EventElephant
EventElephant | Partnership | Pilot Activity | National Cross-Curricular Activity
www.eventelephant.com/education
MirandaNet
and National Cross-Curricular Activity
Overview
MirandaNet and EventElephant are seeking schools to participate
in a national project to provide evidence of the benefit of using ICT in
Education
as
part of cross curriculum activity.
We already know that cross curriculum projects are a great way to energise learning and promote team work. Where this is linked to real activity, the benefits have been proven to increase dramatically and functional ICT, literacy and numeracy skills can be developed instinctively alongside creativity, thinking, reasoning, and problem solving skills. This powerful combination encourages children to gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum.
Using Event Management as the focus for this activity, one of the key aspects of school life can be used to engage children, with Christmas parties, plays and recitals, school trips and fund raising activities being but a few in the annual cycle of Events. Engaging children in school productions and combining this with the creation of a promotional website will achieve National Curriculum objectives, make learning fun, and enable children to plan, organise and promote events successfully within a real web environment, working intuitively in the way children think and learn and the way teachers teach.
EventElephant achieves all these things, adding a new dimension to the crumpled newsletters kicking around at the bottom of school bags. Creating a truly professional image and helping to engage parents, carers and the wider community, EventElephant acts as an incentive for parents to engage with the school through technology in other areas.
What is Involved
The focus of this project is to create low maintenance
activities for teachers with control of the roject handed to the children.
The idea is that each class involved will organise a coffee morning and entertainment for their parents to raise money for their school or a charity of their choice. They will use software from EventElephant to publicise their entertainment and to take bookings. The actual programme will be ‘published’ on the EventElephant web flyer that the children will produce and parents who wish to attend will log on to the web page for the event in order to read the details and book their place. This is all automated and remarkably straightforward. Parents will be sent an e-mail to give them the details of the URL (or they could be sent the URL by snail mail).
Children will be able to plan the event from start to finish and also draw up the programme. They should be able to direct and rehearse the programme themselves and choose roles for each member of the team, including Masters of Ceremonies to announce the individual entertainments. It really is up to the children to decide but ideas include:
- a group singing
- a group playing musical instruments
- a group doing a dance
- one or two children telling a couple of jokes
- a child doing a magic trick or two
- children reading out poetry
- if an interactive whiteboard is available, then children might show a video that they have made or a two minute slide show of their art work.
Children who aren’t part of the entertainment may be involved in other ways
- stage direction
- hospitality and refreshments including serving and making cakes and biscuits
- others might arrange a second-hand book stall.
In order to aid the planning process we would like members to commit to the idea now. The timing is up to you but the event could occur any time during the Summer Term.
So come on! Commit your involvement and let your pupils show their initiative and originality. It costs nothing to take part – just e-mail with a subject line of ‘Count me In’. In the body of the text simply put your name, e-mail address, address of the school and the year of the class that is likely to be involved. We will take it from there.
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