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Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...work for them as well) but at conferences and work-in-progress seminars especially at postgraduate level, there is that sense of maturity, of being able to show up, respect others’ opinions and respect the hours and hours of work that might go into a poster or a presentation or workshop and being about to generate a sense of community. I certainly felt that on...
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...work on the Home Front. They can feel the weight of the gas mask and smell the stifling warmth of the mask on their face. This gives them a depth of understanding that nothing else could. For the moment they are connecting with the sensations and physical feelings of a wartime child. This richness and immediacy of experience can be applied across the curriculum and with...
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...working with the calculator again, click the 'Calculator' button in the Windows taskbar. (The taskbar is usually at the bottom of the screen; it contains the 'Start' button.)...Presenting information: 1.1.4 Simple arithmetic operations - To perform a simple arithmetic calculation: Enter the first number in the calculation (for example '123') using one of the following...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...worked example of document analysis provided...Session 1: Origins of the First World War: 1 Why did we fight? - Some contemporaries had no idea why they were fighting in the First World War, as Harry Patch, Britain’s oldest surviving Tommy, recalled in his autobiography: By the time I was demobilised I was thoroughly disillusioned. I could never understand why my...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...work just as well as far as the rhythm or music of the line is concerned, but ‘ash’ has extra connotations of greyness, of something burnt out, dead, finished (‘ashes to ashes’, too, perhaps?), all of which contribute to the mood that Hardy conveys in a way that ‘oak’ or ‘elm’ wouldn't. To return to my original question then, ‘what is the point of...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...worked as a programming exec for European public channel ARTE, and produced many documentaries for UK and international channels through independent company Antelope and now for his own company Mixing Media. Transcript Earth in Vision Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 I’m Krishan Arora, I’m a consultant for SBS Television, which is Australia’s public...
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...worked as a programming exec for European public channel ARTE, and produced many documentaries for UK and international channels through independent company Antelope and now for his own company Mixing Media. Transcript Earth in Vision Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 I’m Krishan Arora, I’m a consultant for SBS Television, which is Australia’s public...
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...work out their own rules as they go along, and find ways to live together without governments telling them what to do? Now start thinking more about what democracy is in Activity 1. Activity 1 The class needs to make a decision on an issue. Once the decision is made, everyone has to stick to it. Without prior discussion, ask pupils for ideas about how the decision ought...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs