Firstly let me explain that this is a post documenting an exploration in the benefits of ICT, creativity and communication in learning. In many ways it is a post asking for opinions on an idea rather than presenting a definitive view.
There is nothing more motivating (and exciting) as digital creativity in the classroom. I personally think you would be hard pushed to find a teacher who doesn’t love offering their pupils digital creativity opportunities yet we all face the age old problem of having little TIME to learn new technologies and even less time to freely experiment in class.
Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People and Coca-Cola HBC Northern Ireland are celebrating the continuation of their partnership for the next three years. The award-winning partners have been working together since 2004, highlighting the benefits of collaboration between business and the arts.
Budding young filmmakers aged 25 and under, are in with the chance to have their short film showcased on the silver screen at this year’s Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film Festival for Young People in Belfast, in November. Young filmmakers from the UK and Ireland are invited to submit their films to the annual Cinemagic Young Filmmaker Competition which honours the best of young filmmaking talent across different genres.
I have been asked a number of times about our deployment of EyeTV and the role it plays in teaching and learning. We have been using Elgato’s EyeTV (review) for recording our film and television programmes for about three years now and this service is further offered to around ninety teachers.
The use of TV in teaching isn’t anything new and many departments have amassed dozens of VHS tapes over the years.
Ireland’s 22nd Foyle Film Festival takes place from Friday 20-Saturday 28 November at venues throughout Derry City. The ‘Call For Entries’ to all filmmakers for the prestigious Light In Motion (LIM) Awards begins on Monday 1 June. This year the competition strand has been streamlined to four categories.
If you use the brilliant Apple Learning Interchange site you should be aware that some aspects of the site may have been recently compromised. Today I received an email to say :
“We recently learned that the security of Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) members’ names and passwords may have been compromised. These accounts are limited to accessing the ALI discussion board and do not contain sensitive information such as credit card or social security numbers”
The Interchange site is currently down for maintenance as we assume they are resolving the issue. In the meantime if you use the same username and password combination anywhere else you need to change such passwords immediately.
We hope the Learning Interchange site is restored to its full glory again very soon.
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