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Tuesday 22 May 2012

Paper Sculptures

I came across this little freebie and thought I'd share with everyone. http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/entertainment/papercraft/animal-global/

Yamaha is normally known for its motors however they believe people should play as hard as they work and have come up with some very interesting downloadable and interactive resources for you. Check out the link above it will be worth our time. You may just find something interesting for your next project.

Thursday 17 May 2012

Art Exam Pieces

As I stated in my previous post I am now putting on a few of my Yr. 11 students exam paintings up here. I am very proud of the whole class and the outcomes of their exams. This was a 10 hour, two day exam that culminated in a final piece from the previous 8 weeks of study on the theme of Ordinary and Extraordinary. It was interesting to note how some of the students latched onto ideas they already knew very well, IE, religion or global politics to develop their themes. For me it is nice to see students putting a lot of thought and meaning into their work rather than just trying to paint a pretty picture. I beleive art should have and carry a message.
Here are some of the images:


Sunday 13 May 2012

Well I've been a bit busy as of late, finishing off one of my Master modules on education and preparing my Yr. 11's for their art exams last week. Overall, I was very pleased with their outcomes. More to follow on that though in my next post. In this post I wanted to mention and hope to receive some feedback upon my latest art educational based teaching resource. Like my others it can be found at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colour-Theory-Match-and-Sort-Game. How I propose to do this, to make it a bit sporty and offer this teaching resource free of charge to the first 10 people to leave their email in the comments on this blog. I will then email the product to you to be tested your your art classes. In return for the free resource I would like to get some feedback on this blog after it has been used in the classroom. If this interests you please keep reading.

Tuesday 1 May 2012

A Little Gadget to Help Stay Organised

I received an email from my wife who got this tip from a work college. This programme called Evernote is a little gem when it comes to keeping things organised and on task.
Basically Evernote is like the Microsoft Word programme but in ‘cloud’ form, so any changes you make to a document on your work computer are visible and editable on your home computer and iPad, making it easy to work on stuff at home/on the move should you need to. You can also add annotations to documents and add images from internet/smartphone cameras etc so is ideal for putting ideas down for lesson planning, articles or general notes when you are out and about.

It allows you to share documents between multiple users with the paid version, allowing more than one person to work on a single document in turn. The basic version is free and allows you to do pretty much most things except share between users.
Check out the website below for further information.

http://evernote.com/