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Creative Writing – 1000keyboards.com
If a thousand students typed at a thousand computers for a thousand hours, would they write a decent story? Regardless, it would be an experience worth reading. www.1000keyboards.com is a new website that offers pupils an extension of, and extended audience for, their...
HiStoryboards
Writing for a real audience is an emphasis of the new English curriculum, and just a damn good idea I say. With this in mind a friend of mine who trained in History at York University at the same time as I trained in English suggested the ambitious notion of creating...
School Newspaper
The school newspaper - if it's anything like a university newspaper - can be an errant affair: all multicoloured paperclips and last-minute photocopying. Articles, if apathy allows, range from the rancid to the subliminal. Yes, the media has taught me cynicism well....
Training English Teachers – ICT
Nick McGuinn, my ex-PGCE tutor at York University and all-round great man, invited me recently to deliver IWB training to the English trainee teacher cohort. In doing so, it led me to reflect on two questions: 1) What sort of ICT pedagogy is most useful to a trainee...
Constructing interactive adventure books
Interactive adventure fiction is, after dying an awful pageless death in the 80s, back again! At least in one North Yorkshire school where pupils are pioneering the use of interactive fiction. A google of interactive fiction will bring up the hideous Zork-style...
Virtual Learning Environments – worth it?
Below is an example of our VLE Flash MySpace Layouts -
Interactive Storyboarding
Film Club – Initial Ideas
Unlike with books, it seems all pupils don't see films as 'work'. While we have successful and vibrant book clubs for all the years, they are closed to a G & T membership (which, to those who don't know the Gifted and Talented acronym, isn't as fun as it sounds)....
Animoto – Responding with slideshows
"They're strong VERBALLY." How often have you heard that? Has it become an euphemism? Or is it, perhaps, a truism? Animato - a free digital slideshow maker - can allow pupils to connect with texts, ideas and values in an intuitive and engaging way. Sometimes...