Project information
| Status | Finalist |
| URL | Go to website |
| Category | Education Formal education |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Operational areas | Urban, Rural |
| Target groups | Children, Youth, Seniors |
| Fixed connection | DSL, IDSN, Cable |
| Wireless connection | WiFi |
| Access points | Home, School, Library, Telecenter, Cafe |
| Interact | Desktop Computer, Laptop |
| Software License Types | Proprietary |
Project location
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E-ngageLive
- Brief description
- Using interactive technology to enable pupils in school to engage live online with professionals in the community to explore issues of importance to their personal and social education and development. See www.e-ngage.net/video
- Vision, Objectives and Goals
The aim of the project is to enable children and young people to interact in a meaningful and constructive way with professionals working in areas which impact directly or indirectly on the young people’s lives and communities. Often access to such professionals is restricted because the agencies involved simply do not have time to make enough visits to schools to reach a critical mass of pupils with their key messages. By using E-ngage, they have the potential to reach hundreds of pupils at once, and can involve each and every pupil directly in making the kinds of choices and decisions which the professionals face every day. Key milestones relate to schools, agencies/issues and technology. Currently 638 schools are using available activities, it is aimed to double this within two years. Continued development aims to introduce new agencies and activities each year and the third version of the software system is about to be introduced aiming to give a high quality experience at various levels of ability.
- How does ICT contribute to the organisational objectives
- E-ngageLive gives agencies the opportunity to use ICT already available within their organisations to work creatively with school children and others in the community to meet their organisational aims. For schools they can use the ICT they have available to realistically engage with the wider community and meet curriculum demands.
- Transferability
A key feature in the development of E-ngage was to create a system that can easily be adapted and used in a number of ways to achieve the aims of as wide a range of community agencies and organisations as possible.
How? The interface is built in such a way that it can be replicated and used by other agencies readily, and that this replication can take place at a number of levels to meet the need of the users.
An example of replication is the multi stakeholder project developed with one Community Criminal Justice Board and police in Cambridgeshire that has now been used in two other areas of the UK in Suffolk and Cleveland.
Where?
Replication can take place for use in any geographical location, one current example can be found in Australia where the Australia Communication and Media Authority are using the interface as part of an education programme on safety on the Internet.
- Project summary
- The project uses web technology to enable real time communication in a variety of formats (text, image, video, audio) between pupils and ‘experts’. The use of the live interactive technology specifically developed by E-ngage enables pupils work through a problem-solving exercise, in the form of a true-to-life scenario, with recourse to and assistance from professionals in the community who deal on a day-to-day basis with the issue under consideration. E-ngagelive can be used for a wide range of issues, including bullying, Internet safety, crime, drug and alcohol abuse, violent behaviour.
E-ngagelive is being used for a wide range of issues and it is the technology that has been developed that makes this possible.
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