News archive Nov. 2009

FREE memory stick containing resources for teachers

November 12th, 2009

A  major new ICT initiative taking place within the UK education sector called ‘Memory for Teachers’ is providing every teacher in the UK with a free memory stick containing valuable teaching resources and information.   The sticks also have enough free space on them for useful file storage. The Memory4Teachers project has been developed to support teachers [...]

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Schools get funding for purchases of Typequick

November 1st, 2009
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As the teaching of touch typing is not on the National Curriculum, many schools find it difficult to fund it.  However, there are a couple of sources of funds that some enterprising schools have discovered. Firstly, there is the Harnessing Technology Grant.  This was originally intended for computer hardware and infrastructure, but in recent months BECTA [...]

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