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Rising Stars taps into a crowd-sourced curriculum

Rising Stars taps into a crowd-sourced curriculum

Tony Parkin explores a new model for curriculum development
Take a group of passionate, Twittering primary educators seeking ways of improving a tired curriculum, a local authority ICT school improvement team and schools they support, and add in a commercial educational publisher and an exciting new model for curriculum development can emerge.

Teachers will soon be able to check out the product of this collaboration between educators in the London Borough of Havering and publisher Rising Stars with the publication, in March, of Switched On ICT.

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Editsense - a camera-shy star for media education

Editsense - a camera-shy star for media education

By Jack Kenny

Any one who has worked with products for what passes for media education in some schools will know how vital Editsense is. Many schools are starting courses on making moviesm, and  new GCSE specifications mean that there will be more. One essential lesson will be that making movies is not just about using a camera. Editing is the focus.

As the Editsense creators explain: "However many times you explain the importance of changing shot size and camera position, and dividing a film up into shots, the theory tends to go out of the window as soon as young film-makers get hold of the cameras. Because a lot of our film projects are very short and intensive, we needed a quicker way of getting the participants up to speed."

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