MEA – The Media Education Association Resource Network

What are your favourite film sequences to imitate – ie to get students to reproduce shot by shot, precisely copying framing and camera position?

We’ve started on an exciting project at St Felix Middle School. Blending Media, Art and Design(MAD)the entire school is timetabled for two hours a week working on a cross-curricular project to create a digital archive when the school closes at the end of this academic year. We’ve started out this term by students focussing on themselves and will…[Read more]

Have just seen a preview of Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: an Odyssey, a 15-part series which starts on Saturday 3 September on More4 at 2115. There will also be a tie-in of 15 classic movies on FilmFour.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey

The Story of Film: An Odyssey will soon also be found online, in the guise…[Read more]

It’s amazing what you can find on your computer…. Latest blog post on talking avatars http://bit.ly/r06AKN

Digital Literacy: Professional Development Resource. A useful resource produced by Futurelab designed to support primary and secondary school teachers integrate the development of students’ digital literacy into everyday curriculum teaching and learning.

http://bit.ly/nSi1Rd

Some DIY for the summer sir? http://bit.ly/kqYiTX

Blog post about saving Pivot animations as AVIs http://bit.ly/lzsjEQ

Nice opinion piece in today’s New Scientist on how computers can ’cure
cultural diabetes’ by enabling creative engagement rather than the
passive consumption offered by television. http://bit.ly/iuTZsl