Well done True Tube! January 20, 2009
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Yet another award for True Tube – winner of the Secondary Digital Content category at the 11th annual BETT Awards. 11th annual BETT Awards, held at the London Hilton, Park Lane on the 15th January. Run by Emap, Becta and the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), the BETT Awards is considered by many to be the most prestigious awards in the education sector. Each year, ICT educational suppliers of all types and sizes enter the BETT Awards, which celebrates excellence in ICT in education. Richard Joslin, exhibition director, Emap commented: “TrueTube’s awareness of the educational and social needs of teenagers and young adults has resulted in a truly exceptional resource that helps to improve the learning standards across the UK.”
True Tube uses insightful short films to encourage young people to voice their opinions and share their experiences on a variety of sensitive issues, such as knife crime, teenage pregnancy and religion. TrueTube has enhanced thousands of RE, citizenship, English and science lessons around the globe, providing teachers with real life case studies and expert opinions to get their classes talking.
Web 2.0, digital resources and ideas for RE December 29, 2007
Posted by admin in Uncategorized. 1 comment so farI came across these recently and thought they might be worth noting.
Have you heard? REFuel has a very useful audio glossary, where you can listen to the correct pronunciation of religious vocabulary and also hear an explanation of the meaning.
Do you know about TrueTube? This website provides engaging and authentic materials on subjects which are relevant and real to young people. In addition to watching videos, students are encouraged to develop their own and submit them to the site. This offers opportunities for students to:
• develop key skills – in ICT and communication
• increase awareness of spiritual, ethical, social, cultural, environmental and political issues.
As the site is moderated and there is a list of house rules to be observed, great care is taken to ensure that material with an offensive, obscene, racist or libellous will not be uploaded.
Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Voki can speak using your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone.
Using Web 2.0 in Religious Studies Mark Woolley from Australia posted this presentation on Slideshare.
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In Our Time, the BBC Radio 4 programme, hosted by Melvin Bragg, often broadcasts on religious or philsophical themes. The archive means that you can listen to programmes at an appropriate point in your GCSE or A Level syllabus which were broadcast earlier.
Photos
Wikimedia has a section of free to use (under a Creative Commons Licence) religious images.
EveryStockPhoto also has a large number of photos. I put “religious” into the search, but narrow it down with a specific word – you’ll be surprise what you can find! (I tried Zoroastrian and Bahá’í, though you need to put it in as “bahai“).
Make virtual visits to places of pilgrimage using Google Earth. You will need to download the program, then have a look at the additional photos and information which has been added at sites such as Makkah, Lourdes or Jerusalem.
You Tube now has an RE Teachers group with some interesting videos which could be used in the classroom. Here are a couple of examples.
