OUIL601 - Yorkshire Wildlife Park Education

YWP have conservation awards for children and also offer educational trips and teachers resources.

http://www.ywpeducation.com/

I intend to visit the YWP and arrange a meeting with someone who can give me more information about this.

They offer educational visits for practically any age of child at different stages of development.

OUIL601 - Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Thinking about my other possible essay title about whether or not zoos are still relevant, I have an internal conflict, I really enjoy going to zoos and wildlife parks, as I do find them entertaining, but deep down I worry about whether or not the animals are truly happy, so I think I'd enjoy having this as a research topic.

I intend to try and go to these different places and gain more information and formulate my own opinions and ideas.

I want to try and email as many people as possible in order to do some in depth research, whether or not they reply is a totally different thing.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park is the closest form of zoo to here, with it being in Doncaster, so I intend to email them and just tell them about my proposed research topics, and see if they have any advice for me.

OUIL601 - Flower game.

I recently played through the game Flower, you play as the wind and control flower petals, collecting more and exploring landscape.

"Flower was primarily intended to arouse positive emotions in the player, rather than to be a challenging and "fun" game"

I played this game because I was in a bit of a mood, and had played a similar game which I found really relaxing, so thought I would give it a go.
The message and concept behind the game really inspired me and I found the game inspiring and relaxing.

It made me become interested in how games evoke emotional responses in their audience, and how happy the game made me when I was in a really bad mood.

I tried to think up of a subject to look at and create a topic to research for my dissertation. 

OUIL601 - Dissertation ideas.

After the success of my children's book for COP2, I definitely want to look at something to do with animals, and my love for them.

I have always enjoyed visiting Fairburn Ings nature reserve ever since I was a child, and have been interested in the different wildlife and the countryside in it.

I really enjoyed making my children's book, so I think I want to create some sort of educational material to get children interested in nature and it's conservation.

To make the learning part of it more fun, I'd probably make some sort of story around it, to incorporate the learning and facts within the narrative so it's not too obvious that it's an educational thing.