About
the abc - project About
the abc - project
Under construction !
"Accessing the Birmingham Community" (ABC) is an exciting new
project funded by City Challenge and Taskforce in Birmingham, UK. It is run by a team of
project staff from the University of Central England (UCE) Faculty of Education.
The idea of the project is to provide a supportive environment to allow schools in the
City Challenge and Taskforce areas to develop and use the Internet as an educational
resource. It is hoped that schools will be able to communicate with each other, with other
Birmingham schools, with UCE and with the wider Internet Community and in so doing show
the quality of work within local schools and the wider community.
In particular, we hope to achieve the following:
• a network of links between teachers and children of linked schools
• the accepted use of e-mail as a means of communication
• publishing of children's work and curriculum projects on the Internet
• development of learning and information handling skills
• raising of cultural awareness
• help for second language learners
• support for community language users
The project will link with other developments in the use of the Internet, in particular
other initiatives in the Birmingham area. This will not be restricted to schools, hence
the name "Accessing the Birmingham Community".
This vision is now beginning to be realized and 13 schools have already been "wired
up" onto the Internet and have been provided with computers, e-mail addresses and
Internet access. To support this we have already had two training days and more are
planned.
More schools will be joining the project later on and we already have four schools with
"associate" status.
The team of staff at UCE is now established along with the Project Office. School staff
have now got time to experiment with the Internet and decide how it may be used within
their own schools to support both staff and pupils.
Our web pages are now up and running!! Through these we will be able to share information
about the project with other schools.
From September onwards, all the schools will be working to create their own web sites
which they will be able to use to share information and publish children's work. There
will also be several projects using the Internet taking place within schools and involving
the wider community
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