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Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a support service for primary education. Anyone can sign up for the service (free of charge) and will then receive each week a six page printable magazine and a set of activity suggestions. There is also a regularly updated newsblog, a set of classroom activities and a copyright free picture gallery. These resources are all archived on the website. Ictopus builds on the Becta Direct2U service and also the legacy of MAPE (Micros and Primary Education).

Ictopus is run by a voluntary group of primary teachers, university lecturers and consultants who wish to support colleagues working in the field of primary education. It aims to be flexible and adaptive to the needs of users and to provide a forum for dissemination of the excellent practice currently found in many schools.

Heather Govier

is a freelance educational consultant and writer. She has been involved with ICT since computers first came into primary schools in 1980 and was chair of MAPE (Micros and Primary Education) until 2004.

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Roger Keeling
has recently retired from a lifetime in teacher education. He was one of the founder members of both MAPE and ITTE. His specialism is mathematics and design and technology and he contributes the maths lessons for l2go. He still tutors for the Open University and can occasionally been seen running round the streets of Worcester (slowly!).

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Doug Dickinson

has worked for 40 years plus in primary education and is now an independent ICT consultant working on all aspects of enhancing teaching and learning. Doug lectures at Leicester University School of Education. He has, during the last four years, spent a good deal of time working in Northern Ireland, Hong Kong and Trinidad on a wide variety of topics.

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Tricia Neal
was early years trained and has worked across the whole primary school age range in the classroom and with a local authority. She now works independently with a range of groups to support and promote learning and teaching which includes the appropriate use of ICT. She works with PGCE students in London and at Leicester University, classroom assistants and senior management throughout the country and children whenever the opportunity arises.

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Rhona Dick

is a freelance educational consultant and writer. She coordinated MAPE publications from 1996 until 2004.

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Geoff Davies
is ICT Co-ordinator at Grange Primary School in Swansea. He has spent time as an advisory teacher and NOF trainer and has been involved in initial teacher training. Grange Primary School was one of the first primary schools in Wales to be awarded the ICT Mark. In 2007 the school gained an ICT Excellence Award from Becta.

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Fiona Sanderson

is at present teaching part-time in a small Northumbrian first school where she is coordinator for science and ICT. Fiona has been an advisory teacher for ICT, a trainer under the NOF scheme and was for many years Northern representative for MAPE.

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Philip Griffin
is a classroom teacher at Radstock Primary School and a leading teacher for Primary ICT for Wokingham Borough Council.

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Janice Staines

is Manager, Curriculum Development at Becta. She is a regular contributor to Sharing Good Practice.

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Dr Bob Fox

was a primary teacher and headteacher, and then spent five years in a Local Authority ICT advisory team. For the last 15 years he has co-ordinated primary ICT at the University of Worcester, from which he has now partially retired. He was a long-term contributor to MAPE, and thought of the name 'ictopus'.

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Mike Matson

was a deputy head in a primary school, spent 12 years developing educational software, was a QuickTime consultant for Apple Computer (UK), makes videos, and has been creating websites for 10 years. He is involved with various wildlife and cultural organisations in Botswana.

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Alan Rodgers

is a part time lecturer in Initial Teacher Training. He has a special interest in Design and Technology and ICT. He has supported teachers in a variety of ways, starting with MAPE, progressing through NOF and evolving into ictopus. He has published material in various forms for children and teachers and has an amateur interest in all things to do with the weather.

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Angella Streluk

is an ex-teacher, who had responsibility for History, Geography and ICT in a Midlands primary school. She enjoys sharing ideas and producing resources. Her special interest in geography is reflected in the various entries from her to be found on the internet.

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