Saothar Ealaion is interested in encouraging and promoting art in education and in 2003 devised a dynamic project which to link art to the computer. Having then conducted art workshops with children for nearly ten years in Gaeltacht schools which are often located in isolated rural areas, this project aimed to connect the participating schools through the internet.
Many primary schools have computers in the classroom but rarely get the opportunity to use them to their full potential. This project allowed children to communicate through art via the world wide web and provided both children and teachers with a foundation in art, design, and basic multi-media skills. It also helped the children to develop skills in interpretation, organisation, and communication.
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In 1999 Saothar Ealaion was invited to instigate a programme of workshops in Primary Schools in the Donegal Gaeltacht. 21 schools took part in the project from March 1999 to February 2000.
The aims of Saothar Ealaíon are:
• To act as facilitators, strengthening the concept and value of idea development and to encourage initiative.
• To work on and achieve visually impressive pieces of work that can be seen and admired by the students and others long after the workshop ends.
• That the work should be enjoyable.
• To create situations in which the students work together, in groups.
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