The Briarwood Techie Awards are only offered internally and in-person. They are run in an informal way to allow staff to improve their IT skills generally or more specifically, if there's an area/programme you require specific support with. There are three levels of award, all of which run concurrently in each session.
The Brone Award is focused on learning how to use a phone, device or laptop to access school systems and cover the basics, including:
- login to almost everything we use, including emails and other web based software (SeeSaw, BehaviourWatch etc)
- Find, run and change PowerPoint on Teacher's Drive.
- Print something
- Take photos on a school device and transfer to the PC
- Learn how to run some simple games on HelpKidzLearn
The Silver Award is about learning how to better support the children, including:
- Create an "ICT Profile" for a child in your class - learn about their skills, motivators and next steps
- Make some Boardmaker symbols to support them
The Gold Award has four sections:
- Make an Interactive Boardmaker activity
- Make a "Choose It Maker" resource for your class
- Add Boardmaker symbols to a Twinkl powerpoint
- Disconnect all the leads and dongles from a smartboard and plug them back in again
