Teaching and Learning get Digitalsavvy

November 2005

An article about the Virtual High Wycombe Project appeared in the TES Teacher Magazine on November 11th, and our recent work on multi camera shoooting was published on the TES Online Website on November 3rd.

October 2005

October 10th saw the launch of the Digitalsavvy Virtual High Wycombe Project. The launch took place at Great Kingshill Church of England Combined School. This flexible new resource can be used across a variety of subjects and year groups.

July 2005

July 14th saw the lauhch of the Virtual Victorian School, a KS1 History project. Digitalsavvy worked with a group of partners, including Telford & Wrekin LEA and Wolverhampton University, in order to create a rich, online resource that would support the teaching of Primary History.

February 2004

Digitalsavvy has become an official content provider and retailer for Curriculum Online. Our Llandudno Project Pack (Primary Geography Unit 13) can now be purchased using eLearning Credits.

December 2003

On December 5th the Norfolk Schools Energy Summit was held at the EcoTech Centre in Swaffham. Digitalsavvy worked with the Learning and Skills Council to deliver an educational project across three Norfolk schools. The project involved Key Stage 4 science pupils, and formed part of their GCSE curriculum during the Autumn term 2003.

April 2003

Monday 28th April sees the launch of Digitalsavvy Limited, a company devoted to the development of collaborative learning through the adoption of technologies new and old. Combining traditional teaching with Internet, radio skills, digital photography and film making, Digitalsavvy aims to support teachers and learners in creating their own curriculum based multiple-media projects and, through collaborative work, engage the learner more deeply with their subject, adopting multiple learning styles.

‘This is the next big step for collaborative learning… promoting and developing a range of learning styles, and motivating and engaging a broad spectrum of learners to develop skills in problem solving, communication and reasoning. By allowing individual learners to explore their own creative ideas in a fun and engaging way, we aim to assist them in developing higher levels of cognitive skills.’ Hendrik Ball MA

‘Working alongside our education partners, we are striving to enable teachers and learners to adopt digital technologies as tools for collaborative learning; to support the teachers’ and parents’ roles and to use digital technologies, at whatever level, to engage the entire range of learning styles in the classroom.’ Jon Cardus

Editors Notes:

1. Hendrik Ball is Managing Director of Digitalsavvy Limited. He spent over 20 years producing and directing many award winning educational television programmes at the BBC. He then spent five years pioneering digital and broadband projects in BBC Interactive Factual & Learning. He recently received a BAFTA nomination for Key Stage 3 Geography, a digital project for schools, and has a Masters Degree in Open and Distance Learning.

2. Jon Cardus is Director of Production at Digitalsavvy Limited. Originally a secondary science teacher, Jon worked at the BBC for 5 years developing innovations within the BBC Education Strategy and is passionate about the integration of digital technologies with traditional teaching methodologies.

Contact Details:
HENDRIK BALL
hendrik.ball@digitalsavvy.co.uk
Telephone 01494 719358
Mobile 07768 864348

JON CARDUS
jon.cardus@digitalsavvy.co.uk
Tel 01494 719355
Mobile 07947 214738

Fax 01494 717178


Release: 2003/0051