You know that feeling you get when you have been planning a big event for the past few months and suddenly it’s over? That’s how I’m feeling today, after a truly fantastic day at the first Scottish Film and Learning Festival in Glasgow on Saturday. The area around George Square really did have a festival feeling, as the Great Scottish (Children’s) Run was also in town, but not even the samba band immediately outside one of the conference venue’s seminar rooms could dampen the enthusiasm inside. For those of you who were not able to attend this time, here is the complete list of presenters and presentations. If you click on the title of the presentation it will take you to some further information or resources related to the speaker and/or the presentation topic. A big thank you to John Johnstone from Radio EduTalk who came along and captured some of the presentations, which you can hear by going to the EduTalk website.
John Murray – Reading Explorers
Jo Hall – BBC L.A.B.
Sarah Wright – The Show-Stopping Toolkit
Rob Smith – Using Film in the Classroom
Mark Reid – Cinematheque Francaise and Understanding Cinema
Tim Flood – Draw What You See
Jonathan Charles – Using Storyboards to Develop Visual Literacy
Claire Docherty – Using the Scottish Film Archive in the Classroom
Bill Boyd – Ten Tools for Reading Film
Sarah Derrick – Discovery Film Festival DCA
Athole McLauchlan – Film Studies in Social Studies
David Griffith – From Shots to Sentences
Barbara Hill and Gordon Brown – SQA and the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy
Jo Spence – Into Film Programme for Schools
Craig Steele – Movie Mashup
Jennifer Jones – Commonwealth Digital Project
Glow Scotland – Using Glow to Enhance Visual Literacy
Bruce Eunson – Film and the Scots Language