Monthly Archives: January 2011

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Free CPD workshop/seminar – creativity, criticality and art making.

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UWS Artist Teacher Programme

Public Seminar Series

Pedagogy and Play

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Saturday 12th February 2011, from 10.30am – 4pm

In response to the exhibition Blueprint for a Bogey and using participatory methods, this workshop based Artist Teacher seminar will explore approaches within the visual arts to curricularising playful events. The day-long workshop/seminar, which is free to attend, will be set within the context of Curriculum for Excellence and firmly premised upon creativity, criticality and art making.

The exhibition includes works by Andy Goldsworthy, Graham Fagen, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paulo Rego, Dave Sherry, Corin Sworn and a collaborative project by women from the Red Road Family Centre.

For further information and to book your place please email

diarmuid.mcauliffe@uws.ac.uk

For more information on the Artist Teacher Master of Education Programme visit

http://www.uws.ac.uk/schoolsdepts/education/documents/Artist-Teacher-GOMA.pdf

Technologies

Game to Learn Conference – Scotland’s largest game based learning conference Free CDP for all Scottish Educators

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On Saturday 19 March 2011 at the Universtity of Abertay Dundee, the Consolarium offers a lively CPD event for teachers as well as a celebration of the diverse and innovative practice in game based learning and game design that has been happening in schools across Scotland. Over the past few years the LTS Consolarium initiative has been working with partner schools across Scotland to help nurture the idea that commercially available computer games that have been developed for entertainment can be used to help create appealing, purposeful and challenging contexts for learning.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2011/educational/january/news_tcm4646383.asp

This conference will allow us to share the innovative and effective work of some of the many practitioners in Scotland who have embraced game based learning. The knowledge and experience that will be shared by our colleagues from schools will then be complemented in the afternoon by a range of differentiated hands-on activities aimed at developing delegates’ own confidence and competence in this field. These activities include developing computer games design skills from the early stages through to S6, exploring treasure hunting via geocaching and a game based learning dance session.

This conference promises to deliver an exciting and inspiring CPD experience for those involved in education and Curriculum for Excellence. Delegates can choose from 16 morning seminars and 10 practical afternoon workshops, listen to inspiring opening and closing keynotes and spend time engaging with fellow educators and industry representatives including Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.

This event has been organised and developed in partnership with JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland North and East.

Full details and registration can be found at http://www.gametolearn.org <http://www.gametolearn.org/>

Keep up to date by following @consolarium and @gametolearn on Twitter.

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Highland pupils open the door on Ruscha’s Room

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A group of pupils from five Highland secondary schools have created an exhibition which is their interpretation of the works of American artist Ed Ruscha. ‘Ruscha’s Room – Seòmraichean Luchd-ealain’ is currently at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery until 12 February 2011. The exhibition by pupils from Fortrose, Kilchuimen, Millburn, Alness and Invergordon Academies is the creation of their experiences of attending a series of talks and workshops exploring Ruscha’s unconventional methods – which combine typography with commonplace objects.
The pupils created text-based art in the form of collages, which they developed into printed t-shirts and animated films forming the core of their exhibition.

http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2011/January/2011-01-26-03.htm

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Half-day CPD – Using Film to develop Global Citizens

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Learning and Teaching Scotland and East Lothian Council are organising this free half-day seminar for Scottish secondary education which will take place on 22 February at Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, East Lothian.

The objective of the seminar is to demonstrate effective use of mainstream cinema films for the purpose of Global Citizenship in the context of Curriculum for Excellence.

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/newsandevents/events/2011/eventgeneral_tcm4644946.asp <http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/newsandevents/events/2011/eventgeneral_tcm4644946.asp>

Health and Wellbeing

Angel Wings – exploring issues of mental health

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Artlink Edinburgh has a new publication and accompanying teaching materials designed to support teachers of P4 to S3, available via the national Health and Wellbeing Glow group.

Angel Wings is an engaging story, which explores issues of mental health through the eyes of a young boy [Matthew]. It explores the warm and positive relationship with his mother and close family, the way that he understands mental ill health and how he experiences the issues that arise out of his mother’s episodes of mental ill health. The story is beautifully crafted by Anne Donovan after she worked with parents and carers to inform the story. It is real life in the form of fiction. Visit the Mental, Emotional, Social and Physical Wellbeing Glow group to download the publication and accompanying teaching materials.

Languages and Literacy, Technologies

An app’s an app for a’ that

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http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/01/18135558
The complete works of Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Bard, have been made available free of charge on the iPhone for the first time.

An iPhone app allowing enthusiasts around the world to download and instantly access Burns’ poetry has been developed by the Scottish Government.  The app includes a searchable database of every poem written by Burns, a summary of facts about the poet’s life and a guide to hosting a Burns Supper.

Languages and Literacy

Brilliant bairns become Burnsian bards

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Hundreds of pupils from across South Ayrshire wrote poems to celebrate the opening of the new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway.

Competition judges Matthew Fitt, Itchy Coo, and Nat Edwards , RBBM Director, challenged pupils to write a poem for Robert Burns and be crowned Scots Poetry Champion.

Using Glow technology, pupils from Alloway and Kincaidston primaries filmed a Scots Language Poetry workshop with Scots expert Matthew Fitt, which was then made available to all primary school pupils and teachers in the region.

Winners Lewis Doak and Beth Murdoch from Alloway Primary School, will have their poems performed by the Chemical Poets at the official opening of the new Museum on 22 January.

Admission to the museum is FREE on that day and everyone is welcome to come and listen.

RBBM Director Nat Edwards said: ‘’I was really impressed with the standard of entries and congratulate pupils and teachers on their excellent efforts.”

Itchy Coo Director Matthew Fitt said: “A lot of hard work from both pupils and teachers went in to this competition.”