14th April

The structure of the Mediascape project, being created and guided by the students, by consensus, rather than by me - The evaluation of the project by both students and me - Both of these in relation to the experience of the Knowle West Media Centre
Thinking about the project in terms of it’s being created by the students rather than by me, so what I give them is a rough framework but it is the ideas that come up with the group that we can follow. That is the way that I can teach a lot of the time, and I feel that it is, albeit teaching by the seat of the pants -- there is not a lot that you can plan in advance, it does hopefully allow the students to gain ownership of the project that they are doing, as long as the structure behind it is strong enough to support whatever it is that we end up doing. The most difficult thing that is the technology, particularly working with the GPS, Windows, and devices that are old and possibly not as good as they might be.

I was also looking at the work this morning, Knowle West Media Centre, and the Urban 2 project at the Knowle West Media Centre have been involved in, and this one is getting the children, students, young people involved in the project, they also had the young people involved in the evaluation of the project, and looking at how that evaluation process worked with young people. So given that the evaluation is such an important part of this project, it may be that I look to how the project is evaluated by the students working on it as well, so that could become a part of the work that I handed in also.