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High Point Seeing the Hereward statue appear on the empty plinth in the video Low Point Being accosted by the "Culture Warden" at Trafalgar Square who wanted to stop us filming but relented after a call to base! ............................................................................................................... Content projects such as this one involving working with teachers and students and also with the Regional Broadband Consortium are a very stimulating experience. Normally in a content project there is a very well defined project plan which runs its course and then a line is drawn underneath. This project has grown and grown. Once we had settled on the heroes I set about gathering together and reading reference material and planning alongside Andrew Field the types of activity we wanted to present to students and teachers. We decided on having students videoed visiting sites relevant to the heroes and also videoing experts answering students' questions. Both of these involved all sorts of risks which we had to minimise. Getting the students involved in thinking about what kind of questions to ask meant that the answers would be more relevant to them. How did we chose the students? Would the weather be fit on the day chosen to get everyone together? We took these risks and with the exception of a day of dodging the rain drops in Yarmouth everything went very well. There was also an element of serendipity involved. We decided on a day in London to record students at the statues of 3 out of 4 of the heroes. Andrew had the brilliant idea of populating the empty plinth on Trafalgar Square with Hereward and thanks to a bit of technical wizardry from Pav our video expert this became the most popular video to watch! Working with the museums on how to best get across the message about the hero in question was very interesting and we have laid the foundations for good relationships with some people with a passion for their subject. I personally am looking forward very much to seeing the materials being used in the classroom.
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