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Online Teaching Tools
Scotland on Screen
An exciting educational resource that puts hundreds of important historical film texts online, providing students with a rear-view mirror on our society over the past century...
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Online Teaching Tools
Silver of the Stars creative learning resource
An online tool that uses Scotland’s most exciting contemporary collection of silver, Silver of the Stars, as the inspiration for creative learning...
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Scottish Screen Archive
The Scottish Screen Archive is a free film and video collection of over 100 years of Scotland's history, offering more than 32,000 items...
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Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
Edutopia article on how to teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback...
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Expressive Arts National Network Centre
A new professional learning community for expressive arts has been set up within glow...
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Rock Operator
A collaboration between geologists, teachers, and artists that explores the igneous rock and geology of Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags - including an 8 minute animation, lesson activities, an online game and geological information for pupils...
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Paint like Jackson Pollock
Voted amongst the top 50 "coolest websites" by TIME Magazine - try your hand at painting like Jackson Pollock...
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Information is Beautiful
A blog dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams...
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Kist o Riches
Online resource containing thousands of oral recordings recorded in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onwards...
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Creative Choices°
Creative Choices is dedicated to helping you develop your career in the creative and cultural industries...
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BBC Blast - Creating a career
Listen to Blast's three-part audio programme on turning your hobby into a business...
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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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Quotes
“Creativity means to me being able to branch out and bring disabled peoples' stories to the stage...”
—Robert Softley Gale, Birds of Paradise Theatre Company
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“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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“Using our imagination, being ourselves, expressing our opinions - creativity challenges and develops the mind...”
—macrobert Young Consultant
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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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Quotes
“Creativity is the freedom to explore, rejuvenate and affirm...”
—Hayley Durward, Citymoves Dance Agency
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Get Into Live Music
Get into live music is all about working in the live music industry This site hopes to open your eyes to the huge variety of careers in the industry – and the different ways to get there...
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5 Questions For... Scottish composer Paul Leonard-Morgan
Creative Scotland catches up with Scottish composer Paul Leonard-Morgan whose latest work can be found soundtracking the music for the new Judge Dredd film...
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Quotes
“Creativity is all about bringing imagined possibilities to life: an idea, a philosophy, a mathematical formula, a work of art...”
—Dougie Irvine, Visible Fictions