration tool.

Neil

We now have a gallery of images for the Exeter Conference. I've uploaded a subset of the images from my camera. They appear in most recent first order.

Neil

To access the images, please use the 'Image galleries' link on the Navigation menu on the left hand side. You need to be an authenticated user to access the galleries.

Tribune - Live Chat

Since the launch of the website there has been a request for a live chat room. Athough this was not originally part of the brief I am pleased to announce that this feature has now been added. It is only available to registered users. To access it, once you have logged in click on 'Tribune' in the navigation (not primary links) menu. There is a single Tribune for the site but it can host multiple discussions. Users with Editor permissions will be able to moderate discussions. To answer a message, please click on its clock, which will be added to the message field, and then write your message. When there is a clock inside a message, move your mouse over it and the original message will be highlighted, along with any other answers, which makes it easy to follow discussions. This will make sense once you have a go.

User List & Contact Form

The other new feature is the ability for registered users to browse the list of users, see their profile information and photo, and contact them via an email form. The user list is also accessed via the links in the navigation menu.

Thanks - any problems, please let me know. Gavin.