The Education Research Portal will be LIVE from the 11th December 2008.
The online School Research Portal with its Student Sound Journals is a platform for sharing learning, experiences, sound works, experiments and research findings.
The Sonic Streams Toolkit facilitates schools, colleges and students to share their ideas and research finding on the Education Research Portal and Students Sound Journals
Teachers and schools/colleges administrate their online sharing Schools and teachers have the option to either: Contain the sharing between students within your school/college Or share your students work and findings within a larger network of schools and colleges nationally
Each student has their own Student Sound Journal to upload and share work and research finding:
Teachers and the school/college have the option to keep the Student Sound Journal sharing between students within your school Or join a national network of participation schools/colleges and allow students to share their findings and feedback to other students form a national network
The Education Research Portal is the central portal for recent postings: Teachers and the school/college can choose for their own portal to be school/ college specific (this is if you want your sharing network to be limited to your school) Or join a platform larger national sharing portal with recent postings from all participating school/colleges nationally
The Tool Kit and online Sound journal is aimed at young people in secondary schools and colleges. Online Student Sound Journal network will be for two age ranges: 16 and under and over 16 years of age When you login into the Education Research Portal their will be an option to choose the age range you wish to be included in. All your options are School specific, not class specific
If you want to take part in our Education Research Portal and allow students to create their own Student Sound Journals, please download guidelines for administration moderation, login and user guidelines. These guidelines, unlike the rest of the resource, are specific to teacher or student, we also recommend you download and read the Student Guidelines
Education Research Portal User Guidelines resource is a introduction to this online facility, how to get the best out of it, and the different options we provide for safe online sharing. These guidelines will support schools and teachers to create a safe and secure learning facility for all students in their use of the Education Research Portal, to administer the student’s sound journal and guide them through initial login to the successful use of their sound journals.
Once the teacher/administrator has logged in (following the Education Research Portal administration guidelines ) a member of FACT’s education team will contact the teacher’s school/college to verify their status Following this process this teacher will be given online privileges to administrate the schools students logins. Again teacher must follow accompanying administration guideline to allow students to start using their Student Sound Journals The participating school and teacher will be responsible for moderation their students content, if this is not undertaken to FACT’s guidelines this may lead to the online facility being withdrawn from the School
School/college Sound Journal: School and Student Showcase When a school and teacher join the Education Research Portal at Sound journal will be created to represent the School. This is a platform to showcase the school and students work. We recommend the teacher creates daily entries: As recent posting from this Journal will we fed directly to the nationally shared Education Research Portal and also Sonic Steams Education Tool Kit page - so the more up to date Upload images, sound files and research findings for each Toolkit section they wish to highlight to a larger national audience
Guides that Accompany the Education Research Portal
Other Guides:
We also recommend teachers download and read: