Education Workshops 2018
SCA will again be running education workshops later this year. Our workshops always prove very popular and have covered a wide range of topics and techniques over the years. To ensure the workshops are relevant and of interest, we want to hear from you. Below you will find details of the workshops we can offer. Sadly, we can't run them all so have created a very brief survey, here<https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Z6W43/>, for you to mark your preferred option (or options).
Updated from previous years:
Active Learning
Learn to use simple drama approaches to bring archives to life for school and community groups, and outreach projects. Drama sounds scary but this course will show you how to use a piece of costume, some role-play, a bit of scripting and good questioning to engage school groups, community or exhibition visitors with archive records in an immersive and profound way.
Noises Off
Learn to use sound recording and editing (using Audacity) to create podcasts, soundscapes, guided walks and audio interpretations using archive records. Audio recordings can be used on websites, in exhibitions and projects, and as alternative ways for archive visitors to experience the archives. Hands-on course using digital sound recorders, Audacity software, music and sound effects.
Feedback from our previous sound courses:
"..extremely useful for current and future oral history projects"
""hands-on aspect of the training was very engaging, allowing us to learn by doing"
Running with Scissors
Experiment with collage techniques to create artistic interpretations of a visit to the archives. We spend half the day learning to do this with paper, scissors and glue, and the other half learning to create the same effect digitally using graphics software.
Feedback from our previous graphic collage course:
"I'll be using the archive collage with youth groups in our outreach programme.."
"the collage technique will.. encourage engagement with young audiences in the archive"
A Silk Purse from a Sow's Ear
We know that Archive records are fascinating, full of rich tales, extraordinary lives, strange customs; the very raw material of history. However, it often takes work to help teachers and school children share this seemingly obvious perspective. This one-day workshop explores how to create interesting and engaging education materials from archive records. Learn how to choose the right records, reveal their educational potential, create age and curriculum-relevant activities around them, and set them into a classroom context for teachers and students to use. A practical, hands-on workshop from which you can take away completed resources to use.
Archives In The Community
Practical ways to widen community and school use of your archive and build a programme of events. This one-day practical workshop looks at ways of building up audiences for your archive collections and services, and creating a varied and interesting programme of events to cater for those audiences. We'll look at two or three exemplars of good practice and investigate what makes them successful, and how you can build similar programmes in your institution.
New courses:
Digital Storytelling
Use online and app-based techniques to create compelling digital stories from your archive records. Blending imagery, words, animation, web links, sound and video recordings, digital stories are short powerful pieces that can engage audiences with archive material in a completely new way. Learn how to create digital stories from your archive collections using straightforward techniques accessible on your own computer, and how to use digital storytelling to develop new audiences for your archive.
The Play's The Thing
Write a play based on Poorhouse Records or a School Log Book, letters from soldiers or a VAD nurse's diary. Where to start? This one day course shows you examples of emotionally powerful dramas created from archive records, and takes you through the process of creating your own. You don't need to be a playwright, just open to the possibilities that exist in your collections. Learn how to work with a youth, drama or community group to bring your records to the stage, and the practical considerations of putting on a production.
Please let us know your preference by completing this short survey: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Z6W43/
Education Coaching
We are also still accepting applications for education coaching.
The SCA is offering opportunities for Scottish archives to receive professional coaching and support from its Education Development Officer, Douglas Roberts. Archive services are invited to apply for up to three days of Douglas's time and expertise, to assist with developing their education and outreach work. Applications close on 22 August 2018 and full details are available here: http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/news/announcements/edconsulting
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