Planning of our exhibition workshop..

The majority of us on the Educator group have managed to meet to decide what we should do to represent our work at the exhibition at Federation House at the end of the Unit X programme. It was decided that there were two alternatives, both holding many positives and negatives.

1.
We join the ideas from both our DACA workshops together, and create a simplier, refined version for the exhibition night- or think of something from fresh.

Advantages:
-Give us more experience in teaching
-Will ensure we have experience in catering for all ages/abilities
-Will be interesting for visitors to interact in someting physical rather than visual

Disadvantages:
-More complicated
-Will be difficult to meet as whole group
-Can't make the workshop messy as people visiting the exhibition may be dressed up/wont want to get messy at the exhibit
-Will have to make sure we cater for every age, and every ability
-Will people want to hang around? Probably prefer to mingle more and see childrens/friends work
-Don't know for definite what space we have. Therefore can't plan anything too extravagant as may not be able to fit resources into the space provided for us. May also be too squashed if people crowd and gather round our stall


2.
We show film and pictures that we have taken from our workshops at DACA, either mixed together, on a rota one after the other, or on different walls. We will then hang up boiler suits from both workshops (as it's something that links both workshops together,) and perhaps the feedback t-shirts we are hoping to get from our workshops from the children at DACA. This will allow the visitors to not only see what we did, but also how it affected the children.
Can perhaps make a feedback wall to see the visitors opinions on our work, possibily how we could have improved it, to give us another form of feedback.

Advantages:
-Quite simple to create
-Will allow people to see the work we have been creating over the unit as many are unaware of what we have been doing
-Allows us to gain another form of feedback on our workshops
-Less risk assessments to consider (also less things to go wrong!)
-Will allow us to be more free to talk to visitors about how the unit went for us instead of being caught up in the workshop itself

Disadvantages:
-Less experience in teaching different ages/abilities
-Less experience organising a workshop experience

Number 2 is the preferred option for us all. Although its less experience for us, we all agreed we would prefer to focus on our own workshops, and also the pros outweigh the cons with number 2.

The above picture is a quick snap of some of the work, we as a group were deciding wether to display or not in our final exhibition.