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GridClub Launches Internet Proficiency Scheme |
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Children are learning to be safe on the Internet through the new GridClub Cyber Café. The Café, which is open to everyone, features a series of interactive games and activities that demonstrate the safest ways to use the Internet. Visitors who complete all the activities successfully are given an Internet Proficiency Certificate.
In an article about the Cyber Café in Computer Weekly Magazine, Ross Bentley reports that about 70% of children in the UK now have Internet access at home, and that 25% of these had viewed potentially harmful material. Neil McLean, Director of Learning from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTa) told Computer Weekly, "The Cyber Cafe is an excellent tool, offering advice to children on what steps they should take to ensure that they surf safely and securely."
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GridClub Launched in Scotland and Northern Ireland |
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GridClub, including Intuitive Media's protected Clubs community, was officially launched in Scotland and Northern Ireland at the ENI show in Belfast and the SETT show in Glasgow. The Clubs team of Northern Ireland and Scottish Teacher Advisers captivated audiences with their enthusiasm for the project, giving many more demonstrations than most other exhibitors.
In Scotland, six Clubs members from Houston Primary School in Renfrewshire impressed visitors to the stand when they used head microphones, a plasma screen and other high-tech kit to demonstrate just how fantastic the Clubs really are. One delegate said, "These kids are so enthusiastic - it really must be a great site. We're going to sign up today."
GridClub Clubs is another example of Intuitive Media's contribution to creating appropriate online communities for children. It provides enormous opportunity for creativity and enables children to explore and share their own passions and enthusiasms.
The new Clubs Teacher Advisers for Northern Ireland are: Carole McAlister, Carole Anderson and Brian MacAulay. Scotland's new Teacher Advisers are: Pete Mungall and Dawn Adams.
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GridClub Hits the Headlines |
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Intuitive Media and our partners Channel 4 and Oracle, hit the headlines in the TES Online 13th September 2002. The article draws attention to the valuable contribution GridClub is making to the lives of children who enjoy contributing to the online activity in the GridClub club's.
Collette Cotton, ICT Co-ordinator at St Mary's Church of England Primary School in Folkestone helped pilot the project. She told the TES how impressed she is with the professionalism of Intuitive Media's GridClub mediators: "Recently one pupil wrote something which wasn't particularly suitable and within an hour a mediator had phoned, suggesting I look at it. I was amazed at the support behind the scenes."
GridClub is being evaluated by Bridget Somekh, Professor of Educational Research at Manchester Metropolitan University's Institute of Education. She told the TES, "GridClub is a very exciting vision, bringing together three major players in media, education and online software. If educational materials are produced by people with media and software expertise, children see them as having the same quality as computer games and respond to them."
Read the full article.
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GridClub's Clubs community continues to grow in popularity amongst Key Stage 2 pupils. The beginning of the new school year brings a little sadness to the GridClub Clubs, as older members graduate to Secondary school and out of our community.
None more so than Caroline Oatway. She has been a GridClubber par excellence. Caroline's final email to GridClub said,
"I'm really upset about the Clubs and I wish that I was still in it! I loved the Clubs! It's top! I loved to make articles, play games, enter debates and competitions but now that I can't, I've got a huge hole in my heart!"CazXXX"
Caroline has enlivened all the pages of the Clubs by contributing interesting and quirky comments in conversations, poems, stories and pictures.
Many's the time a conversation was published and only minutes later pounced upon by Caroline, eager to contribute.
This Manchester City fan has nine pages of conversations, images, audio and editorial in her home area. She even has Neil Diamond singing her theme tune! She displays sophisticated web publishing skills, using HTML and Java script - an amazing achievement for someone who is only just leaving primary school!
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GridClub - Expands to Northern Ireland and Scotland |
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Northern Ireland and Scotland are now participating in this award winning project. Intuitive Media welcomes five new GridClub Clubs Teacher Advisors, three from Northern Ireland and two from Scotland. They will be recruiting children within their respective countries.
Growing numbers of children are joining Intuitive Media's Clubs community and enjoying contributing to this closed online community for children at Key Stage 2. Mediators and Teacher Advisors communicate with the children, supporting them to make quality contributions and stimulating interactions within the community.
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GridClub Launched in Scotland |
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Children in Scotland have joined the growing number of 7-11 year olds involved in the GridClub Clubs. Previously only available to children in England, the project was launched in Scotland by First Minister Jack McConnell at the beginning of May.
Children have been quick to take up the opportunity to communicate and collaborate with their peers across the nation, sending stickies and submitting articles within the secure online Clubs.
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Another stunning accolade for Intuitive Media. Our latest education project GridClub, which we run in partnership with DfES, Channel 4 and Oracle, has won the EMMA, Electronic Multimedia Award, for Best eLearning Site 0-18.
The judges said, "GridClub proves that learning can be great fun! A rich resource that creates an engaging and absorbing experience through great design and dynamic content for 7 - 11 year olds. Really makes use of the technology to offer a multitude of activities." The Clubs are safe places, where registered children can communicate with each other, share interests and have fun whilst learning and creating their own web pages with other GridClubbers.
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