Year 8 students from Aldersley High School are attending the City Learning Centre over the next three days for a Space-themed project. Today, we learned about what space is, how far away it is, and the scale of distances in the Universe. We created and launched compressed-air-powered rockets, and learned about the history of space travel. In the afternoon, students created T-shirt designs featuring images of themselves floating inside the International Space Station and their own mission patches.
Students were introduced to the topics for their podcasts tomorrow; sample links have been set up at http://del.icio.us/clcresearch. Students will further research their topics tomorrow and add more links to del.icio.us, before planning and recording a podcast on their topic.
Images from Day 1 can be found in the gallery section of the website:
Today Year 4 students spent the day at the CLC finding out about Healthy Living. They have already done a project on food, were they constructed a ‘food triangle’. The students needed to cooperate with each other in order to complete all the tasks.
Over the past two terms, the City Learning Centre and Wolverhampton Local Authority have been leading podcasting sessions in local primary and secondary schools. Two of the schools are now actively publishing regular new content to the CLC-designed Learning2Go Blog and Podcast website. Over the last few weeks, Heath Park Business and Enterprise College have published revision podcasts for Key Stage 3 Science and GCSE English, and St. Jude’s Primary have published “scary story starters” and news reports. Visit the Learning2Go Blog and Podcast website to download the latest broadcasts.
In other podcast news, a podcast produced at the CLC by Y9 Parkfield High students to aid revision for “The Tempest” has now been downloaded over 3000 times by students and teachers around the country! Listen to it here.
Yesterday, I worked with Year 10 students from Highfields Science Specialist School, creating stop-frame animations based around topics from their GCSE Geography course.
What the teacher said:
An outstanding learning experience. The most positive outcome was the pupils revising geography without realising it and seeing their final products.
Today, I’ve been leading a web design session with students from Highfields Science Specialist School. Working in Adobe Fireworks and Dreamweaver, students have created simple four-page sites for a fictional company. Key topics/activities for the days included:
The History of the Internet
What makes a good website? (including looking at some bad websites . . . .)
Evaluating an existing website: usability, accessibility, navigation structure etc.
Simple logo design in Fireworks
Using CSS (separating style from content)
Adding links / images
Here’s a PDF mindmap of ideas for “what makes a good web design?”:
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Year 8 students from Aldersley High School are attending the City Learning Centre over the next three days for a Space-themed project. Today, we learned about what space is, how far away it is, and the scale of distances in the Universe. We created and launched compressed-air-powered rockets, and learned about the history of space travel. In the afternoon, students created T-shirt designs featuring images of themselves floating inside the International Space Station and their own mission patches.
Today Year 4 students spent the day at the CLC finding out about Healthy Living. They have already done a project on food, were they constructed a ‘food triangle’. The students needed to cooperate with each other in order to complete all the tasks.
Over the past two terms, the City Learning Centre and Wolverhampton Local Authority have been leading podcasting sessions in local primary and secondary schools. Two of the schools are now actively publishing regular new content to the CLC-designed