About the DfES Videoconferencing in the Classroom project

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About the DfES Videoconferencing in the Classroom project

Mike Griffith is a teacher currently working as a consultant for the ICT in Schools Division of the Department for Education and Skills and managing the "Videoconferencing in the Classroom Project".

Over the last two years, this DfES project has enabled 100's of schools to use videoconferencing as a resource, to add real value to lessons.

The Global Leap website www.global-leap.com is a resource for teachers around the world, enabling them to get help, advice and support to develop videoconferencing in the curriculum, and to find videoconferencing partners and to book interactive videoconference lessons.

Schools around the world can develop MFL projects to enable pupils to improve their language skills. They can learn more about the daily lives and experiences of their peer groups in other countries, through regular interactive videoconference links.

One part of the project, is to lend DfES equipment to museums and galleries and to work with education staff to present live interactive videoconference lessons to schools. Each month over 50 lessons are available directly to classrooms from UK Museums and Galleries and other locations. The feedback received from schools that book these sessions, has been excellent.

The project covers each Key Stage, across all areas of the curriculum.
The project has developed examples of good practice, in Modern Foreign Languages and International Partnerships and links.
The "Videoconferencing in the Classroom Project" team is available to work with schools across the UK.

The project also works with special schools, hospital schools, and pupil referral units to involve pupils who are otherwise isolated from mainstream education.

The project also explores and tests the wide range of technology that is available for videoconferencing, to assess its suitability and ease of use in the classroom.

Mike Griffith manages the project.

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