A SPECIAL INVITATION FOR TEACHERS, LECTURERS AND YOUTH WORKERS.

Your school, college or setting will also have the opportunity to receive concessionary tickets for your students and any accompanying adults to attend a Gala screening at Leeds Town Hall on Friday 30th March 2012.

Preview screenings will take place at the Leeds City Learning Centres on the following dates and times:

Using Final Cut Pro to edit the footage, students additionally gained first hand knowledge and experience of effective editing techniques.

Year 10 learners from Carr Manor High School have been the first to try collaborative Prezi presentation productions at Leeds CLCs.  For the pre-production planning stage of their Video Production unit, learners worked collaboratively in their teams to produce a Prezi presentation that evidenced their planning documentation.  There were four teams working on four separate Prezi collaborations simultaneously - without any technical glitches!

Initially learners struggled to communicate effectively well enough to overcome the demands of the task, but after a short problem solving break they overcame the issues and succeeded,  and thoroughly enjoyed completing the presentations.

Prezi collaborations are a great way to plan or present any group work, as well as develop team-working, communication and problem solving skills. It is both enjoyable and productive – so please attend the CLC CPD session on collaborative working if you would like to learn and practice how to best use it in the classroom.

View the published Prezis below – not only viewable online but downloadable too.!

City of Leeds prize winners

James from CMS Media presented the students with their High Definition video camera.

Ray Wilkes and five students from City of Leeds School worked with Chris Boylan from the Derek Fatchett Centre to create their film. They used drawings and animation to bring their ideas to life and filmed interviews to find out what young people’s vision of the future might hold.

The competition was judged by Nigel Richardson (Director of Children’s Services), Cllr Judith Blake (Chair of the Children’s Trust Board), Paul Napier (Editor, YEP), Joe Smith (Leeds Children’s Mayor), Garry O’Loughlin (Managing Director, CMS Media) and Simon Grayson (Manager, Leeds United).

You can watch their entry on Vimeo here.

Scratch is a free and Open Source software package for creating 2D animations and games.

It is one of our most popular primary school workshops as it introduces young children to programming in a fun and user friendly way. Over the past couple of years many primary school children, from across Leeds, have been introduced to this and have created short animations involving all sorts of weird and wonderful sprites.

Check out some of the Videos below to see some examples of pupils’ work.

If you would like to make a booking for your Primary School contact Jelena Zindovic on 0113 288 3512.

Schools who take part currently in the sessions  are; St Anthony’s Catholic Primary, Hugh Gaitskell Primary, Hunslet St Mary’s Primary,  Beeston Primary, Farnley Park High School, Cockburn School.

Schools who take part currently in the sessions  are; St Anthony’s Catholic Primary, Hugh Gaitskell Primary, Hunslet St Mary’s Primary,  Beeston Primary, Farnley Park High School, Cockburn School

Year 6 were the winners and they chose to record Christmas songs that they had written in the weeks leading up to the reward day.  The children took it in turns in small groups to work in the recording studio with Kerry Goddard laying down their vocals.  The students were given the tracks on cd’s to take home to show to friends and family.  To give the cd’s a professional finish the students created Christmas cd covers using Adobe Photoshop.

During the afternoon session the students worked with Chris Burton to produce short movies on the Mac computers.  They learnt how to combine images with video footage as well as adding music and sounds effects to create a sound track.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their time at South Leeds CLC and couldn’t wait to get back to school to show off their hard work!

This time around children from Windmill Primary & Low Road Primary worked together on a photography project to create banners of their school names.  The students learnt how to use a digital camera and took photos of each other which they then manipulated in Adobe Photoshop.  The students then were allocated letters to fill with the images they had altered.  The finished letters were collected together resulting in photographic masterpieces!

The highlight of the session was the premier screening of the Stepping Stones Christmas music video.  Nick Field from North CLC and Chris Boylan from Derek Fatchett CLC worked their socks off to put together a collaborative music video with included Looked After students from all 4 CLC’s.  The students had lots of fun making the video and even more fun watching it!!

This year students attending the Stepping Stones South sessions are from the following schools; Bruntcliffe School, Morley Academy, South Leeds Academy, Woodkirk Academy, Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School and Swallow Hill .  Student mentors are from Leeds Metropolitan University.