YouTube offers a wealth of multimedia resources for teaching and learning. Bandwith can be problematic so Diarmid will demonstrate a way to download content so it can be accessed offline.
Consider using this animated version of Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" as a stimulus for writing a newspaper report:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eyWReM986gw&feature=related
Before beginning to write, pupils could take part in a 'Hot Seat' drama session, where they sit in the hot seat in role as an eye witness and are then interviewed by members of the press (for example "Joe Blogg, Daily Mail. What did you see land on Horsell Common?")
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