Arts

Representatives from performing arts, music and drama, visual arts, photography and design attended this meeting. It was soon apparent that many of the group had ICT skills that established them as people who could make significant contributions to the growth of cluster members especially in the photography and design areas. **Photoshop**, **Illustrator, Final Cut Pro** and **InDesign** are applications where there was both the ability to introduce this to others and the desire for teachers to have additional professional development to extend their own levels of confidence and to see other ideas for how these programmes could be used.

Shelley from Sacred Heart introduced us to **Marvin** and indicated that several teachers at the school were preparing resources based on this applicaation and they would be able to share these next term. The opportunities for animation and the addition of speech should be highly motivational. Shelley, witth input from Ronnie and Kieran gave us an overview of how **Ultranet** is developing in the school.

A strong recommendation from the meeting was that future meetings be based around the specialised arts groups so that sharing and opportunities be specific to the relevant needs of the teachers.[[Visual Arts|

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