In an article in The New York Times last year, the late media critic David Carr observed that "email newsletters, an old-school artefact of the web that was supposed to die along with dial-up connections, are not only still around, but very much on the march".
Adopting a mixed-methods design, this study assesses teachers' (n = 207) and students' (n = 1,644) self-reported perceptions of descriptive norms and evaluates school practices and artefacts in the physical and virtual environment of 22 secondary schools in south-west Germany.
The first efforts to save the nation's artworks from harm were very much old school tie; paintings and artefacts were simply taken to stately homes outside London, where it was assumed they would be looked after much as in a museum.
His palatial properties in Manhattan, at Pocantico in nearby Westchester county, in Seal Harbor, Maine, and even in Venezuela were decorated with incongruous artefacts of the modern school.
"This is the sort of artefact we could take into schools to teach children about the impact the Americans had in their local area".
The comments by Sir Mota Singh QC, come after a number of cases of Sikhs being banned from wearing the daggers – known as kirpans – and other religious artefacts in schools or workplaces.
The Grade I-listed Georgian property has been home to Gad's Hill School since the 1920s and until now has been open to the public only during the school holidays, when the Dickens Museum has opened it temporarily, moving artefacts there from its collection, including restoring Dickens's writing desk to the study.
Two teenagers accused of stealing artefacts from the Auschwitz death camp during a school trip should not be put on trial, a Holocaust survivor says.
The pot, coins and any other artefacts found during the archaeological dig at the school belong to the landowner, Reading Borough Council, and fall under the requirements of the Treasure Act 1996.
Meanwhile, Dave Trevor, head of media at County high school in Leftwich, Cheshire, sees his pupils achieve consistently strong media artefacts using a combination of Jasc (now Corel Paint Shop Proo, Dance eJay and Windows Movie Maker 2. Other tools to build media and film literacy at primary level are the Bfi Starting Stories and Story Shorts.
Following an encounter with a curator on a school trip to the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, Clover decides to collect various artefacts from her mother's life, attaching an imagined story to each object in an attempt to better understand her.
