EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
The Potato Game
An Educational Game for school kids suggesting that an ordinary potato is not as ordinary as it might seem. A potato is a personality! Didn’t you know that?
Conceived as a part of the accompanying program of the Potato Exhibition in the premises of National Museum of Agriculture in Prague. The Game is designed as an educational tool to be used within the elementary school curriculum that emphasises project learning, crosscut topics approaches and key skills development.
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“Media by Doing” – Media Education project by AISIS o.s. (CZ) – Methodics Contribution, Lecturing
– 2007/2008We contribute to the lecturing, methodics development and preparation of a forthcoming handbook (in a form of methodic texts and interactive multimedia application)
Project is aimed at elementary and secondary teachers who want to use productive media-education methods (learning by doing) and consider media-education as a self-standing crosscut subject. The pupils and students have the chance to learn the media realm by doing, from a position of a creator/ author.
The project is being realized in 5 cities in the Czech Republic and is co-financed by the European Social Fund, the Czech Ministry of Education and by the City of Prague.
Digital Photography and Visual Perception Seminars
– 2005-2007Developed in collaboration/for the Educational Department of the National Gallery in Prague)
Creative seminars for pedagogues focusing on photography not as an artefact only but primarily as a communication tool and process (photography semantics, cultural role and context, social dimension of image). Seminars took place in the Modern Art Collections of the National Gallery premises, which was the opportunity for the participants to reflect and interact with the artworks and draw links between their own creation and approaches and tendencies in modern art practise.
Around 60 participants - teachers, art teachers, university students.
Art-educational project “Integrart”– Artistic Supervision & Coaching
– Macedonia – 2005
In collaboration with the Cultural Centre Media Artes, Ohrid – supported by the Felix Meritis grant
Working with a groups of young people on the topics of multiculturalism. Participants from Ohrid, Resen and Bitola were involved for 5 weeks in an intensive process.
We were using and combining means from visual and performing art together with simple technological means (video camera, photo camera, sound recording etc).
We were focusing on the inner experience of each participant and the group as a whole, rather than on results. The meaning of the process was to let the participant explore (and experience) basic things such as individual identity, communication and the ability to deal with “difference” and „the other”, being part of a group (community).
(Participants: school kids, high school and college students)
Art-educational project “Art for Social Change - Play Against Violence” – Artistic Supervision & Coaching
– Macedonia – 2004In collaboration with the Cultural Centre Media Artes,Ohrid – supported by the European Cultural Foundation STEP grant
Youth and New Media. Connecting new media and theater approaches to facilitate self -expression of young people experiencing social disorientation. Search for appropriate and creative role of technological means for young people’s every day life situations. Topics like “My day”, “Self-portrait – one hover walk in my town just for me”, “My mental map of the town”, “Interviews”...
The process included research in the local community, investigation different layers of the town, collecting and processing audiovisual material and working with participant’s physicality.
The final outcome was a multimedia performance where multimedia met physical actions and expression. The presentation combined subjective stories, memories and emotions with the mosaic of various common issues of the town. We considered the town inhabitants to be the main audience.
(Participants: high school and college students from Ohrid, Macedonia)
ICT in Art Education – Methodic Developers and Lecturers
– 2004-2005In collaboration with the ZUŠ Bechyně, the Association of Art Pedagogues (CZ), within the Czech Ministry of Education programme
- Development of methodics for implementing multimedia in art education of elementary and secondary level (usage of Still Image, Moving Image (Animation, Video), Documentation and Internet)
- Lecturers of courses for art pedagogues accredited by the Czech Ministry of Education.
- Management of a digital forum where participants submit their final projects and share them with other participants and experts. The forum serves as an inspirational and didactic library for ICT in art education field.
Around 100 participants