Our Place, 2006
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KEYWORDS

Interactive illustration, which helps to visualise the use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning


WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?

March, 2006


WHAT DID IT INVOLVE?

Polar Produce were commissioned by the Girls Day School Trust (GDST) to design an illustration, which would highlight how teachers and pupils could use Web 2.0 technologies for distributed learning. The GDST consists of twenty-six schools, dispersed throughout the UK. The GDST were planning to connect the schools together using high speed broadband and create shared aggregation space through which the schools could interact, share and exchange knowledge.


To help facilitate teachers, pupils and staff thinking, GDST commissioned Polar Produce to create short illustration, which would visualise how new technologies would enhance and change the way the schools could learn together.


In response, Polar Produce created a short flash animation piece, 'Our Place' (demo title), which visualised how emerging broadband and social software tools could support intra and inter school collaboration and allow for meaningful interconnections to emerge through collective and pervasive, virtual learning spaces.