Emotional Health Online

The new ambitious emotional health website for levels A- D aims to provide direction and support for teaching and learning. The site allows children to take a trip in the park where they meet a variety of people and situations which test their feelings and gives them feedback on the actions they choose. The producers will discuss:

• who is involved in making a site: technical people -  designers, coders and  assistants;   production people: producer, consultants and advisors
• cast decisions - casting diversity and  inclusion
• what the site offers

You are invited to go to the park yourself….but as a character. These various characters (different ages/ gender etc) will determine which level you go through at. You then pass the fountain and start your journey where you meet various people and have to make choices of various kinds through questions you have to answer. When you have finished your journey you can review the experience you have had and the emotions you have encountered. There is enough choice to make each journey different. 
The seminar will also look at:

• How to be brave with emotional health topics
• The difficulties of actual age and emotional age and the challenges that.
• Feedback

 For further information  or questions about BBC Scotland’s education  output come to the BBC Scotland Stand

Also on Thursday at 13:45 (B1I).

Lucy Conan, Producer, and Johanna Hall, Site Producer, BBC New Media Learning and Communities

Lucy Conan has been working in education for the last 18 years in the areas of radio TV and online. Lucy was educated at the Ursuline Convent in Dublin and at Trinity College Dublin taking a degree in Languages - Spanish and Irish (including Scots Gaelic.) Having worked for the Spanish Cultural Institute for a number of years Lucy moved to RTE – the Irish television network and worked in current affairs, sport and drama amongst other areas.   In 1987 Lucy moved to Scotland and joined the Gaelic department of BBC Scotland followed by a move to education in 1988. She is interested in language and words and is a keen radio listener. Lucy is passionate about early years and encouraging children’s potential with a wide variety of stimuli both visual and aural and is currently working on a forthcoming Early Years website.

Johanna Hall is an accomplished radio and online producer and has written for the Balamory children’s television series and is currently writing for MeToo!. She has worked with education specialists and teachers within education for many years.  Johanna is a keen writer, photographer and craft maker (She also makes a wicked chocolate cake!)