The website mainly consists of educational resources that
are linked to the Curriculum for Excellence and are for use with school
children aged between 12 and 15 by teachers and youth group workers. Three
subjects themes from the Curriculum for Excellence are covered on the website:
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and Social Studies. On the home page,
you may recognise the pink bus from the ‘Take Care’ campaign. We chose this to
go on the first page as we felt it matched the three main subject themes.
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shot of the home page
Firstly, Expressive Arts, the bus was a part of a well
designed, highly visual campaign which used a distinctive logo and the colours
blue and pink on a wide range of media. Secondly, Health and Wellbeing, the bus
was used to promote the message “Take care of the one you love” and raised
awareness on how HIV was transmitted. Lastly, Social Studies, the statement on
the bus “AIDS concerns us all” aimed to dispel the myths surrounding HIV and
reduce the stigma associated with the disease and was used throughout the ‘Take
Care’ Campaign.
This main page leads directly to the resources themselves.
Each subject theme has five educational resources linked to it. You can
download the resources as a pdf. The images and audio-visual files associated
with the resources can also be downloaded here, either singly or together as a
zip file.
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shot of the resource page
Each resource consists of four pages. The first page is a
cover sheet that gives a short introduction to what the resource covers and
which experiences and outcomes the resource matches. The next page gives some
useful background information to the resource and images. An image sheet
containing the relevant images is provided for quick reference followed by a
section that suggests activities based on the items in the collection.
Activities in the resources are varied and include starter
activities such as true and false quizzes, mind maps and discussion points.
They also provide ideas for projects such as making interactive computer games
using Powerpoint software, designing radio adverts and postcards, and launching
a health promotion campaign.
Other pages on the website include a historical context page,
which gives information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Edinburgh from
the early 1980s to present day. An image bank is also provided on the website.
This way users can get an overview of the images and click on specific tags
that will take them back to the related resource.
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shot of the image bank
So far, we’ve had great feedback for the website. Everyone
agrees that the educational potential for the HIVAIDS collections is huge and
the highly visual material in the collections will greatly appeal to school
children. We hope that this website will help to promote these fantastic
collections to a wider and more diverse audience and inspire educational
professionals to use archives in the class room.
...hot off the press....
Emily giving her presentation at the website launch this afternoon!
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