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Congratulations to the following students for their success in the recent Athletics Trials. A number of students were entered into Sheffield trials at Don Valley Stadium. Success in this meant a chance at representing Sheffield in a South Yorkshire competition.
Smart Academy PE staff are pleased to announce that Chris Mason, Simon Brown, Emma Jones and Megan Fisher have all been asked to represent Sheffield in the South Yorkshire competition that will take place at the Keepmoat in Doncaster.

Congratulations on your success and the best of luck!!!!!!

Anthony Heley, a student in year 9, has for many years taken part in the “Karting Scene”. He has visited many different countries where he has continually improved his status and ranking. Anto took part in the European qualifiers in Lincolnshire recently, along with 74 other drivers. He qualified for the final, to be held in Zuera, Spain at the end of July. He will compete against 90 other drivers from around the world who have annual budgets of up to 2 million pounds. Anto knows it will be a tough event, but he is sooo looking forward to it.

All of us at Smart Academy wish him all the best!!

Smart Academy’s extra curricular activities on offer will appear here…

• Clubs
• Trips
• Sports
• Events

There are loads of web apps that you can use to show teachers what you know.

Use realsmart to record and show what you know through:

• blogs and podcasts
• simple websites
• mind maps / concept maps / graphical organiser
• learning passports
• self assessed portfolios

Remember, all of the above can be collaborative (you can create and / or add to them together as a group if you want)

Go to www.rlsmart.net/help to find out how to use it. It’s really easy.

Or try these below (remember to log in or register using your smartpass):

• Aviary – photo editing, vector drawings, multi track audio recording! (SSO)
• LinoIt – PostIt notes with media (smartpass)
• SpicyNodes – interactive presentations (smartpass)
• Voki – make an avatar and give them a voice!
• Prezi – present ideas as the big picture, then zoom in to the detail!
• WallWisher – collect all your ideas together on your wall
• Comix – make a comic from what you know
• MuseumBox – collect items together to put forward ideas, or to represent times/places/people
• Wordle – represent ideas as a word cloud
• GoAnimate – create animations!
• VoiceThread – collaborative conversations around media (SSO coming soon!)
• Glogster – highly visual, interactive posters

remember, if you create something in the above apps, most will let you embed the results in realsmart. This makes it easy for your teachers to see them.

If you find something else that you think is great, add a comment to this post and share it with us!

Here at Smart Academy we are giving you full access to the world wide web! We know that for some of you this will cause an initial distraction but we want to create a school full of responsible learners who can make good choices.

This policy will help you understand what will happen if you make the wrong choices when using our world class technology.

Please read the following policy carefully, your tutor will talk through this document with you and collect in signed copies.

We can create really engaging content for our website and other places like in realsmart, or our intranet using various “web apps”.

Web Apps are websites that allow you to create things, and then “embed” them where you want them to appear.

You can access web apps in different ways:

• Through our smartpass Single Sign On (eg Aviary)
• By using your smartpass Google or OpenID account (eg wallwisher)
• By creating an account using your smartpass username / email address
• By using the school accounts for website content (teachers only)

Teachers wanting to use the school accounts, please see Alan the Technician.

See the posts below for ideas of different web apps you can use, and how you can use them.

We use the following apps, but feel free to use what you want:

• Sound / Audio – audioboo.com or soundcloud.com
• Video – Vimeo.com
• Picture slideshows – Picasa or Flickr.com
• Documents / PDFs – Issuu.com
• Presentations – Google Apps or Slideshare.net
• Questionnaires / Forms – Google Forms
• Live events – CoverItLive.com