This is a project that I have been doing with key stage
three students over the past few weeks. This year we
celebrate the bicentenary of the founding of Sidcot School,
and as part of the celebrations we plan to bury a time
capsule in the school grounds. To fit in with the marking
of our GCSE and A'level work (to allow my staff to mark
unhindered) I offered to take each of the key stage groups
as a whole, for a special three week project. We gathered
in the common room for the introduction of the project. I
prepared a
pro-forma that
students had to fill in, deciding who they would work
with, a name for their group, an idea, and other
details. I created this pro-forma in Adobe acrobat, so
that it could be filled in on line. The brief was to
think of a photo story, or series of photos, with or
without captions, that would capture a feeling of
either home or school life through the eyes of
students in 2008, with the idea that a small books can
be created of the winning entries, to be included in
the time capsule, and hopefully dug up at the
tercentenary, to be pored over by the great grandchild
generation of the current students. The photo-stories
have been created mostly using a fabulous bit of
software called Comic Life, but the example below, one
of my favourites, was created by a group of year 7
girls in an application called Bligit that we
downloaded in the lesson in order to make use of it's
trial period. Blingit makes easy work of separating
foregrounds from backgrounds.
