You can see from the total focus and concentration of the group in the picture (forms duly signed!!) they are enjoying learning about I.T at Brockworth, spending time collaborating and showing their peers skills they have learnt whilst at the class. The class has morphed into the learners doing small projects that are most relevant to their everyday lives, which is ensuring that they remain interested. We have made fliers and business cards as well as written letters and emails, surfed the web for holidays, registered for a new email account and joined facebook!
We even managed to find a way of putting us all (small group that night) in the picture using the new digital camera!! The camera is now in "the field" - with a student taking photos of things she wishes to include in the newsletter or movie they are producing! Sorry Jane CD - made more sense to give it to student to collect pictures of what they do during the week.
I have not managed the video side of the camera yet, I have tried a few times but it doesn't seem to work for me (not actually very good with "equipment" I need to be shown rather than given, left to sort it out, and take it to class!! anyone else in the same boat?)
We have though made a rough movie on Movie Maker, again using photos rather than video with text boards and music. We are experimenting in using sound recordings as well and are now trying to put the speeches over the music.
I am trying to record sound bites from the students on how they found the course, what they felt like at the beginning etc. Both learners and tutor are enjoying trying the different things out. (Might be good to hold some Saturday workshops for tutors (obviously paid!!) to show us how to "do things" on the PC and using the new bits of equipment new to tutors as I along with most other tutors will be spending a lot of their OWN time playing with the new bits and pieces on offer before going to class.
Also thank you to Andrea at the Library for putting John Moore Museum curator in touch with us - we had brilliant presentation on Gypsies and Travellers of old with a DVD and items from a memory box. We all enjoyed the evening and it was followed through with a visit by the Gypsy/Traveller children to the museum for their own personal tour. Must email curator and see if he will sign the 'model' form! then I can put it on the blog.
Also including as an indulgence as I know you are all interested in a picture of "the wedding of the year" - Note French and English wedding cakes, and candyfloss machine, which I presume is a "French thing!!"
3 comments:
Oh wow, Jane - I hope your group are going to drop in here to see themselves in the spotlight? So many good things going on there and exciting to read of the developments happening as a result of your work.
Can I be a Facebook friend?! (I'm registered in my own name)
I'll look forward to reading what you all get up to next - I'm eager to see the next triumph!
Jane thanks for taking the time to update us on your group. It's great to have an IT tutor on board! We are currently arranging an e-learning event with lots of short training activities (paid of course) but it would be on a Friday afternoon not a Saturday. Hope to post date soon.
Your sessions sound so inspiring
Jane E. I'd like to learn to make some business cards too. Isn't it so rewarding when learners gain confidence, use equipment and share stories and successes? And yours are obviously so productive.
Yes, paid training in using the equipment is something I think it's very reasonable to expect, thanks Jane CD for organising some.
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