This film shows two examples of teachers using online communities successfully in their classes. Northfleet School for Girls, Kent, Steve Puxty is using the website Rafi.ki to run a Business and Enterprise project called 'Design 4 U'. His Yr9 students are tasked with collaborating with partner schools found via the Rafi.ki network to design t-shirts which they then print and ship to the various schools around the world. David Rogers at Priory School, Hampshire, uses data gathered from contacts on his personal Facebook and Twitter networks as stimulus for his Yr8 geography class about piracy and interdependence. During the class, David sends out a tweet to his personal learning network to discover what people want to know about modern day piracy and how they would like the information presented. Using the Twitter responses coming through live to the classroom, the students work toward dispelling myths about piracy, sharing their research findings with the Twitter network as they go.

Video Series: Better Learning with ICT - Case Studies
Release Date 2009