The link to the Education Research portal will be LIVE from the 11th December 2008.
Our sonic landscape is something that perhaps most of us take for granted, yet the sounds around us that impact on our health, well being and influence our emotions and state of mind. If we were to stop and listen to the environments that surround us everyday, what would they sound like? Your home, neighbourhood, journey to work, working environment, and the health care environment you visit: do they make you feel good?
The online School Research Portal with its Student Sound Journals is a platform for exploring these ideas, sharing learning, experiences, sound works, experiments and research findings and forms part of the Sonic Streams Tool Kit This Virtual Learning Environment hosted by FACT will allow schools and students to explore the impact of sound and share their findings with their peers
Sonic Streams Tool Kit is a resource for sharing knowledge, ideas and creative research findings that explores sound and its impact on the human body and how we perceive the build environment. Learn about the science of sound, its impact on their body and built environment through activities and contextual resources Develop ideas and sound work that potentially could be used as therapeutic tools for the individual or installed to create healthy sonic environments with guidelines from professional artists and scientists Learn the skills to record and edit audio with tips from professional sound artist and sound recordists Test the physiological and emotional impact of the student soundtracks through creative scientific experiments and data evaluation Share their sound exploration, audio files, and research findings on their individual Student Sound Journal
The Sonic Streams Toolkit facilitates schools, colleges and students to share their ideas
and research finding on the Education Research Portal and Students Sound Journals
Teachers and schools/colleges administrate their online sharing Schools and teachers have the option to either:
Contain the sharing between students within your school/college
Or share your students work and findings within a larger network of schools and colleges nationally
Each student has their own Student Sound Journal to upload and share work and research finding:
Teachers and the school/college have the option to keep the Student Sound Journal sharing between students within your school
Or join a national network of participation schools/colleges and allow students to share their findings and feedback to other students form a national network
The Education Research Portal is the central portal for recent postings:
Teachers and the school/college can choose for their own portal to be school/ college specific (this is if you want your sharing network to be limited to your school)
Or join a platform larger national sharing portal with recent postings from all participating school/colleges nationally
The Tool Kit and online Student Sound Journal is aimed at young people in secondary schools and colleges.
Online Student Sound Journal network will be for two age ranges: 16 and under and over 16 years of age
When you login into the Education Research Portal their will be an option to choose the age range you wish to be included in.
All your options are School specific, not class specific
If you want to take part in our Education Research Portal and allow students to create their own Student Sound Journals, please download guidelines for administration moderation, login and user guidelines.
These resource are a introduction to this online facility, how to log-in, access, administrate and the different options we provide for safe online sharing.
These guidelines, unlike the rest of the resource, are specific to teacher or student, we also recommend you download and read the Student Guidelines
These guidelines will support schools and teachers to create a safe and secure learning facility for all students in their use of the Education Research Portal, to administer the student’s sound journal and guide them through initial login to the successful use of their sound journals.
So follow the Education Research Portal link , log- in and FACT Education Team will contact you ( the teacher/administrator) and your school to verify details and then you can use Sonic Streams Education Research Portal
We also recommend teachers download and read :
This will help teachers to plan content for the School/college Sound Journal and support students while using their Student Sound Journals.
All Guidelines can be found at the Research as Education section of this Sonic Streams Website.
More information on the Sonic Streams Tool Kit and the Education research Portal can also be found at the Research as Education section of this Sonic Streams Website.
The Liverpool Culture Company’s Waiting Programme aims to develop creative projects that explore wellbeing and has given FACT the opportunity to extend our research further into new settings by supporting the Education Research Portal.