Immersive learning comes to Someries Infants – press and reaction

It’s been our busiest year yet at 4D including our recent installation at Someries Infants in Luton. We were delighted to see the school’s official launch of the space got some well deserved press coverage which you can read here and here. You can also watch the short video below of the space in action. Another great immersive space engaging pupils in new and creative ways! [media url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNpxCjX5h80″ width=”600″ height=”400″]

Inspiring immersive learning at Hebden Green School.

Hebden Green School

We recently spent time visiting some of our schools to see the fantastic ways they are using their immersive spaces. We observed lessons and spoke with staff and pupils to hear how the space has impacted on the whole school. It was a very inspiring few days and we took our friends from Visual Collective along to capture what we saw.

First up was Hebden Green School in Winsford. The school provides for around 100 pupils aged 2 – 19 years who have physical and medical difficulties. Many of the pupils have associated learning difficulties and sensory impairments.

4D installed an immersive space at Hebden Green in 2011 and it’s been fantastic to see the new and dynamic ways the school have been inspiring and engaging their pupils. Find out more in the 3 minute video below.

Further videos will be coming up in the next few days so keep an eye out for these!

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4D Pop Up video – first look!

With the first 4D Pop Up orders being delivered in the coming weeks, we went out on the road to capture some pupils working in our new portable immersive space.

Click the video to see how quick and easy it is to create an engaging and inspirational immersive space.

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Learn more!

If you’d like to see a Pop Up then just get in touch. Visit us at MediaCityUK and we will give you a guided tour, alternatively get in touch and we can arrange to see you.

We will also be in London on July 22nd – contact us for more details and to arrange a viewing slot.

4D Open Days – come and explore an immersive space!

Worsbrough Common's new hall space

In the coming weeks we’re throwing open the doors to one of our newest spaces and we want you to come and explore!

We’ve transformed Worsbrough Common’s main school hall with giant projection, LED lighting, surround sound and an interactive floor.

This is the best way to really experience and understand what our spaces are all about. You can use our software, 4D create, to dramatically transform the room in an instant. You can also see the features our design team create to take all 4D installs to the next level! Our team will be on hand to answer any questions and we will also have the 4D Pop Up available to view.

Come and find out more by filling out the form below now!

Full details

19th June 2013 – Worsbrough Common Primary School, Barnsley

2pm – 5pm

Can’t make this event? Send us a message and we can arrange for you to come to our offices at MediaCityUK.

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Manchester Communication Academy Content Project 3

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Our ongoing project with Manchester Communication Academy is reaching it’s final weeks so we visited the Academy to catch up on their progress.

Gav, our teaching and learning associate, met with the pupils to take them through the review stage of their content creation. This is a vital stage in creating immersive themes as it’s when key tweaks can take place. Gav gave the class some quick tips on sourcing higher quality images and working with iMovie to create outstanding content. These little tweaks will take the pupils already high standard of work to the next level.

It was great to meet the class again and hear them enthusiastically explain the content they have produced so far. The module is all about creating aspirational and motivating themes and the pupils have sourced lots of fantastic images to create some powerful  images in Photoshop and iMovie. From Olympic hero Jessica Ennis  to inspirational leader Martin Luther King, the classes work is full of dramatic photos and motivational quotes.

The pupils will be presenting their work in a couple of weeks and members of the 4D team will be visting the Academy to see the finished content. Following the completion of the project, the school will be writing a full case study and there will be a full write up on our website. 

If you’ve missed the first two articles in the series, catch up here and here.

 

 

Manchester Communication Academy Content Project 2

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As we mentioned last month, 4D creative have been commissioned by Manchester Communication Academy to run a content creation project.

Year 8 pupils have been asked by Year 7 teaching staff to create multimedia content as part of a unit on “Exploring the arts as a participant media”. Pupils will explore and use image manipulation and video editing software to create a dynamic video product using still images and backing audio. The piece of work will attempt to tell a story or convey a message based on the feelings and emotions a chosen piece of music was intended to evoke.

Curating content in this way gives the Academy lots of positive outcomes. The Year 8 pupils are getting a new unit of work which develops a variety of skills, from communication and literacy to image manipulation and ICT skills. Whilst Year 7 staff and pupils will have a dynamic lesson to work with specially created for them. The academy as a whole are also getting lots of high quality content for their immersive space which can be used across the curriculum. As a company, we love seeing how our spaces develop over time and this project is a great example of what can be achieved. Empowering pupils with the responsibility to curate lessons is also a really powerful tool and we can’t wait to see the results.

Gav and Pete from our team met with the class recently to introduce the pupils to 4D create, the software that powers our immersive spaces. Gav explained what made great content and how manipulating images can help get the pupil’s message across.

Finally, the class were taught how to upload their finished videos, pictures and sounds to 4D create using the simple drag and drop menus. It was very exciting to hear how the pupils planned to use the space and how quickly they learnt how to work with 4D create.

The Academy are also running a series of blogs on the project which you can read here and here –  we thoroughly recommend these. There’s still lots more to come from the project which we will be mentioning here very soon. Click the photos below for a slideshow of our morning at the 4D demo space.

 

 

Manchester Communication Academy Content Project

This week sees the start of an exciting new project for 4D creative. We have been commissioned to work with the staff and pupils at Manchester Communication Academy to produce new and exciting content for the school’s immersive space. This content has been requested by teaching staff themselves, so that their Immersive Space can be used to further extend the use of the room and to test a powerful way to create content that benefits the school and the young people involved in this very 21st century skill.

Our teaching and learning associate, Gav will be working alongside staff and a group of Year 8 pupils to create new immersive themes and teaching resources for the school. Pupils will be taking and sourcing images, capturing and making sounds and recording videos which can then be tweaked, manipulated and polished into finished content.

We are very excited by this commission because the project will further strengthen how we can help our network of schools get the best from their immersive spaces. We are passionate that each of our education sited installs is firstly a teaching and learning environment that can have a huge impact on pupils. We can see that the learning experience and benefits can stretch out to subjects and lessons outside of the immersive space, and content creation, we hope, will be of great benefit to the young creators and the school itself.

Putting the pupils in control, they have firstly been given an area of curriculum to work with. Their brief is to create content related to ‘Inspiration’ specifically linked to the ‘Health and Wellbeing’ section of their syllabus. However, being immersive learning, the scope for the project goes way beyond this. Pupils will be involved and supported by MCA staff and our input at every stage of the process, writing briefs, creating content, editing their work and producing a final experience that is delivered in their immersive space.

The students will also be tracking their progress with regular blogs and video updates. We will be sharing these over the course of the eight week project with a final case study being produced later in the term. Check back for the latest news or follow our twitter feed.

 

A new year and a new office!


We are very happy to announce that 4D creative are now based at MediaCityUK. We have moved into new offices at the Landing which is at the heart of Media City next door to the BBC’s new studios.

The new office opens up a lot of new opportunities including more room to run training events and exciting new networking and collaboration possibilities.

Our new address is as follows:

The Landing
Blue Tower
3rd Floor
MediaCityUK
M50 2ST

Our phone number and email details are unchanged.

Pop Up Immersive Experiences

This week we have been on tour to trial our brand new pop up immersive space. Our design team have been working on a flexible, portable immersive solution for a number of months and the time was right to test a couple of these designs with a storytelling day.

Our new portable pod will enable anyone to create an immersive space anywhere they want in just a few minutes. In the new portable structure, light, sound and projection can all be triggered from a tablet device running our bespoke software, 4D create. 4D creative will still be installing permanent immersive experiences but a new portable solution is a really exciting development for us as it makes our spaces even more flexible and removes the need for a dedicated room.

As part of our research and development for this new product, we needed to trial what we could do within the new space so we packed our bags and went on tour. Our hosts were Hebden Green School in Cheshire, The TEN Centre in Salford, Manchester Communication Academy and two schools from Liverpool, Bishop Eton and St Ambrose. Big thanks for the warm welcome we received and for letting us pop up, play, learn and experience what mobile immersive learning could be.

In the primary and SEN settings we ran an afternoon of storytelling. The space and technology side of the trial worked as planned which kept our development manager Nick happy! All we needed now was a room full of pupils and a storyteller to see how the space would work.

Fortunately for us, our Teaching Associate Gav had transformed into Professor Flummox for the day! Prof Flummox is the most intelligent man you will ever meet but also one of the most forgetful. He loves stories and can tell you hundreds of them, he also has a special magic book that helps to transform the space you are in. There will definitely be more outings for Professor Flummox in 2013. If you’d like a storytelling day at your school then just let us know via our contact page.

There was a real buzz around the sessions as we transported the class from their usual classroom to anywhere imaginable. As we were running a storytelling session in the space, the lesson was used for the pupils to practice their “WOW words” – by immersing the young people in the sights and sounds of the session, they were able to express themselves in more detail and with a wider vocabulary.

At Manchester Communication Academy we met a group of secondary pupils who were involved in a research project. We let them explore the new pod and encouraged them to ask questions to find out how the pod would work. They came up with some great ideas which have really helped our thinking for the next steps.

Our mobile immersive spaces are being launched early next year. If you’d like to be one of the first to see a pod then just send us a quick email and we’ll make sure you are kept informed or fill in this quick form below.

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A day in the life of 4D creative

This week Gav spent some time in the office & our demonstration immersive space with Jane Hewitt. Jane is photographer, artist, facilitator, teacher & friend of 4D creative.

Whilst she was here Jane spent some time with her camera around our Hope Mill base and sent us a collage of her work. We thought we’d share it with you (click the picture below to enlarge)

If you’d like to see more of Jane’s fantastic work you can follow her blog at:

http://www.janehewitt.blogspot.co.uk

Or on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Janeh271

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