This workshop will present ideas which use multimedia to engage pupils and move their thinking on. “One Lesson Movie” uses Movie Maker to develop understanding of chronology and Thinking SKills with Key Stage 3. “When students teach you a lesson” hands over the Interactive Whiteboard to KS4 pupils to develop meta-thinking on questioning, learning styles and lesson plans. “What did Stalin really sound like?” uses a voice recorder and Audacity” to explore meaning and tone in primary sources with A Level students.

1. Engagement and Thinking in a Multimedia Classroom Johannes Ahrenfelt Neatherd & Neal Watkin Copleston High

2. What are the barriers to regular use of ICT & Multimedia?

5. One Lesson Movie

6. Tasks and examples: www.innovativeICT.net/workshops

7. Students teach you a lesson

10. What makes a challenging question? 1. Why did people in the Middle Ages believe in witchcraft? 2. Matthew Hopkins terrified and destroyed East-Anglia. Discuss. 3. What were the main factors that influenced the decline of women being hanged for witchcraft? 4. To what extent was Matthew Hopkins backed by the Government? 5. How much has the perception of women changed since the 1600?

11. Lesson 1: What makes a challenging question? Who…? When…? Describe… What can you learn…? What factors…? What conclusions can you make…? How far…?

13. What did… sound like? Task examples: www.innovativeICT.net/workshops

15. What did the ‘Big Three’ sound like?

17. Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 What were they thinking at the time of the photo? http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/G2/default.htm Was the wartime alliance between Britain, the USA and USSR as strong as the media said it was? What was the temperature of the international relations at the time of the Yalta Conference?

20. Plenary Ideas for regular use of ICT & Multimedia

21. “ People learn best when they are interested , involved and appropriately challenged ” (DfES)