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Research and Policy
SQA Qualifications - Creative and Cultural Skills
There are approximately 3,000 businesses in Scotland employing 57,000 people within the Creative and Cultural Skills sector...
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Online Teaching Tools
Dribble - Logo Design Inspiration
Dribble is a show and tell archive for designers, and offers professional cutting edge example of design from around the world...
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Online Teaching Tools
Inanimate Alice
An online new media fiction with teaching support, easily assimilated into learning environments; its use of multimodality (images, sounds, text, interaction) enables students to see storytelling in a new, multi-sensory light...
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Research and Policy
Research to support Schools of Ambition: final report
Provides an overview of the Schools for Ambition programme, which sought to enable 52 individual schools in Scotland to determine their priorities for a three-year period of transformation...
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Online Teaching Tools
Rainstorms and Symphonies: Performing Arts Bring Abstract Concepts to Life
Edutopia article on what happens when early elementary teachers integrate music and theatre - student learning improves in reading, math, and science as they become better critical thinkers and problem solvers...
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Online Teaching Tools
Musical Futures
Musical Futures believes music learning works best when young people are making music, and when their existing passion for music is reflected and built upon in the classroom...
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Online Teaching Tools
Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...
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Research and Policy
STEM to STEAM website
STEM + Art = STEAM In this climate of economic uncertainty, America is once again turning to innovation as the way to ensure a prosperous future...
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Online Teaching Tools
What is Graphic Design Poster Competition
A collection of posters on Flickr submitted to a contest: come up with something creative or witty that visualises the question 'What is Graphic Design...
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Research and Policy
Creating Safety
Creating Safety provides guidance on child protection for individuals and organisations involved in delivering artistic, cultural and creative projects for children and young people in Scotland...
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Online Teaching Tools
Forest Pitch
Forest Pitch is an exciting art project by Scottish artist Craig Coulthard, creating a full size football pitch hidden deep within woodland in the Scottish Borders...
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Online Teaching Tools
MoovBank
Powered by BalletBoyz – the internationally acclaimed dance company of stage, TV, and pioneers of innovative dance education projects...
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Online Teaching Tools
BBC Blast - Creating a career
Listen to Blast's three-part audio programme on turning your hobby into a business...
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Online Teaching Tools
Marks on the Landscape
An interdisciplinary creative learning and teaching resource based around Fife Earth, an ambitious land regeneration project...
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Online Teaching Tools
The John Byrne Award - Edinburgh only
The John Byrne Award presents sixth-year pupils with a unique challenge...
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Research and Policy
Artists and teachers resource
This ArtWorks Scotland resource has been developed for teachers and artists looking to embed creativity into school plans, offering relevant policy, evaluation and funding information, tips on planning together and case studies from artists and teachers who have worked in partnership...
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Online Teaching Tools
Central Station
Social networking site for artists, offering excellent inspiration for expressive arts and careers topics...
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Online Teaching Tools
Sound Editing in Audacity for Oral Historians
This course is intended for oral historians but may be useful to anyone interested in editing spoken word files (mp3, wav etc...
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Online Teaching Tools
Kist o Riches
Online resource containing thousands of oral recordings recorded in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onwards...
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Online Teaching Tools
Five top tips to run a successful design workshop
Based on the information in seperate guides for teaching design in primary and secondary settings, this article summarises the top five tips that will help to inform the quality of teaching when leading a design workshop, across all levels and settings...