Crazy Climate

Climate change effects everybody and the Year 5 pupils of Nansen Primary School visited the CLC to learn what the causes are and what measures can be taken to minimise the risks.

By using Photostory the pupils created a presentation dipicting Climate Change and what we can do to slow the process down. The work they produced included audio, visual and musical skills, which was taken away with them at the end of the session. Also staff ran an outreach session at Golden Hillock Secondary School for Year 11 pupils to learn various techniques in Textiles using ICT.

BETTer Technology!

Members of the CLC visited the BETT show, which was hosted in London last week. They were quite impressed by the range of services and new technology which is now available. We will be sending details of some exciting links and software in our weekly bulletins over the next month.

Also, James Brindley School attended a session in Art and Design creating their own piece of Aboriginal Art. Once completed, the pupil's work was transferred onto T/shirts for them to take away. Some excellent work was produced by the class. To subscribe to our weekly bulletin's please contact us with an email address that will be added to our mailing list.

Happy New Year!

Now that 2008 is upon us, Parkview CLC would like to notify you of up and coming events at the City Learning Centre. This year we will be running various CPD Inset Courses for our Network Teachers like Podcasting, Creating Websites quick and easily, CAD and many others.
Alongside the CPD days we shall also be running sessions for both Primary and Secondary classes in our Network Schools like Wikispaces, Lego Robolab, Ocean Odyssey, Animation, Journeys and many more. All the information can be found on this website and future dates for courses will be posted shortly.

Scream Green Screen

Members of the Parkview Book club at the Business and Enterprise Secondary School scripted, produced and edited a news video based on the story 'Snapshot' by Robert Swindells.

Using Green Screen technology the children produced a 3 minute film incorporating the facts of the book and trying to get readers to choose this book in the Key Stage 3 dares competition . They created an excellent piece of work using various skills: writing, creating and adding the music, acting and finally editing all the pieces in an organised manner.
Also last week, Bordesley Green Girls School enjoyed the company of the clc staff in their final session of an Art and Design project which was based on Portraits.

Art and Media Medley!

This week Bordesley Green Girls School will complete their Art and Design project in creating self portraits. Using Photoshop, the pupils will learn how to apply various techniques to a picture and produce a self portrait in different colours, shades, textures etc. Also, a visit to Small Heath Sixth Form will have A' Level students creating their own animation for a Media Studies session. This is an ongoing project that has a couple more sessions left before its completion. More on the outcome of these stories at the end of the week.

Animation and More!

Last week Parkview City Learning Centre went to Small Heath Sixth Form to help the students create coursework for their 'A' Level Media Studies Project. Students were asked to produce, script and direct the opening credits of an original childrens TV show. Students came up with some very creative ideas including a Panda rock band and also aliens in the shape of letters.
Over the course of six weeks pupils will produce a final film which will be submitted as coursework. Parkview CLC ss enjoying working with such creative and well motivated students and looks forward to hosting some of their work on this site.
Also this week pupils of Parkview Secondary School came in to complete their sports commentary Podcasts with music and sound effects. We hope to have a special Podcast page up soon.

Wacky Wiki Writing

Creative Writing was on the agenda this week for two Year 6 classes. In the early part of the week, Parkview CLC enjoyed the company of the pupils from St Saviours Primary School who came to learn some new creative writing techniques.

The children navigated through a virtual Adventure Island, constructing Wiki Links from one page to another. They were introduced to new ideas using the internet which allowed them to write a description about certain places in the World; leaving the CLC with their own Wiki Web Page that can be updated in school. Other events included Kar2ouche Training and an Outreach Art - Photoshop session to Bordesley Green Girls School. On the Agenda next week we have some Moodle Training booked at the CLC and more outreach sessions for Art and Design and Media Studies.