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 BETT 2001 will be opened by Michael Wills MP DfEE Minister for Learning and Technology Michael Wills will open BETT 2001 at 10.40am. This will be followed by a short press session and then tour of show. To join the keynote speech please click here WEDNESDAY 10th JANUARY 12pm Microsoft Announcing Your Personal Curriculum Management System David Burrows, Dean Slawson Microsoft® will announce a new product for the UK education market. The Encarta Class Server will help teachers to address some of the most common management issues faced in the classroom today, by enabling teachers to deliver the National Curriculum via interactive learning that actively engages students in meaningful learning experiences. 1pm PLATO Learning Got a Match? Selecting the right software for your needs. Rob Foshay Like consumers in the supermarket, teachers buy software because of the way it looks. All too often it's the appearance and design of a product that sells when it should be content and educational effectiveness. The task of matching available software to the needs of any educational establishment is extremely complex and making the right choices when selecting software is vital. It is important that the investment made in computer technology pays off with real educational gains. Dr Rob Foshay will be offering a considered and well-thought out way of reviewing educational software. 2pm Lego Dacta Data Logging in the Curriculum Kevin Warwick Renowned Professor of Cybernetics Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading will discuss and demonstrate the significance of data logging in context of scientific learning and the cross curricula applications within the National Curriculum. 3pm RM RM Showcases New Maths Products Russell Prue RM will beshowcasing Easiteach Maths, an innovative new whole-class teaching tool for Key Stage 1 and 2 Maths, and Maths Quest, a new interactive online resource for Key Stage 4 Maths. 4pm Discourse Technology Whole Class teaching tool, harnessing the Worldwide web. Ian Lucas Ian will help you to visualise teaching a science lesson with Discourse Teaching Suite and discuss Discourse webtravel's ability to make a computer lab become a schoolwide center for Internet-centric learning that can be used by any teacher. THURSDAY 11th JANUARY 11am The Skills Factory Thanks for My Weekends Back! Geoff Broadbent The Skills factory will be launching Literacy and Numeracy CompleteOnline, their new Literacy and Numeracy lesson planning and record keeping solution. Their 10,000 strong user base can now automatically link to a massive On-line Resource Bank, which contains thousands of lesson plans and teaching created by schools already using the system. 12pm Promethean ACTIVote Making it paperless and painless. Peter Lambert Promethean's Product Manager, Peter Lambert, will be featuring ACTIVote, the latest addition to the ACTIVboard range. ACTIVote is a revolutionary tool, which brings ultimate interactivity to the classroom. 1pm Immersive Education Unlocking the Future of Education Chris Davies, Jamie , Georgia Kalkanis and Demis Hasasbis Immersive Education are launching their ground breaking product Kar2ouche. Immersive will be showcasing this highly innovative software tool that has been formulated from extensive educational research carried out by Oxford University. Kar2ouche is a comprehensive and expandable interactive software tool for presenting, illustrating and interpreting the written word in creative and innovative ways. 2pm Time Education NGfL Managed Services – Fact or Fantasy? Martin Allington The provision of a school's requirements by means of Managed Services is put forward as the ideal solution. No longer is there a need for a school to worry about the financial burden of ownership, maintenance and replacement of expensive equipment that rapidly becomes outdated. So why have so few schools taken up the Managed Service option? Martin Allington dispels the myths and talks about Time Education's recent winning of a Managed Service contract in Blackburn. 3pm Schoolboost.com 'Money for Nothing' Simon Bradley Schoolboost.com is a new website dedicated to helping parents to raise funds for schools without having to spend extra money. The tagline, “Shopping online to help your school!” says a lot. Visitors register and choose a school to benefit. They then go to any of the retailers (currently over 100 and growing daily) affiliated with the programme and shop as usual. The retailers then pay a commission to the school. There is no extra cost involved for the school or the shopper. Money for nothing? So it would seem. 4pm Question Mark Computing Browser Based authoring to encourage growth of online assessment Martin Belton Question Mark Computing will be launching it's new Browser Based Authoring (BBA) software is set to encourage the growth of online testing in schools and colleges by providing wider access to easy-to-use, industry standard question and assessment authoring tools. FRIDAY 12th JANUARY 10am 3Com 3Com UK launch Netprep; the Schools and College Networking Curriculum David Katz The NetPrep programme is the first vendor-neutral, standards-based curriculum to focus on the design, implementation, management and interrogation of computer networks. Netprep is a clear example of a successful education/industry partnership. Working in co-operation with education Curriculum specialists, 3Com has tailored all aspects of the effort to help educational institutions quickly and easily implement the programme and accomplish their mission to produce students well prepared for the workforce or further study 11am QuestionMark Computing Browser Based authoring to encourage growth of online assessment. Martin Belton Question Mark's will be launching it's new Browser Based Authoring (BBA) software is set to encourage the growth of online testing in schools and colleges by providing wider access to easy-to-use, industry standard question and assessment authoring tools. 12pm Spark Learning Spark Island: an interactive Channel for Primary aged Children their Teachers & Parents. Tom Davy, Nick Kind, Noelle Leaf Spark Island is the new interactive online curriculum-based education channel for primary aged children. Designed to help children at key stages 1 and 2, it has been development in close consultation with an educational advisory board. 1pm Granada Learning primary-zone Launch and The Granada Toolkit V2 Martin Baker and Karen Counterman Granada will be launching its new premier Internet subscription service for schools and families. The presentation will include a demo of this service and an overview of its facilities. Granada will also launch the Granada Toolkit V2, a suite of software that provides schools with a complete core set of ICT tools. 2pm The Skills Factory Thanks for My Weekends Back! Geoff Broadbent The Skills factory will be launching Literacy and Numeracy CompleteOnline, their new Literacy and Numeracy lesson planning and record keeping solution. Their 10,000 strong user base can now automatically link to a massive On-line Resource Bank, which contains thousands of lesson plans and teaching created by schools already using the system. |