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Use video across the curriculum - for assessment, collaboration, thinking skills and more!

Video devices are in the hands of most of your learners - mobile phones, iPods, webcams on laptops, the list goes on. Most children will instantly tell you how to turn them on and capture video. But how can you use video to impact on their learning? Can video be used to engage learners with topics right across the curriculum?

Inspiralit is an ever-growing collection of learning activities, designed by and with teachers, ranging from 5 minutes to an hour or more. These teaching activities will help you to help your students become skilled, knowledgable creators of digital media. Whilst developing critical thinking and practical skills, your students will gain another learning tool allowing accessible assessment, literacy support, topic enrichment and more. It will help you to create motivating learning activities that will enliven all areas of the school curriculum.

Take a look in the competencies section - find learning activities that will move your students on

Please add your own ideas to the site - simply edit an existing activity, or add an activity using the buttons on the competency pages.

Inspiralit exists to help teachers develop learners who are literate beyond fundamentally important reading and writing.

By harnessing the whole range of modern media to tell their story, while having a critical appreciation of the work of others, these young people will be equipped to navigate their information-rich environment with confidence and skill.

To find out more about Inspiralit, the research it is based on and how you can use it in teaching and learning, take a look at our FAQ page.