Shared Sharing Practice

Web animation with Flash, Freehand and Dreamweaver

Scalloway intro

A group of 17 pupils at Scalloway Junior High School in the Shetlands has been working on a series of short animations, loosely based on the theme of marine life around the Shetland Islands. With the help of two members of staff and a visiting artist, they have spent afternoons after school and Saturday mornings learning how to use Macromedia Flash. The animations produced as a result of this project (the Scalloway Moving Image Web Project) will be showcased on a website: www.fishtastic-uk.net

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Teacher profile

Brian Henderson studied at Edinburgh College of Art and at Moray House. He has been teaching art and design at Scalloway School for 25 years and is currently teaching P6–S4 pupils. 

 

Mr Henderson attended a two-day course on Adobe Photoshop at Learning and Teaching Scotland and has had four days  training in Macromedia Freehand and Flash software. The art room at Scalloway Junior High is equipped with several iMacs. Brian uses ICT (mainly Photoshop) to some extent in his normal teaching but because there are only a few computers in the art room, a class management issue arises. 

School profile

Scalloway Junior High School, on the Shetland Islands, has 91 primary pupils and 118 secondary pupils up to S4 level. A nursery section opened in 2000. It is located on the edge of Scalloway and has a wide catchment area. Four pupils are registered as having special educational needs, eight have free school lunches and one pupil speaks English as a second language. 

 

The school has 71 computers with a dedicated ICT room. There is an ICT coordinator, but this is not a full-time post. Staff can apply for ICT courses on the Scottish mainland, and occasional short courses are provided locally.