Monday, 6 April. been reading a bit about the work that Carolyn Hassan has been doing at the Knowle West Media Centre, and the theories behind this of regeneration and and identity. I didn't know this but she initially came in in 95 as a photographer just to do a short project working with local teenagers and it has grown hugely into really quite a successful organisation. It is still a struggle I am sure, but still with basically the same idea, bringing professional media people, filmmakers and photographers, into the community and working with teenagers and with primary schools, and with the whole community, towards regeneration.

The other thing that I have been doing is mapping Sidcot initially, and I have got to hang around the school a few days over the Easter weekend with all scholars there because I am putting up big retrospective of all scholars working on June. But it struck me, but I could go back to my digital storytelling idea of a year ago which never did quite happen at the time but it could happen now to go and ask the old scholars to give me memories about the place and actually were caught them speaking about their time at Sidcot and then pinning those memories to a map of the school I could do this with my upper fourth in the first couple of lessons of next term so that we already have got quite a lot of audio material to work with. They could maybe go out and get a bit more, possibly recalling the gardener and cook and various other people who have been here for a very long time. Basically to build up a history map of the school to give me practice in building and mediascape, of making a useful media scape. We had all the ideas from last year that will put into that book of memories, So if can get hold of that book of memories, and some of those memories could be spoken, in fact that book could be out again this all scholars so we could get more old scholars writing down their memories and using that book killing two birds with one stone.

And moving on to think more about the pedagogy. Mostly I'm looking at blogs and keeping up with things in that way, so I think a lot of the things that I will put into this site, into this journal will be blog links rather than texts as such. And I already had quite a lot of those with the bits and pieces that I have been reading. Specifically online resources, online learning to do with a silver project, that sort of stuff.

I could do some thoughts on the media scape that I went an experienced in Bristol this was around Bristol docks last week, I think I might have already talked about this. Connected with how the docks were in the 1880s and hearing the sounds of the woodwork shop and the ships docking. You have got a lot of reference to the history but it was basically a story. The thing that was most difficult with it was that the screen was very hard to see. The moment that media scape gets onto these iPods it will be very much easier because these screens can be seen in fairly bright light. It is really the device that is the problem not the idea behind it. And I have already come across a media scape sort of thing on the iPod this was a downloadable audio tour of Florence, so they are beginning to be programmers out there programming for the iPhone, so what we need is the media scape link so that children can do the programming, then we are set. I think that it is a very important that the students should take responsibility for the whole project and not just be served it up, so that they really do to ownership of it.