jog_on
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Imaginary worlds - quick questionYou know the ICT part - has anyone skipped that completely? The bit where you change the pictures' colours etc? I don't think that it will actually add much to the children's understanding of imaginary worlds stories and would rather do more work on setting and characterisation. Do you think that would be okay?
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fmath
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When I did it last year, I didnt do all that changing colours malarky! Think its probably better without that honestly.
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jog_on
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Thanks! 
think I'm going to abandon that - I don't get which learning objectives it actually meets anyway!
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myrtle
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Likewise re camera angles, get bogged down and away from the focus...
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jog_on
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Good good...glad we're all agreed! 
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choccat
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I think the only objective it meets is the nefarious one of getting ICT into everything you and the children do.
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jog_on
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Yeah, true that!
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dillsage
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Similarly with 'familiar settings' and camera angles - I spent ages finding clips to use for this and then got told that the video I'd chosen didn't link closely enough with the texts. Strangely enough, I didn't happen to have a video available that linked more closely - people who write these plans ought to try and apply them! Mind you, I have referred back to the idea of different camera angles quite a lot since (having done all that planning I decided to go ahead and use it anyway) and I think it has actually helped the children to think about how a writer gets similar effects. Varjak Paw has loads of details where you can easily imagine a change of camera angle. So I've just argued both sides.
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Irulan
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I did use the colour changing bit but only so far that it was a ppt with the photos already changed by me. We used it as a discussion point for how we reacted to the differences in the landscape depending on the colour. I didn't let the children do it as I thought it would take too much time and detract from the writing. This was my cheat!
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jog_on
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Thanks - great idea!
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Irulan
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Forgot, I also printed out the photos and laminated them to make it easier for discussion.
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jog_on
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Great idea - thanks x
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talulabell
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jog on i thought i might link this with your iea of using a sheet to create an imaginary world. Where use photos where i change the colours already of the places they have created with the sheet. If that makes sense. Then doing lion, witch and the wardrobe and when they write their own version of going through the wardrobe it can lead to some where on our sheet world.
Do you have to write a whole story for this unit or could it be part.
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jog_on
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Yeah, that could work!
I'm writing a whole story for the unit, but I'm sure that as long as you have the elements of the story in there, then that'll be fine!
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