ABSTRACT
We want to talk, in this chapter, about some of our work that relates to the use of new technologies within media education and how it relates to the understanding, interpretation, and analysis of media texts. Our examples and interviews come from the first specialist Media Arts college in the UK, Parkside Community College in Cambridge, a small comprehensive school in which one of us worked formerly and one of us is still working. This school has been working with digital video since 1997, and we have published a number of accounts of work in this field (Burn, 2000; Burn & Durran, 1998; Burn & Reed, 1999; Burn et al., 2001).
