Interactive Whiteboards and Digital Video
Whiteboards have been the ‘buzz’ kit of recent years but are they actually of any use when teaching with digital media, or are they merely a projector screen with detachable bits that you end up losing? The session aimed to explore, through examples and hands-on experience, how the board's own software can be used as part of the teaching sequence, using digital media, at Key Stages 2 and 3. The focus primarily fell on literacy but clear links can also be made across the curriculum. - Andrew Stogdale
Documentary and Archive
Documentaries and archive materials are not just from and about the ancient past. We are creating and participating in documentaries and archives all the time and perhaps never more so than in the digital age with the pervasive nature of sound and image recording and playback devices. How are we to make sense of this world and navigate this sea of information? - Jane Dickson
Digital Animation
Using ICT-based animation within the classroom may seem to be a big challenge to the busy practitioner. This workshop dealt with various ways of getting started with ICT animation using approaches that are relevant to the Art curriculum. We used Photoshop and Flash software. One approach was to ask participants to take a series of digital still images which they get the computer to animate. We then built on the concept of a timeline and showed how Flash can be used to create a variety of different animations. - Ed Hunton, Richard Knights & Alistair Fitchett
Anti-narrative: Games, Blogs & other Non-linear Forms
‘Narrative cannot survive the Moment of Information’, so said the cultural critic Walter Benjamin, talking of film in its early days. Today the same claims are being made, but this time in relation to the internet, mobile phones and other information and communication devices. - Dr Caroline Bassett
Digital Storytelling – Using Podcasting and Vodcasting
This session explored the use of Podcasting and Vodcasting as vehicle for digital storytelling and ways that still images, audio and video can be combined to communicate strong narratives and messages in the classroom. - David Baugh