The Adventures of Ottobah Cugoano Teaching Pack & In School Programme
Primary Colours marked the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade by creating a new educational resource and in-school creative programme aimed at primary aged children and their teachers.This activity will also mark Primary Colours’ 10th anniversary (1997 – 2007).We focused on the life of Ottobah Cugoano, a freed slave who wrote his autobiography and lobbied for an end to slavery in the UK.We developed a teaching pack in the period January – August 2007 and delivered a series of schools-based workshops in the school year September 2007 – July 2008.
As well as being available to download from the "Cool Reads" area of the web site, the draft conference report is now on-line in the "Whitespace" section.
This enables all to revise and amend it at will, using "WIKI" technology.
Janey was interviewed in The Guardian on Monday and raised the issues of access and distribution, future content and the need to innovate in how it is generated that featured prominently in last week's conference.
Thanks everyone who agreed to condense their conversations and ideas into a minute or so of sound bite - you can now see the videos here. I have uploaded the photos, also shot by Dan, to Flickr. You can add comments to the videos ... which is one way to restart the conversations that they report. Scroll down the page to see all 14. If you spot any problem, please let me know.
Should programming be tailored to the curriculum? Should every exam board topic have its showing on the box? With the help of C4, could a few more pass rate targets be met? Would tips to pass exams be every teachers dream show?
Daniel Raven-Ellison is co-founder of the Give Geography its Place Campaign. He says: "Geography is fascinating - people find geography fascinating .... but they don't realise they are looking at geography" For more on the campaign see Daniel's blog item.
Donal Carroll reports on a group discussion about how learning could be further brought into television programmes ... but first they had to consider what we mean by learning.
Geography teacher Jan Norgaard has some ideas on the programmes that Channel 4 could develop to make the subject interesting - including the impacts that individuals and their lives have on the world
Anna Smith believes that educational television could do more to bring experts from different fields into the classroom to connect with students ... by short interviews, interactive content, and other creative ways to help kindle a passion for the subject.
