The third workshop at Jubilee School
This workshop is in two parts, the first part was on on
Friday July 13 and the second part was on on Wednesday
September 12 2007
In
the first part of the workshop, Morag Scott's class
received the magic bag which had come back from China. It
contained their original picture books which had made the
journey all the way to China and back, and had been read by
the Spritivity students in Beijing. Also inside the magic
bag were five sets of the first verrsions of the four
picture books made by students at the
Beijing workshops.
These picture books are inspired by the Jubilee picture
books and feature the Jubilee sprites, together with five
sets of all the 31 sprites made by the Beijing students to
send to the Jubilee students.
The Jubilee students, working in five groups, read the
Beijing picture books togethe and explored the pictures and
descriptions of the 31
Beijing
sprites,
Each group then collectively created a story that would
feature some of the Beijing Sprites, together with some of
the Jubilee sprites that they had made previously.
View photo gallery:interpreting
sprites and making stories
In the second part of the workshop, each group of the
Jubilee students (now starting their year 6 class) were
provided with a set of 31 A4 pages of
Beijing sprite
stickers:
each sticker page contained a description of a specific
Beijing Sprite, and copies of the sprite image in various
sizes.
The students completed
seven new picture
books
illustrating the stories they started to create in the
first part of the workshop during July. They made their own
backgrounds for the pages in their storybook and stuck in
the appropriate Beijing Sprites on each page to show and
tell their story.
You can download high
definition copies of the new picture books,
which print out the same size as the
originals.
Schedule
for the workshop
10:00–10.45am- Students once again worked in the five small
groups they had formed in July. Each group worked on the
final narratives and characters to include in their
picture
books.
Students selected sprites created by both Beijing and
Jubilee students to complete their narratives through
picture books.
10:45-11:00- The groups shared the stories with the whole
class. Students took on the roles of their characters while
they narrated. A few
picture
books
were also given a title collectively after the whole class
heard and saw what the contexts and sprites represented
within these stories.
CONCLUSION
The conclusion of this workshop marks the completion of
this first series of workshops generating collective
stories between students from Beijing and London through a
picture language.
We have palns for some exciting new developments for the
second series, which will start at the beginning of 2008.
Please continue to watch this website, where we will
describe these developments as they occur.
In
the meantime,
you may like to
view a
discussion
between Patrick Humphreys, Director of the London
Multimedia Lab for Audiovisual Composition and
Communication, and Morag Scott, the class teacher involved
in the Spritivity workshops at Jubilee Primary School about
her impression of the workshops and views on
Spritivity