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The interactive spotlight allows you to hide answers on a powerpoint slide. This could be a list, a brainstorm etc. The 'spotlight' can be moved across the slide to reveal answers.

Usually when you create a PowerPoint presentation the items (shapes, pictures, text) cannot be moved or dragged about when you view the show. A macro in this PowerPoint allows you to do just that.

This example allows you to drag around a 'spotlight' which reveals text previously hidden as the text colour is the same as the background.

An electronic fill-in-the-blanks quiz about the role and remit of the ASA. Information sourced directly from the ASA website. A blank student version and a completed teacher version are included.

An introduction to genre and generic conventions of film. The PowerPoint allows students to drag and drop the conventions into the correct category. Some conventions may fit in more than one e.g. villan and hero.

This quiz can be given to students as a starter or plenary activity.

A starter or plenary activity to help students recap on the research methods and techniques they have learned about.

A starter activity in which students look at the different still images and try to work out which TV programme they are and which genre they belong to. This activity can move on to a discussion about the generic conventions of different types of TV programme.

This research task could be used as a starter activity. Students are to use the Internet to find out what the most expensive music videos ever made are and record the costs.