Bringing Humanities Lessons To Life – Religious Studies
Religious Education
Web Design
Web Development is a growing industry and a lot of
jobs involve a bit of work on the internet. Putting work up on the internet
need not be difficult, applications like iWeb work from templates, which means
you can create an impressive website simply by typing in your text and
uploading images. Publishing students
work to the web rather than putting it up on notice boards in the corridor
means that it is available for revision and visible to parents. The individual
religions lend themselves very well to websites. There are several aspects that
can form pages such as: calendars, prominent figures, traditions and customs
and sacred books. Students can work as a team in order to produce the sites,
each writing the content for a page and helping to edit the work of others;
everyone can be involved in uploading. It
might be that across a year group there are enough students to create a site
for each of the major religions. After
the project is complete, homework could be to answer a series of questions
based on the other pupils’ sites, which would allow pupils to develop their
internet research skills as well as broadening their understanding of religions
other than the one they had focussed upon.
Podcasting
Podcasts are audio or video recordings that are
compressed and posted on the internet where they can be downloaded onto
computers or personal devices like MP3 players. They are easy to make and can
help students to revise. Religious Studies is full of topics that breed debate.
Discussions can be recorded using a boundary mic, which would be sensitive
enough to pick any conversation going on in a room. Alternatively, if you can get your hands on a
local religious figure such as a Rabbi, Monk, Vicar, Priest or Imam, a question
and answer session is ideal podcast material.
Page created on 22 October 2008 by Tom Hughes.