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Teaching Hugo

Around 40 primary, secondary and further education educators had the great pleasure of seeing Hugo 3D at Edinburgh Cineworld on 12 May 2012. Many who are unconvinced by the claims of 3D cinema left the cinema with a different opinion of 3D - at least when in the hands of a master director. The afternoon featured presentations by Edinburgh University's Dr Pasqaule Iannone on silent cinema and by Rick Instrell with a 'key aspects' analysis of Hugo as well as ways of using the film and the source novel across CfE subject areas. Rick's materials will soon be avalailable for purchase at his new website www.deep-learning.co.uk.

Teaching Hugo Corrigenda

Click to download corrections and additions to Rick Instrell's PowerPoints. It also shows how to hyperlink files to a PowerPoint presentation and contains an analysis of the lettering of the Hugo logo.

AMES Newsletter March 2012

The March 2012 AMES newsletter contains details of the Teaching Hugo event, reports from the 2011 conference, the UKLA conference, Screen Studies conference and Pixar-Disney's Brave at EIFF as well as other news..

AMES Position Paper

On February 6 2011 we published a paper "Breaking Barriers: Multimodal and Media Literacy in the Curriculum for Excellence". This is a statement of where we believe media fits into the new curriculum and is essential reading for all media (and non-media) teachers. It has received wide circulation to LTS, SQA, HMIE, Creative Scotland, FE colleges, all local authorities and independent schools. Download PDF of position paper.

Please send comments on the paper to Rick Instrell at Instrell@aol.com.

Why Join AMES?

The Association for Media Education in Scotland is a grassroots organisation set up by classroom teachers to promote media education on a national level while also providing support and advice to media teachers themselves.

AMES’ objectives are:

     • To promote media literacy
     • To support media teachers
     • To raise the status of media education

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