INSPIRATION AFRICA!
Project 4
Rectory Paddock Special School
INTERNET/VIRTUAL BANNER
Unfortunately, due to essential building works in the school, there was no internet access.
A computer was taken into the school so that if pupils wanted they could look at the Inspiration Africa! website offline and see the key objects from the Horniman Museum.
Pictures from the introduction day, taken with the digital camera, were also installed on the computer for pupils to look at over the three school project days.
The link with Kemnal Technology College meant that those pupils that had not had a chance to see their project (Project 1) fully documented could now do so off-line. They could also show their work to their partners and the staff at Rectory Paddock.
The following Gelede mask website references were incorporated into this page but as some of the websites are no longer online hyperlinks were removed 2004:
Gelede Mask from Three Shades of Black - Denver Art Museum exhibition
American Museum of Natural History
Links: Western Africa
Clark University, MA, USA, Classical Yoruba Sculpture
Art Museum of The University of Memphis
Yoruba Gelede Society Mask (info) - Authentic Africa commercial site
The pupils from Kemnal also worked in partnership with Rectory Paddock making shapes to be placed onto the virtual banner.
On the final day, pupils from Kemnal Technology College also worked in partnership with Rectory Paddock pupils making shapes to be placed onto the virtual banner.
This was a combined effort representing Projects 1 and 4 and partners were asked to draw shapes that represented Inspiration Africa! to them both.
As an example, one pupil drew around the hands of another to symbolise POWER (the keyword from Project 1) and HARMONY (the keyword from this project) and also show the unique, caring partnership that has grown between the pupils from the two schools.
The finished shapes were then photographed with a digital camera, loaded onto a computer, resized and saved as bitmap images. They were then ready to be placed onto the virtual banner inside the COGPROG programme.
Follow this link to learn more about the virtual banner, the COGPROG programme and the process.
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