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Website: Becta Research
Findings from Becta's research activities and reports published on behalf of the DfES are targeted at all those interested in educational research. This site also provides a gateway to organisations, publications, websites and databases in the field of ICT in education.
www.becta.org.uk/research
Becta's What the Research Says series aims to give an initial idea of the available research evidence on aspects of using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in schools and colleges. It is designed primarily for teachers, ICT coordinators and school managers.
www.becta.org.uk/research/research.cfm?section=1&id=546
Website: Teaching and Learning Research Programme
The Teaching and Learning Research Programme is a major programme of education research across the UK, which aims to generate research of use to policy and practice communities. The large-scale projects that form part of the programme are now beginning to report on their findings across a whole raft of areas, and concise and informative research briefings can be found at:
www.tlrp.org/pub/research.html
Website: The Education Arcade
The Education Arcade represents a consortium of international game designers, publishers, scholars, educators, and policy makers who are exploring the new frontiers of educational media that have been opened by computer and video games.
www.educationarcade.org
Website: The Map of Creativity
The Next Generation Foundation's Map of Creativity is a user-friendly, interactive database of innovative educational projects throughout the world.
www.ngf.org.uk/map/map.html
Website: DesignShare
This site brings together innovative architects and designers of schools. It provides radical visions and practical advice and resources for those interested in exploring how the space and design of a school can shape and be shaped by its approach to learning. Well worth a visit for an alternative to current school design.
www.designshare.com
Bibliography: Children's Literacy and Popular Culture
An excellent bibliography of texts pertaining to literacy and popular culture which was developed in 2002 and is on the website for an ESRC seminar series on this subject.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/literacy/ESRC/publications.html
Literature reviews: ICT and Attainment and ICT and Pedagogy
Two literature review projects conducted by the ICT/Education research team in the King's College Department of Education and Professional Studies, available on the Becta website.
www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/ict_attainment04.pdf
www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/ict_pedagogy04.pdf
Journal: International Journal of Intelligent Games & Simulation
A web-based publication of the University of Wolverhampton UK in collaboration with the European Simulation Society (EUROSIS).
www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/ijigs31.htm
Report: Coming of Age: An Introduction to the New Worldwide Web
A collaborative venture between 14 people from the USA, Canada, Thailand and the UK, the main objectives of the publication are to inspire teachers to want to try some of these 'new tools' for themselves and with their classes, and to provide practical advice and guidance on how to do so.
www.terry-freedman.org.uk/db/web2
web2booklet.blogspot.com
Report: Using ICT to Develop the 14 to 19 Curriculum
A paper by Dr Bill Lockitt, 3T Productions.
Open pdf of report (opens 269kb file in pdf format in same window)
Report: UK Children Go Online: Listening to Young People's Experiences
A report by Professor Sonia Livingstone and Magdalena Bober, UK Children Go Online, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science.
www.children-go-online.net
Report: Innovative Classroom Practices Using ICT in England
A report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (Sue Harris
and Alison Kington)
www.nfer.ac.uk/research-areas/pims-data/summaries/ite-the-use-of-ict-in-the-classroom.cfm
Report: The Gendering of Computer Gaming: Experience and Space
A report by Jo Bryce (University of Central Lancashire) and Jason Rutter (CRIC, University of Manchester).
www.cric.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter/papers.htm
'How to' guide: Getting Started Guide to Wireless Networks
A guide produced by the University of Birmingham aimed at IT managers in universities, colleges and schools, giving advice on setting up and configuring wireless LANs.
www.eee.bham.ac.uk/sharplem/wirelesslanguide.pdf
Presentation: Building windmills: 'The market' - and government policy
A presentation at a BETT open day (August 2003) by Ray Barker (Director, BESA), giving 'an idiot's guide' to the Government's e-learning strategy.
www.besanet.org.uk/ukcompanies/downloads/bett2004_openday_presenation.pdf
Reference database: Game Research
The Game Research reference database is an attempt to create a comprehensive collection of references to game-related literature. The references are searchable by topic.
www.game-research.com/reference.asp
Another useful resource in this field is Ren Reynolds' bibliography of game studies references including books, web resources and conference papers.
www.ren-reynolds.com/bibliography.htm
Innovative practice: Multikulti
The Lasa Multikulti project uses software called Pangloss, which allows for semantically-equal terms in any language and of any character set to be stored and served. The translations produced have both consistent terminology, and terminology localised to match a particular community. The Multikulti website is a WAI accessible unicode site that provides advice and information on topics such as welfare benefits and housing in ten community languages, including Arabic and Gujerati.
www.multikulti.org.uk
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