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Guy Merchant on the future of education

June 14, 2011 - Learning - By: Chris

Pic: Prof Guy MerchantAn Audioboo interview with Prof Guy Merchant on the how we should educate people in the future. Part of the Purpos/ed debate.

Audioboo on Participation and Fear

February 23, 2010 - Comment - By: Chris

Pic: Picture of tarantulaAs part of our MSc we’ve had to read a paper by Guy Merchant (2009) on Web2.0, new literacies and the idea of learning though participation. We were asked to provide a response on it in a form of our choosing. I thought I’d have a go with Audioboo as I haven’t really had a chance to play with it.

Poetry and Photostories – Evaluative Case Study

February 2, 2010 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Pic: Hallam Cascade by shanerounce CC on FlickrThe first semester of my MSc is now complete. The final assignment was an evaluative case study on a project using photostories as a way of helping Year 11 students develop their skills in analysing poetry. I’ve posted the document and comments are welcome.

BBC Poetry Season -

May 27, 2009 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: Image - surrealmuse on Flickr 
Have a look at the BBC’s poetry season …mini-site. Loads of media and bits and pieces about making poetry accessible. If you’re an English teacher you’ve probably already seen it but I thought I’d post it anyway.
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Green-screen filming for education

January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

Pic: Green screen painted wallA really useful and fun thing to use in teaching and learning. Seeing people students have filmed magically transported to far away times or places creates a real “ooh” moment and can enhance teaching about storytelling methods or appreciation of place or period.

Film Education – new website

January 19, 2009 - Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: film-ed-screen-grabAt BETT Film Education relaunched their website, redesigned to make it more accessible and more flexible.

Student Teacher’s VLE project

December 2, 2008 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

We’ve just finished supporting a student English teacher, Amy Knott, in a learning platform based project around the text her Y9 class are reading, Robert Swindells’ Stone Cold.
The main focus was producing a short Audacity… show about homelessness.

Making trailers with Year 9 English Students

November 26, 2008 - Uncategorized - By: Chris

I want to showcase some work that one of our partnership schools has done with our help.
Tom Gardiner at Birley Community College in Sheffield finished this project this week. It’s part of a wider module on character archetypes and…