Aardman animation

Tate and Aardman tap children’s ideas for Wallace & Gromit-style movie
Tate teams up with Nick Park’s Aardman to give children chance to create characters, stories and drawings for animated film
Charlotte Higgins – Guardian 19/10/2009

Ideas to Inspire

I have mentioned this site before but it’s getting even better.

In particular use of You Tube in the classroom

They have a RSS feed too to keep you up to date. See here One of a number of Primary related Blogs.
There is also a link to downloading and converting You Tube videos to use them at [...]

Becta show benefits of Web2.0 in the classroom

A summary of the report here
Key elements so far are
- encourage student engagement
- encourage online discussion
- extend their learning
- sense of ownership
The report into the use of Web2.0 technologies at KS3 and KS4 to be found here.
This report is for KS3 and KS4 but looking at the work at Sandaig and Tom Barret’s Blog [...]

miniLegends Mentoring Programme

A whole class of Yr 3s in South Australia being mentored by people around the world. Check it out!
 
Al Upton and the miniLegends