I am a head teacher of a small infant school in Telford & Wrekin LA. My specialisms include ICT for learning. My school has been a SLICT host school in the past and holds the Becta ICT Mark. Our curriculum is broad, very rich and creative. Staff are innovative and use action research to evaluate the impact of what we do. Our pupils are all introduced to another language and learn French during curriculum time. We have pupils in the Early Years Foundation stage and are keen to ensure the curriculum offered is appropriate to the needs of these young pupils. Our school is set in a semi-rural setting. It is very small and so we always have to teach to mixed age groups. I am a trained mentor for Initial Teacher Training.

Tools I use for eTwinning include digital media - Photo story, Movie Maker and Apple applications. I am confident using both Apple Mac and PC applications. In addition I make use of email, The Twin Space, and for contact with teachers (not pupils) Facebook and NING. Our school has a website and is developing the Learning Platform linked to the website. We plan to develop the use of Pod casting this year.

I am the e-learning co-ordinator at Parkfield High School in Wolverhampton, catering for 11-18 year olds. Our school has also been awarded specialist status for foreign languages.

As part of the e-learning role, I am the administrator/developer for the school website and I co-ordinate the use of Virtual Workspace, which is our chosen VLE and I am also the co-ordinator for  eTwinning within school. I am part of several teams in school and these include the Literacy Development Team and I am having input into the ICT side of the year 7 Curriculum Development Team.  

I can be contacted via Ning, Phone, Email, Twitter (Starchild1980) and my Wiki at http://21stcenturynatives.wetpaint.com