icould - could you?

27 January 2010

Many of you who work directly in the field of careers education and IAG will have already come across the great website - icould. This is so simple that it is genius! A funky modern website just dedicated to short films about real people at work this is a great resource to use in lots of ways.

For Diploma lessons you could search by employment sector and will easily find a range of films to match your diploma line, show to learners and get them talking
In PSHE education or Careers Education you can use them to set learners a research exercise linked to particular jobs. Learners will be able to use icould themselves to find a range of different people doing similar jobs to compare their career paths
Get learners to look at the job titles for ten of the films and try to guess what the job is about - there are some really new titles - have to confess I had never heard of a 'Laughter Facilitator' - what a job!!

To get started go to:

http://icould.com

Or you could try this one first - just because I like him and went to a school that I used to support in Hackney!

http://icould.com/tags/primary-skill-sector/audio-visual-industries/trevor-nelson/

icould - have a go

Chris

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 - 21:05

Jayne.North

Joined: 15/9/2008

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Hi Chris Yes I think icould

Hi Chris

Yes I think icould is great too, (also like Trevor! credible role model), it provides a link to another useful site www.horsemouth.co.uk which is great for online mentoring something which I think we will see grow in popularity over the coming months/years, particularly as its an area of priority for government. Anyone over the age of 16 can be a mentor or be mentored on line, it seems to be safe and well organised.

cheers Jayne

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