New Courses in June 2008
Places are still available on 2 courses for English and Media Studies teachers in June. Teaching Higher Media Studies will take place at Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor on Friday 13 June 1000-1530. English and Media Studies Refresher course will take place at Glasgow's Teacher Building on Friday 20 June 1000-1530. Each course costs £125. Download flyer and booking form.
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AMES Conference: Friday 23 May 2008
Over 70 delegates attended AMES' annual conference 21st Century Literacy: Multimodal Literacy at Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor, Haymarket, Edinburgh. A stimulating keynote address from Andrew Burn, Institute of Education, University of London outlined the ways in which computer games can be used to stimulate literacy and media studies activities. My workshop PowerPoint on multimodal literacy can be downloaded here. Download multimodal literacy PowerPoint.
Media Education Journal 43
MEJ 43 has just been published. It features articles by Julian McDougall on Media Studies 2.0, Andrew Burn on new media and the future of media education. It also features an article by myself on how multimodal literacy might be implemented in within A Curriculum for Excellence and Higher English. A pdf of the ads featured in the article can be downloaded here. Download ads pdf.
Copies of the journal can be obtained by sending £8 to Des Murphy (Secretary AMES), 24 Burnett Place, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, AB24 4QD. (d@murphy47.freeserve.co.uk)
Alternatively why not join AMES for £20 (individual) or £35 (institutional) and receive MEJ 43 and MEJ 44, regular newsletters and reduced conference fee.
Courses on CPDFind 2008-2009
The new Scottish CPD database CPDFind is now available. Most of my courses are listed here. Note that I can customise these courses to your own requirements. To find my courses click on the icon below simply enter words such as 'media' or 'climate change' in the keywords field.
