For the group podcast I was in a group with Sarah-Jayne Beynon, Rosie Holt and Sheridan wood. Once we had decided on the group members we had to decide on a place that is an efficient out of classroom environment for children to develop children's scientific enquiry and innovation skills. We all decided that we would focus on the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea. The opening statement of the National Waterfront Museum States that,
‘The national waterfront museum tells the story of industry and innovation in Wales, now and over the last 300 years’ – (National Waterfront Museum)
The next stage was to decide when we can all go as a group on a tour of the museum to see what materials and learning techniques it offers the children, this was our biggest implication due to our busy time tables. However, we all attended a trip to the museum and walked around to see all of the figures and displays they had to offer for out of classroom learning. We used Sheridan’s mobile device to video the evidence of the visual learning aids, we also took many images of the displays. I got involved with the educational games and puzzles that they had to offer to show what the children interact with whilst at the museum, Sheridan also recorded this to add into our podcast. I helped Sheridan record some of the videos for our podcast. Once we had seen all that the museum had to offer we went to the reception and I asked if there was anyway we could interview someone on their thoughts and ideas towards the museum being a place of out of classroom learning, but there was no available at that time. Sheridan then took the phone number and rang back to arrange a meeting with a member of staff.
After attending the museum we all went to Sheridan’s house to begin our research on how museums supply children with innovation skills within science. I found information and statistics that we could use within our podcast from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) where I found that 26% of school teachers take their pupils to museums to develop their science knowledge (Inspiration, Identity Learning, 2004). Once the videos and images that we had taken was uploaded on to Microsoft Movie Maker we each decided on who was going to narrate each part and we also created a script to work along-side with. I carried on researching museums and out of class room learning environments so that I was able to contribute to our podcast. We then took it in turn to film ourselves and add it in to the podcast at relevant points. We had to make sure that every part of he podcast would flow in to one another and was also relevant to the last point made. I then created references for the information that I had put in to the Podcast so that they could be entreated in to the end of the podcast.
Here is the link to our Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTZb9rD0AgI&feature=youtu.be
REFERENCES
2004. Inspiration, identity, Learning: The Value of Museums. [Retrieved February 2015] Available at:
https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/rcmg/projects/inspiration-identity-learning-1/Inspiration-%20Identity-%20Learning-The%20value%20of%20museums.pdf
National Waterfront Museum [Retrieved February 2015] Available at:
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/swansea/about/
