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OPENHIVE newsletter #1
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Hi Subscriber
Welcome to the first edition of the OPENHIVE newsletter. The theme of this month’s newsletter is ‘engagement’, from teachers engaging individual learners and their parents, to schools engaging with their wider communities.
2010 brings fresh prospects and new ideas. OPENHIVE news aims to promote and share best practice within the education community. If you’re experimenting or advancing your ICT send us your story and we’ll share it amongst our readers here. Tell us what you think of this first issue, we welcome your feedback.
Ceri McCall
Ceri.McCall@synetrix.co.uk
Editor
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What makes for effective engagement?
A pertinent question posed by Tricia Hartley, Chief Executive, Campaign for Learning, at the recent Parental Engagement Conference. What would your answer be? See our highlights from Jonathan Robinson’s keynote address on ‘Parental Engagement – A Vision for the Future’.
The new parent guarantee
When it comes to online reporting the word 'expectation' has changed to 'guarantee'. The ‘parent guarantee’, coming into effect in September 2010, will ensure that schools work with parents and guardians as full partners in their child's learning and wider development. Read more, voice your opinion.
Hawes Side Primary School kids engage parents
The first to be awarded the Gold standard by EPRA, Hawes Side Primary School has launched a school blog - run for the kids, by the kids. Children as young as 5 and 6 are blogging about their schoolwork and learning activities to engage parents and the wider community. This video is one to watch!
New powers for parents and local authorities
Ed Balls and Gordon Brown announced new plans to enable outstanding leaders to run chains of secondary schools through federations, trust schools and Academies. By 2015 every school will have the opportunity to join a 'chain'. Read more.
6 more BSF projects given the green light
Six more local authorities across England have been given the green light to join the national Building Schools for the Future Programme to rebuild or refurbish secondary schools in their area. Read more.
Using Twitter in and out of the classroom
Tom Barrett, Assistant Headteacher in Nottinghamshire has blogged about 15 different ways to make effective use of Twitter and enhance your teaching. TeachersTV Article. |
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OPENHIVE successfully launched
Your next generation learning platform is here! OPENHIVE is the first truly integrated learning platform, bringing together your MIS, portal, VLE, email and online parental reporting. A hosted platform, OPENHIVE reduces the cost of managing a fully integrated ICT service.
Since the launch we've been busy demonstrating OPENHIVE to Senior Leadership Teams across the UK. Eager to see what's new and different about OPENHIVE? Visit www.openhive.net, sign up for a free webinar or follow us on Twitter. |
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Customer News
Notre Dame chooses OPENHIVEinsight for parental reporting
We are thrilled to welcome Notre Dame Catholic College for the Arts to the OPENHIVE community. Awarded as the highest achieving girls’ school in the country for student progress 08/09, this Liverpool based school has chosen OPENHIVEinsight to deliver online reporting to parents. The most intuitive, powerful parental reporting solution, find out more about OPENHIVEinsight.
Leeds Learning Network delivers parental reporting to schools
Leeds Learning Network, an accredited supplier of Internet services to over 120,000 users, has taken OPENHIVEinsight and embedded it into their environment as the Leeds Learning Gateway. This new service will further extend their suite of innovative learning and teaching services available to all schools across Leeds.
Bringing Live@edu services to you
Want to take advantage of Microsoft's cool Live@edu services but concerned about how you'll manage them? OPENHIVElive takes the hassle out of provisioning these services by linking accounts directly to your MIS system. Any changes made in your MIS are automatically updated in the Live@edu services. Exciting, safe, secure. Read more.
Meet the team!
It’s always good to put a face to a name, so we thought it’d be a nice touch to introduce our team to you. First up is Julie Durrant, one of our Account Managers.
Who is Julie?
Who is Julie? Well she has worked within ICT and Education for almost 15 years, consulting on MIS systems, infrastructure and networks and learning platforms. A Governor for 10 years at a large Technology College in Birmingham, Julie holds many other roles such as Chair of Finance, member of the Ofsted Taskforce Group and parent to two boys. Julie brings a wealth of experience with her and enjoys helping our customers achieve their aims. Contact Julie and get to know her at Julie.durrant@synetrix.co.uk
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NAACE Annual Conference, March 16th-18th, Blackpool
A new sponsoring member of NAACE, visit us on stand 15 at the national conference to see OPENHIVE in action. See our blog post rounding up the events of day 1 at NAACE.
OPENHIVE leadership forum, 27th May, Reading
Held at Microsoft’s headquarters in Reading, we’re hosting a leadership forum dedicated to the future of learning platforms and pedagogy practice. Visionary speakers and active debate throughout the day, we welcome headteachers, principals, deputy heads and heads of ICT to attend. Email openhive@i2q.co.uk to secure your free place. |
Best wishes from the OPENHIVE team
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