Tiverton High School Flags

I went back to Tiverton to work with art department and pupils from Year 10 on banner designs in response to work created around a visit to Eden.
The art dept is inspirational and they are great people to work with.
Here are the designs that were created.. they will become permanant flags at the front of the school.
http://homepage.mac.com/unpopular/PhotoAlbum29.html

Embedding ICT in the Art Curriculum

Teachers work from follow up Inset

We had a follow up Inset with secondary art teachers recently. They had attended a 2 day training session back in January as part of the 'Embedding ICT in the Art Curriculum National Training Programme' that I worked on with Kevin Mathieson. We were reviewing progressing and expanding on some of the skills and ideas introduced in the earlier sessions.

It was a very interesting session - It's very rare we, as trainers, get the chance to hear how well people have managed to apply skills they have learned during training sessions.

The reports were mixed due to a wide range of obstacles that teachers had to overcome in order to move forward with ICT. Some had very little access to computers still within their departments, others were forced to take over ICT suites that were never intended to be used for anything other than spreadsheets, databases and word processing. All of those that attended - and some that sent their appologies - had shown great persistence and ingenuity in overcoming the barriers that existed to using new technoloies creatively in the art department.
It was interesting how the fact that we had promised a follow-up session for them had motivated and supported teachers over the 5 months since the first sessions - they all said how important this was for them.

Work from pupils at Clyst Vale School who were working through the same process explored during the first inset sessions:

We then had a refresher session on Photoshop using todays papers to explore ideas around photomontage - coincidentally both Kevin and I had been using the excellent Cut & Paste Website in schools to introduce Photomontage to pupils as an artform in its own right
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/ We had some discussion about how this approach encourages pupils to think more about how you can use Photoshop to create different meanings and messages - moving further than the novelty of photo-manipulation.
Another site worth looking at is this australian one.. 'Cant see the Join' heres the link
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/visual/stories/montage/page1.htm