This collaborative learning resource tackles the issue of knife crime in the UK today. This is a real life issue and this learning resource will tackle this issue head on. The main focus of this resource is to start an anti knife crime campaign in your school or learning estalishment - raising awareness and enjoying the learning process involved in taking part in this project.

Learners have a terms worth of lessons with extensions and collaborations with different departments like Citizenship, Music, English, Textiles, Art, Engineering, Drama/Media studies and ICT. This resource can be used for a half termly project or shortened into a project day resource as some schools are currently involved with.

The unique feature of this resource is that it allows learners to use everyday mobile and handheld learning technologies like mobile phones. Learners will create slogans, digital posters, raps and short video adverts and convert them into mobile phone friendly formats and transfer them from mobile to mobile to the Internet using Bluetooth technology so that a wider audience can be reached from school to the outside people to other countries!

Everything is designed into this web integrated program, teaching time can be controlled as this resource has handouts and video demonstrations with example evidence links. No additional teacher or student resources are required but are provided with the download. This resource can be easily uploaded onto a school server and there should be no issues surrounding the working of the resource apart from the Active X control must be enabled. Just click on the Goto Main Menu link to start your 'anti knife crime campaign'.

A Teachnet UK 2008 Project submitted by

Asif Anwar

Birkdale High School Dewsbury