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Summary

Mediascapes are a potentially powerful way of engaging with the world around us. Using PDAs they offer new opportunities to explore and interact with the landscape in exciting and varied ways. The award-winning Create-A-Scape website project aims to offer the inspiration for teachers and pupils to start using mediascapes, and to provide easy-to-use guides and free software (HP's Mediascape Authoring Toolkit) to help make mediascape creation as simple and accessible as possible.

Project type and status

New Statesman Award Winner

Create-A-Scape is a free teaching resource: www.createascape.org.uk. The website was launched in September 2006, and we are encouraging people to download the free toolkit and let us know how they're using it (NB an updated version of the toolkit is now available). Create-A-Scape won a New Statesman New Media Award in July 2007, in the 'education' category.

Yahoo Finds of the Year

Create-A-Scape was also a runner-up in Yahoo!’s Educational Finds of the Year 2007 - www.yahoo.co.uk/finds2007.

Links

External:
Visit the Create-A-Scape website for a set of free resources to enable teachers and pupils aged 10 and over to create and experience mediascapes:
www.createascape.org.uk

Internal:
Create-A-Scape flyer (68kb pdf)
Create-A-Scape evaluation report (378kb)
Create-A-Scape evaluation report summary (1.5mb)
Create-A-Scape press release (launch - 19 September 2006)
Create-A-Scape press release (New Statesman award winner - 25 July 2007)
Create-A-Scape presentation at HP mediascapes conference (15 September 2006, 1.8mb pdf)
Web article on Create-A-Scape

Online press coverage

16/02/07 - TES
09/01/07 - Education Guardian
29/09/06 - Electronics Weekly
22/09/06 - PC Pro
19/09/06 - New Electronics

Create-A-Scape