The British Council’s Schools Online website is part of the Connecting Classrooms programme in Bangladesh and has been used for three main purposes.

1. - to enable schools to document and share information about their social action projects
2. - to enable to Bangladeshi schools to with schools in other countries on international projects
3. - to pilot a Project Based Learning approach to curriculum delivery with UNESCO Bangkok

This conference will introduce new ideas about the potential of ICT in education and showcase best practice to date amongst a selection of the 230 Bangladeshi schools currently using the website.

British Council Schools Online(BCSO) is also a web community with a variety of online tools designed to help enable teachers to network with one another, seek and share advice and access professional development resources.  This conference will also serve as an opportunity to strengthen the network or teachers in Bangladesh using ICT to help with teaching and learning.

1. Participants

Invitations will be sent to teachers and head teachers from schools which are actively engaged with different aspects of the website.  This will be a residential (one night) conference at the BRAC training centre.

2. Speakers

1. - Pete Sharma, ICT in Education expert (Key note presenter)
2. - Ministry/TQI Key Stake Holders
3. - David Mathias, British Council Schools Online
4. - Mostofa Mohiuddin, British Council Schools Overview, Bangladesh
5. - Teachers from schools involved in Social Action Projects who have used British Council Schools Online (BCSO) to share information about their project
6. - Teachers from schools that have completed BCSO projects
7. - Teachers from schools that took part in the BC / UNESCO PBL workshop
8. - Head teachers who see the transformative approach of ICT in school leadership
9. - Colleagues from English and Climate 4 Classrooms
10. - Key implementation partners BARCIK & TDI to speak about their work with BCSO
11. - The JAAGO foundation who are developing a virtual classroom
12. - Content developers like D.Net & Champs21
13. - City Cell

3. Audience

1. - Teachers and head teachers who are interested in or have just started to engage with the BCSO website
2. - Press
3. - Key stake holders (MoE, TQI, JAAGO, City Cell, D Net, Champs21)
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4. Chief Guest and Guest of Honor

1. - Additional Secretary, Ministry of Education
2. - TQI Project management team

5. Please click on below link to download presentations

1. - Swapan Kumar Sarker, Project Director TQI
2. - David Mathias, British Council Schools Online
3. - Mostofa Mohiuddin, Bangladesh overview on British Council Schools Online 
4. - English and Climate4Classrooms
5. - Mejbah Uddin, Social Action Project
6. - Sanihur Akter, Presentation on BCSO project space
7. - Rahinur Islam,  British Council & UNESCO Project Based Learning approach
8. - Khurshiduzzam Ahmed, Head teachers perspective on the transformative approach of ICT in school
9. - Key implementation partners BARCIK to speak about their work with BCSO
10. - K ey implementation partners TDI to speak about their work with BCSO
11. - The JAAGO foundation who are developing a virtual classroom
12. - Content developers D.Net & Champs21
13. - City cell

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