Chenai Takundwa, who has just joined Year 12 at Tallis, is one of the editors of
Live! Magazine, a brilliant youth run enterprise that is based in Brixton. We are considering setting up a branch of Live! at Tallis and are looking for budding journalists, designers, photographers, editors, writers etc. I've posted the flyer above. Emma Warren, the co-ordinator of the magazine, is also a Tallis parent so the links are already quite strong.
Please encourage anyone you know who might be interested to contact Mr Nicholls (or Chenai). We will be having our first meeting soon so watch this space. Here's a short video about the magazine and the Live! Futures project.
Using this tool might be a great way to do an initial analysis of a longer piece of writing for common words, themes, related images and map of meanings before the detailed line by line reading.
Over at the Creative Tallis website we are attempting to compile a list of useful, free and esay-to-use web applications to enhance the learning experience. The latest link on the Creativity Resources page is to a service called EtherPad. This can be used to create real time collaborative word processed documents. There are other sites that allow you to do this but EtherPad seems to be a real no fuss alternative. There is no sign up and sharing is achieved via sending an email or instant message to other users.
I'd just like to remind everyone that the school has a website devoted to creative learning and that we are always interested in examples of best practice to highlight for the benefit of colleagues in (and outside) school. We have received some excellent feedback about the site so far but we are conscious that the current examples on the Creative Learning page do not reflect the innovations in place to promote creative learning across the school. It would be great to know which creative learning strategies each of you use on a regular basis.
