Belfast speakers

Friday 03 September 2010


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Below are the details of our speakers at the ICT for Education Conference 2010 in Belfast.

	Ian Glasscock Games for Life is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company established in 2008 by parents who have experience of attention difficulties. Ian Glasscock, a M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience and his partner, a qualified teacher researched a NASA inspired technology that non-invasively monitors the electricalactivity of the brain The system is called Play Attention which utilises educational computer games which are literally controlled by children’s attention ,feeding back to a PC and hence training the brain. Demonstration www.gamesforlife.co.uk The University of Herts national release from the pioneering Play Attention Herts Schools trial that showed a significant reduction in one of the core symptoms of ADHD in 10-weeks!

	David Knox David Knox a graduate of the University of Ulster in English and Philosophy in 1974 and completed an MA in Education from the same University in 1981. A former Head of English and Senior Teacher at Cambridge House Grammar School, he moved to Victoria College, Belfast as Vice-Principal in 1996. Three years later, he was appointed Principal of Ballyclare High School. Since taking up this post in 2000, David has seen considerable success at the school, which has won a number of important awards over the last few years including the Institute of Information Technology Gold Award (2003) for contribution to Education, the Northern Ireland E T Laureate School Award (2003), the International School Award 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009), the Becta Excellence Award (Whole School Category in 2006), the IIP standard and the Becta ICT (2006) mark, National training Award 2007 and the Gold Award Steps to Excellence for the EFQM standard. The school is also one of four specialist schools in Northern Ireland for ICT and now works closely with Primary Schools and the local community to achieve excellence. David contributed to the Microsoft Global conference in Helsinki, and at the request of Northgate he spoke at a Schools of the Future conference held in Manchester.

	Gareth Lenaghan Gareth Lenaghan is Head of English and senior teacher in charge of Teaching and Learning at Ballyclare High School. Gareth will talk about the use of clusters of computers to encourage independent learning in the classroom and will comment on the importance of classroom management to secure maximum engagement. He will also talk about our staff development in the appropriate use of the interactive whiteboard to maximise the effectiveness of this resource.

	Jimmy Stewart Jimmy Stewart taught Mathematics and Physics for 13 years at Coleraine Academical Institution, in Northern Ireland, before moving to Ballymoney High School as Vice-Principal. In 1988 he became Headteacher of Ardnaveigh High School, Antrim’s first community high school. At this time he was invited to contribute to the development of a specification for a computerised management information system for schools and subsequently served as a member of the procurement team for the Northern Ireland CLASS service. He worked as a Support Manager for the CLASS Project during the 1990’s, supporting the Management Information Systems in all of Northern Ireland’s schools, until the establishment of the Classroom 2000 Project (C2k) when again he became involved in the specification of requirements and the procurement process. He was appointed the Director of C2k in 1999 and now has overall responsibly for the delivery and development of this fully integrated ICT service for all schools throughout Northern Ireland. He has also held a position as an Associate Lecturer with the Open University since 1987 and taught within the MA programme in Educational Management to students across Ireland. He serves on a regional strategy group within BECTA and a number of other strategic groups across the UK.

	Grahame Ward Grahame is a public sector accountant by training and began his career in the Finance function, but in the mid 90s this broadened out into a wider support role within Kent Education, where he first took on responsibility for the development of ICT within the schools sector and its significant Capital Programme. Grahame works with Microsoft on their School of the Future Conference as a member of their Advisory Group.