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Student involvement 
Oliver Cromwell
Neale-Wade Community College - March, Cambridgeshire.
Year 8 students were used for this section of the project as they had recently studied Oliver Cromwell as part of their history curriculum covering "Why do people interpret Oliver Cromwell in very different ways?". This led to an obvious comparative lesson on "Oliver Cromwell Hero or Villain?". What they Year 8 students decided to do was produce an informative video themselves about Oliver Cromwell and how he was connected to the local area. Using local maps and school textbooks they planned locations that would enable people to really get to know the locations... The result is a video presentation that emcompasses Cromwell's time in Huntington, St. Ives and Ely. These videos bring the content alive, allowing users of this website to see for themsleves that the textbook talks about. The Year 8s then used their own previous classwork to put together a series of questions to the Cromwell expert, John Goldsmith , Cambridgeshire county museum's officer, provided all the answers. This has intentionally produced a particularly useful classroom resource. The accompanying worksheets and video transcripts allow this section to be used in class as an effective e-Learning tool. These students from Neale-Wade also went on the final Local Heroes filming with Soham Village College students to London. Here they produced their own scripts and materials to present the "Where are they now?" section. The entertaining end result allows users of this site to see how these potential local herors all had an impact on a national scale (even if we did have to fix it for Hereward!). .............................................................................................
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