28th of April feeling really pleased because I had to centre tweet from my iPhone directly to the front page of the art site at Sidcot which is coming on apace now and it worked absolutely beautifully and very speedily and we are thinking of putting a sort of photo twitter come caption competition in there as well so that people want to go each week to see what the photograph is just a little device to get people to go to the site to be proactive in looking at the site which is one of the challenges in relation to the media scape project I spent a stupid amount of time this weekend transcribing all the old memories and I have got the class this morning to work out how it is we are going to create this media scape my feeling from last week is that we have to have an awful lot of audio files in order to fill the space it needs to be something that people want to listen to certainly the old scholars stuff I want to listen to I don’t know whether the children do and a lot of the recording is uneven so my feeling is to get the students to rerecord the memories so they are memories in the voices of children it might even be better to do it with younger children than year nine but we shall try that this morning and see what happens but also working on getting more audio devices working so I have got a couple of old iPods with microphones which are up and running and I have ordered another couple of the zoom audio recorders so we should have plenty with which to make recordings and I am thinking of letting zooms out today drawing the day so that the upper fourth can record the ambient sounds perhaps in lessons perhaps in the playground perhaps at lunchtime and get a lot more sort of general around the school chatter particularly I think small groups of children sort of chatter informal chatter which would create a sort of backdrop to the other media files but I’m getting a little bit stuck as to what I will do with the difficult teenagers at half term I have been doing quite a lot of reading now about creativity and inclusion doing a lot of thinking about giving the creative power to them or creating an atmosphere in which the ideas can come collectively rather than me dictating which isn’t currently working very well with the Sidcot media scape I think I’m going to have to direct it a bit more in order to get anything listenable to out of it other than just the experience but then maybe it is just the experience that is important as well we shall have to see what comes out of that one but in relation to the Holborn Museum media scape I don’t want to be seen as a sort of outsider coming in and imposing I don’t want to be forcing people to do things that they don’t want to do I want them to be genuinely creative and genuinely interested which is one heck of a challenge because I can imagine like with my current group just large amounts of me talking and them being silent and bugger all actually going on and maybe in the end I am satisfied with not having an outcome that may be just that I have managed to get an engaged and involved and having fun do we actually in the end need an outcome? That is sort of polished and usable I think that this Easter one is very much going to be a dry run to the summer which will give me the time to evaluate think about what I produce with them in relation to the summer so it is all a bit of a process really meanwhile thinking a lot about creativity in education and inclusivity and letting students be the ones that direct and choose interesting lesson yesterday with the seven doing photo shop I had to more or less absent myself because I was doing exams stuff and they just got on and did it they can use photo shop now I don’t really have to teach them at all which is quite amazing really because it is really a professional and difficult programme I imagine handing an 11-year-old a violin and saying here play this extraordinary and also getting very wound up I think I talked of this day or two ago we can exam, with the idea of exams measuring one of my stitches getting quite uppity about the forthcoming exam and how we must have the work in the minute before the exam starts to me art doesn’t work like that and also talking to the IB moderator it is very difficult to measure art to quantify it in an empirical system so I understand that building the system is complex but it can’t be that the system that drives the creativity it has got to be that the system fits with the creative process and part of the creative process as always is pushing the boundaries practically I still need to get on to all the people who haven’t replied to me suited and booted I didn’t get a response Caroline I did but I need to re-arrange a meeting the Simons I didn’t get a response Constance I did but I still need to arrange a meeting so in this very very busy two or three weeks there is a lot of arranging and visiting to be done as well as all the marking.

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