Go! Animate

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 at 21:38 | Posted by Jon
A colleague has just alerted me to the Go! Animate website which allows anyone to create cartoon style animations in just a few clicks of the mouse. I thought I'd have a go at creating one based on our recent meeting and managed this in just 20 minutes. I had a couple of conversations on the day about how exciting animation can be with young people. Maybe this could be a resource we all have a go at using in the classroom so that we can share our experiences here? It's something that could be done on an interactive whiteboard with a small group or in the computer suite with everyone making their own films. Tell me what you think.

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Creative Community Meeting

Monday, December 01, 2008 at 19:25 | Posted by Jon

Thanks to everyone who attended the Creative Community meeting today at Devonport House. It was really refreshing to work alongside colleagues from different schools who are all interested in promoting creativity and keen to share ideas about how best to do this. I will make sure that a contingent from Tallis visits you in your schools again soon to consult with you in a bit more detail about your aspirations for this year. Please feel free to use this blog as a place to share anxieties, links to online resources, requests for help, information and anything else you think is appropriate so that we can strengthen our creative community. I would like to organise another meeting shortly after Christmas so ideas about which days might be good on a postcard please.

Check back soon to see the final version of Eelyn's film of the day.

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at 17:29 | Posted by Nick Cattermole
Hi. Great to meet you all at the Creative Communities Day. Here's a good link for the MPC on YouTube. This guy has some great ideas once you get past his haircut speech, also he seems to be quite prolific. Cheers Nick

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Sir Ken Robinson at the RSA

Monday, November 24, 2008 at 18:36 | Posted by Jon
In a recent lecture at the Royal Society of Arts, Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson asks how do we make change happen in education and how do we make it last? He argues that unless we address underlying cultures and attitudes, change is likely to be superficial and temporary, but to do this we need to engage with organisational dynamics and with the aspirations and motivations of the individuals who work within those organisations.

This is a provocative lecture with some challenging thoughts about changing paradigms.

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Back from India

at 09:57 | Posted by Nick Cattermole
Hi Everyone
I've just got back from India, where our band (The Bollywood Brass Band) played for the last show at India Fashion week in Delhi. I stayed on and visited Varanassi where I had some instruction on how to play a Sarengi, a bowed instrument with many sympathetic strings. I then went up to the mountains, McLeod Ganj, where the Dali Lama Lives in India to visit an old friend. This picture is of a Gadi Shepherd who lives there. I'm looking forward to working on future Sound & Vision projects and meeting those of you I've not met yet, Cheers Nick. 

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Welcome

at 09:06 | Posted by Jon

Welcome to the new blog for the Thomas Tallis Creative Network. This is a place where partners in the Thomas Tallis School specialist arts college community can share ideas, seek guidance and promote creative solutions. Hopefully, it will enable us to stay in touch and benefit from each other's innovations.

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