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22 November 2017
Want My Job? with Otis Laundon
I spoke to Otis Laundon who teaches beginners 3d modelling and animation with Blender software about how he got into this so young and his road to MozFest.
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22 November 2017
Want My Job? with Neha Lahkanpaul
Dance teacher, journalist, marketer, and facilitator, Neha, spoke to me about how she came to wear so many hats and how those hats took her to MozFest 2017.
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14 November 2017
Neha Lakhanpaul and The Dance Code - MozFest 2017
We're posting up the session plans for the youth led sessions at MozFest 2017
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14 November 2017
See Think Make on Digital Creativity in Primary Schools - MozFest 2017
We're posting up the session plans for the youth led sessions at MozFest 2017.
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14 November 2017
Dave Darch and A Little Learning on using Scratch and HTML - MozFest 2017
If you weren't able to make it to MozFest, we've got the notes from youth led session leaders so you can learn a bit from home - here's a bit of coding for beginners by Dave Darch.
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14 November 2017
Otis Laundon on using Blender - MozFest 2017
We're posting up the session plans for the youth led sessions at MozFest 2017.
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14 November 2017
Femi Owolade-Coombes and South London Raspberry Jam - MozFest 2017
We're posting up the session plans for the youth led sessions at MozFest 2017.
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5 November 2017
What will become known as the sexual abuse uproar of 2017
There's a lot of news and comment ground to cover here. First, I'll try and fail to summarise the events briefly.
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31 October 2017
The nine best worst Halloween family films
Films are a huge part of the Halloween experience but it's not always satisfying for the right reasons! Here we go through the Halloween films that families hate to love...
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30 October 2017
What goes on at... St. Anne's-Belfield School?
We hear from some technology innovators who work at a primary school in Virginia in the US and are coming to MozFest to bring their novel approaches to teaching to this side of the Atlantic.
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30 October 2017
Is it worth talking about the rise of US holidays in Britain?
Everyone loves a knees-up, but with Halloween growing in its popularity and the sheer effort it warrants here in the UK, we ask if the growth of it and Thanksgiving is worth questioning.
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10 October 2017
What goes on at... See Think Make?
There are lots of ways for primary schools to get creative with digital. See Think Make, known for being an Arts Award Training Agency, will bring that ethos to MozFest this year.
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10 October 2017
Want My Job? with Shwetal Shah
Read about the work of the eternally enterprising Shwetal Shah of Erase All Kittens who has spent her life closing the gap between science and technology, and social issues.
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30 September 2017
Erin Moffat, Explore and Bronze achiever and Gold student
We hear from Erin from the Customs House Youth Theatre who's doing her Gold in drama, improv and directing.
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29 September 2017
Tina Dickinson, Bronze and Silver achiever, Gold student
We asked some questions to Tina Dickinson, who is currently doing her Gold Arts Award with 2017-2018 Arts Award Good Practice Centre, Carousel and where she helps out with their disabled-led film festival, Oska Bright Film Festival.
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29 September 2017
Connor Gribben, Bronze and Gold achiever
We asked some questions to Connor, who has done his Gold Arts Award through The Sage Gateshead in graffiti and breakdance.
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25 September 2017
What goes on at... Carousel?
We caught up with Carousel, one of the 2017-2018 Arts Award Good Practice Centres to see how they use Arts Award so well that they earn the title.
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24 September 2017
Owen Daughtery, Gold achiever
We hear from Owen Daughtery who did his Gold Arts Award by joining a course called Creative Technologists ran by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Comment posted on 20 June 2018
Yeah it's massively problematic and really irks me. While the body and identity politics are worth heeding - specifically that ITV have defended their position by saying that physical appearance is NOT a criterion on which contestants, which is incredibly difficult to believe - my issue with it is more overarching and something that Iain Stirling, the voice presenter, has addressed somewhat when he said Love Island is seen to 'dumb down' the nation. As opposed to dumbing down, I think it serves as an overwhelming indictment of the superficiality of modernity. It takes love and sex and places it on an economistic platform without regard for how the men and women - who are wildly segregated, be it by choice or not - take the experience differently. It is, however, heartening (if that's the right word) to see the viewing public rally against the more problematic (at the very least) behaviour. Prime of which is throwing camaraderie out of the window for self-serving sex and ill excuses for emotional infatuation. I have watched this season to fathom out the appeal and I've moved away from my previous allegation that it's as close as you can get to porn on primetime television and towards the view that its issues are, ironically, more complex. There's also the argument that bad television has value, something you can switch your mind off to watch, but I think the spectatorial appeal around Love Island is much more sordid than that.