Jane Nicholls and Christina Ward recently received a CORE Education professional development scholarship to travel to the UK to develop digital media skills.
Jane’s report back:
I spent a day with Christina Fox, a BBC camerawoman who has shot all sorts of things, from the cricket at Lords through to episodes of Play School. This was a very worthwhile day as Christina tailored the day to suit my needs. We looked at my current work in filming and I was then challenged to move to the next level in complexity and quality. (I have written a blog post about this - http://ictucan.blogspot.com/2010/03/training-day-with-urban-fox.html). Another highlight of the trip was a visit to Teachers TV. We were fortunate to meet with John Richmond, the international development executive of Teachers TV, to discuss how Teachers TV works. John took us out to Brook Lapping which is an internationally acclaimed independent documentary production company who make many of the films for Teachers TV. We came away with a wealth of ideas of where to next for our processes and procedures for digital media in our projects at CORE. We also visited some inspiring secondary schools while in the UK and were challenged in our thinking about how schools can be structured. What a rich learning experience - we have already made improvements and enhancements to our work as a result.
Jane by the River Thames in London, Tower Bridge in the background
Christina sitting at the London Theatre, in front of the London Eye
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