ICT Conference

The 3rd Annual ICT Conference for Waltham Forest will be held at the Education Centre, Walthamstow, on Wednesday 1st November as part of Children's Services Week and is open to headteachers, subject leaders and senior leaders with an interest in ICT in Primary, Secondary, Nursery and Special schools across the LA

The focus for this year's conference is "ICT Matters to Every Child"

Our keynote speaker for the event his year will be John Davitt, long time author and educationalist, has written for the TES, Guardian, The Times and The Guardian and wrote the excellent ICT handbook "New Tools For Learning: Accelerated Learning Meets IT". he has provided keynote sessions at BETT, NAACE conferences and LA conferences across the country.

A final agenda and timetable will be distributed to schools before the event, but some of the invited presenters include Jo Dilworth from London Grid, Angie McGlashon, Promethean Technologies, 2 Simple software, Capita, Granada Learning Online SEF system, Inclusive technology (*) and representatives from LA projects and schools across the LA, including some video conferencing with local students and a Q&A session with senior LA representatives on ICT in the LA

Also on display will be an opportunity to have your say on the LA ICT Strategy, to experience the new GroupWise client and see the new pupil focused Children's Act website in action.

After the event, many of our keynote sessions will be available through the internet as downloadable "Podcasts" for you to catch the sessions you were unable to see.

Last year's event was extremely well received and we hope that this year will be as interesting, engaging and thought provoking

ICT Matters for Every Child- Wednesday 1st November 2006

(*) subject to commitments