User:Glynbarritt

I have worked for The Schools Network (formerly, the SSAT) for the past thirteen years, mostly on programmes focusing on professional development activities, latterly on designing and maintaining support for complementary online activities. I manage the ICT Register and would encourage you all to take a look at what our schools offer in terms of advice and guidance with ICT, and to join us if your school is also at the cutting edge of technology! I also manage the new Student Digital Leaders network which aims to encourage schools to increase the engagement of students in actioning their strategies to improve the embedding of effective technologies across the school and to maximise the impact of their ICT budgets. In recent years, I have managed Teachnet UK which offers classroom teachers around the world, freely downloadable resources covering hours of classroom activity. Also, the ThinkQuest UK programme, a sister competition to the renowned international website-building competition for students - ThinkQuest - which encourages students between 9 and 19 to work in teams, locally, nationally and internationally to create websites for other students and their teachers around the world ... take a peep at the largely undiscovered gem that the ThinkQuest Library provides!

I am also very pleased to be an OFAT Facilitator! Whilst not new to this role [the journey started for me in 2004], I am however delighted to be helping to shape online facilitation for those involved in online professional development programmes and to furthering the College's excellent leadership in this field. I have quite a number of blogs dotted around in cyberspace ... I'm not a terribly active blogger but you may be interested in this one [Blog on the Landscape] which records some of the best presentations and workshops at the November Learning's Building Learning Communities!