Naace has introduced a 'hot-seat' where invited colleagues field questions over a four week period. Our guest in the 'hot-seat' will either answer online at specific times, or at pre-arranged regular intervals. We look forward to hearing from you!

Bowes children aged 9-10, in supportive pairs, created short PowerPoint presentations with a focus on the use of ICT, showing what they had learnt from their topic work on Ancient Greece.

Focus: ICT Co-ordinator

We have two articles for ICT Coordinators this week.

In the first, Alison Ball tells us about the websites that she finds most useful. The second piece is from regular contributor, Philip Griffin and narrates the next step in his school's progress towards the ICT Mark.

If you feel that you could make a contribution to Sharing Success please contact me at h.govier@btopenworld.com.

In the July issue of Sharing Success, Christina Preston will be our live guest in the 'hotseat'. Our first live session will coincide with the 'Safe Social Networking Conference' to be held at the WLE Centre at the Institute of Education in London on Thursday 10th July between 4-5pm. Please post questions before during and after the live session!

Christina Preston advocates the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a catalyst for change in teaching and learning (www.mirandanet.ac.uk). She is the Founder and Chair of the international MirandaNet Fellowship established in 1992. The MirandaNet Fellowship was established in response to a need expressed amongst teachers for a supportive community of peers who would mentor each other in the exploration of ICT potential in teaching and learning (www.mirandanet.ac.uk).

The MirandaNet Fellowship strives to span national, cultural, commercial and political divides to provide an innovative and inclusive forum for professionals. Fellows who share their experience and expertise are building a professional knowledge base about the use of digital technologies in transforming teaching and learning. Interaction between educators, researchers, industry and government is at the heart of the learning processes that underpin and support good practice. Individual learning patterns and talents are celebrated through practice-based research strategies, peer e-mentoring and collaborative knowledge-building. Dissemination and publication are central to the Fellowship process (www.mirandanet.ac.uk/fellowship/vision.htm).

Focus: Adventure Games

Is there a role for adventure games in today's primary classroom?
When computers first came into schools adventure games were popular and innovative. Those of us who were in teaching in the early eighties will remember Mike Matson's 'Granny's Garden' and Anita Straker's 'Lost Frogs'. In the intervening years the National Curriculum has pushed such frivolities aside - how can teachers these days find the time for activities which do not easily tick the NC boxes?
I believe that this is a sad loss. Adventure games have a great deal of educational potential. In this issue of Sharing Success I am giving a fresh airing to an article written for the MAPE Focus on Thinking and ICT in 2002 by Steve Higgins and Nick Packard which describes the adventure - Logical Thinking with the Zoombinis. And then, to bring us up-to-date, Alan Rodgers describes Mission Maker, a piece of software for making your own adventure game, which he found at BETT 2007.

If you feel that you could make a contribution to Sharing Success please contact me at h.govier@btopenworld.com.

Focus: Beyond and across the curriculum

ICT is a powerful medium for taking learning beyond and across the curriculum.

In the first piece in this issue of Sharing Success Dorothy Wood tells us about the after-hours Internet Café she has set up for children and their parents.

In the second article Lydia Johnson describes two activities which use ICT to make cross-curricular links. The spring 2007 edition of Naace Primary Focus (Teaching Through Topics) explored this extensively. An electronic version of that publication is available on the Naace website.

If you feel that you could make a contribution to Sharing Success please contact me at h.govier@btopenworld.com.

Focus: Summertime Special

This summertime special issue of Sharing Success is a set of activities appropriate to the last few weeks of the summer term. These include a piece by Doug Dickinson offering an art activity suitable for most age groups and a reprise of the summer activities published in Week 26 of the Direct2U scheme in 2005. The third article (which is not available in the pdf) is a collection of holiday photographs for use in the Y3 D2U activity - Make a postcard.

If you feel that you could make a contribution to Sharing Success please contact me at h.govier@btopenworld.com.

Focus: ICT Coordinator

Welcome to Issue 4 of the Naace e-magazine

We hope to produce regular issues of Sharing Success which are aimed particularly at ICT Co-ordinators within primary schools. These will look at whole school concerns beyond the individual classroom. This week we have two key articles - one on Computer Clubs for Girls and the other looking at how one school has set about development toward the ICT Mark. This piece by Philip Griffin is the first of a series in which he will map out his school's step by step progress.

If you feel that you could make a contribution to Sharing Success please contact me at h.govier@btopenworld.com.

In this issue we take a look at 'what makes a good school?' The focus moves to St Patrick's RC School in Manchester to find out why their recent Ofsted inspection rated them as a good school. We follow up Geoff Dellow's article from the last issue on using digital technologies and continue to publish your views on VLEs and the personalisation debate. In 'Readers rants' we share even more moans about what people find irritating in ICT.

If you feel that you could make a contribution to Sharing Success please contact me at paulvalev@yahoo.co.uk. We will pay up to £50 for contributions and articles published!!

In this issue, Mick Waters will be in our third 'hotseat'. I shall be giving Naace Members a sneak preview of the first of a series of ICT updates going into schools shortly. Also this month there is a focus on a brilliant day at St Paul's CoE Primary School Manchester as well as a summary of issues raised when Gareth Davies was the guest in last month's 'hot-seat'.

If you feel that you could make a contribution to Sharing Success please contact me at primaryeditor@naace.co.uk