PROGRAMME FOR MAKING CREATIVE CONNECTIONS TWO
10.00am Registration and coffee (Gallery
2)
10.30 Keynote: The Textures of Technology:
Digital Media and Cultural Identity (Cinema
1) Speaker: Pete
Worrall Chair: Ayleen
Driver, Director of CLC@Brislington As a global
electronic community slowly emerges in the 21st Century, we should acknowledge
that there is a digital divide. This forever changing technological situation
has far reaching implications for art educators and artists regarding
contemporary practice. In this presentation Pete will explore and illuminate
these issues drawing on recent case study materials from Finland, Brazil
and the United Kingdom. Pete Worrall
is ICT Coordinator for the Initial Teacher Training course at the Institute
of Art at the University of Central England. Pete Worrall has worked as
a Head of Art, an Advisory teacher for Art and ICT and as a New Media
Consultant for the QCA, the TTA and Ofsted, in Europe, South America and
the USA. He is a digital artist and a freelance writer for educational
and computer magazines. He is a Board Member of the International Advisory
Board, International Child Art Foundation, Washington, USA.
11.25 Digital Media and Palestinian Identity
(Cinema 1) Speaker: Yasser Rashid Chair:
Cathy Poole, Head of Education, Watershed Media Centre Digital Media
has given the opportunity to underprivileged and marginalised communities
to express their views and express their culture through a medium that
can potentially reach a global audience. Yasser Rashid
is a professional web site designer, digital media tutor and digital artist.
11.55 Seminars:
delegates should choose one from 1,2,3,4 1. Using Educational E-Competitions
to Network Schools and Aid Transition through the Key Phases. (Digital
Lounge) Speaker: Neil Dennison Chair: Ayleen Driver, Director of CLC@Brislington Neil Dennison
will describe the Redcliffe Challenge, an interactive game and web project
which ran in the Summer of 2001: Neil Dennison
is Head of ICT, St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, Bristol.
2. Computers in the Art Department (Cinema
1) Speaker: Ross Wallis Chair: Cathy
Poole, Head of Education, Watershed Media Centre Ross Wallis
aims to share some of the experience gained through a decade of using
computers in the Art Department, and to show what students have achieved;
at the upper end of the school - those who have gone on to take degrees
in graphic design and animation; at the lower end of the school - work
that younger pupils can achieve when let loose on the computers; and more
generally how computers have integrated into the working life of the department. Ross Wallis
is Head of Art at Sidcot School in Somerset.
3. Model Animation in the
Classroom; Creativity with ICT (Gallery
2) Speaker: Oscar Stringer Chair: Liz
Boutwood, Education Assistant, Watershed Media Centre During the
seminar, short model animation films made by young people and by teachers
during Inset, will be screened. Oscar will discuss the learning opportunities
provided by animation filming in the secondary classroom. Oscar Stringer
works in schools introducing pupils to the art and craft of model animation.
He trains teachers to use the schools computers to make model animation
films. When not teaching, Oscar makes two short films a year.
4. High Tech, Low Tech: International
Collaborations (Cinema 2) Speaker:Eric
Williams, Jane Farrimond Eric Williams
and Jane Farrimond will share recent experiences of an international collaboration
with teachers and artists in Italy and Romania linking digital media projection
with students' performance of their creative work on identity. This includes
a high-tech activity at Watershed, and a low-tech activity in Romania,
where similar approaches were developed by the students with the aid of
a single overhead projector. A CD Rom showing the South Gloucestershire
International Project will be introduced during this seminar. Eric Williams
is Assistant Director for South Gloucestershire Local Education Authority
12.50
Lunch (Waterside) Sarah Laws, Education Officer at the Rural Media Company will demonstrate Cyberspace, an ground breaking interactive CD Rom produced with yound people by the Rural Media Company to address issues of racism in a rural context. Recommended for use in PSHE and Citizenship. For more information about the project, see www.ruralmedia.co.uk (Digital Seminar Suite) Artist, Hannah Cox, will be available to discuss the
Monks Park Summer School for Gifted and Talented pupils, the outcomes
of which are exhibited on the walls of Concourse 2, and other project
work with young people.(Digital
Lounge) Carinna Parraman and Paul Laidler from The Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, will be available to discuss with teachers the idea of putting their young people’s art work on the web.(Gallery 2) "The Quiet" by Mac Dunlop and Andrew Adamson (Digital Lounge) "The Quiet" is a video reality loop, where Andrew Adamson, 13 year old neighbour to artist, Mac Dunlop, tells his story. Andrew is hearing impaired. His story is about a motorcycle incident, and he uses both British Sign Language and voice, complete with his own sound effects. Watching and hearing him tell the story is a reminder that we each have our own unique "voice", our own language, even if it is just "in our head". The helmet itself, is an imperfect combination of image and sound; to see him tell the story, you need to hold the helmet a little away from yourself, but to hear the sound you have to be closer and wear the helmet. "I hope this paradox in some way illustrates how we can easily take language and communication for granted." m. dunlop, dec, 2001.
1.50 Keynote: New Models of Interactive
Learning: the Opportunities and Difficulties of Learning through New Technologies
(Cinema 1) Speaker:
Martin Freeth Chair: Vivienne
Reiss, Visual Arts Senior Officer, The Arts Council of England [Education
and Development] Futurelab -
high hopes and ambitions: can these be realised? Will the transformation
of learning have to be more radical than we anticipate? Martin Freeth,
Chief Executive, NESTA Futurelab
2.20
Seminars: delegates should choose one from 5, 6, 7, 8 5. Creative approaches to learning and
skills development; using digital video at 14 upwards
(Digital Lounge) Speaker: Katrina Thacker Chair: Ayleen
Driver, Director of CLC@Brislington Katrina will
speak about her work with different groups, demonstrating how creative
work with digital video can fulfil the economic, technological, social
and personal challenges offered by the 21st Century.
6. The Aesthetic of the Web Film; Working
with Young People to make a Digital Film (Cinema
2) Speaker: Ana Kronshnabl Chair: Liz
Boutwood, Education Assistant, Watershed Media Centre Ana Kronshnabl,
is a research fellow at UWE who is doing a PhD on film-making for the
Internet.
7. Symbolic Images: Textile Art
and Computer design. (Gallery
2) Speaker: Maggie Harris Chair: Eric
Williams, Assistant Director, South Gloucestershire LEA Computer design
- is it just another tool? Digital media can be very powerful, or a mystery.
Much can be learnt in the classroom and the space beyond, from the study
of medieval symbolism to modern textile art. But can you touch it?
8. Digital Film Editing:
How Highlighting the Process Enhances Learning(Cinema
1) Alistair and
Carrie aim to show how simple analysis of film can help illuminate learning
processes. They will discuss the importance of making explicit the creative
processes at work within the Art and English classrooms, and show how
the digital film-editing process can enhance students' understanding of
visual and written narratives.
3.25
Tea
3.40 Web Resources to Stimulate
Creative Digital Activity (Cinema
1) Speaker: Rebecca
Sinker Chair: Vivienne Reiss, Visual Arts Senior Officer, The Arts Council of England [Education and Rebecca will
show examples of a number of Web-based resources, and will talk about
how some of them have been used across the curriculum, in and beyond the
classroom. In addition she will discuss some of the critical and contextual
issues arising from a creative relationship between ICT and learning.
4.20
Evaluation:plans for future networking |