Our Digital Legacy

Glenholme Young Leaders have left a 'Digital Legacy' for present and future students, Whanau and community to share. This project involved team work, managing self, persistence, problem solving and sheer determination, several of the attributes we want our learners to have today and to take into their futures. 

Students

• Entered the room and found each seat had an envelop on it and there were numbers written on the board, students wrote their names on an envelop then each wrote their names under a number......they were intrigued!
• Brainstormed in small teams the traits and characteristics of a leader then shared back to the whole group.
• Students drew 5 numbers out of a hat and then wrote a personal anonymous message to that student outlining a leadership trait or characteristic they felt that student has. These messages were placed in their envelops for later use (and students to keep).
• We then discussed these characteristics in relation to creatures in the animal kingdom e.g. Students thought Lions roar, Eagles soar, Cobra's strike. Rich questions were used to promote deeper thinking e.g. "What is your opinion.....?" "Can you assess the value or importance of......" "How would you compare......." "What would you select........" "Based on what you know, how would you show......?" Students considered what parts of each creature showed other animals they had strength e.g. the Lion's Mane, the Cobra's frill, the Eagles wings.
• Each individual was then provided time to consider how Glenholme had impacted on their lives and how this related and aligned to one of these animals. They wrote a 'Statement' to title their creation.
• Students chose which animal they would like to be and were then introduced to  a recent artwork by two talented young artists as inspiration.

• Students needed to consider planning, patterning, detail, leaving spaces for attributes.
• We now also needed to consider the 'bigger picture'......"What would our artwork become?" The plan was to have a buddy photograph us and then we would put ourselves into the picture to create a 3D effect (we attached our digital photo to foam so that it 'jumped out from the picture'. Our artwork would then be photographed (by ourselves) and then this photo would be used to create a 'Thinglink' (an interactive image) that we could choose pieces of work that we were most proud of completed during the year while at Glenholme (each of these pieces were located on our class blogs). These Thinglinks would be placed with a farewell message on this blog for others to share. When you 'hover' over our artwork 'tags' will appear to link you to our work online.
• And then the creating began...

• We used intricate patterning, detail and colour (some used 'hot colours' some chose 'cold colours'.......some used both to effect with what looked like flames shooting off!

• The completed artworks were displayed at school, check out our fabulous work in the posts below. We'd love you to leave us a comment too...