London Grid for Learning
The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a
collaborative initiative by the 33 London Local authorities, provides high
speed broadband connectivity to over 60% of London's 2600 maintained schools.
It is currently estimated that three quarters of London's one million pupils
are already served by the LGfL. In Islington, 100% of secondary schools and
97.7% of primary schools are connected or on order to be connected to the LGfL
In addition to this, the LGfL provides a wide range of online educational
content for teachers and parents, along with school and pupil email,
conferencing, special interest groups and on-line communities, notes,
calendars, web creation tools, access controls, and 25Mb of personal storage
for every user, accessible from school, home, library, UK On-line centre,
overseas etc. This allows pupils (and teachers) to compile their own portfolio
(rather like a virtual hard drive) of own web content, application files,
presentations etc and play material anywhere in the world, with an internet
connection.
Each of London's 33 LEAs has its own area on the LGfL Managed Learning
Environment (MVLE), containing resources and information for teachers and
parents. Islington's area is still
under development, but you can visit it now. Over the next few months, we
will be adding more content and resources, and the Islington LGfL portal will
become an invaluable teaching and learning resource.