Do newspapers matter in the digital age? TED talk - worth watching!

Coronavirus Lockdown Video

"These unprecedented times" have, naturally, led media-minded people to unleash their creativity. Here's a wonderfully entertaining video made by Jazmin Parker, who used last year's A* A Level Media skills to convince her colleagues working as entertainers at Legoland to dress up in their costumes and contribute to a wonderfully lip-synced video from their homes, set to (of course) "Everything's NOT Awesome" from 'The Lego Movie'.

"We never owned an iPad" - how the Media have changed since your parents grew up...

One of the exercises you do at the beginning of Year 12 is to think about how your own interaction with the Media has developed in your lifetime. The challenge is to make that into a video. Here's a fantastic example of that from someone who grew up in the 1970s and 80s - about the age of your parents...

Made me think about how we would have managed in lockdown 35 years ago...

"We didn't own an iPad"