Virtual Tour of Conisbrough Castle

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Virtual Tour of Conisbrough Castle
Mexborough School
By Mr RJ Huggins
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Background
SYeLP Pilot School
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Gifted Talent Humanities
G T Humanities
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Aims of the Virtual Tour

• Extend and stimulating G T students interest
  in history as a subject that they would want to
  chose to study at GCSE or pursue in their leisure
  time.
• To develop a model of good ICT practice that
  could be developed and used by other departments
  within the school and possibly by other schools.
• To produce an ICT package which could incorporate
  local history and help deliver the Yr. 7 National
  Curriculum for history.

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Aims of the Virtual Tour

• Develop the literacy, Oracy and presentational
  skills of the targeted group inline with the
  schools development plan.
• To produce a virtual text book that could be
  uploaded to the South Yorkshire e-Learning
  Projects VLE which could then be downloaded by
  both students and teachers at other educational
  institutions within South Yorkshire.
• To build up infrastructure of experience and
  hardware to enable the department to produce
  similar projects in the future.

To Have Some Fun!
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Objectives

• 15 students from Yr. 9 were selected on the basis
  of their KS3 assessment data.
• Permission was requested from parents to put them
  through an after school enrichment programme.
• Specialist teachers were brought in to help teach
  the students how to edit digital images film
  and use the digital cameras.

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Objectives

• Mr Huggins delivered the enrichment course on
  Medieval history castle building.
• Students were also taught how to use some of the
  advanced features of PowerPoint.

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Objectives

• The G T students were given coaching on how to
  give public presentation.
• They also studied a selection of Yr. 7 text books
  to analyse the reading age ability of the
  targeted Yr. 7 audience.

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The Field Trip

• The students were split up into three groups
  which were coordinated by a history specialist.
• Each group looked at different aspects of the
  castle.
• Building Positioning.
• Defences.
• Life.

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The Field Trip

• On the day of the trip the students went around
  the site with the tour guide before splitting up
  into their groups.
• They then spent the rest of the morning planning
  filming their aspects of the virtual tour.
• We returned to school in time for lunch!

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Designing The Virtual Tour

• In the afternoon we reconvened in the new study
  centre and began uploading and editing the
  pictures and video films onto the schools
  network.
• We used Windows Movie Maker to edit the film.

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Completing The Tour

• It took a further six after school classes to
  finish off producing the tour.
• The students decided to produce an observation
  sheet for each tour with differentiated tasks for
  the Yr. 7 students to complete.

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Evaluation
Virtual Tour of Conisbrough Castle
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I used to think that it was unfair that kids who
misbehaved got to go on free trips to Alton
Towers or the ice skating ring when we work hard
and just get merit certificates.
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Further Information
Mexborough School 01709 585858
E-mail address hugy_at_huggins.2000.freeeseve.co.uk

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