Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 9:59AM Video games, learning & Scotland
Derek Robertson, National Adviser for Emerging Technologies, Learning & Teaching Scotland discusses the successes and improved learning outcomes achieved by Scottish schools who have introduced video games across the curriculum
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 4:11PM Nurturing skills for future growth in the creative, digital and info-tech industries.
Ed Vaizey MP, UK Minister for Communications, Culture & the Creative Industries presents the morning opening keynote at the LWF Festival of Learning & Technology in London, January 11th 2011. Mr Vaizey discusses the skills requirement of the video game and visual FX industries and the challenges faced by the education sector.
#lwf11, communications, conservative, creative, culture, digital, government, growth, industry, media, skills in LWF Talk, Technology, policy Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 3:21PM Innovator and award-winning educator, Tim Rylands, takes his audience on a magical journey of digital storytelling and adventures in learning with iPads, iPods and mobile devices.
#lwf11, Tim Rylands, creativity, digital, game based learning, games, handheld, iPod, ipad, learning, storytelling, teaching in Handheld Learning, LWF Talk, Mobile Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 2:45PM Mobile movie making for learners.
Presented by educator and learning consultant, Tony Vincent, Learning in Hand.
Ever since he was a young boy, Tony Vincent has made short movies. At first it was with his dad's VHS camcorder. Later it was with a digital camera and basic editing software, and his students were the stars. Then he began shooting with a green screen and editing with iMovie. Now Tony can film, edit, and publish his movies all on an iPod touch.
Tony presents a demonstration and examples of how to create excellent educational videos by using a variety of iOS apps to film, edit, enhance, and publish videos. Tony's movie making tips and techniques are relevant to anyone who makes videos, no matter the software or how large the computer they use to edit and publish.
#lwf11, Learning in Hand, Tony Vincent, creativity, iOS, iPod touch, learning, movie making, teaching, video in Handheld Learning, LWF Talk, Mobile Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 2:15PM English as an additional language (EAL)
How a partnership between a digital publisher and educators approached the challenge presented by young learners in the London Borough of Lewisham for whom English is an additional language.
Featured speakers are Neal Hoskins, WingedChariot, with Tom Cooper and Jo Barclay from Lewisham Local Authority.
WingedChariot a pioneer in digital story publishing and Lewisham LA last year began a unique partnership on a project to fill a great gap in providing story based learning materials in a multilingual format for EAL and MFL classrooms.
With over 50 languages being spoken in many urban school programming a multilingual application in the top 10 community languages for students to use was an outstanding success.
The fantastic results and feedback from the initial pilot means that WingedChariot is pleased to announce today at LWF an expansion of this project into 6 schools across 3 London boroughs that will see more multilingual stories produced as well as a creative writing application for young people to tell and write their own stories through handheld devices.
Part funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Arts foundation in 2011 this simple but innovative project will also form part of the Cultural Olympiad celebration of 2012 with an eye to going national in schools for 2013.
#lwf11, EAL, English, Neal Hoskins, Tom Cooper, e-books, improvement, lewisham, literacy, publishing, reading, wingedchariot in Handheld Learning, LWF Talk, Mobile, language, literacy 
