Cyberkidz is a Dutch ‘edutainment’ site with lots of educational games, covering Maths, Literacy, Geography, Art, Music and more. The games are sorted by subject and age range, suitable for children aged 4-11. www.cyberkidz.net The site has recently been translated into English, so even more children are now able to take advantage of these resources.
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Let's Draw
Tony De Saullese has been illustrating Scholastic’s Horrible Science series since it started in 1996. He currently visits a lot of primary schools, libraries and literature festivals where he holds Horrible Science Drawing Workshops. Tony has recently started a new “LET’S DRAW!” YouTube channel which has six videos showing children how to draw: a crocodile, a [...]
The Art Classroom
The Art Classroom is a wonderful blog about art and design in secondary schools. It is run by David Dunlop and shows the day to day workings of an art classroom. There are lots of examples of student work, as well as unit plans and ideas for other schools to try. Take a look and [...]
One Million Giraffes
One Million Giraffes is an online project in which one person is hoping to collect 1 million giraffes by 2011. People are sending pictures of their giraffes (which can’t be created on a computer) and at the time of writing, the collection has reached over 250,000! Could your class get involved? Ask each child to [...]
Over 500 Ideas to Inspire!
Ideas to Inspire now has over 500 ideas! The site originally started as somewhere to host my ‘Ideas to Inspire Writing’ presentation. Since then, Tom Barrett, Doug Belshaw, Mark Clarkson, Joe Rowing, Tony Cassidy and Noel Jenkins have kindly allowed me to add their presentations to the site, which all receive hundreds of visitors each day. The site is expanding at [...]
Tony Hart dies at 83
Hartbeat presenter and artist Tony Hart died yesterday, aged 83. He had suffered from ill health, including two strokes in recent years, and died peacefully in the early hours of the morning, according to his agent. Hart inspired generations of budding artists over his 50-year television career through programmes such as Vision On, Take Hart [...]
Find your talent
Ten areas around the country are to pilot the Government’s £25 million Find your Talent programme to give young people the chance to encounter a range of high-quality cultural experiences for five hours a week both in and outside of school. Children in the pilot areas will be able to discover and develop their talents [...]
Art safety warning
The school science advisory service, Cleapss, has sent out a warning to all schools and local authorities about the dangers of mixing plaster of Paris with water by hand. This was sent out after it was confirmed that a teenage girl had to have most of her fingers and thumbs amputated because of severe burns [...]
Drawing made easy
If you’re anything like me, whenever you attempt to draw something infront of a class, the children just laugh at you. I’m the first to admit that I can’t draw – all of my drawings end up looking like some sort of animal with wonky legs and no neck. I came across http://www.drawingcoach.com/ the other [...]
Artroom
Artroom is another site that I picked up from my children today during the ICT lesson. The site allows you to create your own picture using the drawing package and then display it online. It’s a simple concept that works well. The children are keen to know that their art is displayed and have a [...]
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