News
October 2008
EngageDirect – Weekly free taster session every Wednesday during term time in the UK
EngageDirect is offering a free taster session to any teacher wanting that practical experience of using EngageLive or EngageDirect. To take part visit www.engagedirect.net and follow the links for the Free Taster Session. These sessions are live each Wednesday from 3.30pm to 5pm.
Other times are possible, just let us know what you need.
If you want to consider using EngageDirect in your class you can get your free class sessions by contacting David Glover on 0845 603 8355 or by e-mail to direct@e-ngage.net.
October 2008
Suffolk Skillz
E-nage has been working with Suffolk Police, BT, Port of Felixstowe and others in a week long practical introduction to the world of work for pupils at Suffolk Secondary Schools. Using E-ngage students are simulating the role of officers the Control Room of Suffolk Police and learning about the role of the police and some of the issues they face as they carry out their duties.
The week has been a great success and E-ngage are able to offer the activity to other police forces who are looking for a practical way of engaging with young people on the role of the police.
All enquiries to David Casey 0845 603 8355 or e-mail david@e-ngage.net
October 2008
E-ngage exhibited at the TES Show at Olympia
E-ngage exhibited at the TES Show at Olympia in London on the 9th and 10th October, the team at the show just wanted to say hello to all those they met, it was great to meet you and we look forward to working with many of you in the near future. If you missed thee show you missed the opportunity to see the video from Australia about the ACMA project using E-ngage systems. You can see the video if you click this link.
E-ngage technology can be available to you in the same way, contact us at admin@e-ngage.net or call 0845 603 8355
September 2008
New programme of activities
With the new school year underway there is a whole new programme of activities with three sessions live every month.
For more information and to sign up go to - www.engagelive.net
September 2008
Anti Bullying
As a member organisation of the Anti Bullying Alliance E-ngage is working on several new projects on the theme of Anti Bullying including two new activities written in association with ABA members.
There is a whole programme of events running throughout November on Anti Bullying, there will be some old favourites as well as new material among the activities.
Further details can be obtained from - live@e-ngage.net
September 2008
Cybersmart
The Australian Communications and Media Authority working with E-ngage launched their latest State on the Cybersmart national programme in Queensland on 12th September. Graham Rodrick the ACMA Senior Advisor said, ‘This is a great programme that has really taken off in Australia and we aim to have every child on Australia taking part in the near future’.
July 2008
Summer holidays
June and July have been very busy months with EngageLive and other projects running every day and a larger number of students taking part in sessions. With the summer term now nearing the end, plans are already being made with a larger number of agencies than in previous years to for the programme for the new school year.
Eight authorities throughout the UK are planning online lessons for Anti Bullying Week, but there is still some limited times and dates available during the week itself.
New activities are being written and planned now, so you can watch the news over the summer and plan for your sessions in 2008-09.
As schools in England break up for the summer holiday we hope you all have a a great holiday and remembering some of the lessons learned during the year, please keep safe.
We look forward to working with you all again when the school returns in September.
Best wishes from all of the E-ngage team.
June 2008
E-ngage Annual Conference
The annual E-ngage project manager’s conference was held at the E-ngage offices on Monday 3rd June. With 25 representatives of 12 or more projects the day proved to be an exciting and encouraging event... [more]
June 2008
E2BN Conference
E-ngage will be running a workshop at the E2BN Conference on 24th and 25th June at the Robinson Centre, Wyboston, Beds MK44 3AR see http://conference.e2bn.org/index.php. This will be a practical session so bring a laptop if you can, with the opportunity to follow up in the classroom in the weeks after the conference itself.
June 2008
EngageDirect
EngageDirect, the E-ngage Project for schools to access directly for themselves, is planning a number of events over the next few weeks contact direct@e-ngage.net for the details. If you have taken part in any previous activities, and have not been in touch for a while, the EngageDirect team will be dropping you some information on the next few days. See more at www.engagedirect.net.
May 2008
EngageLive awarded diploma for excellence
David Casey and Ruth Dixon attended the finals of the Stockholm Challenge last week in a very sunny Stockholm. EngageLive was awarded a diploma for excellence in the use of information technology in the education category. This follows last year's award of the Global Junior Challenge Trophy in Rome.
May 2008
E-ngage in Stockholm
David Casey and Ruth Dixon are in Stockholm from 19th to 23rd May as finalists in the Stockholm Challenge. The Awards are to be announced at a gala event on Thursday 22nd in the City Hall Stockholm.
Watch this space to see how we get on.
May 2008
E-ngage on Japanese TV
During Anti Bullying Week in 2007 a Japanese TV crew following some of the EngageLive events. A copy of an item that was broadcast on the news in Japan has just been received and you can click on the link below to see it. We apologise for the quality, it is as good as we can get it and hopefully a good idea. It is reproduced here with permission.
E-ngage on Japanese TV
May 2008
E-ngage is working with ELearning@Luton to develop a new series of new resources for online learning.
The City Learning Centre video and animation workshop weekend is one of a number of opportunities for students to be highly creative with new technology. Over this weekend they are using their multi media skills in to create new resources to teach young children about keep safe online in an EngageLive activity to be used in Luton during Anti Bullying Week 2008.
Agencies in Luton will be using the work of the students over the weekend as part of the ongoing programme to address bullying in the Borough.
This is one of a number of projects with which E-ngage is working with students to create innovative content for other students.
David Casey Managing Director of E-ngage said,
“Young people are prepared for the challenge, they know what the issues are and can put the correct messages across in a fresh and imaginative way. Given the opportunity to do so most accept the responsibility willingly and feel they are making a valuable contribution to a safer society, which they are.”
Further information on working with young people to develop new multi media resources is available from E-ngage at info@e-ngage.net.
E-ngaging Anti Bullying Week 2008
‘E-ngage Experience Day’ Tuesday 1st July 2008 10am to 3pm
With new EngageLive projects for Anti Bullying Week now vastly exceeding those of 2007, the capacity for new projects has been increased and E-ngage is now able to offer even more agencies the opportunity to use this innovative interface in 2008.
Agencies looking to the future to make an impact with affordable technology are using E-ngage and if you want join them the ‘E-ngage Experience Day’ is a must for you... [more]
April 2008
Social Networking in the News Again
E-ngage A Radical New Approach to Child Safety Education - Online
A report in the UK by Ofcom report looks into the impact of social networks reveals more than a quarter of 8 to 11-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social network. E-ngage offers a radically new approach to promoting the safety of children and allows for the curriculum to use tools that children find exciting and identify with... [more]
EngageLive Nominated for International Award
It has been announced in Stockholm that E-ngage is among a number of International education projects nominated as finalists in the Stockholm Challenge with EngageLive www.engagelive.net. The winners of the Challenge will be announced at a special ceremony in the City Hall Stockholm on 22nd May... [more]
Social Networking – Safety
Following the series of events that were run for Safer Internet Day in February, a large number of schools have expressed an interest in taking part in this event looking at an important issue.
We will therefore be running the event most weeks during the summer term to enable as many as possible to make the most of the activity... [more]
System Upgrade – 21st to 25th March
The E-ngage system is being upgraded over the weekend 21st to 25th March and may not be accessible at time during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and normal operations will be restored as soon as possible.
March 2008
Summer activities
The full programme of summer activities have now been published and sent to all registered users. If you have not received your copy, or if you are not a registered user please contact
E-ngage by e-mail to info@e-ngage.net or telephone 0845 603 8355 (from UK) +44 1487 824367 (from outside UK)
March 2008
Safer Internet Day activities
Following the Safer Internet Day activities, and a very large number of requests to take part in future events there are a series of repeats of this activity proposed to run between now and July. If you are interested in this opportunity contact EngageDirect at direct@e-ngage.net.
A new series of activities under the broad title is planned for the summer, this will look at various issues related to the long summer holiday, water safety, road safety and safety in the countryside and in the town and city. Watch out for news of the events.
March 2008
Zero Waste Week
A new series of online activities is currently planned for Zero Waste Week 10th to 17th March. Though currently being piloted in Scotland and not otherwise available if you would like to know more about Zero Waste online and would like to consider taking part in further activities on this subject please let us know. info@e-ngage.net or call 0845 603 8355 or +44 14 8782 4367 from outside the UK.
February 2008
Criminal Justice system activities
Following the success of Inside Justice Week activities a new series of online activities on issues related to the Criminal Justice system is now available. Your students can learn about the law taking on the role of a Magistrate and hearing the evidence. Work on the gathering of forensic evidence including live DNA fingerprinting in the classroom, all live with the experts online. Project comes with a full forensic science tool kit with equipment. For further information and prices contact David Glover at david.glover@e-ngage.net or call 0845 603 8355 or
+44 14 8782 4367 from outside the UK.
February 2008
Safer Internet day
Safer Internet day on 12th February was an opportunity for a number of E-ngage partners to deliver new activities which were repeated on 19th due to school holidays. E2BN the Eastern Region Broadband Consortium used the opportunity to as a key element in their E-Safety strategy.
This series of activities proved to be very popular and some of the events appeared on the Look East News BBC new programme for the region.
The event gave children to look at the issue of online safety from a different point of view and the response was overwhelmingly positive, and the response from the teachers gave a strong impression of the impact that the online session had. One teacher commented, “Thank you for today’s session the children really understood the impact of doing the wrong thing online and saw how important the issue is for them.
Events similar to this make up part of the programme of events for EngageDirect over the coming month.
February 2008
Australian Communications and Media Authority promote E-safety
In Australia the Australian Communications and Media Authority plan a major national day of online activities to promote E-safety. With a full programme of activities already running in Western Australia and with the state of Victoria shortly to start Safer Internet Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the issues and to highlight the national role out of the live Cybersmart programme.
January 2008
E-ngageDirect launches new website
E-ngageDirect giving schools who want to take up the opportunity of live online activities linked to the curriculum launches the new web site www.engagedirect.net.
January 2008
Because Safer Internet Day clashed with the half term holiday E-ngageLive will run a series of event on 19th February for those schools unable to take part on 12th.
January 2008
E2BN E-Safety initiative
E2BN the Regional Broadband consortium for the East of England is working with E-ngage to provide a series of online activities on the issue of E-Safety as part of their E-Safety initiative and following on from the E2BN E-Safety conference of 5th December. A series of activities will be announced to link with Safer Internet Day on 12th February 2008.
December 2007
E-ngage launches EngageDirect
E-ngage launches EngageDirect, the schools and home school subscription service of personal safety and Safetyzone activities.
For further details see www.engagedirect.net or e-mail direct@e-ngage.net.
November 2007
E-ngageLive wins coveted international award
In October 2007 the winners of the Global Junior Challenge were announced at a prestigious ceremony in the historic Campidoglio (City Hall) in the centre of Rome... [more]
November 2007
Exciting new opportunity as E-ngageDirect offers new initiative to individual schools
For the first time individual schools now have the exciting opportunity to take part in online E-ngagelive activities which give pupils at Key Stage 2 the chance to explore topical issues - guided and helped by experts from relevant professional agencies - without even leaving their desks! ... [more]
January 2007
A Happy New Year to you
A new series of Internet Safety activities have been produced working with a number of new partners. On 9th January Cavalry School in March Cambridgeshire, took part in a new online safety activity that had been developed by a group of teachers... [more]
November 2006
Following the highly successful online activities as part of Inside Justice Week the response from all involved has been very positive. The events attracted a considerable level of media attention and featured on both BBC Look East and Anglia Television... [more]
November 2006
Inside Justice Week
The police in Peterborough are organising an exciting week long series of events to introduce young people to the criminal justice system and the way it all works... [more]
November 2006
E-ngageLive New Interface
As the new E-ngage interface becomes increasingly well used it is proving to be a highly popular tool for both schools and experts to use. David Casey E-ngage Director said, “The management of the transition to the new system has been a achieved with minimal disruption and users have discovered the increased functionality with no problem at all”... [more]
14th November 2006
E-ngageLive at the ACPO Youth Justice Conference
E-ngageLive featured a seminar at the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Youth Justice Conference in Essex on 14th November.
The seminar featured a number of illustrations of E-ngageLive projects including a presentation by Sgt Dave Glover of Cambridgeshire Constabulary of a partnership project with the schools in the County... [more]
1st November 2006
Engage launch the new E-ngageLive interface.
This has been developed over recent months and introduces some significant improvements to the interactive experience.
The new interface builds upon the experience of interactive learning with the experts and has a number of new features for students’ teachers as well as the experts and project managers.
Further information will be available over the next few weeks and information will be made available here. To see a brief introduction to the new interface for teachers’ please see the Power Point presentation... [click here]
July 2006
E-ngageLive News Update
The programme of activities for the school year has now come to an end. The year has seen over 50 online activates taking place with over 500 schools... [more]
June 2006
E-ngageLive News Update
Three events remain until the end of the school term in England they are: July 6th Water Safety,
July 13th Shop Theft,
July 18th Bullying... [more]
May 2006
E-ngageLive News Update
We are now in the busiest time of the year with E-nageLive activities every week until the end of term. To remind all users the dates of coming events are as follows... [more]
April 2006
Changes to programme of events for the summer
Due to a number of unforeseen circumstances it has been necessary to change the date of some of the planned open events for the summer term... [more]
March 2006
E-ngageLive News Update
Another exciting activity has been created by Cambridgeshire Police working with Cambridgeshire Starz and the Bottisham Circle Link schools.
The bike theft from Upware has been the latest enquiry to be conducted online with E-ngageLive. Cambridgeshire pupils have been carrying out their enquiries to assist the police and have been doing so online and for some following this up with a visit to the scene to carry out some forensic tests to support the enquiry... [more]
23rd February 2006
Latest news for E-ngageLive registered users
If you have recently registered with the project the project team would like to extend a warm welcome to you.
There has been a number of technical issues over the few lasts week and if you have attempted to register as a new user you will have received error message when doing so. This has now been corrected how you will be pleased to know that by receiving this your account is working correctly... [more]
20th January 2006
E-ngageLive Newsletter
First of all Happy New Year, we look forward to another successful year of live events and working with you... [more]
16th November 2005
E-ngageLive and Ealing Magistrates
On 25th November a pilot project will be taking place in partnership with Ealing Magistrates and the Office of Criminal Justice Reform... [more]
2nd November 2005
Cambridgeshire ICT and Road Safety officers team up to deliver the first of the online activities on the Starz web site www.starz.org.uk
Schools from across the County logged in to an exciting morning looking at issues to do with cycling now the dark nights have come... [more]
Coming Events
As the management of E-ngage become more devolved to local agencies the number of open activities will significantly reduce. However it is hoped that an open event will be planned for December and a programme of events for the remainder of the school year will be announced in January.
New resources are becoming available:
- An information pack can be downloaded... [coming soon]
- A short video on how to login to the Action Centre and how the Control Room works is available to be downloaded... [coming soon]
- A Powerpoint presentation that covers the way in which E-ngageLive has developed and the projects involved can be viewed... [coming soon]