Today is the fourth in a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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Jacksonpollock.org is a curiosity of a website that allows you to paint like Jackson Pollock with your mouse or keyboard. Great fun and strangely liberating it is a tiny window into what it might feel like to paint in such a style.
Today is the third of a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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As the new academic year begins you have the opportunity to embed creativity into your teaching, and engage your learners with creative learning strategies and partnerships. Your local authority will have staff in place to support you in developing creativity in your work, and may have a Creative Learning Network you can engage with.
You can find all of your local creative learning contacts on the Creativity Portal here:
http://creativityportal.org.uk/?q=&c=,creative-learning-contacts
EIBF 2013 – Superhero Siblings with Gwyneth Rees, 20 August 10.30am http://bit.ly/14xLyVH
Saffie is no ordinary sibling, she’s a sister with superpowers! Join author Gwyneth Rees and meet the quirky characters from her enchanting My Super Sister series. Share stories of superpowered magic and mayhem, and find out how to create your own super special story idea. This event is suitable for Primary 3-5.
EIBF 2013 – The Physics of Superheroes with James Kakalios, 20 August 12.00 midday http://bit.ly/1477joh
James Kakalios explains the basic principles of physics without an inclined plane or pulley in sight. Instead, all of his examples come from superhero comic books (particularly those in which the heroes get their science right!). Starting with fun superhero questions, the fascinating mysteries of science are revealed. This event is suitable for S2- S6.
EIBF 2013 – Ciaran Murtagh: Jokes, Genies and Japes, 21 August, 12.30 pm http://bit.ly/1br310Z
Ace author, CBBC scriptwriter and star of The Slammer, Ciaran Murtagh wants you to help him make up a brand new story.
Choose a title, decide what happens next and then make sure everything’s all right in the end. Giggles are guaranteed as this master storyteller weaves words into stories right before your eyes!
This event is suitable for P3-6.
For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx.
Today is the second of a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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A new professional learning community for Creativity has been set up within Glow with the hashtag #create. Please join us to share news, events, resources, discussions and thinking around this curricular area. All welcome.
Today is the start of a new series of bi-weekly posts highlighting the very best content available through the Creativity Portal.
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Sir Ken Robinson’s call for education reform, visualised using animation, has been a powerful starting point for educators to begin a journey towards creative teaching, creative learning and creative approaches to transformational change.
We have six weeks to go before the deadline on the 16th September and we hope you will be able to continue helping us circulate this opportunity to your networks.
Groups may apply for up to £5,000 to the Community Theatre scheme for a development project or for a project which includes the commission of a new piece of theatre created by a specified professional theatre maker chosen by the group. Examples of projects the scheme would cover range from:
If you think this is something that you could publicise for us, then please do not hesitate to direct people to our website and encourage them to apply. This blog by our Trustees offers further thoughts regarding the scheme.
Furthermore, if you feel that you might be able to Tweet about the scheme, then that would also be very welcome! Something along the lines of:
See the criteria for the BBC PAF #CommunityTheatre scheme if you’re a community theatre project after funding: http://bit.ly/PAF_CT
With Best wishes,
The BBC Performing Arts Fund Team
After a highly successful first year, SPL Music Box is back. Over the course of the next 12 months, SPL Music Box, which is supported by Creative Scotland’s CashBack for Creativity Programme, will provide young people aged 10-16 with a chance to take part in free music making workshops at a number of Scottish Premier League Clubs.
http://www.creativescotland.co.uk/news/spl-music-box-is-back-18072013
Opportunities will include tuition in a range of popular musical instruments, songwriting and recording workshops as well as information on the wider music industry. Young people will also get the chance to participate in a number of performances and showcases throughout the course of the programme.
There is still time to join nearly 600 other schools and give your learners the opportunity to have their pictures in one of the athletes’ or officials’ room one year from now.
Find out more on the Game On Scotland website.
‘Following on from the earlier blog about the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI), we also participated by hosting our own ‘dangerous’ event. We all know the power behind moving images. Anyone who’s been moved to tears by a movie or participated in plot related arguments after a trip to the cinema will understand how caught up we can get in the different realities presented to us through moving image. With that in mind we asked ourselves why moving image is so underused in education? Is moving image seen as a ‘soft option’? Demonised by its association with media studies?
http://www.teachingscotland.org.uk/home/blog.aspx
We wanted to challenge that idea and so our own Dangerous Idea was born. Moving Image as a vehicle for knowledge creation! But what knowledge could we create?’
The Maggie’s Centres design competition for Standard Grade and Higher pupils challenges students to design a new Maggie’s Cancer Centre. This competition provides an opportunity to develop research and presentation skills, to introduce architecture in the classroom and to inspire pupils who have an interest in design.
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