Using ICT to Support History Teachers and Teaching Nick Baker Teacher of History and Law Beal High School, Ilford

SUPPORTING TEACHERS On Line Curriculum Resources On Line Historical Resources Preparing Resources Using ICT to Help with Administration

On Line Curriculum Resources National Curriculum DfES Virtual Teachers Centre History Teachers Forum Ofsted Exam Boards

On Line Historical Resources Finding materials- Search Engines Directories- Spartacus Educational History Gateway A selection of the best of the web- Active History Schools History BBC

Preparing Resources The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature Puzzlemaker Schools History Image Gallery Image Search from Google Encyclopaedias

Using ICT to Help with Administration Lesson planning Setting up a lesson plan template Organising files and folders Assessment Reporting Progress Ensuring your data is safe Backing Up Virus Protection

SUPPORTING PUPILS LEARNING Independent Research Lessons Using Commonly Available Software Interactive and On-Line Lessons Working With ICT Across the Curriculum

Why use ICT in lessons? ICT can help pupils to: ask historical questions investigate change, cause and consequence assess and use a wide range of sources organise information and ideas and communicate effectively. (BECTA)

Why use ICT in lessons? At the centre of our ICT policy should be the understanding that ICT should be used not for its own sake, or just to develop pupils ICT skills but as a way of increasing pupils ability to access the History curriculum. (Beal High School/Baker)

Independent Research Helping pupils know where to look? Using gateways Copying onto the Local Network Strategies to prevent copy and pasting. Five bullet points/facts Answer a specific question Use google as a plagiarism detector Research in lessons or at home?

Lessons Using Software on Your Schools Network MS Word (& other word processors) Software pupils are most familiar with. Useful for typing up essays, newspaper articles, projects etc. Useful for assessing and selecting information using copy and paste. Link to literacy. Example: Images of Elizabeth, a Year 8 lesson.

Lessons Using Software on Your Schools Network Microsoft Excel (or other Spreadsheets) Useful for analysing and sorting information, numerical or text data. Producing graphs. Link to Numeracy. Example: Cost of World War One, a Year 9 or 10 lesson.

Lessons Using Software on Your Schools Network Using other software: Publisher, Powerpoint, HTML editors. Useful for preparing presentations, encouraging pupils to summarise a wide range of information. Producing display work for walls or websites. Assemblies.

Lessons Using Software on Your Schools Network A few hints for Computer Room Lessons Do the lesson yourself! Know how many computers and how many pupils you will have. Think about grouping Set clear ground rules about what software can be used.

Lessons Using Software on Your Schools Network A few hints for Computer Room Lessons Dont forget usual good practice, e.g. lesson aims. Make an arrangement for what to do with pupils who have forgotten passwords. Save work at beginning of the lesson. Allow time to save and print at the end of the lesson.

Interactive and On-Line Lessons Schools History Active History Spartacus Educational Learning Curve Commercially Available CD-ROMs Create your own!

Working With ICT Across the Curriculum The ICT National Curriculum Delivering Entitlement Auditing lessons.

Using ICT to Support History Teachers and Teaching Nick Baker Teacher of History and Law Beal High School, Ilford