Other resources

• Two case studies from NATE’s project on ‘Making hard topics easier to teach with ICT’, http://www.nate.org.uk/ htt [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , provide examples of other ways of using texts and images together:
  • Caroline Mortlock’s work, Engaging with poetry, http://www.nate.org.uk/ cmsfiles/ ict/ h2t/ 5_Poetry.pdf adopts a similar strategy. Here she uses MovieMaker instead of PowerPoint – and she provided a gallery of images to give her students a flying start.
  • Also see Gregory Anderson’ project, Interpreting texts through interactive storyboarding, http://www.nate.org.uk/ cmsfiles/ ict/ h2t/ 4_Storyboards.pdf, where he uses images to help analyse and interpret text.

This is one of a series of units written for Vital by Trevor Millum, Chris Warren and Tom Rank on behalf of the National Association for the Teaching of English. NATE is the professional association for those involved and interested in the teaching of English at any level in the United Kingdom.