iPads can be useful tools in the media classroom for several reasons. They allow for quick research in the classroom through internet searches and accessing prepared resources. Students can screengrab, annotate, and comment on videos and articles. This aids formative assessment as evidence of student understanding is captured. iPads also save time by providing instant access to resources and allowing quick uploading of student work to sites like YouTube. Examples showed how iPads can support collaborative work, critique and redrafting through apps like Explain Everything and iMovie. This makes the learning process visible and supports literacy development.

1. Making the Learning (more) Visible
Can iPads help in the Media classroom?
“Know thy impact…”
John Hattie
“Practice in the classroom is formative to the extent that
the evidence about student achievement is elicited,
interpreted, and used by teachers, learners or their peers,
to make decisions about the next steps in instruction that
are likely to be better, or better founded, than the
decisions they would have taken in the absence of the
evidence that was elicited.”
P. Black and D. Wiliam

2. • Research
• Collaborative work
• AFL
• Critique
• Redrafting

3. Time saving!
–No waiting around for computers to start
–Internet access from any room
–iPad camera cuts down on getting out
other equipment
–AND videos can be uploaded to a Youtube
channel instantly
–Combined with iMovie, videos can be
quickly edited and uploaded

4. Research
• In the classroom, on the spot…
– Internet searches: reference sites, articles, videos,
blog posts, twitter searches…
– Prepared resources: links from the main teaching
blog, QR codes, Dropbox, Evernote…

5. Students watch recommended videos, follow links to articles,
then screengrab and annotate or add a videoed commentary or
group discussion.

6. QR code readers are a
quick way of allowing
students to go directly to a
site / article.
Prepare a series of QR
codes to allow them to
research a topic.

7. http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alev
keyconcepts/alevelkeycon.php?pageID=narrati
ve
Narrative
Notes:

8. The difference between men and women:
Stereotypical gender roles
Thoughts and Questions:

9. Kim Kardashian: my life as a brand
Thoughts and Questions:

10. Outcomes• Word collage or pic collage
• Pictures and quotations for display and
discussion (Use iPad as visualiser)
• Written summary
• Filmed discussion / summary (camera or app)
• A list of further interesting links (and justify)
Etc.
AFL…
…as students work
…as students present
…as students critique
…as students redraft and improve

12. Example of A2 lesson
• Gender representation: Women
• http://monkeylearns.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/
trying-to-use-ipads-qr-codes-and.html

13. More collaborative tasks
Learn and create…
…Using the camera
…Using ShowMe app or better, Explain Everything
…Using iMovie to create a trailer
Aim: Record learning as it happens.
Advantages: save to camera roll, export to YouTube
and embed into blog… comments on the blog for
self- and peer-assessment

14. Examples from AS
• Quick plenaries: Students record themselves explaining what they
have explored in the lesson
INFORMS PLANNING FOR NEXT LESSON: Can be used at the start of
the next lesson to clear misunderstandings and address gaps
• Early investigations/documentaries into genre and the film industry
– Using Camera, ExplainEverything then iMovie to combine the two
http://thrilleropening1011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/home-learning-task-self-and-
peer.html

15. Example from A2
• Exam preparation – rehearsing a WeMedia
essayhttp://parkg325.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05
/exam-prep-watch-and-comment.html

16. Oracy to improve Literacy
• If you can articulate it well, you have a better
chance of writing it well!
• ExplainEverything is a great tool for that.

17. Your turn to have a go!
• Use ExplainEverything to prepare a presentation
for us
• You can redraft and improve as you go, one slide
at a time.
• Combine pictures, annotations and audio
commentary.
• Selection of tasks.

18. Analysing the editing in an
thriller extract
http://thrilleropening1011.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/analysing-editing.html
Glossary of Editing terms

19. Film Poster Analysis
Listen to the example first if it helps then
deconstruct the film poster, analysing the micro-
elements to discuss genre, audience and
narrative expectations.
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=nVGXLZVVwt0

20. Early investigation
into Film Genre
1. Explore and categorise the
different film posters
2. Aim to match to the film genre
labels
3. Explain your choices, exploring
some of the generic conventions
you have identified.

21. http://msinduction.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/the-berger-slides.html
Representation of women in music videos
http://www.scoop.it/t/wo
men-representation-in-the-
media
http://beyoncecasestudy.blogspot.co.uk/
1. Read though some of the materials.
2. What are the debates arising around the
representations of women in music videos? You
could come up with 3 key questions.
3. Address your questions with evidence found
including screengrabs from videos.

22. Peer Critique
and
Reflecting/Redra
fting
• Be Kind
• Be Helpful
• Be specific
From the front: iPad as visualiser
Or swapping iPad with another group – Use post-its for
critique
Then before handing back, share your findings!
Finally, have a go at making improvements or record what
improvements you would make.

23. Redrafting with ExplainEverything
• Students can re-record their audio
commentary for each separate slide until it’s
as good as possible.
• Example from GCSE Media: Student with SEN
with TA assistance
– Preparing a revision presentation on the
conventions of Action Adventure Genre
(Prepared slides with headings and terminology)

24. Time to share ideas
• Suggestions?

25. • @hgaldinoshea
• @parkhighmedia
• http://parksmediagateway.blogspot.co.uk