Primary still & moving image literacy north of Barcelona with Cinema en Curs

I visited a primary school in Collserola, Escola Els Xiprers, 20 minutes train ride north of Barcelona and then a walk up a wooded hill. The visit was co-ordinated by an expanding international film education programme – Cinema en Curs

The Clip Club – 15th October 2013 – Roving learning

I wrote a comprehensive post on the clip club blog about what was covered in this session and even though it only lasted about 45 minutes we seemed to cover a lot of ground. The animation: The Big Match (by

The Clip Club – 8th October 2013 – graphic play

Observations on yesterday’s session: trying to introduce the notion of images as symbols of meaning and how they can wield this meaning in the stories they tell through film. Introducing metaphorical thinking, disassociating the literal, is a good starting point

Research evolutions in school

I’m having a series of thoughts about ways of going about research / school dynamics and I just need to get them down if haphazardly right here in a kind of ‘free writing’ mode. I’m struck with how quickly I