| Assignments undertaken by Terry Freedman
These are the assignments I have undertaken since starting work as an independent consultant in November 2004 , in chronological order (more or less: some assignments overlapped or were concurrent).
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- Assistance with writing a bid for Learning & Skills Council funding (successful)
- Stand-in editor for Naace newsletter (3 times) December 2004
- Presentation about Building Schools for the Future at the IT Learning Exchange December 2004
- Ofsted inspections of Information and Communication Technology in Key Stages 3 and 4 and post-16, and Business Education at post-16
- Assistance with writing a bid for a Becta project (successful)
- Worked with a private sector company on the aforementioned Becta project (successful)
- Research report for QCA
- Representation of Naace at events, eg Building Schools for the Future Conference
- Pre-Ofsted work with secondary school: lesson observations etc
- Strategic and technical guidance for specialist technology college
- Pre-inspection preparation for a private training company
- Facilitator on SLICT courses
- Writing of the ICT Strategy for a London Local Education Authority
- Evaluation of Becta’s Framework for ICT Support (FITS) programme
- Evaluation of FITS for a London LEA (the original assignment has been extended 3 times).
- Writing assignments, eg for The Guardian, TES, Micro Mart, PfP Publishing, ASPECT's journal, Primary Leadership Today and others
- ICT review and evaluation for a secondary girls' school in London
- Invited as an independent consultant to advise Becta on its e-safety strategy (Invitation accepted)
- Organisation of and report on multi-agency think tank on Every Child Matters
- Presentation for ORT on e-assessment.
- Organisation of Naace’s Annual Strategic Conference (approximately 700 delegates)
- Presentation about ICT planning at Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.
- Presentation about Web 2.0 for Becta staff training day.
- Presentation about Web 2.0 for Becta-organised Future-gazing seminar.
- Presentation about ICT planning at Naace all-members conference.
- Presentation about embedding educational technology in schools at North-East England conference.
- Advising and teaching on a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education course (ICT module)
- Editing a book about Web 2.0 (read by an estimated 60,000 people and recommended for an international award)
- Creation of resources pack for the Association of Citizenship Teaching
- Self-published an ebook about Every Child Matters which is now being used by several thousand teachers and advisors
- Invited to contribute on a regular basis to the USA’s Technology & Learning Blog (Invitation accepted)
- Invited to present at an international online conference -- K12 Online (which won an international award)
- Invited to be one of a panel of judges for an international project -- Flat Classrooms (which won an international award) (Invitation accepted)
- Wrote the first draft of a bid for an LA seeking funding for a 14-19 project (I did the research and writing that enabled the in-house team to refine its approach and submit a final bid)
- Invited to write a bid for funding for ICT in initial teacher training for a college. (Invitation accepted)
- Vice-Chair of Naace (1 year).
- Chair of Naace (1 year).
- Invited (with Miles Berry) to give a presentation at the BETT show on behalf of the British Computer Society on the subject of using blogs and wikis etc in education. (Invitation accepted)
- Invited (with Janet Roberts and Russell Ingleby) to give a presentation at the BETT show on behalf of Naace on the subject of "What does good ICT look like?" (Invitation accepted)
- Self-published a booklet on Every Child Matters and one on how to make ICT lessons more interesting
- Invited (with Miles Berry) to give a presentation at the RSC-NI Conference on the subject of using blogs and wikis etc in education. (Invitation accepted)
- Presentation to the Westminster Education Forum on behalf of Naace, on "Are we teaching the right sort of IT in schools?"
- Successfully bid for Targetted Capital Funds totalling £500k on behalf of a recently-formed soft federation.
- Commissioned to write an ICT vision and strategy for a college of Further Education.
- Commissioned to write an ICT vision and strategy for a Local Authority's Education division.
- Invited to take part in a dinner debate of the British Computer Society. (Invitation accepted)
- Commissioned to work with soft federation on project planning and procurement.
- Commissioned to write two chapters for a book about ICT and special educational needs.
- Commissioned to contribute to a book for teaching ICT to Year 8 (13 years old) pupils.
- Commissioned to work on a Local Authority's resource bank for its 14-19 curriculum, including Diplomas.
- Commissioned to write a bid for digital resources. (This was successful: 1 of only 49 successful bids in England.)
- Commissioned to project-manage digital resources project.
- Invited to submit a book proposal to a publishing company. (Invitation accepted)
- Presentation at Nottingham Trent University ("The future of ICT") on behalf of Naace.
- Presentation at BETT 2008, with Miles Berry, ("Personalised learning through technology"), on behalf of Naace.
- Chairing an educational debate at BETT 2008, on the subject of "What technology changes have best reflected the changing pedagogical landscape in recent years?" -- see here for details and podcast.
- Presentation at the Training & Development Agency for Schools on the subject of "Web 2.0 and professional development.
- Presentation at Naace Social Networking conference on the topic of "Teens' view of social networking".
- Chairing of discussion session at Naace 2008 Annual Strategic Conference.
- Evaluation of a school's ICT provision to ascertain suitability for recommendation of the ICT Mark award.
- Invited to become a "meta-judge" in the Horizon 2008 project. (Invitation accepted)
- Invited to become a judge on behalf of the British Computer Society in the 2008 Rolls Royce Innovation Awards. (Invitation accepted)
- Commissioned to look for and evaluate potential resources for the new Diplomas.
- Commissioned to manage a project for generating resources from existing resources, for the new Diplomas.
- Commissioned to work on the establishment of a new website for the Diploma delivery in a London LA.
- Commissioned to write two articles for Technology and Learning (USA), where I write a fortnightly blog, on the topics of:
Curriculum integration for technology instruction, and
Key success strategies for ICT co-ordinators.
- Commissioned to write two articles for the Times Educational Supplement magazine on the topics of:
Learning from the community. How social networking, Skype and Twitter can help you become a better teacher, and
You've been framed! Using Seesmic to exchange views with colleagues in other schools.
- Commissioned to write a regular (weekly) blog for HotChalk.com (USA), and three articles on the topics of:
Planning your ICT budget,
Using Web 2.0 in your classroom, and
Assessing educational technology understanding
Published a free book on 60 Web 2.0 projects.
- Commissioned to write a comparative review of handheld video products.
- Commissioned to undertake teacher training for new Diploma qualification.
- Commissioned to undertake training of schools in using a VLE.
- Invited to keynote 3 conferences and speak at a further 2.
Feel free to email me to discuss possible projects.
In addtion to the above I continue to publish the Education Technology: ICT in Education website, the Terry Freedman's Educational Technology Podcast, the Computers in Classrooms newsletter and the Practical ICT eJournal.
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