Technologies

Education, Culture and Heritage UK wide E-Learning Event

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Thursday 16 February 2012

http://bits2blogs.eventbrite.com/

Bits 2 Blogs is the regional e-learning event for museum, library and archive professionals. It provides a varied day of presentations and workshops that:

•Showcase the ways in which digital technologies and social media are being used to support and enhance educational programmes in the cultural heritage sector.
•Demonstrate how social media can be used to build engaging relationships with our audiences.
•Provide practical demonstrations of technologies that are relevant and affordable to the sector.
•Demand no prior experience. Bits 2 Blogs is specifically designed to inspire and appeal to all!
A full programme is still to be finalised, but confirmed speakers and topics so far include-

Alison Clark-Jenkins Regional Director of the Arts Council for England will deliver our Keynote speech.

Rich Mintz Vice President of Strategy at Blue State Digital will deliver a session via Skype related to online fundraising, advocacy and social networking. Blues State Digital are an innovative American company who famously managed the online fundraising campaign for Barack Obama’s successful presidential run.

Jane Finnis Chief Executive of Culture 24 will talk about their recently published report ‘Lets Get Real: How to Evaluate Online Success’.

Luke Smith of the Imperial War Museum will present ‘Lives of the Great War: Building First World War life stories across archives through crowdsourcing’.

Chris Wild, creator of the award winning blog, ‘How to be a Retronaut’. Featured on BBC Radio 5 Live,

Nick Stanhope of ‘History Pin’ update on progress of this exciting project.

Mark Batey, how to plan and create engaging video material

Mike Ellis of Thirty8 Digital tackles the question ‘What the hell are we supposed to do with mobile?’. Should cultural heritage organisations be developing apps, building mobile-friendly pages, or ignoring mobile and hoping it’ll go away?

Philip Graham of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland – ‘Learning to let go: Social Media at RCAHMS’.

Jeremiah Alexander of Newcastle based company Ideonic will present Hidden Newcastle, an innovative digital project inviting people to search for and discover the hidden lives and stories of Newcastle.

Event organised by Renaissance North East Learning Team, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, supported by Arts Council England.

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Newspaper article: Paul McKenna on Creativity

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“Creativity doesn’t have to mean composing a symphony or a screenplay or a hit song. Writing an essay at school is a creative act. Finding a way to communicate with your teenagers is a creative act.

Solving a problem at work is a creative act.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2082906/In-final-life-changing-series-PAUL-McKENNA-reveals–How-just-creative-Walt-Disney.html#ixzz1jo5gdbiF

Early Learning

Early Years CPD from Children In Scotland – places still available

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Nature Kindergartens: making a start
8 Feb 2012, Half day morning

It is widely accepted that unstructured outdoor play improves children’s physical and emotional development, mental well being, social skills and opportunities for creative learning.
Between 2006 and 2008 almost eighty nature kindergartens were developed in schools in Fife where children go out into woodland, forest or foreshore on a regular basis.
At the end of the day participants will go home determined to make something happen, and confident of their ability to do it!

Transforming Early Years Spaces on a Shoestring
8 Feb 2012, Half day afternoon

A quality environment for children’s development cannot just be bought ‘off the peg’. Enriching children’s learning environments takes careful planning and consideration of the whole needs of the child both physical and emotional. A balance between simply providing new equipment on a regular basis and integrating this within a philosophy of development is required. The tutor is was pre-school education coordinator at Fife Council.

This half-day workshop will give participants an understanding of what is, and what is not, required to provide rich and meaningful early years experiences, and provide ideas as to how to achieve this.

The tutor – Chris Miles

Chris was a Nursery School Headteacher for twenty years, and Pre School Education Coordinator for Fife Council Education Service for eight years. During both these careers aspects of her work attracted national attention. She maintains an involvement in Nature Kindergartens through her chairing role in the Forest Schools Group within the Forestry Commission, and is in demand for consultancy and training work across Scotland, on a variety of issues involving early education. Chris was recently awards an MBE for services to Education and Young People.

Further information or to book, please visit us online at http://www.childreninscotland.org.uk/training or contact us by telephone on 0131 222 2446.

Early bird rates are currently available from £45 for one workshop or £85 for both.

Drama

Glow Meet from Lyceum Theatre and Vox Motus’ artistic directors

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Join us for an exclusive Glow Meet with Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison, the Artistic Directors of Glasgow-based theatre company Vox Motus, who are behind the Lyceum’s show The Infamous Brothers Davenport.

Hear about the show and their directing process. The Meet will also be recorded so you can watch with your class, or encourage them to do so on their own, at a later date!

26th January at 6pm.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE: http://bit.ly/voxmotusevent

For more information about Vox Motus see www.voxmotus.co.uk

Social Studies

Only four weeks left for pupils to get creative for conservation

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http://www.nts.org.uk/designcompetition

Friday 10 February is the last date for entries to be received for this Creative Challenge. The National Trust for Scotland is asking secondary school pupils to design an interactive, environmentally-themed game to take out on the road next summer.

The Trust launched its competition at Ben Lomond near Drymen, Scotland’s most southerly Munro. Ben Lomond is one of the most popular mountains in Scotland, with around 30,000 walkers of all ages visiting it each year. Helping Trust staff at the launch were pupils from Drymen Primary, who were photographed doing their best to try and figure out some initial ideas. The Ben Lomond Design Competition challenges teams of pupils to invent a portable, interactive game which is easy to set up and explain, is fun for all ages and which highlights how we need to conserve our environment.

The Trust hopes that the new family activity will raise awareness of its work to care for Scotland’s countryside and wildlife. For full information and an entry pack visit: http://www.nts.org.uk/designcompetition.

Dance, Drama, Music

Creativity Portal welcomes The Arches to the Creative Directory

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The Arches presents experimental and risk taking performance by local and international artists, in addition to this we support the development of emergent Scottish artists . The Creative Learning Programme at The Arches develops bespoke Creative Learning activity in and out of the building. The premise for this activity is that we believe that all people have the capacity to be creative and we are interested in facilitating experiences that offer participants a creative opportunity to express their opinions about the world and ‘realize’ the artist within in them.

Music

iCompose Music Competition 2012

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iCompose is a national composition competition which invites adults, pupils and teachers to create a piece of original music inspired by works in the National Galleries of Scotland Online Collection.  Be inspired by works of art and write a piece of music for Scottish Chamber Orchestra musicians.


Visit iCompose.org <http://www.icompose.org/>  for:

  • Teacher Resource Packs
  • Discussion ideas for schools
  • Notation tips
  • Instrument guides written by members of the SCO
  • Prizes information
  • Rules and Regs



Closing Date: Friday 30 March 2012

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National Galleries of Scotland 2012 Art Competition for Schools

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The National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools hopes to inspire children across the country with the National Galleries of Scotland’s superb collection of artworks.  This year’s winning works will be displayed at the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery.  There are six categories to choose from, links to Curriculum for Excellence and prizes to be won.  The closing date is 4 May 2012.


http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/competitions-3740/art-competition-for-schools-2012

Drama

8½ Foundation – A magical new movie birthday for kids

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The 8½ Foundation, founded by Tilda Swinton and Mark Cousins, has celebrated sending their 2000th DVD to a Scottish child by releasing ‘Movie Magic in a Box’, a magical animation from award-winning director Alice Nelson. The 8½ Foundation received investment from Creative Scotland through the Inspiring Communities fund. For full details and to view the animation visit: http://tiny.cc/cx4n7

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