The 'Getting on the Map' Seminar

Anything covered in the seminar which doesn't appear in the left-hand navigation can be found here.

Birmingham Lives - The Carl Chinn Archive

An exciting and ground-breaking collection based on the Carl Chinn Birmingham People’s History Archive. Bringing together a growing collection of thousands of letters, poems, photographs and oral histories as well as a range of memorabilia and ephemera, BirminghamLives evokes the day-to-day lives of working-class Brummies. These memories bring to life the city's neighbourhoods, schools, shops, work, personalities, housing, street life, experiences of war, games, dialect and family life through encompassing people of all cultures.

BirminghamLives is an ongoing project and aims to continue expanding through multi-media and to be a highly accessible and innovative key feature of the history of the peoples of Birmingham.  The digital archive is hosted on the Birmingham Grid for Learning at http://www.bgfl.org/birminghamlives

British Pathe Archive

The entire British Pathe Archive of 12 million still images and 3,500 hours of film and sound recordings has been made available through the ten Regional Broadband Consortia to schools in England.  Connect to the Pathe site http://php.www.britishpathe.com from any Birmingham school and discounts of 100% are automatically applied to all items you select, even the £500 high resolution files!  The service recognises your school as a West Midlands School and provides free access.

Digital Storytelling Competition

Registration for this year's competition will appear here shortly.

eBooks and eBook Creation

Details of eBooks can be found on our PDA Classroom Trial page.

Video Editing

Windows Movie Maker 2 runs under Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional.  It is a free download from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker/default.asp