Hi Greg, I agree – there is usually nothing intrinsically or necessarily wrong with a clichéd image.
When first seen it was (obviously) not the overfamiliar thing is has since become.
Triple A Learning IB Blogs
May 16, 2012
Is it a Plane? Is it a Bird? No! It’s a CLICHÉ (Part 2)
April 13, 2012
Create a Virtual Exhibition
I first blogged about the Google Art Project in February 2011.
Since then this project has grown in size and usefulness.
February 22, 2012
SOME ONLINE ART EDUCATION RESOURCES
The DP visual arts course currently has two components – studio and investigation. There will be three components in the new course, but in many ways the focus will stay the same: students will continue to research and look at art from different times and places, and they will continue to make art, and there will be a link between the two.
January 4, 2012
It’s that time again
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
OK – I started back at school yesterday after a very pleasant two week holiday, and reminded my year 2 IBDP visual arts class that for them (in some ways) the end is nigh. As if to confirm this, a package of the blue Candidate Record Booklets was also waiting for me in my mailtray. If like me you are teaching in a northern hemisphere school then your students will probably have their final examinations in around 2 to 3 months’ time – March or April 2012.
September 20, 2011
CULTURAL CONVERGENCE (by Greg Morgan)
Greg is a friend, colleague, and fellow DP art teacher and examiner, and I have known him for a number of years. I have been consistently delighted by, and impressed with, his passion for our subject – visual arts – so I invited him to contribute something to this blog, and I am pleased to report that he has indeed written a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece.
Please welcome our first ‘Guest Blogger’ – Greg Morgan!
June 18, 2011
April 2, 2011
The exhibition and the visiting examiner
Well, that’s it for me for another year. The visiting examiner spent a day interviewing our final year students on Thursday and their exhibitions come down on Monday.
The students took three of the four possible options (HLA, HLB and SLA) so he had a variety of assessment criteria to refer to when making his judgments.
January 22, 2011
Investigation, planning and integration – its a minefield
Many of my students come into class with a ‘great’ idea, are excited about it, and really want to go with this ‘first’ idea, starting, like, now!
I don’t want them to lose either their enthusiasm or their idea, but I’ve seen a lot of wasted art supplies and materials, and unsuccessful art, resulting from this urgent but superficial approach.
January 4, 2011
December 5, 2010
Issues and Concerns in teaching the visual arts course
I’ve been looking at Candidate Record Booklets containing evidence of studio work and investigation from students just examined in schools in the southern hemisphere. (These schools typically have their examination visit and interview in November).
Predictably, the ‘southern hemisphere’ teachers and students (many in Latin America. Australia and New Zealand) experience many issues that are similar to those encountered by teachers and students in the northern hemisphere.
