sábado, 4 de mayo de 2013

C.I.Y digital style

My favourite concept is C.I.Y and not just because I created it  myself in my book
 " Fashiona Belle" to sum up the King of Crafts , Kevin Carton and his highly ecological and creative philosophy to life but also because it  is a concept that is ever present in my teaching and teacher training work. My aim is to inspire teachers to create their own resources and give their pupils a chance to develop creativity too.  With this amazing tool DIGITAL CREATIVITY is possible with a couple of clicks....CLICK and CREATE, or cre8 and click....
click , create, CLICK for an example of a meograph  made by a teacher on the topic of plants and photosynthesis. I hope to follow in her footsteps and start creating my own very soon!


http://www.meograph.com/kdburton/36443/photosynthesis

SOONER THAN I THOUGHT!!! A little bit of ME on a GRAPH...and on a MAP and with a TIMELINE...mine does not speak yet but will do as soon as I work out the flash adobe update on my mac. Click and Create one YOURSELF.

http://www.meograph.com/juliefair/46162/once-upon-a-time-julie-fairweather-and-ciy

miércoles, 3 de abril de 2013

POP ART POTENTIAL


EXPLORING THE BASICS- Free style creations as the six year olds experiment with colours, shapes and lines before looking for deeper inspiration through the works of the  British artist Peter Blake....watch this SPACE!!!!!

sábado, 30 de marzo de 2013

Teacher Training Week 4 POP ART POTENTIAL

Discovering the true potential of POP ART (and a lot more...with Julie Fairweather for Lower Primary Session and Julia Oliver for Upper Primary)

                     Artistic Expression of Moods and Feelings to  Music



 Talking about feelings, warm and cold colours , happy and sad colours
Looking at Positive and Negative space

Teacher Training-Week 3

During the third week of the Art in English Course in Cala d'Or we saw the results of the Natural Relief Collage, done with the pupils of the Cala d'Or school. Beautiful!!!!!!!









WELL DONE TEACHERS AND PUPILS!!!!!!!

Teachers continued to experiment and explore....

COLOUR BUBBLES



                                                              CHALK EFFECTS                  




Picasso and the African influence



Cooperative "Cubist" faces- Students draw six parts of the face on six small pieces of paper.
Mix and shuffle all the pieces of paper and create new mixed up faces.





domingo, 10 de marzo de 2013

Work in Progress-Art Course in Melilla

Friday afternoon training course in Melilla.
As well as the usual 35 hour week teaching in school,  teachers in Melilla worked an extra 30 hours in their free time on a very intensive training course on Bililingualism and CLIL.  This is the last part ( ten hours) on Art, Story-telling and Projects in English and the effort, interest and dedication of the teachers is truly amazing. Both Borja and myself would like to say a big thank you to all of the teachers for their hard work and enthusiasm and to Ana, the course coordinator of the CPR for inviting us to deliver these training sessions in Melilla.

Teacher Training in Melilla- Digital Story-telling


Digital Story-telling- Creating our own stories with Picture Book Maker