Background+to+Project

An element of our ICT elective is to create a collaborative space that will be of use in the field of education. This will incorporate a movie(s) that we have filmed and produced during the course of the elective.

As a group we used [|Etherpad] to [|brainstorm] ideas for our movie and decided on the theme of venues for school trips in Dundee. Due to the nature of the subject, the curricular links and the style of the movies this wiki has been created as a space for teacher use. That, however, should not limit it's use to solely teachers as pupils, especially upper stages pupils, can benefit from being involved in the planning stages of a trip.

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The concept of venues was derived from the idea of a city study project based on Dundee. The process and template idea could be used in that format, as a method for choosing a school trip location or it could be used as an exemplar for a similar pupil led project to create their own version. This would incorporate digital movie making, collaborative working, pupil ownership, the opportunity of exploring a local community and multiple curricular areas under [|Curriculum for Excellence]. The experiences would obviously be linked to the correct stage and needs of the pupils by the class teacher but as an example it would be possible to include social subjects, language areas (including modern foreign languages) and technologies in the related outcomes.

As you can see there is more to this wikispace than what it says on the box.

With the extent of our chosen project there was a lot of organisation required. We contacted Sensation Science Centre, Discovery Education Centre, Mills Observatory and Dundee Botanic garden as locations for filming. Unfortunately due to limitations in the availability of dates for filming we were unable to arrange filming at Mills Observatory. We would like to extend great thanks to all venues for their cooperation and assistance throughout this project. We also discovered a great deal about each venue that we were unable to include in the videos, although if we included everything it might spoil possible surprises when you visit.

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