An AudioVisual Banquet. Intermediality- a collaboration,

This morning at ISB, Ed Grody, Lisa O'Leary and Francesco Di Paolo (the Theatre Lighting, Sound and Video teachers) and I collaborated for a one-off class, in which we wanted to bring our two groups of students together for a mini-project. The aim was...

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Performing with Voice- a collaboration.

Last year, me and a colleague of mine, Cat Leclerc, who teaches The Voice Works class here (https://twitter.com/MS_VoiceWorks), had one of our exciting discussions, which always tend to lead to us working on some new idea together. This particular conversation...

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A letter to Charlie...

I don't have a lot to add, just to say how wonderful this letter is and what a fantastic team they must have at Barrowford. ...

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Moments of Magic

I have just finished teaching one of my favourite classes of the year. As part of the Expressive Arts Program here at ISB, I teach Grade 1 and right now we are just starting of the program for this year. It's week two and last week I introduced students to the...

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Setting Up A Teacher's Blog

Stumbled across this interesting resource over the weekend, while thinking about blogging. Although the step-by-step's are specifically for Edublogs.org there is still some useful advice for newbies... http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/personal-bloggin...

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The Power Of One Word (Part 2)

The other half of my Advanced Performance Works class are also going through 'The Power of' process at the moment and creating some equally interesting performances, in very short amounts of time. Here's one in response to this photo:  The word this...

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Artist Toolbox: To Roll, To Crease, To Fold, To Store...

In 1972, Richard Serra presented his (apparently famous) Verb List, after using it to great success in his sculpture work. In 2006, I was presented with what I think must be a version of this from one of my lecturers at University. Now looking back, being presented...

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The Power Of One Word

First thing Monday morning. Kids drag their feet into class. The lesson drags by as kids half sleep, half interact. By the time they've left they're just waking up, but too little too late. Right? Wrong. This morning The Advanced Performance Works class...

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(read in a stock Cockney accent) "Get your Blogger Widgets! Come get your Blogger Widgets!"

A resource for great Blogger Widgets here. I installed the Twitter Feed and the Popular Posts to this blog. To add Labels as a top bar on your blog (see image), look here. ...

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Artist Toolbox: Building trust. Building a team.

As it's that time of the year when our groups of students are new, where students actually coming into physical contact with each other is only through awkward hugs or unfriendly 'roughhousing', and when there is more ice in the classroom than at the antarctic,...

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Lessons to be learned: A teacher speaks out...

When Sam Burton began teaching three years ago, he was determined to thrive. But after spells at an academy and a special educational needs school in the UK, he's had enough. Here, he tells the story of how even an energetic young teacher can struggle with the...

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