Delves Junior School

Photo-stories are a great new way for students to use digital technology to communicate their ideas creatively and effectively. This website gives you a tutorial on how to dit yourself.

Although they’re simple to make, photo-movies look great and offer young people a powerful means for getting their messages across. Since photo-movies are made with still images from a digital camera, scanner or free online photo-library, they can be created by anyone, for virtually nothing.

There are opportunities for making photo-movies right across the curriculum, where they can be used as a novel alternative to conventional written work. They are also a very powerful tool for teaching many of the communication topics covered in the Speaking & Listening, English, Citizenship and PSHE curricula.

To get started, just choose ’start activity’. This mini website contains tutorials on every aspect of production, from scriptwriting and assembling the images to putting on special effects, recording the narration and laying down a music track. Download the Teacher’s Notes for suggestions how to set up a photo-movie project.

The videos which make up Assignment: Photo-movie are presented in Flash 8, which you can download for free from the ‘Welcome’ page, and can be watched online via a 2Mb broadband connection. Alternatively you can watch or download the videos in Windows Media format from the ‘Downloads’ page.

Bizzikid is a great site for children. It has lots of interesting pages collected together, with info about PSHCE, sport and almost all of the school subjects.

Stay safe online with Sid’s Online Safety Guide. Sid’s Online Safety Guide informs children about the importance of keeping safe online. The Bizzikid’s website contains free learning games and fun activities for Year 5 and 6 children, who are learning to use the Internet.

Sid guides you around the ten sections: internet safety, using chat rooms, making friends off and online, e-mailing and the SMART (Safe, Meeting, Accepting, Reliable, Tell) internet safety rules. The online guide is supported by an activity pack which has teaching activities to support each section. Children enjoyed the activities and games that they could play when they had completed the safety guide. ‘Who’s afraid of the wolf?’ was very popular, where children had to decide which statements were true, enabling them to collect as many sweets as possible before being eaten by the wolf.

Espresso aims to stimulate children´s learning through providing a rich cross-curricular resource to help teachers plan and create exciting lessons that meet National Curriculum objectives and cover QCA Schemes of Work. Espresso looks and works like a website but you won´t find it on the Web. It lives on a computer at your school, which means you can access it quickly and reliably whenever you want. What´s more, you get instant access to high-quality full screen video as well as sophisticated multimedia activities that would take forever to download across the Internet.

New resources are automatically added every week to ensure content is always topical. In addition there is also a huge archive of print based resources. Espresso is a self-contained site - there´s no links to the World Wide Web which means safe surfing is guaranteed. Espresso is the proud winner of two BETT 2004 awards for Best Online Learning Resource and Best Primary software. Espresso web site.