* British Educational Communications and Technology Agency ( Becta )

Becta, originally known as the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, was a non-departmental public body ( popularly known as a Quango ) funded by the Department for Education and its predecessor departments, in the United Kingdom.

The portal was funded and managed by the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, Becta ( British Educational Communications and Technology Agency ).

Primary schools include Decoy Primary School which has around 445 pupils and has been awarded the Becta ICT Mark, Eco and Healthy School awards, the Devon Active Schools award and a platinum award for its travel plan.

In November 2007, Clunbury Primary School was awarded the Becta ICT Excellence Award for its use of technology.

In 2007 in the United Kingdom Becta has championed the adoption of SIF as a national standard for schools data interchange.

* DCSF & Becta ( 2007 ).

On 13 April 2006, Becta closed the National Grid for Learning portal, stating that it was improving its offer to teachers by rationalising the number of different services it provides for schools and teaching staff.

The College has also been awarded the Artsmark – Bronze Award, International School Award, School Achievement Award, Sport England SportsMark Award, Basic Skills Quality Mark and Becta ICT Mark for Excellence in ICT.

won a Becta award for the use of ICT in Practice in 2005 for using the adventure exploration computer game Myst to support literacy and communication.

The abolition of Becta was announced in the May 2010 post-election spending review.

Becta went into liquidation in April 2011.

Becta was the lead agency in the United Kingdom for promotion and integration of information and communications technology ( ICT ) in education.

Becta was a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.

Foremost among the 2005 – 2008 Becta strategic objectives were " to influence strategic direction and development of national education policy to best take advantage of technology " and " to develop a national digital infrastructure and resources strategy leading to greater national coherence.

At the Becta Awards Ceremony at the Science Museum in London on 4 March, the College received the Highly Commended award in the General FE category and received a special award for efficiency and effectiveness in the use of IT.

The seeds for the UK's National Learning Network ( NLN ) were sown in the spring of 1999 through the collaboration of the Further Education Funding Council ( FEFC ), the Higher Education Funding Council for England ( HEFCE ) and agencies like Becta, NILTA and FEDA.

* The National Learning Network, using Xtensis, is a UK repository of over 2000 learning objects, commissioned by Becta and the LSC.

Becta.

Elearning Credits have been rolled into the Harnessing Technology Grant which is being distributed to schools via Local Authorities.

Harnessing a team to a buckboard, they drove out to a willow-lined creek about a half-mile off, then climbed down and began chopping.

Harnessing collective intellect, facilitated by interactive computers, became his life's mission at a time when computers were viewed as number crunching tools.

Harnessing the richness of the Internet is another goal.

Wesley identified the appalling grandparents in Harnessing Peacocks, who bully the pregnant Hebe, as the nearest she came to a portrait of her own parents in old age.

He continued to appear occasionally on television, including playing the leads in Fiddlers Three ( 1991 ) and Harnessing Peacocks ( 1992 ) and an appearance on the American show Magnum, P. I.

Harnessing the explosive energy of the spring, the gymnast directs his or her body hands-first towards the vault.

He was Chairman and principal author of the “ Memo to the President-Elect: Harnessing Process to Purpose ,” a blue-ribbon Commission report sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Institute for International Economics.

Harnessing the wheelwork of nature: Tesla's science of energy.

According to Story About Li Bing and His Son in Harnessing the Rivers, in Records of Guansian, Li Erlang assisted his father in the construction of the complex irrigation system that prevented the Min River from flooding and irrigated the Chengdu Plain.

Harnessing a Godmaster's natural ability to manipulate Chokon Power-the energy of the heavens ( Tenchokon ), the Earth ( Chichokon ) and man ( Jinchokon )-Ginrai saw off the Decepticons, and, after a period of deliberation, after which he decided that becoming a Godmaster was the will of God himself, he joined the Autobots.

Harnessing the power of the Golden Fruit just as Sir Pac-alot did, Pac-Man re-imprisons Spooky and returns the Golden Fruit to where they belong.

Harnessing the power of an artificial black hole, the drive was designed to project a focused beam of gravitons, folding space and allowing the ship to pass through and arrive immediately at the new location.

Their next three albums, Unholy Cult, Harnessing Ruin, and Shadows in the Light were released by French label Listenable Records, the same label which released an album by Hernandez's previous band Fallen Christ years before.

Steve Shalaty replaced Hernandez on Harnessing Ruin.

On the band's 2005 album, Harnessing Ruin, there are more lyrics touching on other subjects such as politics.

Harnessing the work of the earlier New Historicism, this emergent field of historiography began to challenge the hegemony of Medieval historians over the history which they narrate, and opens the door for new modes of thinking by the proposition that " we cannot interpret medieval culture, or any historical culture, except through the prism of the dominat concepts of our own thought worlds.

In the article Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as " the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems — such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems — efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.

In the article Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as " the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems — such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems — efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.

Harnessing Brownian motion and making molecular level machines is regulated by the second law of thermodynamics, with its often counter-intuitive consequences, and as such, we need another inspiration.

* Harnessing the creative energy of physical scientists to fuel technology innovations and paradigm shifts in brain studies.

: User-Centric Innovations in New Product Development ; Systematic Identification of Lead User Harnessing Interactive and Collaborative Online-Tools, in: International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol.

Items covered in the contest may cover any equine subject, i. e., Reproduction, Training, Parasites, Dressage, Draft Horses, History and Origins, Anatomy and Physiology, Driving and Harnessing, Horse Industry, Horse Management, Breeds, Genetics, Mustangs, Western Games, Colors, Famous Horses in History, Parts of the Saddle, Types of Bits, Feedstuffs and Nutrition.