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.
Education Blog:
Poetry and Photostories – Evaluative Case Study
February 2, 2010 - MSc, Professional Development -CP3 Conference – resources available
November 17, 2009 - Professional Development, Site of the Week -
Film Education’s CP3 conference is a routinely excellent occasion and well worth your attention if you are involved in using digital media in education. I’ve blogged about it before.
The last event was in Liverpool (way…
Digital Photography in York
October 14, 2009 - Tips and Techniques, Web Tools -
I was invited last week to support a creative session at the Sheffield Primary Headteachers’ Conference in York on digital imaging. It was run by Rob Walker from Playing for Success with me tagging along and throwing in my tuppence-worth.
I thought I’d share the results with you.
Myna – Easy audio creation on the web
September 24, 2009 - Site of the Week, Web Tools -
Aviary has recently released a web based audio editor called Myna and it’s well wrth a look regardless of what area of the curriculum you’re from.
Aviary already has an established web…
Adobe Clip Notes – Collaborative video annotation
September 9, 2009 - Tips and Techniques, software -
Adobe Premiere CS3 and 4 allow you to render a movie to Quicktime or Windows Media and embed it in a pdf. When you share the pdf it allows you to play the video and add annotations at specific points in the movie. Many users can add comments so you can build up a converstation about a particular video clip.
HD video in education
April 16, 2009 - Equipment -We’ve been thinking of options for purchasing camcorders for a while and amongst other questions I was thinking was the move to HD video actually worth it.
BECTA’s done quite a helpful article on it here.…
Tags: digital video, Media
Thru YOU – YouTube eats itself…
March 11, 2009 - Site of the Week -
Kutiman, Ophir Kutiel, an Israeli musician has scoured YouTube for music/video samples of all those amateur videos of people playing instruments or singing and mashed them up into a heavenly mix of…well go and listen.
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.
Literacy skills in the media industry
August 14, 2009 - Comment - By: ChrisSo how much emphasis is placed on cretive writing in the media studies syllabus?