Tate Learning August 28, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : Art & Design , add a commenthttp://www.tate.org.uk/learning/
The Tate Learning website is a great resource for teachers and students, both those who can make it to one of the Tate’s galleries in the UK and those that can’t. There’s plenty of information, activity ideas and games included on the site. I’ve just been having a go at the Memento Mori games and the Case of the Mysterious Object (which is great if you’re looking at sculpture in art).
Show Me August 28, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : Art & Design, History, Various Subjects , add a commenthttp://www.show.me.uk
Show Me is the 24 Hour Museum’s section for students aged 4 to 11. It pulls together material from UK museum and gallery websites and groups them according to topics of interest. There’s plenty of games to look at, information to read and ideas for places to visit out of school.
(The 24 Hour Museum (http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/) is itself well worth checking out as it features news from museums and galleries around the UK, links to websites and educational resources, trails and a comprehensive what’s on guide.)
Mr Picassohead August 27, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : Art & Design , add a commenthttp://www.mrpicassohead.com/
This is completely random! 
A Mr Potato Head creator in the style of Picasso.
ArtisanCam August 27, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : Art & Design , add a commenthttp://www.artisancam.org.uk/
I recently received an email about this fascinating art website. I’d not come across it before but I’ll definitely be spending a lot of time exploring it further.
ArtisanCam is a free on-line teaching aid aimed at Key Stage 2 & 3 pupils and teachers. Backed by artists, it’s an interactive site where pupils can watch live-streaming of an artist working in a studio and on location as they create a piece of work.
Participating schools can submit questions via e-mail or participate in live video-conferences and the pupils can even submit pictures of there own work to the gallery section of the site.
There’s lots of past projects archived on the site that you can watch. In one of the examples you can view Anthony Gormley’s great ‘Field for the British Isles’ piece of work being assembled. Consisting of 40,000 little clay people it’s certainly a major undertaking.
Well worth visiting and best experienced with a broadband connection.
