Testing Makewav.es

In recent sessions, we have been looking at a new type of software that was mentioned on the Mozilla Trip some of us attended last year-Mavewav.es. It's a very interesting site which allows you to obtain online badges for your efforts and achievements. This site could benefit us as Digital Leaders and is very fun to explore; at the moment, we are looking at creating stories on our own individual Makewav.es accounts. New member Josh has been promoted to 'Senior Reporter' on the site, and we will take a look at the new responsibilities that come with this role.

Today's Meeting

First session back since half term-in today's meeting, we will be updating the main blog, looking at gaming and software reviews, completing a PowerPoint on our plans for the school link in Sri Lanka and also taking part in a chat with Riddlesdown School in London.

Links To Sri Lanka

Miss O'Grady, a Geography teacher in our school, is setting up links to a school in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Some Digital Leaders are working on a PowerPoint to send to people at the school talking about Arden's e-Safety assemblies and what we do to promote e-Safety in and outside of school.

Welcome back to another year of Digital Leaders! We’ve had a nice Summer break, but now it’s back down to business. Today was our first proper meeting back; we meet briefly last week to organise who the Chair and Vice Chair of Digital Leaders were going to be. We decided that Will D is to be Chair of Digital Leaders and Will G is to be Vice Chair. Last year, different Digital Leader’s were assigned different departments in the school and this year, depending what departments each of us have been assigned to, we will be assisting these. We also have some E-Safety assemblies to devise and present over the next few weeks. App of the week is running again this year, so look out for updates in the following weeks. We have briefly tested the new Frog OS software, which was very interesting. We will exploring that further in the next few sessions.

New Yr 8 Digital Leaders

A fair while has passed since we first started digital leaders here at Arden, and we are pleased to announce that we have now recruited 6 digital leaders from year 8. They are:

• Isla
• Megan
• Lewis
• Shirin
• Lucy
• Will

We are looking forward to starting work with them, and their photos will be uploaded to the "Meet the DLs" page soon. We have already linked their blogs so have a look!

BT Digital Champions

Megan and Sophie are leading on the BT Digital Champions project. Everyone is registered  on the site and we are all going to try to teach people in our community diiferent softwares and how to use different technology. Everyone is going to try to log at least one activity.

"The Art of Being Brilliant" Seminar

On Wednesday 1st May 2013 our school hosted the "The Art of Being Brilliant" and because we are Digital Leaders we were identified as leaders in the school and selected to take part in the seminar.
Andy Cope who was leading the event has been doing these seminars in schools across the country and to big companies as well, such as Ikea, and Toshiba.
Throughout the day we learnt about how to think positively and how to use our happiness to influence othere people, and make them feel the same way. It was a great day and we all learnt a lot about how to be more positive and happy. We are all trying to put what we learnt into practise now, and give the Arden Digital Leaders a good image.