KMi today hosted a visit from Babu Ram K.C., principal of Mahan Siddhartha High School in Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal. Chris Valentine demonstrated some of the web-based projects that KMi have worked on in collaboration with Heronsgate. Mr Ram then shows their school website and their children have also recently organised animation workshops….
Hilary Baxter, the new Business Director for UKERNA (provider JANET, the UK’s education and research network), visited today to discuss the pioneering work KMi has undertaken with local schools. Baxter’s team undertakes “account management of JANET within HE, FE, Adult & Community Learning, Specialist Colleges and possibly schools in the future.” KMi initiated the MKSchools.net…
Margaret Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford, came to KMi this afternoon as part of her visit to the Open University. Her interest in coming to KMi was to discuss the effective use and development of new technologies in learning. Baroness Sharp is the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Higher Education in the House of Lords. She…
The use of ICT in schools in the UK has seldom lived up to expectations. One very notable exception is Heronsgate Middle School in Milton Keynes. This is one of KMi’s partner schools and it has been the focus of Dr Peter Whalley’s research for over 6 years. The school has also benefited from being…
Thursday 23rd March KMi was showcased on the first day of the Netties 2000 conference in Oulu, Finland. Peter Scott presented a keynote presentation about the future of higher education entitled “Virtual Universities: On-line learning 2000”. The conference was introduced by Olli-Pekka Heinonen, the Finnish Communications Minister, via a videoconference with Helsinki. The Minister stressed…
Eight new teachers from Heronsgate Middle School are participating in ICT training sessions at KMi as part of a pilot programme to test teaching materials for the CLUTCH Club Millenium Award Scheme. For the teachers the sessions provide them with the skills to make ICT activities integrate effectively with study in other parts of the…
Lord David Puttnam visited KMi on the 18th March to see research and development work, led by Dr Peter Whalley, into how the Web can be developed within the school curriculum. In particular, the novel approach of using historical and contemporary experiments to support the National Curriculum. This includes First Flight and the Mars Buggy….
