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GoldStarCafe for Secondary
GoldStarCafe is a Safe Social Learning Network where 11-16 year olds can meet friends across the UK and around the world, be creative and learn ICT, Literacy, Global Citizenship and a range of skills across the whole curriculum together.
If you want somewhere safer on the Web where your students can make friends, have fun and learn, then GoldStarCafe is for you.
Professional mediators watch over your students while they communicate and learn together at home, at school, in after-school clubs and youth organizations.
“I am really excited about the GoldStarCafe because it builds on so much experience to offer a wonderful, secure online learning environment. But as if that was not enough, it also offers a unique global dimension too and recognizes the importance of family.” - Professor Stephen Heppell
“This place is cool, it’s fun and its mature and advanced. There’s something here for everyone!” - Sarah (12)
“An excellent site for youngsters. I'm delighted my daughter uses it. Keep up the good work. It's comforting to know there's a safer site for kids.” - Joan Finlayson, Parent, Arbroath
Safe
Intuitive Media rigourously validates all members through their schools. Professional mediators monitor all communication and content and constantly watch out for your children and keep them safe. Intuitive Media works closely with CEOP and ChildNet-International to make sure everyone is as safe as possible. Please see: Keeping Children Safe Online.
Social
The communities are available from breakfast to bedtime - on school and home computers and mobile devices, so it’s non-stop learning for your children at school and at home. Students from different backgrounds and cultures keep in touch with friends, share interests and help each other. The home-school projects help parents get involved with their students’ school work. The communities are ideal for elective home education.
Respect
Students learn how to express their creative ideas online in all media - text, sound, images and animation. They learn to write and communicate, to work and learn together and to be part of a mutually respectful online community. They learn how to relate to students from different backgrounds, from the UK and around the world. They learn a host of useful ICT skills and earn Credits, which they can trade for extra features. They learn to be safe and responsible online citizens. In the process they have fun and help each other with their schoolwork and homework.
Creative Learning
In the communities students learn by experience. Here are just a few of the things they can do in their safe personal online learning spaces:
Communicate
Email - build friendships around the world and collaborate effectively and safely
Forums - discuss global issues, current affairs, wildlife, music, student’s concerns and their school work Create
Home Pages - build secure personal websites on hobbies & school work (with their own words, images and sounds and content from the huge Media Library)
Project Pages - create pages dedicated to school projects Collaborate & contribute
Webrings - join shared interest groups
Zines - edit, read and write for online magazines
School Pages - contribute to collaborative school projects
Student Voice - share their thoughts in research projects
Events - meet famous authors and people in a range of careers and from from around the world
Personalised Learning
The students join learning projects and events such as: a discussion on global issues in the One World Zine; a writing club with a popular author; a Hot Seat with an Olympic hopeful athlete, an artist or an astronomer; an interview with Anne Frank or Tutankhamun or a Science day. There’s something for every student as they follow their own interests and work at their own pace and level.
And their achievements and contribution to the community are recognized and rewarded with the GEM Awards challenges, through which they learn a huge range of cross curriculum skills including: Editing and Writing, Life Skills, Learning & Personal Organization Skills Citizenship, Understanding Global Issues. Students develop their social skills and global citizenship. Please see: Personal and Social Learning Online.
Credit where it’s due
Students can earn credits for making valuable contributions to the community and trade them for more features like graphic email backgrounds, smileys or more instant messenger buddies. Students can earn Mediator Credits for helping others and they can award each other Peer Credits for useful forum posts, interesting home pages etc. They can even set up online enterprises and trade information, designs etc for credits. Students can lose credits for antisocial behaviour or for breaking community rules.
Peer Mentoring
The best way to learn is to teach, and in GoldStarCafe each child can be a teacher. The students all help each other with their schoolwork and homework. The most dedicated GoldStarCafe members can advance to become Cafe Crew and mentor other community members.
Independent Research says it WORKS!
Independent research by the University of Hertfordshire and Learning Teaching Scotland proves that IM's social learning networks support personalized learning across the curriculum and helps raise standards. Children extend their Literacy, ICT, ESafety, Design and Citizenship skills. Their achievements are rewarded with celebratory badges and community Credits which they can exchange for additional features. Please see: Independent Evaluations of IM Projects .
Support for Teachers
You can join over 15,000 teachers in IM's social learning networks and get everything you need for free:
- Your own Teacher’s Website, School Pages and School Forum
- International school LinkUP Forums
- Free membership sponsored by Intuitive Media and British Council for your developing-world partner school
- Join the Staff Room Forum
- Download Curriculum Guides and Lesson Ideas
- Online CPD opportunities
- Unlimited free online advice and support
Your Own School Community
You’ll be able to build a GoldStarCafe school community for your own students. You get your own personal Home Pages and School Pages just for your pupils, and a new premium service allows you to build a School Forum where your students can discuss anything you like. You’ll be able to email your children individually or as a group.
You’re in Control
You’ll get your Teacher Tools, which let you see and control everything your children do online. So you can help keep them safe and inspire their work.
NEW! Global Community
Teachers can join the international, collaborative projects supported by BBC World Class and DCSF. We’ll link you with a partner school and help you work towards your British Council International School Award and the International Partners target. Please see: Making Friends Around the World.
You can build a School LinkUp Forum and get FREE sponsored membership for teachers and pupils in your developing world partner school. Please see: Sponsorship for Developing Countries .
NEW! Helping Transition
Moving up to secondary school can be a daunting time for younger children, but now you have GoldStarCafe to help. In their last term at primary school, children who are members of SuperClubsPLUS primary community can graduate to GoldStarCafe. They can be members of both communities for a term, which gives them a chance to learn about life in secondary school and meet some of their new secondary school friends in GoldStarCafe.
NEW! Learning Anytime
GoldStarCafe is open daytime, evenings. weekends and holidays. It is just ideal for Extended School projects and your ICT Club. Children can log on at home, so it’s ideal for Home & School learning. And now children can use mobiles and handhelds like Palm, Nintendo DS, PSP, Fujitsu Pocket PC, iPhone, iPOD Touch, etc., to get protected communication and learning almost anywhere! Please see: Learning on the Move.
What are your students learning?
Learning ICT
GoldStarCafe children learn how to send emails and take part in discussion forums. They build their own websites using multimedia and HTML codes. They learn from the mediators and each other very quickly. GoldStarCafe is just ideal for your school Computer Club.
Cross Curriculum Skills
Your students can take part in the GEM Awards challenges and learn a huge range of cross curriculum skills including: Editing and Writing, Life Skills, Learning & Personal Organization Skills Citizenship, Understanding Global Issues. Students develop their social skills and global citizenship.
Literacy & Communication
Over 10 million emails have passed furiously between students, teachers and mediators. Students can only mail members in the community and are protected by automatic content checking as well as professional human mediation. In the Forums, students talk about everything under the sun. They learn to pose and respond to questions and they write to engage their audience. Students are highly motivated to write articles for their Home Pages. They critique each other’s work and help each other improve. Please see: A Passion for Reading and Writing.
Home and School
A Bridge Between Home and School
GoldStarCafe Live Time is through 8 am to 9 pm. This is when they can safely communicate. So during the school day, evenings and for two weekend sessions and even during the school holidays they can talk live with their friends and publish their updated home pages
Build Time extends their access 24/7, so students can build their websites and compose emails and log on from home, libraries or clubs during weekends and holidays. Over 60% of GoldStarCafe member activity is at home. Please see: Taking Learning Home .
After School and Breakfast Clubs
GoldStarCafe users are avid participants before school. Many students log on at home leading before leaving for school and at school breakfast clubs. GoldStarCafe is an ideal for students during these times as research shows that students become inspired when they can continue their learning and communication outside school hours. Please see: Community for Breakfast .
Join GoldStarCafe Now
You can join Intuitive Media's growing network of over 150,000 learners and 15,000 teachers in 200 local authorities across the UK and schools in over 40 countries. Intuitive Media Australia has recently been launched and will bring in thousands of new members with more countries to follow.
You pay an all-inclusive annual school subscription for each child Parents can register their children from home (children are validated through their schools).
If you're outside the UK and like the idea of GoldStarCafe, you can now join!
Join Now
To join, visit the GoldStarCafe site, or email us or call 0800 169 1024.
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Join Now
To join, visit the GoldStarCafe site, or email us or call 0800 169 1024.
Safety First
In GoldStarCafe (GSC) your children are protected.
- All members are authenticated through their schools.
- PLUS! Highly sophisticated content checking tools monitor all communications and prevent abuse.
- PLUS! Skilled professional mediators are on hand to protect, inspire and support your children.
- PLUS! Teachers can see everything their pupils do.
NEW! Affordable Versions
Now every child can join GoldStarCafe:
GSC LITE
The new LITE version (with restricted pupil-to-pupil communications) for school & home for FREE.
GSC SCHOOL
The FULL version can be purchased by schools for classes or larger groups of pupils. PLUS you get free membership for your developing world partner school. From £8.50 + VAT per pupil, depending on order size.
GSC MOBILE
Get protected communication and learning almost anywhere! From £2.50 + VAT extra per pupil.
GSC HOME
Parents can now register individual children for the FULL version, which can be accessed at home and at school. From £49.99 incl. VAT per pupil.
You can upgrade from LITE to FULL at any time.
Loyalty discounts are sometimes available for existing members.
Local Authority and regional bulk discounts are available. Call free for a special quote. 0800 169 1024
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