https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/eslb/2011/12/05/pandamonium/
Google Model Your Town in 3D [great school project / competition opportunity]
Re-posted from OllieBray.com: This would be a great and real project to do with a class of young people (any anyone who was interested) between now and the end of February 2012.
The Google Model Your Town Competition is about geo-modeling – making photo-textured models of real-life buildings that appear in Google Earth. It is open to people all over the world – last year the winner was from Lima, Peru.
Making 3D models is easy using Google SketchUp or Google Building Maker and you can find out more about creating 3D models by looking a Google’s Your World in 3D Pages.
More information about the completion in the YouTube Video at OllieBray.com.
The Creativity Portal Update: “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”
The Creativity Portal is now a little over a year old and users are visiting the Creativity Portal for its offer of creative partnerships, resources and inspiration, as well as engaging with the Creativity Portal Glow Group behind the scenes in new and exciting ways.
Creativity News Feeds
Nearly 700 partnership opportunities and examples of creativity in the curriculum have already been shared through the Creativity Blog – many of which are free for teachers and community learning groups.
That’s more than four pieces of inspiration and creative opportunities each school day.
You can receive the Creativity Blog in the way that suits you best:
You can also subscribe to specialist Creativity Feeds such as Creativity and Literacy, Creativity and Sciences, Creativity and Heritage, Creativity and Drama, Creativity and Dance, Creativity and Music, Creativity and Art & Design, Creativity and ASL, and Creativity and Social Studies.
The Creativity Portal website
Nearly 15000 unique users have visited the Creativity Portal already making use of:
- 74 quality assured creative partners responding to and investing in Curriculum for Excellence
- 29 quality assured case studies of creative partnerships in action across all ages and areas of the curriculum
- easy access to 106 creative resources, learning and teaching tools and sources of inspiration
- listings of 32 national Glow Groups with creativity at their heart to inform your teaching
The Creativity Portal Glow Group
Various associated Glow Groups and tools have been developed alongside the public facing Creativity Portal to engage educationalists, teachers and youth workers in sharing, discussion and celebration of creativity’s role in teaching and learning.
Creativity Forum – a national forum for all Glow users to contribute to the debate and seek answers
Creativity Archive – a national repository of creative projects and lessons that any Glow user can add to, ensuring that all our creative learning is shared and no learning is ever lost
Creativity online newspaper – a simple newspaper style newsfeed giving you at-a-glance news from across Scotland in creative learning
Glow TV’s Creativity Channel – featuring an increasing number of creative Glow Meets with authors, theatre directors, artists and creative partners
This is an exciting phase for the Creativity Portal and with changes happening all the time your feedback is as powerful as ever. You can access the Creativity Portal Evaluation tool here – http://glo.li/mrNuJE, leave a comment on the Creativity Forum – http://glo.li/ieF6fA, or email me direct on stephen.bullock@educationscotland.gov.uk
If you have any questions or suggestions then please do not hesitate to ask. You can also find resources to help you promote and share the Creativity Portal’s resources with colleagues in the Creativity Portal Glow Group.
Animation in the Classroom – new resource
Model animation or stop motion animation is a great classroom activity that engages students of all ages and abilities and can support many curriculum areas.
This resource has been designed for teachers to use as a planning aid for an animation project in the classroom or/and as a printable teaching PDF resource. Each section will explain simple approaches to creating a short animated film.
To find out more click here.
To view examples of Animation in Action click here.
Creativity in the Classroom – a call out to share what works
Consider yourself creative?
The Creativity Portal is looking for examples of simple, short creative exercises that teachers and youth workers like yourself have used in the classroom and youth group settings.
It could be:
- A creative chemistry experiment
- The school’s fastest paper aeroplane contest
- The imaginative alphabet
- A 30 second dramatic warm-up
We would love to hear what’s worked for you. Get a mention on the national Creativity Portal and an invitation to future creative CPD. A wee bit of text is all it takes.
Add to the Creativity Archive here within Glow.
Scots Language in the Early Years – watch again on Glow Meet
Do you know what ‘cow’, ’dog’ or ‘vest’ is in Scots? If not tune in and watch again on Early Years Glow TV. We had a fantastic
session with Matthew Fitt this morning, lots of establishments tuned in and took part by burlin’ roon and shoutin’ oot!
If you would like to know more visit the Glow TV ’discussion’section of our Early Years National Glow site and download the hints and tips on how to explore Scots more in your classroom/playroom.
Here are some useful links too:
Scotland’s Songs for Early Years
Thank you for tuning in!
Ho ho ho! Santa visits via Glow Meet
The Santa Glow Meet is back again for another year. This time, our good friend Santa will be coming to Glow users LIVE from the infant department at Fallin Primary near Stirling and he will be answering your questions LIVE through Glow TV. This was a hugely popular and successful event last year and Santa got lots of tricky questions from Glow viewers, as well as those in the school.
Sign up, prepare some questions and get ready to see Santa LIVE through Glow.
To find out more about the Glow Meet and to sign up click here. (Glow log in required)
Traditional musicians from Stirlingshire schools embark on tour
Young Stirlingshire traditional music band ‘No More Cages’ embark on their first tour thanks to the Scottish Music Centre’s ‘Hit the Road’ tour
No More Cages, a young folk band featuring some of the best up-and-coming traditional musicians from Stirlingshire schools, embarked on their first tour last week as part of the Scottish Music Centre’s ‘Hit the Road’ tour which is supporting some of Scotland’s best up-and-coming musicians and bands to experience their first tour and help them learn some of the skills they will need to go on tour themselves in the future. The band have been honing their skills together for the past three years as part of much larger YMI funded traditional music workshops that have been running for the past seven years and which many of the band have been coming to from the start. The workshops are based at the Tolbooth Music Venue in Stirling and are a partnership between Education and Cultural Services.
The workshops are open to any young musician attending a Stirling school and a number of the musicians that have attended the workshops have since gone on to study traditional music. For more information please contact nomorecagesband@gmail.com.
Creative Scotland and Young Scot launch Creative Enterprise Fund
On Monday 24 October, Creative Scotland and Young Scot launched their new fund for young people, the Creative Enterprise Fund, to support those aged 15-22 years to develop their artistic talents and fulfil their ambitions within the creative industries.
Creative Scotland and Young Scot see the Creative Enterprise Fund as providing a means for Scotland’s young people to develop their artistic talent and unlock opportunities within the creative industries. The new Fund aims to promote the values of creative enterprise and leadership, creating positive pathways to employment and providing wider benefits to local communities.
http://www.youngscot.net/news/creative-scotland-and-young-scot-launch-creative-enterprise-fund.aspx
Scotland’s Islands art and music project
On Islay, Mull, Tiree and Bute the Creative Arts in Schools Team (CAST) have
been holding two day workshops offering pupils the opportunity to work with
a musician and two visual artists.
The concept for the project is Œrecognising and celebrating potential
opportunities for our islands through harnessing tidal/wave energy.¹
The pupils reflected this concept by focussing throughout on experimental
application of modern technologies such as digital art and audio sequencing
to conventional art, crafts and music.
During the workshops CAST and the pupils were joined via glowmeets by a
marine tidal scientist from SAMS and a geo-poet. Elements of their talks
have been incorporated into the artwork and music by the pupils.
The outcome of the workshop has been pupil-led multimedia art work and
music.
Creativity has been at the heart of every step of this process.
The project has been funded by ŒScotland¹s Islands¹ and Argyll & Bute
Council
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/ArgyllButeCreativeLearningNetwork/2011/
11/28/scotlands-islands-art-and-music-project/
