Festival of Museums celebrates Scotland’s wealth of culture with day and night time events scheduled to take place from 13 to 15 May 2011. The festival promises to offer local families a range of cultural experiences that will ‘ignite imaginations’.
Across Scotland, museums and galleries are finalising their plans for a packed weekend of surprising and exciting events. Around 60 venues are holding events, and there’s something for everyone – so come along and join in the fun!
This one-day event aims to share the learning from Co-Create, a Scotland-wide arts project for Glow, the world’s first national schools intranet.
Co-Create <https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/CoCreate/about/> is a pioneering initiative which has brought together schools, Creative Scotland-funded arts organisations and other partners in ten online collaborations using Glow, new media technology and imaginative, high quality arts to create exciting and relevant teaching materials and experiences to support the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence.
This event will give practitioners from both the arts and education sectors direct access to in-depth case studies from Co-Create participants and partners on how they have used Glow to develop innovative and creative approaches to learning and teaching.
If you have not already reserved a place and would like to, or for more information on the programme, please email Glow Admin: glowadmin@ltscotland.org.uk <mailto:d.carson@ltscotland.org.uk> , using Co-Create: Sharing the Learning as the subject header.
Co-Create is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and Creative Scotland’s National Lottery Fund.
A new elearning module from the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance is available online to help update people dealing with intellectual property rights in universities, colleges, museums, libraries and other public bodies.
The module will help them understand the implications and roles of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and licensing – all crucial to their institution’s role as a provider, aggregator and/or publisher of digital content. The module is divided into six learning objects with a range of supporting case studies, video and animation: 1. Introduction to IPR and licensing
2. Creative Commons licences
3. Orphan works and risk management
4. Digital Economy Act
5. Accessing and using third party content
6. Protecting and managing rights. Access the module online <http://www.web2rights.com/SCAIPRModule>
Third year pupil from Whitburn Academy, Marc Wright scooped the coveted top slot in Schuh Design Challenge 2011 with his Scottish themed boot.
The competition – now in its 15th year – was organised by West Lothian Council’s Enterprise in Education team and sponsored by the Livingston-based footwear company.
Marc has won a pair of shoes of his choice, as well as a chance to work with one of Schuh’s top designer.
Depute Chief Executive Gordon Ford commented: “We would like to thank Schuh for their continued sponsorship of this excellent challenge and congratulate Marc on his success.
“The high standard and creativity of the designs impresses me each year. West Lothian has a wealth of talented and creative young people and this competition is a fantastic showcase for them. The designs are really miniature works of art and it was also very appropriate that they were on displayed at Howden Park Centre, West Lothian?s premier arts venue.”
Neil Blackburn, marketing manager, Schuh commented: “The fifteenth schuh design challenge was a fantastic event and as always we saw some incredible ideas from some very talented young people. The quality of work is a real testament to the high standards of West Lothian’s schools and students.”
The Historic Scotland Education Unit Glow Group is now open!
Historic Scotland encourages imaginative and sustainable use of the historic environment as a resource for cross-curricular, participative learning opportunities. Their castles, abbeys, industrial buildings, parks and prehistoric sites provide unique and memorable learning environments for learners of all ages.
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Attention ALL teachers! Creative CPD from National Gallery of Scotland.
Using some of the most recognised Impressionist paintings in our collection as inspiration; this will be a fun, hands-on practical session aimed at all teachers, with or without an art background . Teachers will work with an artist experimenting with various techniques and approaches to mark making, drawing and painting in an impressionistic style. They will be actively encouraged to experiment and problem solve using whatever materials they have available in their classroom.
Impressionism: Hints & Tips Thursday 31 March 2011 4pm (for teachers)
National Gallery of Scotland
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The Scottish Book Trust reports that the Park Gallery in Falkirk and Artlink Central have invited Julia Donaldson to curate ‘The Illustrators’ – an exhibition which presents an overview of contemporary children’s illustration. The exhibition aims to highlight the diverse range of approaches to illustration and focuses on a number of illustrators who have worked with Julia over the years. Featuring original illustrations (by, AxelScheffler, amongst others) and sketches, ideas and film, the exhibition will provide an insight into the illustrator’s working methods.
Faith Shorts 2011 gives young people between the ages of 14 and 18 the opportunity to express what their faith means to them in their own words and take this to the global stage by winning the chance to see their film premiered at a ceremony at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
The Developing Global Citizens Team at Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) has responsibility for developing and promoting global citizenship within Curriculum for Excellence and provides guidance, professional development activities and resources to practitioners, schools and local authorities to support the development of whole-school approaches to global citizenship.
Developing Global Citizens incorporates a number of elements and contexts for learning including international education, sustainable development education, education for citizenship, games legacy, Confucius Classroom Hubs and Scotland’s culture and heritage.
LTS recognises the significant contribution and impact made by stakeholder organisations to this area of work and is keen to explore opportunities for further collaboration and partnerships.
Purpose of the event
This event provides an important opportunity for LTS staff and stakeholders to come together, share their vision for the development of global citizenship and learn more about each other activities. Delegates will also have the opportunity to:
Learn about embedding global citizenship within Curriculum for Excellence
Discuss approaches to delivering a whole-school approach to developing global citizens
Identify opportunities for developing collaborations and partnerships
View global citizenship resources recently developed by LTS
Learn about the use of Glow in delivering professional development activities and supporting networks
Who should attend?
Representatives from:
Non-governmental and community-based organisations
The competition – now in its 15th year – was organised by West Lothian Council’s Enterprise in Education team and sponsored by the Livingston-based footwear company.
