Sharing not Staring

Trevor Millum is a former English teacher and was Director of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) from 1999 to 2005. Chris Warren was an English teacher, and is well known as a trainer and writer on the subjects of ICT and English.

• 1 There’s more to a picture than meets the eye 2 Grid reference 3 Investigating symbols 4 Hidden Words 5 Hidden Texts 6 Mystery texts 7 Tabulate! 8 Text Mapping 9 Gathering Thoughts 10 Collapsing and re-sorting texts 11 Exploring Text Types 12 One thing after another: Sequencing 13 Making Notes is Hard To Do 14 Word bits 15 A 'Stand-out' lesson! 16 Ordering our thoughts 17 Pictures to Inspire 18 Transforming Texts 19 Counterpoint with PowerPoint 20 Show, look and disappear 21 Movie capture animation

"The interactive whiteboard has certainly influenced the way many of us are planning, allowing us to build lesson structures and make these explicit to students more than we may have done in the days of handwritten plans. The next stage for English teachers is to move forward with the benefits of manipulating text and the real interactivity of this medium – and for this Sharing not Staring will prove a useful ideas generator." - Teaching English, Esther Menon, NATE ICT Committee