Research taster
Students creating both traditional and multimedia texts using ICT often focus more on the visual and spatial qualities of the text than they do when creating texts by hand.  Students spend more time selecting fonts, designing templates and choosing images.

Your evidence
Would you find it useful to think about how you plan resources to support students’ creation of multimedia texts?  When you are planning your English lessons for the next week you could use this table to consider the different resources that you might use.  After the lesson you could evaluate how appropriate the resources were, and how easy they were to use and manage.

(Adapted from Reflective Activity 10-1c on the Reflective Teaching website at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch10/ra10-1c.html)

Moving forward
Now you have collected evidence about the resources you are planning and using during your lessons you might like to identify how many times ICT features as one of your resources.  You may like to consider:
•    whether ICT was always used appropriately and if there were any practical considerations in terms of ease of use and manageability; and
•    whether there are additional occasions where ICT may have been a good choice of resource.

Find out more
The full project is InterActive Education: teaching and learning in the information age set out to answer a big question lead by Prof. Rosamund Sutherland, Prof. Susan Robertson, and Prof. Peter John. The project website is at: http://www.interactiveeducation.ac.uk/

Find out more about how teachers have used ICT in their teaching and in developing learning by reading a GTC Research of the Month at: http://www.gtce.org.uk/research/romtopics/rom_curriculum/ict/