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Another instalment of random teaching and learning tools, examples and images from a week in the iPad Art Room! If you liked this post, check out another collection of ‘What I created this week‘.

I’ve noticed that every time teachers using iPads in their classrooms get together the camera roll opens up and there’s instant and enthusiastic conversation about apps, ideas and examples.  I’m sure that this is in part due to the need to learn about this new...

Just a little visual reminder of the great ’10 Lessons the Arts Teach’ from Elliot Eisner. Inspirational stuff for art teachers. If you liked this poster, check out these snippets – more from the great mind of Elliot Eisner.

Check out a few of my favourite ideas, clips and music videos as starting points for exploring the relationship between visual art and music. ‘The Motorway’ blends dots and dabs of paint with clever film making techniques to really ‘paint the music’....

” The next Hollywood blockbuster may not be made using a smartphone, but that day is soon coming. “ READWITE.COM ” This year’s Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature, Searching for Sugarman, was shot mostly on traditional, costly 8mm film. The...

Collaboration between the arts and sciences has the potential to create new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial to both fields. Artists and scientists approach creativity, exploration and research in different ways and from different perspectives; when working together they...

Ted Kooser’s creative spirit is captured beautifully in this short film from master photographers Bill Frakes and Laura Heald. Not only is this intimate conversation with iconic American poet Ted Kooser a study in filmmaking, Ted’s words resonated with me as an...

Enjoy these quotes as posters around your art room…or something else. We used some great art quotes and combined them with images and student work in Phoster, quickly and easily to generate some simple, strong and inspiring messages.  The templates in the app are great, you...

“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked...

What makes people creative?  Why are some more creative than others?  In this wonderful paper from Robert Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams (source), you’ll find some interesting answers.  Their ideas can be used as a valuable ‘checklist’ for educators looking to...