Monday 25 July 2011

New DVD available to support course teams in exploring BFL

Also on the agenda for tomorrow is the release of a new DVD which is designed as an introduction for course teams starting to develop their course BFL strategy. It looks at BFL from the perspectives of FLI staff and Teaching Fellows, and introduces teams to the proposed principles for good practice in BFL and the perspectives approach being suggested by FLI.

So far, the DVD has had excellent feedback from our course symposium recipients in Ontario and Orange, as indicated in this comment from Zeffie Nicholas, Ontario:

'We viewed and used the video prepared by FLI for use by Course and School teams yesterday. Sensational. It was extremely useful in providing background, contextualising our work and setting the scene for us preparing a School plan re BFL.'

Huge thanks go out to the nine inspiring FLI Teaching Fellows who were interviewed for the DVD: Yann Guisard, Jenny Sappey, Chris Bushell, Brad Edlington, Lyn Hay, Jacquie Tinkler, Lucy Webster, John Rafferty and Richard Taffe. Quite honestly, it was a pure pleasure to listen to your experiences and wisdom as we went on our 'road trip' in April. And to think that we have more FLI Fellows with just as much wisdom and experience to share to interview later this year!

A few other acknowledgments can't be missed - James Childs-Maidment did a brilliant job with filming and editing, Amy Felke was great in helping with CSU images, and the staff of LTS's media services, in particular Ian Lloyd, Ian Hamilton and Tony O'Neill blew us away with their responsiveness and professionalism in taking the master to final production.

Here's a sneak preview of the trailer:



If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the full DVD, please contact FLI. When you receive it, you'll notice a black and white image on the back of the case. If you haven't seen these before, it's a QR code, and it lets you access this blog from your mobile just by pointing it at the image. More aout QR codes and how they can be used in education next week.

Happy viewing!

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