The 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.
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Poetry and Photostories – Evaluative Case Study
February 2, 2010 - MSc, Professional Development -BBC Poetry Season -
May 27, 2009 - Site of the Week, resources -
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…
Green-screen filming for education
January 30, 2009 - Uncategorized, software -
A 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 -
At BETT Film Education relaunched their website, redesigned to make it more accessible and more flexible.
Student Teacher’s VLE project
December 2, 2008 - Professional Development, learning platforms -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
Making trailers with Year 9 English Students
November 26, 2008 - Uncategorized -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…
Audioboo on Participation and Fear
February 23, 2010 - Comment, MSc, Whole School Issues - By: Chris