Gridlink Education System
Gridlink Education System
The new academic year will see Gridlink offering Internet connection to its students for the first time.
Email transfer is currently available as an alternative to the direct pupil-Gridlink computer to computer connection for file transfer (daily work schedules, pupil work and tutor marking assessment and comments).
This will bring the benefit of lower (local call rate) telephone charges for parents, and also allow the establishing of a pupil-pupil network.
Parents will have the option of WWW access.
This has proved beneficial in the past to pupils undertaking projects - eg accessing weather satellite pictures and movies to compare with automatic weather station results logged by the pupil as part of coursework exercises.
Also under investigation are new ways of achieving video-conferencing during tutorials.
Gridlink originally installed British Telecom video telephones to allow pupils to see as well as hear their tutor during the daily tutorial session.
This helped increase the tutor-pupil rapport and overcome the remoteness of outdated distance learning techniques such as fax tutoring.
This option is no longer available due to the withdrawal of videophones by BT.
The introduction of new low-cost cameras for PCs again makes visual connection viable, and Gridlink is currently investigating direct connection and via Internet options.
Following the introduction of Information Technology as a full GCSE for the first time in 1998 examinations, Gridlink will provide courses leading to this qualification. This will build on our success at offering GCSE level in Information systems.
Following enquiries from British communities abroad Gridlink is now offering, via the Gridlink International School, a means by which students abroad may follow UK IGCSE syllabus courses, leading to British examination qualifications.
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