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 Mark Hardwick, CEO of Ymogen, will speak about create.tv, a social networking tool built around collaborative film making. Create.tv brings creativity into the classroom by giving teachers and pupils a shared space where they can make films around any subject. What sets create.tv apart from other film making programmes is that it is web-based and enables real time collaboration - which means that team work needn’t stop when pupils leave the classroom. It brings the creative processes of writing, visualising, planning and editing films together with educational resources in one easy-to-use space. Teachers have active assessment mechanisms built into the collaboration tools. Public institutions and companies with audio-visual resources have a space to build creative projects around their material. Science, history and English teachers have used the platform to great effect , finding that it gives engaged pupils the space to work creatively and independently and less engaged pupils an entry point into coursework that does not interest them. According to one teacher who has used it “this is real independent learning, and the most effective use of social networking I have come across”.
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