One problem with introducing a Virtual Learning Environment is quite often pupils have signed a School Acceptable Use Policy that doesn’t include this type of learning platform.
Moodle offers a solution that ensures every user agrees to the terms before they are granted access to courses.
Young people, aged 16-25, keen to get an inside track on the film industry can do just that in December, as the Cinemagic ‘Talent Lab’, sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland, returns to Belfast as part of the annual Coca-Cola Cinemagic Film and Television Festival for Young People.
Promising to be a fantastic mix of creativity, fun and learning, the ‘Talent Lab’ will offer young people the chance to participate in a unique series of industry masterclasses on 3rd and 4th December, culminating in a special awards ceremony in Odeon Cinemas.
This week @colinnapier has produced an invaluable resource for our students. Seven completely free applications to replace their expensive commercial counterparts. These applications have been put on CD for those pupils who would face problems downloading over 600MB of software. We tried to select applications that offered both Windows and Mac support.
With the new Apple Final Cut Studio comes Motion4 packed with even more features, Jerry Leer takes us step my step through generating and working with 3D shadows. This is the first of our tutorials to be in High Definition which we are pretty excited about.
Film fans across Northern Ireland are in for a cinematic treat as the 19th Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People has launched its highly anticipated annual programme that includes more than 100 film screenings and over 50 different workshops, competitions, masterclasses and exciting film related events.
I have been thinking over the last few weeks about school based pupil email provision. I have to confess we have been considering investing in an advanced Google Apps for education (paying so we can apply a policy) system for pupils after a very successful model with staff. When providing for pupils a school really can not provide any sort of ICT system without some sort of save guarding filtering or quarantine policy and this is what Google charge for.
A number of teachers have asked how we manage the growing amount of video based teaching resources that are being produced. From screencasts to Moving Image Arts coursework, from video podcasts to clips edited from our EyeTV system we end up juggling a large amount of video files which creates both storage and bandwidth issues for schools.
